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Issue # 68

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February 2015

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Hastings Important Dates January 31st: Backstretch opens for set up.

February 2nd: Horses may enter the grounds.

February 5th: Track opens for training (For the first two weeks hours will be 7:30 to 11:00) .

March 10th: Clockers will be working.

March 12th: Gate will open for schooling (Thursday to Sunday) Looking For Old Photos Looking for old photos that show the history of BC racing. Photos will be reproduced and published and returned safely.

No win photos please Hasting Condition Book Number One & Stake Book Hastings Racecourse will soon be releasing its first condition book for the 2015 live season and the 2015 Stake Book as well. Watch for these on-line at http://www. hastingsracecourse.com/racingoffice-for-horsemen/ The Stake Book will also be available on Equibase at the following link http://www.equibase.com/static/horsemen/horsemenareaSB.html?SAP=TN The Thoroughbred Ladies Club of BC 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.

Wanted: Foal photos and stallion bios.

Do you have a new foal? Send photos to; jimreynolds@uniserve. com. We are also looking to celebrate BC stallions and we are looking for bios and stories about your stud. Send your stories to jimreynolds@uniserve.com

Pretty Sunrise leads to O’Brien nomination for Cherie Pasturnak

O’Brien award nominee Cherie Pasternak, who trains horses at Fraser Downs, walked out to the track in the early morning to see her horse, Alverna, jog.

“It was really pretty with the sun rising through the fog, I just had to take the picture,” she says of the photo above.

The photo has been used, among other things, in the ‘Heart of Harness Racing Calendar’ and nominated for this year’s O’Brien Media Award.

“Even if I don’t win, she says modestly. “and I wish Clive (the other award nominee) all the luck, it will be great to go back east and mingle with old friends and meet a lot of interesting people.”

To that affect Harness Racing BC and Cherie’s many friends, beginning with Jackson Witthup, have passed the hat and raised over $1,500 for her to go to the award ceremony held this year in Mississauga, Ontario. We all wish Cherie the best of luck.

Our Loss, Century Downs Gain Century Downs isn’t even out of the box yet they have counted an administration coup when they hired Harness Racing BC Executive Director Jackson Witthup to the position of racing secretary.

Whittup has been a large part of harness racing in the west and has an extensive resume spending 39 years in the racing industry. He spent 25 years as Racing Secretary at Stampede Park in Calgary (until that track ceased to offer Standardbred racing), two years as Racing secretary at Evergreen Park at Grande Prairie, Alberta, nine years Director of Standardbred Canada including five years on the Executive Committee (and three years as Chair of the SC Board ending in 2011) and one and a half years as Director of Racing at Fraser Downs.

Wittup is a native of Calgary so the move to Alberta is a good one allowing him more time with his family who live there.

He enjoyed his time at Fraser Downs he says and is proud of the condition he left the BC industry where he has improved the breeding and breeders incentive program and gave horsemen a new five-year operating program.

“I tried to review everything and keep the horsemen informed about events in the industry.”

The new track at Century Downs Racetrack and Casino is set to open in Balzac, Alberta in March and will feature a racetrack that is a 5 ½ Furlong oval for Standardbred, Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing with two chutes (550 Yards and 870 Yards) for the Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses.

Harness racing begins in late March and Thoroughbred racing will commence in 2016.

Breeders News Issue # 68

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Broodmare Incentive Program

Open to all CTHS members who are british columbia residents. All fillies and mares (including maiden fillies and mares) that were not bred in 2014 are eligible for the Broodmare Incentive Program.

Owners of qualifying broodmares will receive up to a total of $2,000 in the form of payments from the Broodmare Incentive Program and discounts from the owners of stallions registered for the Program.

Owners of mares eligible for this Program will, upon signing a breeding contract for the services of a British Columbia stallion registered for this Program, receive a payment of $500 towards costs (such as stallion booking fees, veterinarian expenses, board and shipping) without proof of expenses, provided they sign a letter of commitment to foal in British Columbia and either race the horse in BC, or sell it privately or through a sale conducted by the CTHS (BC Division).

A further payment of $500 will be made to owners of eligible mares when a licensed veterinarian certifies the mare as being in foal.

A final payment of $500 will be made to the owners of stallions eligible for the Program upon receipt of a live foal report. The amount of the final payment will match the $500 discount the stallion owner must provide in the breeding contract to make the stallion eligible for the Program.

The maximum benefit to the mare owner of $2,000 will be realized with the three payments of $500 and the $500 discount from the advertised stud fee in the breeding contract.

In summary: $500 stallion discount on signed breeding contract $500 payment to mare owner with completion of a signed letter of commitment l $500 payment to mare owner with licensed veterinarian certifying mare in foal $500 payment to stallion owner for mare owner to be deducted from breeding contract balance.

TOTAL VALUE $2000

New Broodmare Purchase Program For 2015 To be eligible you must be a British Columbia Resident.

— Those buyers who purchase a broodmare in foal at an auction outside of British Columbia from November 1st, 2014 through May 31st, 2015 for at least $10,000 will be eligible to receive $5,000.

— Buyers must commit to foaling purchased mares in British Columbia.

Monies will be payable upon the mare being landed in British Columbia.

— Application for funds must be made to the CTHS (BC Division) upon the mare being landed in British Columbia.

Wintering Money For Lower Level Claiming Horses

The industry associations, in recognition of the economic realities of wintering and training lower level claiming horses, have implemented a plan to provide an incentive of $2,000 for horses that made their last start of 2014 at Hastings and come back to Hastings and make their first start in 2015 for a claiming price of $5,000 or less. The $2,000 bonus will be paid to the owner’s account immediately following an eligible horse’s first start at Hastings in 2015.

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Remembering…

February 2015

Jim Vinnell 1944 — 2015

James Vinnell, 71 of Langley B.C. passed away on January 13 after a short fight with cancer. He is survived by his wife Harriet, son Shayne, daughter-in-law Sue and 2 grandchildren, Jordyn and Braydn. Siblings Brian, Anne and Lynda. His passion in life was Harness racing, fishing, hunting and camping. Jim will be sadly missed by family and friends. There will be a celebration of life in the near future.

Two or Three-Old Purchase Program

To be eligible you must be a British Columbia Resident.

Buyers who purchase 2 or 3 year-olds at auction in 2015 outside of British Columbia will receive $2,000 for the purchase of a colt or gelding and $3,000 for the purchase of a filly.

Horses purchased under this program are not eligible for the Ship N Win Program.

The monies will be payable upon the purchased horse being stabled at Hastings Racecourse, provided the buyer commits to racing the horse at Hastings Racecourse.

Application for funds must be made to the Racing-Secretary upon arrival at Hastings Racecourse

New Purse Disbursement For Hastings

In an attempt to help owners with their costs of racing and maintaining their pride and joys the three associations being the HBPA of BC, David Horses that start Milburn, President, CTHS (BC Division) Leif Nordahl, President and elsewhere after making BCTOBA, Ole Nielsen, President have agreed upon a totally new split of their final 2014 all purses including allowance and stakes races. start at Hastings are The first eight finishers will all share in this new disbursement program not eligible for this released today. incentive program.

The 6-12 program will now be 9-12 with a payout of $300.00 and will be The Associations’ payable on all the same condition races as in 2014. intention is to reward those horses committed Stakes races will now be paid through the first eight finishers as well with 6th, 7th and 8th place finishers receiving $1,000 to help offset nomination to racing at Hastings; therefore, the incentive fees, etc. for all $50,000 stakes races.

Stakes races that are more then $50,000 the 6-8 finishers will receive more is available only for e.g. the BC Derby 6-8 finishers will receive $4,000.00. horses that made their The groups also announced the bottom claiming price will remain at last appearance at $4,000 and they will be running for a purse of $10,000 regardless of the Hastings in 2014 and make their first start for breed.

Complete details including the purse pools and first condition book will be 2015 at Hastings for available shortly. $5,000 or less.

Racing News Issue # 68

Racing News, Emerald Downs

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After one of them has won the Kentucky Derby, any breeding expert can sit down and show you just why he won from his pedigree. The only trouble is, the expert can’t do it before the race.

Phil Chinn

The Good Ol’ Days…

Equibase Now Providing Leaders Lists by Foal Crop

Ever wonder which horse was the greatest of its foal crop - which horse earned the most money, Northwest Race won the most races or had the most stakes wins Series Late Extenamong its foal crop? sion Deadline The answers to these questions, plus easy acA one-month late fee cess to much more data of this type, is now availextension due by able with the introduction of leaders’ lists by foal January 31 crop in the Stats Central section on equibase.com.

Backstretch Opens “Comparing professional athletes by their draft year has always made for interesting water-cooler For Training conversations and great debate on sports radio The Emerald Downs talk shows,” said Equibase Company President backstretch opens for and COO Hank Zeitlin. “Michael Jordan, for training Sunday, Feb. 1. instance, is considered one of - if not the best basketball players ever, yet he was just the third Scheduled Washpick in the 1984 NBA draft. Now, horse racing ington Horse Racfans have the data to spark similar dialogue about ing Commission which horses were the best of their respective Meetings crops - not only by wins and earnings, but by age, Monday, Feb. 13, 23, on dirt vs. turf, etc.” and April 10th. June Anyone visiting equibase.com to view the stand12th, 2015 Auburn City ings for horses by foal crop can sort the informaCouncil Chambers, tion by a variety of categories, including sex, age, 25 West Main St., surface and grade. The customized data set can Auburn, WA then be sorted in ascending or descending order (360) 459-6462 by column (1st, 2nd, 3rd, earnings, etc.).

Equibase’s North American racing leaders’ lists WTBOA include every human and equine starter annually Annual Awards back to the year 2000. Viewing leaders by foal Banquet and Silent crop is available back to the 1998 foal crop.

Auction The interactive “ranking” on individual horse Saturday, Feb. 28, profile pages introduced earlier this year was also For more information enhanced with the ability to rank by foal crop. and/or to make reserva- Hastings Important Dates tions or if you have an January 31st: item or service to Backstretch opens for set up. donate.contact Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA February 2nd—Horses may enter the grounds.

(253) 288-7878; or wtboa.com;maindesk@ February 5th—Track opens for training (For the washingtonthoroughfirst two weeks training hours will be 7:30 to bred.com 11:00) .

Race For Education The Washington Thoroughbred Foundation Scholarship deadline is Feb. 28th, 2015 Please contact 2528648 or info@raceforeducation.org

Emerald Downs Opening Day Saturday, April 18

February 2015

Bob Hall over the fences at old Lansdowne racetrack

Emerald Downs Purses Increasing

Average daily purse distribution will increase approximately 20 percent for the 2015 live racing season at Emerald Downs.

Horsemen were notified of the increase last week when stall applications were mailed in preparation for the 70-day live racing season. The increase will be made possible by ongoing purse enhancements from the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, which has provided Emerald Downs with $11,954,825 in purse supplements since 2004.

Pending approval by the Washington Horse Racing Commission, the meeting will run April 18 through September 27 with racing Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The 2015 season marks the 20th season of live racing at Emerald Downs.

In November it was announced that the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe had agreed in principle to acquire Emerald Downs and its assets. The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe is expected to obtain the WHRC license necessary to own and operate Emerald Downs and its off-track wagering facilities. The process is ongoing and the license is expected to be awarded early in 2015.

Emerald Downs’ stable area opens January 31 with training beginning February 2. The 2015 stakes schedule, including the 80th running of the Grade 3 Longacres Mile, will be announced early this year.

Stall applications are available online at emeralddowns.com in the horsemen section.

March 10th— Clockers will be working.

March 12th— Gate will open for schooling (Thursday to Sunday) Hastings Racecourse will soon be releasing its first condition book for the 2015 live season and the 2015 Stake Book as well. Watch for these on-line at http://www.hastingsracecourse.com/ racing-office-for-horsemen/.

The Stake book will also be available at: www. equibase.com/static/horsemen/horsemenareSB

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Stallion Preview…

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Cause to Believe (Maria’s Mon- Imaginary Cat, by Storm Cat)

Cause to Believe has been an impressive British Columbia stallion. Based on statistics, breeders and owners of his foals have reason to be enthusiastic about their futures.

In Cause to Believe’s first three crops, he has sired a Horse of the Year and two Two-Year-Old Champions. Overall, he has sired a very impressive 10% stakes winners and 12% stakes-placed winners from starters. He has averaged 8% two-year-old stakes winners from starters, and 10% stakes horses from starters. In 2013 and 2014, Cause to Believe two-year-olds won the Ascot Graduation, Jack Diamond Futurity, British Columbia Nursery, CTHS (BC) Sales S., Freedom of the City S., Sales Futurity, Western Heritage S., and Harlequin S. Last year his three-year-olds won the Alberta Derby, CTHS (BC) Sales S., and Shortgrass Heritage S. Cause to Believe is a son of Maria’s Mon, which has sired top stallions including Super Saver, second in North America last year for first crop sires. Cause to Believe’s dam is by Storm Cat and his second dam is a grade 1 stakes winner of over $500,000.

Cause to Believe is standing at Road’s End Farm in Aldergrove, British Columbia.

The Foals of Cause To Believe

TREATING INFLAMMATION

Inflammation is a direct result of lameness in performance horses. One of the main causes of lameness and inflammation is repetition in the exercise program or the discipline that they are performing in. If you cannot remove the inflammation you cannot repair your horse.

We have tried using magnet blankets and wraps and found that they could not remove the inflammation. We have found no scientific evidence to rebuke our findings. If anyone has information to the contrary please contact us as we really need all of the information on the topic.

It has been explained to us that when a horse is over worked or becomes injured through accident, the cells start a process that lowers the bioelectric activity which is normal in a healthy horse. This causes a reduction in oxygen and fresh blood supply to the compromised cells. This starts the inflammation cycle in some or one of the following groups: muscles. Joints, tendons, ligaments or hooves.

The LEG SAVER’S waveform polarizes and penetrates the cellular membranes and allows the increase of the flow of nutrients to and toxins from these damaged cells. This process quickly increases the oxygen and blood supply to the injury (inflammation). This is how the LEG SAVER starts to work at the cellular level in the horse’s body to reduce and eliminate the inflammation.

The LEG SAVER is the only product that will remove or reduce the inflammation in all injured horses. BLOOD FLOW IS THE ONLY WAY TO REDUCE AND ELIMINATE INFLAMMATION. THE LEG SAVER CREATES BLOOD FLOW TO THE INJURY. When treating the horse with the Ting Point therapy you can really accelerate the healing process by treating the main organs through the Ting Points and Meridians. We have been doing this for 15 years with tremendous success. Treat the LUNGS, HEART, LARGE INTESTINE, IMMUNE SYSTEM), LIVER (hooves & muscles), KIDNEY (bones), BLADDER, STOMACH, SPLEEN AND OTHERS. The results are truly amazing. The process is easy and efficient. You can treat the Race Horse heart and lungs and achieve a 20 to 30% increase in their stamina at the end of the race. There is one caveat as you must reduce the amount of exercise you do the week before the race or event.

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Vet Talk… What Is Shipping Fever?

By Christina Weese

“Shipping fever” is a common name for pleuropneumonia, a serious infection involving the lungs and pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the chest wall) that’s often caused by the stress of travel.

When fluid is found only in the lungs, and not in the pleural cavity, it’s simply referred to as pneumonia.

Symptoms of pleuropneumonia include a foul nasal discharge and cough, lethargy, depression, loss of appetite and elevated temperature.

If fluid is present in the lungs and chest, it can be very painful for the horse and they may be very reluctant to move. Symptoms can appear during, immediately after, or several days after transport.

Horses undergoing the stress of transport, especially those travelling long distances, are at Chuckwgon Rcehorse Devereux sufrisk of developing respiratory fered shipping fever after a lengthy infections even under the best of trailer ride. photo: Christina Weese travel conditions. Here are some tips that can decrease the likelihood of your horse contracting shipping fever.

— Allow your horse to reach its head down regularly during transport.

That will help to encourage his nasal passages to drain.

— Offer feed and water during transport or at regular breaks.

— Ensure that long-distance travel includes regular breaks where your horse is unloaded and allowed to stretch and move about.

— Use a low-dust bedding and remove urine and manure at regular intervals.

— Ensure that your trailer has adequate ventilation and air exchange during transport.

It’s also good practice to take your horse’s temperature before travelling as it’s possible he may have an existing respiratory infection that could be made worse by travel stress.

Treatment for pleuropneumonia includes long-term antibiotics, support for secondary symptoms and, when necessary, a chest drain to allow excess fluid to drain from the pleural cavity.

The earlier the infection is caught, the better chance a horse has for recovery. However, even in cases caught early and treated aggressively, recovery may take months. Many horses that experience serious pleuropneumonia will never return to their previous levels of athletic performance.

Reprinted with permission from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine’s Equine Health Research Fund (www.ehrf.usask.ca).

February 2015

Group of North American Trainers Propose Gradual Elimination of Race-Day Medications The Water Hay Oats Alliance is a grassroots movement of like-minded individuals who support the passage of US federal legislation to prohibit the use of race day medication in horse racing.

The widespread use of drugs in American racing is destroying public confidence, defrauding the betting fan, weakening the genetic pool and, most importantly, putting life and limb of our equine athletes and their jockeys at risk.

“We believe it’s time to take a proactive position regarding the administration of race day medication. American racing has always been a global leader, and it’s time to restore confidence in our game and in our international standing,” said D. Wayne Lukas, a Hall of Famer who is one of the trainers supporting this proposal.

The following group of North American trainers has proposed the gradual elimination of race-day medication in the United States. Under the proposal, no two-year-olds would receive race day medication beginning in 2015, and no horses of any age would receive race day medication starting in 2016. In addition, this group is supportive of the Racing Medication & Testing Consortium’s efforts to approve model rules for twenty-six controlled medications by the RCI board of directors: Thomas Albertrani, Roger Attfield, Chrisfor all your horse insurance needs tophe Clement Jose Equine Insurance Corrales, David Donk, Neil D. Drysdale, Underwriters Ltd. Jeremiah C. Englehart, Eoin Harty, Neil Howard, Michael E. Hushion, D. Wayne Lukas, Richard E. Mandella, Claude R. McGaughey since 1980 III, Kiaran P. McLaughlin, Kenneth G. McPeek, H. Graham Motion, William I. Mott, Todd A. Pletcher, Kathy Ritvo, Jonathan E. Sheppard, Albert M. 106 - 3701 E. Hastings St. Burnaby, B.C. V5C 2H6 Stall, Jr. Dallas Stewart, (604) 293-1531 FAX: (604) 293-1248 Barclay Tagg, William www.equineunderwriters.com Van Meter, and George Weaver.

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