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2022 Washington Champions Honored

Darlyne Krieg's homebred Slew's Tiz Whiz (Slew's Tiznow) was named Richard Wright Memorial Horse of the Year and Scatter Training Center champion older horse during a ceremony honoring 2022 Washington-bred champions held Saturday at Emerald Downs. Tom Wenzel, who trained the now 5-year-old gelding to wins in the Longacres Mile and Governor's S., received the Backstretch Chaplaincy Special Training Achievement Award.

Also Saturday, Blazingbellablu (Grazen) was named champion older filly or mare; Anthonys Cleopatra (Constitution) was named champion 3-year-old filly; Itsallabouttheride (Harbor the Gold) was named champion 3-year-old male; The Big Wam (Mr. Big) was named champion 2-year-old male; and Miss Dynamic (Dynamic Impact) was named champion 2-year-old filly. Papa's Golden Boy (Harbor the Gold) was named the state's top sprinter.

Conveyance (Indian Charlie) won the leading sire award and Gold Rush Dancer (Private Gold) was tabbed the leading freshman sire. Holy Rose (Touch Gold) was named Broodmare of the Year.

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‘Beautiful Mover’ Bodenheimer Fulfills Expectations By Earning Slot In Breeders’ Cup

Trainer Valorie Lund recognized Bodenheimer as untapped talent the first time she saw him. On Oct. 4, the Washington-bred confirmed her confidence by winning the Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select, a “Win and You're In” for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1) here Nov. 6 while becoming her first Keeneland winner.

“Overall, he was a really good individual,” Lund said of that first encounter. “He favors the (broodmare sire) A.P. Indy line when I looked at his head, neck and shoulders. He was stout as a yearling but sleeker now as a racehorse.”

Another attraction for Lund was the colt's Grade 2-winning sire, Atta Boy Roy, a Washington-bred who Lund had trained and exercised throughout his career and raced in the 2010 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Churchill Downs. Bodenheimer's dam is stakes winner and stakes producer Beautiful Daniele, an $800,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale graduate whose pedigree page includes champion Countess Diana.

Lund had the final bid on the yearling Bodenheimer for $27,000 at a Thoroughbred auction in Washington. She said he soon stood out from the crowd in his early training.

“You can pick out the good ones by their action,” she said. “He was a beautiful mover and when the 2-year-olds started doing their early breezes, he showed he was really fast. We thought so highly of him that we purchased his dam privately from Kentucky before he made his first start.”

Owned by Lund's mother, Marylou Holden, and sister, Kristin Boice, Bodenheimer is named for Boice's husband, Entz Bodenheimer Boice. Both are known as “Bo.”

On July 29, the equine Bo sailed to an 11¼-length victory on turf at Canterbury Park in his career debut. He then captured the Aug. 22 Prairie Gold Juvenile Stakes on dirt at Prairie Meadows. He checked in fifth in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Sprint on Sept. 12 in his third career start.

Formerly based at Turf Paradise in Arizona each winter and racing in the summer at such tracks as Canterbury, Lund has relocated to Kentucky. She now trains Bodenheimer at Ashwood Training Center, 10 miles northeast of Lexington. She and the colt will commute to Keeneland for his turf workouts in advance of the Breeders' Cup.

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Washington-Bred Bodenheimer Outruns Indian Summer Foes Into Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf

Sent immediately to the front under Brian Hernandez Jr., Kristin Boice and Marylou Holden's Bodenheimer ran his way into a possible start in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint by going wire to wire in the third running of the $150,000 Indian Summer Stakes on Sunday at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.

Trained by Valorie Lund, Bodenheimer – a 2-year-old son of Atta Boy Roy bred in Washington by Larry Romaine – ran 5 1/2 furlongs on firm turf in 1:02.70. He paid $10.20 for the win.

Cowan, sent off at 5-2, closed well in the stretch to be second but was never a threat to the winner. Agog finished third, with Good With People fourth in the field of a half-dozen juveniles.

The Indian Summer is a Win and You're In Breeders' Cup Challenge Series race giving the winner a fees-paid berth into the Juvenile Turf Sprint to be run at Keeneland on Nov. 6.

Bodenheimer, purchased by Lund for $27,000 at the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders Association Yearling Sale in 2019, ran his record to 3-for-4 with the victory, starting with an 11 1/4-length maiden win on turf at Canterbury Park on July 29 and a neck win in the Prairie Gold Juvenile Stakes on dirt at Prairie Meadows. He was coming off his lone defeat when fifth in the Juvenile Turf Sprint behind Outadore at Kentucky Downs.

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