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WTBOA Summer Yearling And Mixed Sale Looking To Build On Past Successes

This year's 53rd annual WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale will be held Tuesday, Aug. 24, at the WTBOA Sales Pavilion located at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash.

The sale will begin at 2:00 p.m. PT with the chance to bid on a trip for two to the 2021 Breeders' Cup World Championships, to be held at Del Mar on Nov. 5 and 6. Monies raised will benefit the many charitable industry programs sponsored by the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation.

WTBOA Sales statistics compare very favorably with larger Thoroughbred sales across the nation. In the 2021 Summer Sales Guide published by BloodHorse Marketwatch (2016-18 sales), WTBOA Sale graduate statistics show: 53% have earned more than their auction price, 14% stakes horses, 6.4% stakes winners, 28% 2-year-old winners and 13% earners of $50,000-$150,000.

Among the 98 yearlings cataloged are sons and daughters of proven sires Liam's Map, Stay Thirsty, Smiling Tiger, Cross Traffic, Stormy Atlantic. Cairo Prince, Dialed In, Grazen and Palace Malice.

Among the local stalwarts represented are Atta Boy Roy, Coast Guard, the late Abraaj – in his final crop – and the next-to-last full crop of regional powerhouse Harbor the Gold.

In addition, first crop stallions or freshman sires with yearlings include American Freedom, Cloud Computing, Collected, Danzing Candy, Flintshire (GB), Girvin, Gold Rush Dancer, Lord Nelson, Prospect Park and Ransom the Moon.

In this the second year of abbreviated race schedules, WTBOA Sales graduates have already placed in 27 stakes races. Last year, six of the seven year-end Washington champions, including horse of the year and Keeneland stakes winner Bodenheimer, were products of the WTBOA Sales program.

And the sales updates keep rolling in. Both Jaded Tiger and Ima Happy Cat, who have siblings in the sale, have added to their stakes tallies since the catalog went to press. In addition, first-time stakes winners Big City Lights, Bold Arch, Ms Lynn and Dolce Isa and stakes-placed juvenile Smiling Salsa will all help to increase interest in their yearling siblings.

WTBOA-sold maiden special weight winners have appeared this spring and summer at Santa Anita, Prairie Meadows. Golden Gate Fields, Pleasanton, and of course Emerald Downs. Among those notable debuts are juveniles Cobra Jet, who won his first outing by 6 3/4 lengths and then added a 13 1/2-length trouncing in the King County Express Stakes in his second; A View From Above, won first start by seven; Slack Tide, who broke her maiden by three lengths in the Angie C. Stakes; and Check the Gear, who just a week ago won his first start by 11 1/4 lengths in a quick :57.58.

For more information or to request a sales catalog, please call (253) 288-7878 or e-mail maindesk@wtboa.com. The catalog pages, including the three supplemental pages not in the bound copy, will be updated weekly (both female lines and sires) by The Jockey Club Information Systems and are available for viewing on the WTBOA website at washingtonthoroughbred.com/sales/. You can also sign-up for the sales catalog iPad app at Equineline.com.

Photos and videos of many of the yearlings are also available on the WTBOA website.

Online bidders will need to register and apply for online bidding credit via the WTBOA website or at wtboa.equibid.com. Internet bidders are strongly encouraged to pre-register for the sale no later than 48 hours prior to sale time.

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Washington Summer Yearling And Mixed Sale Catalog Now Available

The catalog for the 2021 Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale is now online, featuring 126 horses on offer.

The auction will take place Tuesday, Aug. 24 at the Morris J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash., beginning at 2 p.m. Pacific.

Included in the catalog are 96 yearlings, 29 broodmares, and one yearling. In addition to the many Washington-bred horses in the catalog, the sale also features horses born in British Columbia, California, Florida, Kentucky, and Oregon.

Stallions whose first yearlings are cataloged include Cloud Computing, Collected, Girvin, Gold Rush Dancer, Prospect Park, and Ransom the Moon. The sale also features in-foal mares that were part of the first book for stallion Bodexpress.

To view the online catalog, click here.

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Bodenheimer Named 2020 Washington Horse Of The Year

The 2020 Washington Annual Awards celebration was held via Zoom Saturday evening, February 27. Many industry members tuned in via their phones or other devices to be part of the ceremonies.

Kristin Boice and Marylou Holden's talented juvenile Bodenheimer was named horse of the year. This year the award honored the late Washington horseman Richard Wright. The son of 2020 leading sire Atta Boy Roy was a stakes winner at both Keeneland and Prairie Meadows last year. He is trained, as was his sire, by now Kentucky resident Valerie Lund. In addition Bodenheimer, who is the second stakes winner Larry Romaine bred out of the stakes-winning A. P. Indy mare Beautiful Daniele, was named champion turf horse and shared co-champion two-year-old honors with undefeated Dutton.

Dutton, who races for Rising Star Stable VIII and is trained by Howard Belvoir – who received one of three special racing achievement awards – is from the first and only crop of the late Washington champion Noosito, who was not only Washington's leading freshman sire, but also the second leading 2020 freshman sire on the West Coast.

Champion two-year-old filly honors went to Chad and Josh's Time for Gold, who was victorious in two Emerald Downs stakes. Her owners, Chad Christensen and Josh McKee, were also the state's leading owners of Washington-breds. Time for Gold was one of three progeny of Harbor the Gold who won stakes victories for the successful partnership.

2019 Washington horse of the year Baja Sur, by Smiling Tiger, added two more championship titles to his impressive total: champion older horse or gelding and champion sprinter. He races for Auburn residents John and Janene Maryanski and Gerry and Gail Schneider.

Warlock Stables, Kelly Dougan and trainer Roddina Barrett's Alittlesstalk encored her 2019 champion title with an even more impressive record in 2020 when the four-year-old daughter of Demon Warlock won two stakes and placed in two more in her seven-race skein.

Tawnja Elison's Unmachable, by Macho Uno, also took off where he had in 2019. The state's champion two-year-old added two more stakes wins, one over older runners, to earn the champion three-year-old title. His trainer, Jack McCartney, was also honored with a special training achievement award.

Glen Todd-owned and -trained Miss Prospector gave her sire Harbor the Gold his 24th state champion runner when she took champion sophomore filly honors.

Other horse honors went to Omache Kid (plater), Fortune's Freude (most improved plater), Melba Jewel (broodmare) and Winter Knight (OTTB).

The WTBOA/WHPBA Special Recognition Award was warmly given to Washington Horse Racing Commission executive secretary Doug Moore for all the work he put into getting approval for racing at Emerald Downs and holding the WTBOA August horse sale amid complex COVID-19 restrictions and protocols.

Other awards were given to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pabst, who took their sixth leading breeder title; and to jockey Juan Gutierrez for gaining a record number of wins at Emerald Downs.

The program for the event is posted on the WTBOA website at www.washingtonthoroughbred,com.

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Former WTBOA GM Ralph Vacca Passes Away

Former Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association General Manager Ralph Vacca passed away in his home in Auburn, WA, July 20. He was 84. Among those surviving Vacca are children Darrell (Linda) Vacca, Melanie (Tom) Bidman, Dionne Stein, Kyle Vacca and Rachel (Rich) Pring; grandchildren, Rafe, Josh, Kevin, Garrett, Teddy and Julian; great-grandchild, Caelin; brother, Richard (Linda) Vacca. A memorial scholarship in Ralph Vacca’s name is currently being established. Remembrances may be sent: c/o Washington Thoroughbred Foundation, 3220 Ron Crockett Dr NW, Auburn, WA 98001.

Born in Seattle, the first of two sons born to Ralph A. and Rose Vacca grew up in the Rainier Valley and received some of his earliest equine experience at Stoner Creek Farm in Paris, Kentucky, giving him opportunity to learn the various phases of the horse business. In April 1959 Vacca returned to Washington, joining the then WHBA (later the WTBOA) staff as field secretary. Vacca returned to Kentucky in 1961 to take a position in the advertising department of the Thoroughbred Record and later joined the Daily Racing Form. He returned to the WHBA in 1964, as advertising manager for association’s magazine and subsequently was promoted to editor and in 1973, he was appointed “interim” WHBA general manager and by the following November he was awarded the position outright. Vacca retired from WTBOA in 2007, after 47 years with the association.

In May 2020, then Governor Gary Locke appointed Vacca to the Washington Horse Racing Commission.

Throughout the years, Vacca served on the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation and THRUST boards, the Equine Art committee, and was actively involved in the Backstretch Chapel, Emerald Backstretch Daycare Center and WTBOA Youth programs. He also was on the WSU Equine Advisory Board and King County Agricultural Commission. Among his awards were induction into the Washington Racing Hall of Fame (2013) and the S. J. Agnew Special Achievement Award (1990).

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