Washington-Breds: Top Ten List of Great Things That Happened For Washington This Weekend

A nice night for some pedigree research and blogging on the porch. A perfect night for Logan as he found the biggest stick in the yard and got his new O Magazine:

Logan will be entered as Hip No. 666 in the WTBOA Mixed Sale, which takes place on August 26th. By Cujo out of the Mephistopheles mare Medusa, Logan is bred on the same cross as General Woundwort, Shere Kahn, The Hounds of Baskerville, Rumpus Cat and Pol Pot. A very low reserve will be set.

A conformation shot of the sire:

A perfect picture for the kids' bedrooms!

A banner weekend overall for Washington racing. Let's do a Top 10 list of things that happened this weekend:

(1) Dancing Yodeler's Victory - Nothing cooler than seeing a Winners' Circle photo that has to take place on the track because there are too many owners for the actual Winners' Circle. Even though Yodeler is not a Washington Bred, my bet is that the feeling that those new owners had will reverberate in our industry for years to come. Thank you Sophia for doing such a great job with this group.

(2) Ron Crockett Announcement - More details to come later, but Ron made an announcement at the Annual 2014 WTBOA Members Meeting on Saturday night that will help the WTBOA Sale, the buyers and the breeders in this state. It was very generous on his part.

(3) Carson's Start's Victory - Maybe a little more personal to me, but it was great to see Jean Welch in the Winners' Circle after Carson's Start won in his first start. The extra bonus was to also see Dr. Bud Hallowell right next to Jean. It was fantastic.

Abraaj is starting to come alive. He has had 4 winners since July 1. Abraaj stands at El Dorado Farm:

http://www.eldoradofarms.net/abraaj.htm

(4) Noosito and Del Rio Harbor, both Washington-Breds by Harbor the Gold, finished 1-2 in the Seattle Slew Handicap. You can learn more about these horses here:

http://militaryhawk.blogspot.com/2014/07/washington-nicking-part-i.html

and more about Del Rio Harbor and his mom here:

http://militaryhawk.blogspot.com/2014/05/broodmare-of-week-bahati-sponsored-by.html

(5) My Offer to Neal and Pam Christopherson - On Saturday, I got second place to a rookie handicapper in the Emerald 123 Contest at the WTBOA Annual Meeting. Every dog has his day. However, I got second place and got a nice book as a prize. After the meeting was over I offered the book to the Christophersons in exchange for their Exchange Rate filly out of Youcan'ttakeme (Does using Exchange twice in a sentence make me a bad writer?). Although they initially rejected my offer, I am sure they are seriously considering it. In fact, I am willing to throw in Hip No. 666 at the WTBOA sale to close the deal.

(6) The Return of Claudia Atwell Canouse - After knee surgery, it was nice to see Claudia back at the WTBOA Annual Meeting. Her knee is in such great condition she plans on starting to exercise horses next week.

(7) 13 of the 26 races this weekend were won by Washington-Breds.

(8) Claudia's Cahill victory - John Parker buys me lunch when he is at the track so I root for him. Great guy and easy to root for. If you are upset that you are below #8 on this list, buy me lunch and see what happens. Bribery works on us Irish.

(9) Awesome Indian vs. Obie Harbor - What a great race between these two future stars. Awesome Indian is by sorely missed Indian Charlie (I got to see him months before he died) out of Clear in the West. Obie Harbor is by, shockingly, Harbor the Gold out of Flying Memo.

(10) K-Swag wins - Charlie's Gold wins and K-Swag announced that his new album drops in late October with a world tour to follow. He wanted to name the album Liberty Gold but in order to be more gangsta he went with Liberty, Guns, and Gold. Respect.

Let's take this positive momentum and move forward.

Always Love Your Animals,

Will