Bet to win.
Newbury 8.10 Majestic Noor – win bet.
Washington Summer Yearling, Mixed Sale Catalog Now Online
The catalog for the 2020 Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale is now online, featuring 140 entries.
The auction will take place Tuesday, Aug. 18 at the Morris J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash. There will also be a paddock session of racing-age offerings to take place immediately after the sale, with entries open through July 29.
This year's group of offerings features 123 yearlings and 17 broodmares, prior to the close of entries for the paddock session.
In addition to a heavy population of Washington-breds, yearlings in the catalog were also born in Kentucky, California, Oregon, and Iowa.
Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the catalog include Cat Burglar, Cupid, Danzing Candy, Midnight Storm, Lord Nelson, Pontiff, Stanford, Raised a Secret, Shaman Ghost, War Envoy, and Wildcat Red. Broodmares in the catalog are offered in-foal to Cat Burglar, Danzing Candy, Misremembered, and Smiling Tiger.
To view the online catalog, click here.
For information on entering the auction's paddock session, click here.
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Letter to the Editor: Dora Delgado Diversity Piece
I’m writing to offer my thanks for the article you posted recently featuring Dora Delgado. Timely, yes and helpful to learn more about her thinking on diversity, equity and inclusion within our sport.
It also hit home for me as my father was one of three black trainers actively campaigning in Chicago during the 1970s – 1990s. Mr. Clifford Scott, Paul Darjean and my father, Clenon Brown.
I’ve enjoyed the sport since age three, when my father started teaching me how to read the DRF, he noted, before I could read a book–a skill that still pays every now and then today (smile).
My father first got the bug by traveling to Ak-Sar-Ben with friends on weekends in the early 70s, which led to him buying a few claimers and racing in Floria and Chicago. Kansas City was home for us, but no pari-mutuel wagering laws on the books prevented him from enjoying the sport in Missouri.
Later, he moved into the sport full-time and began pursuit of his trainer’s license which he secured in Kentucky in the early 1980s. After that, he was off to the races, training in Kentucky, and Chicago.
Living in Missouri with my mother afforded me the chance to spend summer and winter breaks at Arlington, Hawthorne and Sportsman’s Park, mucking stalls, feeding our horses and those of our ‘day horses’ all the while soaking up the backstretch culture. In the meantime, my mother became an executive within state government in Missouri, and at home I grew up amongst legislators, governors and attended school with their children.
In my journey, I’ve served in the military and have made a career as an executive in charge of efforts by firms in the top echelon of the Fortune 500 in their diversity, equity and inclusion practices. My passion remains in Thoroughbred racing and hope that through this note I can raise my profile in the conversation underway. I think I can contribute value to stakeholders as we continue to invest in the sport, ensuring its future, leaning on lessons learned from its past.
Change is the only constant in business; as much as the sport leans on year-on-year consistency, its front, middle and back office appear not to have embraced some aspects change in the business model.
Regards,
Shelly Brown
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July Cup in the Cards for Threat
MGSW Threat (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) will take his chance in the G1 Darley July Cup at Newmarket rather than head to France this weekend. Trainer Richard Hannon had earmarked Sunday’s seven-furlong G1 Prix Jean Prat for last year’s G2 Gimcrack S. winner–but he has had a change of heart. Threat finished fifth to Palace Pier (GB) (Kingman {GB}) over a mile in the G1 St James’s Palace S. on his only outing to date this season.
Hannon told his website www.richardhannonracing.co.uk: “As long as there are no last-minute glitches, the plan is for Threat to take his chance in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket on Saturday. We were originally looking at the Prix Jean Prat in France. But the ground there is very soft at the moment, and I don’t really want to run him on that surface in what looks a hot little race.
“That’s not to say the July Cup is any easier, but I just think the drop back to six furlongs might be just what he needs, and he hasn’t got much to find with Golden Horde (Ire) (Lethal Force {Ire})–and he’ll be favourite–so it makes sense to have a crack at this prize. He’s come out of Ascot in great shape, and might even come on for it a little bit as well. Oisin Murphy maintains the ride.”
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