On November 29, Mark Dedomenico LLC, Jerry Durant and Michael House’s first-time starter Rattataptap, a juvenile Kentucky-bred daughter of 2014 leading North American sire Tapit, won her debut in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Del Mar.
Peter Redekop BC Ltd’s 2014 British Columbia Derby (Can-G3) winner Alert Bay, a three-year-old California-bred multiple stakes-winning son of City Zip, took the $215,000 Zia Park Derby by three lengths on November26. The Blaine Wright trainee has a 6-4-1 record in his dozen starts and has earned $497,207.
Maiden winners with Washington connections won two races on December 1. Four-year-old Fiesty Trevor, a four-year-old Colorado-bred filly by Allaire Farms’ Trickey Trevor, won a $12,500 maiden claimer at Zia Park by one length. At Turf Paradise Ed Zenker and Terra Firma Farm’s first-time starter Eddie’ Camaro, a three-year-old Washington-bred gelding by Polish Miner-Eddie’s Favorite, by Jambalaya Jazz, won a maiden claimer by 4 1/4 lengths for trainer Joe Toye.
On November 30, the final day of the 2014 Del Mar fall meet, juvenile sons of Stormy Atlantic finished one-two in the $150,750 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3). Conquest Typhoon took the race by a half-length over Stormy Liberal, a full brother to El Dorado Farms LLC’s stallion Coast Guard, whose first foals reach the races in 2015. A $100,000 Ocala June two-year-old, Stormy Liberal – who has a record of 1-1-0 from three starts and $63,850 in earnings – is the fourth stakes horse out of the Royal Academy mare Vassar.
Battled, a four-year-old gelding by Master Command out of 2004 Washington champion three-year-old filly Grinch, added win number four (from nine lifetime starts) in a $25,000-$20,000 optional claiming race at Laurel on December 6, upping his earnings to $130,720. He is one of two winners – the other being $177,380 earner Whosville – out of Grinch, a multiple stakes-placed daughter of Salt Lake who was bred by Tod C. Manley.
Bryan W. Smith’s homebred Tattypoo, a four-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Devine Cozzene-Mira’s Magic, by Katowice, scored a nearly two-length win in a five-furlong allowance at Portland Meadows on December 7 to record her second win. The filly is trained by Gary Lonclot and was ridden by Jennifer Whitaker.
