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Remembering…
October 2014
Farm market to benefit newly retired racehorses The New Stride Thoroughbred Adoption Society will hold its 6th annual Fall Shed Row Market on October 4th and 5th at the Thunderbird Show Park in Langley. B.C. Toba Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of the BC Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association will be held October 13, 2014 Time: 12:30 p.m. Place: Hastings Racecourse Old Slots Floor Meeting Room The main purpose of the meeting is for the following: To receive the Annual Reports of the Society. To approve the appointment of the Auditor for the 2014 fiscal year. To transact such business that may properly come before the Annual Meeting By Order Of The Board Of Directors Note: Copies of the 2013 BC TOBA financial statements and minutes of the October 14, 2013 Annual General Meeting will be available at the meeting or upon request by contacting the BC TOBA office. The Thoroughbred Ladies Club The TLC of BC, whose charity work and scholarship program has benefited backstretch workers at Hastings Racecourse since 1973, meets the first Tuesday each month. If you would like to join them in their worthwhile efforts or help at the occasional function, please call: Linda Sentes 604-318-7949 Barb Williams at 604-542-8951.
George Cummins, who passed away July 7 at St. Paul’s Hospital just three days shy of his 93rd birthday, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999. Cummins was a six-time leading trainer at Hastings. His horses won more than 900 races, including a record 66 in l992.
CTHS Sales Topper
The sales topper at the recent CTHS yearling sale was an unnamed colt by Old Forester out of Miss Juicey. Bred by Jim and Anne Aldendal (pictured here) the colt was purchased by Peter Redekop for $78,000. Mr. Redekop was the leading buyer at the sale purchasing five yearlings for $139,000. The leading consignor was Tod Mountain Thoroughbreds selling six yearlings for $169,000. 2014 saw 63 yearlings sold for $918,000 compared to 2013 which saw 92 yearlings sold for $1,329,200 with a slightly higher average of $14,571 compared to $14,448 in 2013.
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Alert Bay Gives Redekop A Derby Hat Trick
October 2014
Alert Bay ($5.10) produced a first-rate performance to give owner Peter Redekop his third October Dates At Hastings Adjusted straight win in the mile and an eighth Grade 3 To Protect Quality Of Racing British Columbia Derby on Sunday. Benefiting In the best interests of producing quality races at from a patient ride by Rico Walcott, Alert Bay Hastings Racecourse there has been an adjustran the second fastest Derby since Bolulight won ment on the October calendar. in 1991. The only horse to run faster than Alert Bay’s final time of 1:49.12 since then was last To avoid running three consecutive days on year’s winner, Title Contender, who got it done Thanksgiving weekend, Hastings General Manin 1:48.24. ager Darren MacDonald and horsemen’s groups have cancelled Oct. 11th to allow quality cards on Alert Bay broke right with the Emerald Derby pacesetter Del Rio Harbor and those two were Oct. 12th and Oct. 13th. “Purses from the cancelled day will be redistrib- quickly joined on the outside by Off the Top. Walcott opted out of what was going to develop uted and paid out by the end of the meet,” Macback, but he was left with too much to do and too into a three horse speed duel and eased back Donald said. little time to do it in and posed no danger to Alert into the catbird seat behind a sub 23 second first Four conditional days have been added to the quarter and a half in 47.16, saving ground on the Bay. Alert Bay is owned by Peter Redekop and 2014 live racing calendar: Oct. 18th; Oct. 19th; trained by Anita Bolton. Thomas Newton Bell rail all the while. Oct. 25th and Oct. 26th. and the late Ross John McLeod, he having been Remembertobreathe moved up outside Alert a principal owner of Great Canadian Gaming Thanksgiving Oct. 13th marks the conclusion of Bay as they started down the backstretch behind Corporation at the time, bred him in California. the 2014 Hastings stakes schedule with purses Del Rio Harbor and Off the Top who were head It is the second consecutive Derby win for trainer totaling $350,000. They include the $100,000 BC and head through 6 furlongs in 1:12.08. When Premiers, $100,000 Ballerina, $75,000 Fantasy and Mebossman moved up inside Alert Bay it looked Bolton. for a moment like things might get tight for him. Mawing Clinches Riding Title $75,000 Ascot Graduation. That did not happen. Leslie Mawing has clinched his second Emerald SHRUG to Stand at Emerald Acres Neither Remembertobreathe or Mebossman were Downs riding title with a 86-67 lead on Rocco able to sustain their runs, and Alert Bay was able SHRUG, a six-year-old son of MEDAGLIA Bowen atop the standings. On the trainers’ side, to ease out for a clear shot at the leaders. He D’ORO, ( sire of 2009 Horse Of The Year Frank Lucarelli trails Jeff Metz 48-41 with three ran around them on the final turn and when they RACHEL ALEXANDRA ) has been retired to days left. The final week of live racing begins straightened up he was in front and gone. stud and will stand at Jim and Sandra Loseth’s Friday with first post 6:45 p.m. Koffee Grinder put in a determined run from far Emerald Acres. SHRUG won a maiden special weight race Racing Future Inc. 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Jockey Club: Study Shows Lasix Not Needed…By Blood-Horse Staff The Jockey Club believes a recent study on exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage and racing performance gives support to its position that raceday medication, specifically furosemide (Salix, or commonly called Lasix) should be prohibited. Matt Iuliano, executive vice president and executive director of The Jockey Club, outlines the Jockey Club’s position in this essay. The Blood-Horse has invited leading horsemen’s groups to respond to the study’s results. By Matt Iuliano A team of highly respected, international researchers and scientists recently found that in 98% of horses they studied there was no association between exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) determined after an endoscopic examination and longterm racing performance. The findings challenge some long-held opinions in North American racing, including the contention that the use of the diuretic furosemide—sold under
the trade name Salix and commonly known as Lasix—is necessary to ensure the long-term careers of equine racing athletes. The study, “Prospective study of the association between exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage and long-term performance in Thoroughbred racehorses,” was conducted by Kenneth Hinchcliff, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., a longtime researcher of EIPH and professor of veterinary science at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and Paul S. Morley, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at Colorado State University. It was published online in the Equine Veterinary Journal this spring.
The unique, long-term study found a lack of significant association between EIPH and a productive racing career, except in the most severe cases. The researchers reviewed the careers of 744 horses racing in Australia, where race-day medication is prohibited. The vast majority of those horses had productive racing careers without the use of furosemide. In 2003 those horses had been examined for EIPH and were the subjects of a study into how EIPH affected performance in a single race. For their latest report, the researchers reviewed the entire careers of those horses to determine how their EIPH status affected their racing
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records. EIPH is graded on a scale of 0 to 4, with 0 indicating the lowest, or no, indications of EIPH on endoscopic examination and 4 being the highest, often including epistaxis, or bleeding from the nostrils. The original Melbourne study found that horses with either no indication or the slightest indication of EIPH had better finish positions. Horses with mild to more moderate indications of EIPH were more often associated with impaired racing performance in the single race that was studied. The latest study goes beyond a single race
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to look at entire racing careers. Whereas the first study found that horses with EIPH grades greater than 1 had impaired racing performances, this latter study found no statistically significant difference among horses with EIPH graded from 0 to 3 in terms of: —Duration of careers on the racetrack, —Number of wins per start and, —Number of placings per start. Only those horses with the most severe EIPH of grade 4 (1.7% of the population) had a significant reduction in lifetime racing performance.
When the data was grouped, the authors reported that horses with EIPH scores of 2, 3 and 4 started an average of 2.8 fewer times during their lifetime when compared to horses with EIPH scores of 0 1. However, they noted the difference in lifetime starts was highly influenced by the low number of race starts in horses with EIPH graded as 4. Many of the horses with EIPH graded as 4 were retired from racing early on, which reduced the average number of lifetime starts for any group that included those
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Lasix Not Needed… continued from page 3 horses. The lifetime racing performances of horses with EIPH that continued to race indicate these horses were successfully managed over a productive racing career in a jurisdiction where furosemide was not permitted. Reviewing all the data, the researchers in the most recent comprehensive study concluded: “The lack of significant associations between the most common forms of EIPH
and long-term performance can be interpreted as indicating an absence of important clinical, physiological, or management factors that limit performance in these horses.” With the latest research showing that less than 2% of the Thoroughbred population may have impaired lifetime racing performance attributable to EIPH, it is increasingly difficult to reconcile 95% of all North American starts occurring after the race-day administra-
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tion of furosemide. As The Jockey Club stated in 2011, overuse of an under-needed medication is not producing a level playing field. In all likelihood, it is doing just the opposite. We believed then and we believe now that horses should compete only when they are free from the influence of medication. A prohibition on all race-day medications levels the field.
…Muddy or Sloppy Tracks We can’t emphasize how important it is at this time of year to take into consideration the factor of a muddy or sloppy track. Off-going can dramatically affect a horse’s performance. A mud-heavy track can be tiring especially for front-running horses, whereas a sloppy track is often fast and gives the front runner the advantage. Often a lot of speed in a race over an off-track can favour the late runners. A wise handicapper watches the first two or three races carefully to determine the speed bias. In addition read the tote-board to determine what kind of shoe the horse is wearing. Mud chalks are usually signified with a C, regular aluminium shoes with an R.
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The Good Ol’ Days…
2014 WTBOA Summer Sale Shows Gains In Average, Median And Gross Sales The WTBOA Summer Yearling session was topped by a trio sired by the late California leading sire Tribal Rule. A filly consigned by Mary Lou and Terry Griffin’s Buckley-based Griffin Place LLC topped the sale for $57,000. Washingtonian and now successful Southern California trainer Mark Glatt purchased the striking bay, whose stakes-placed dam is out of a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and Grade 1 producer Rings a Chime. Todd and Shawn Hansen, who own and operate the well-proven Scatter Creek Training Center in Tenino, paid $52,000 for their Tribal Rule filly, a daughter of stakes producer Cielo Dulce who was bred and raised by Stormy Hull and Ginger Samples’ Critter Creek Farm in Sequim. It’s been a good week for Hull, as the accomplished horseman watched with pride as Jim and Mona Hour’s champion Stryker Phd mowed down his rivals in the Longacres Mile (G3) on the previous Sunday. Hull had given “Stryker”—a 2010 WTBOA sale graduate. The first foal out of Washington champion Zenovit, a colt, also sired by Tribal Rule – one of the great Storm Cat’s many top-siring sons – was bred and raised in Enumclaw by Nina and Ron Hagen at their El Dorado Farms LLC. The colt was purchased by Gary Hughes, of Yakima, for $51,000. Also bringing $51,000 was the Flatter—Bluffing colt from the Griffin Place consignment, which was purchased by Jody Peetz, of Issaquah. Overall the 48th annual yearling session drew moderate gains in median price ($10,500), up 10.5 percent, and gross ($1,297,000), up seven percent and saw mild gains in number sold (81), up 3.8 percent, and average ($16,012), up three percent. Buybacks (RNA - reserve not attained) dropped from 22.8 percent in 2013 to 18.2 percent in 2014 and there were seven outs (6.6 percent) versus 13 (11.4 percent) in 2013. To review the complete preliminary sale results, go to www.wtboa.com. Final results will be published in the Fall issue of the Washington Thoroughbred and will be added to the online WTBOA Sales Archives.
Top Selling Yearlings
Hip #102 unnamed f. Tribal Rule—Bella Campana, Griffin Place LLC Mark Glatt $57,000 Hip # 5 Nine Point Nine, f, Tribal Rule—Cielo Dulce, Critter Creek Farm Todd & Shawn Hansen $52,000 Hip # 92 unnamed c. Tribal Rule—Zenovit, El Dorado Farms $51,000 Gar Hughes Hip #103 unnamed c, Flatter—Bluffing Griffin Place LLC Jody Peetz $51,000 Hip # 11 unnamed c, Dixie Chatter—Dark Diva, Griffin Place Agent Ron Crockett Inc. $50,000 Hip # 98 unnamed f, Harbor the Gold—Bahati, Bar C Racing Stables Glen Todd $45,000 Hip # 18 unnamed c, Harbor the Gold—Felice the Cat, Bar C Racing REV Racing $40,000 unnamed f, Posse—Brown, Blue Ribbon Farm Hip #106 Ron Crockett Inc. $40,000
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Sheri Smith, Leg Saver Sheri Smith,according to her birth certificate was born in Murryville, a suburb of Langley, which makes her a minority among the good citizens of Transplantville in the Valley. She is the daughter of long-time racetracker
Jim Smith and as such was raised around thoroughbred horses at Hastings, then know as Exhibition Park. She discovered LegSaver when she met Gary DesRoches and began using it on the horses she groomed. “It even saved my own horses life when he was suffering from a bad case of colic,” she says of treating the horse with the device after banamine and the usual remedies failed. Smith, a fixture in the highly successful Craig MacPherson barn, swears by her Leg Saver and makes the device a
part of her toolbox for keeping the racehorses in her care in top form. While crediting the device with resolving a colic in her own horse she feels that her investment has paid for itself many times over. “There is no one tool out there that can fix everything, but the Leg Saver helps and it can help with just about anything.” Whether for competition or compassion, horsemen have a marvellous array of gadgets, tonics and equine wellness therapies at their disposal. The marketplace teems with products that range from stem cell treatments and high-tech lasers to herbal supplements, chiropractic, acupuncture and plenty more in between. Horsemen invest in many of these treatments with the expectation of results and often find their tack rooms fuller and their wallets emptier because good advertising swayed them into making poor decisions.
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Twenty years in and with a solid campaign of testimonial advertising behind it, the Equi-Stim Leg Saver is still going strong and making believers with its unique blend of technology and holistic wisdom. Using stimulating electrical microcurrents applied to key acupressure or Ting points, the Leg Saver is designed to increase blood flow and boost the horse’s natural healing responses. Treatments are not invasive or painful and can be targeted to treat any specific part or system in the equine body,
including the hoof and the internal organs. What’s more, the Leg Saver is meant to be
used by people who may not have a postsecondary degree in equine biomechanics. If you can plug in a smart phone and apply a boot or a wrap adequately, the easy to understand instruction manual will provide you with a map to treating your horse. Smith would one day like to start a business treating horses with the LegSaver. “Nothing is a cure-all,” she admits. “But the LegSaver is a great piece of equipment for treating horses. I know it works.”
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Announcement
L to R; Martin,and Fred,Anna Christine, Dr. Cheng and Anna Cheng Dr. Henry Cheng, of Cloverdale
Pharmasave in the heart of Cloverdale BC, recently passed the ownership torch to their three children. In 30 year’s time, Henry and Anna have converted Cloverdale Pharmasave from a general drugstore to a specialty pharmacy. Now, they pass on their legacy to Fred, Josephine and Christine, along with their son-in-law Martin, who will continue to serve their community, both local and global, with the same dedication and passion that their parents have shown. Semi-retired Dr. Cheng and Anna can still be found in-store, sharing their expertise and passion for their patients, for both people and animals.
Increasing Your Horse’s Stamina With Leg Saver! The basic Leg Saver treatments are quite simple. 3 Treat the lung and heart ting points (located on the front coronet band) once, 3 days before a race or event. 3 Treatments are for one hour each. 3 Treatments should be done separately, one after the other. 3 It will take 2 hours to complete both. 3 The following day the horse should be walked for ½ hour to one hour. 3 The morning of the race the lungs should be treated for ½ hour as early as possible (about 8 am). Do not treat the heart. 3 This will increase performance about 4 to 8 lengths, depending on the horse. 3 Always check on the shoulders, hocks, poll & whirlbone to make sure the horse is ready for optimal performance. 3 Always treat the hocks if there is any heat in them at all. A number of trainers have been experimenting with the amount of exercise needed to keep the horse performing at its peak. Here is what we have found: 3 Horses that have their training reduced the week before the treatment are significantly improved over horses that are kept at their regular degree of exercise. They win a lot more money. 3 Reducing the exercise program the week before the treatment produces a much fitter horse. Results show about 80% wins & seconds—mostly wins (rider error caused some of the second place finishes). 3 These treatments reduce stress and strain on the horse’s body (hooves, ankles, tendons, ligaments, knees, hocks and other areas of stress). 3 Protocol for young race horses – treat their heart and lungs once every 2 weeks. This builds stronger horses with tremendous stamina. This will not make them run faster it just makes them finish stronger. This new protocol will give you the best results in your performance horse. Having more stamina down the stretch run results in more wins! Try it with one horse and see the results. I’m reluctant to tell a world-class trainer what to do but this protocol really generates superior results! CONTACT: GARY DESROCHES www.equi-stimlegsaver.com legsaver@gmail.com 1-800-595-7408 toll free 1-604-215-3622
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