Atta Boy Roy, Stryker Phd, Inducted into the WA Racing Hall of Fame

With no new nominations in 2020 or 2022 and just one addition in 2021 – well-liked Emerald Downs Editorial Director Joe Withee – voting for the Washington Racing Corridor of Fame resumed in 4 classes: senior male runner, breeder (publish 1980), coach and new class proprietor.

The finalists in every class have been Horse (two votes)—Atta Boy Roy, Margo’s Present, Pure As Gold, Stryker Phd and Wasserman; Teacher—Mark Glatt, Frank Lucarelli, Bob McMeans, and Blaine Wright; Breeder—Bar C Racing Stables Inc., Coal Creek Farm, Dunn Bar Ranch and Karl & Darlyne Krieg; and Proprietor—Paskey DeDomenico, David Mowat, Gerry & Gail Schneider, and George & Norma Sedlock.

The 2023 nominees have been introduced on the Washington Annual Awards celebration on February 25 on the Emerald Downs.

The 2 horses that have been accepted have been each tiered wager winners and WTBOA Gross sales graduates.

Atta Boy Roy (2005 horse by the Tribunal) was a three-time Washington champion with $602,276 earned throughout his 36-race profession (three to eight). His five-bet wins included a 2010 Churchill Downs Handicap (G2) victory. It additionally positioned six different stakes (together with three Grade 3 occasions) whereas competing for Valorie Lund-trained Roy and Ellie Schaefer’s REV Racing. The half-brother of 2007 Washington Horse of the 12 months and Longacres Mile (G3) winner The Nice Face, Atta Boy Roy was bred by Patricia Murphy and Rick and Debbie Pabst. Dam, staked Synastry mare Irish Toast was named brood mare of the 12 months in 2009 Washington. Atta Boy Roy was Washington’s premier freshman in 2016 and continued to steer the state dad ranks from 2018 to 2020 earlier than shifting to Kentucky.

Stryker Phd (bred by Bertrando in 2009) was bred by Spokane-based Char Clark Thoroughbreds and Todd Havens. Stryker Phd is a three-time Washington horse of the 12 months (2014-16) and a two-time Longacres Mile (G3) winner. He additionally received 4 former horse championships in Washington whereas working for the Jim and Mona Hour. Incomes $631,011, he additionally added the Rank 3 Berkeley Handicap and 7 different stakes over his 33-race profession over six seasons (2012-17) the place he received 11 races and took 29 extra (11 shares). Efficiently skilled first by Margo Lloyd and later by Larry and Sharon Ross, Stryker Phd is the son of Sensible Strike mare Placing Scholar (named the stud mare of the 12 months in Washington in 2014). He’s the half-brother of two-time Washington champion racing mare Madame Pele and 5 different winners, together with 2023 winner No Slo Mo ($100,640).

It was Frank Lucarelli who left behind a extremely aggressive group of trainers. The New York native holds seven Emerald Downs coaching titles and is a pacesetter on the Auburn circuit in all-time wins ($1,122) and wins ($12,706,343) and second place in bets wins (56). Washington champions he has skilled embody the 2017 Horse of the 12 months Mach One Guidelines, extra two-year-olds No Curfew, Trackattacker, Time for Gold, and most lately the 2021 Cobra Jet. Marva Jean and her three-year-old distaffer Nifty Misty Daybreak are the primary state champions in 1988. One other staggered winner in Lucarelli’s steady was Stormy Lucy, winner of the Santa Ana Stakes (G2). In line with Equibase data, from 1979 to March 5, 2023, Lucarelli saddled the winners of two,035 races and the $26,668,054 winners.

Though Neal and Pam Christopherson’s Bar C Racing Stables Inc. is situated simply south of the Washington border in Hermiston, Oregon, the couple sends most of their mares to their associates Melodie Bultena and Doak Walker’s Desert Rose Racing LLC in close by Kennewick. Over time the Christophersons have of their identify seven Washington champions, together with 2021-22 champion sprinter Papa’s Golden Boy, two Washington champions in partnership with Desert Rose Racing, one in partnership with Desert Rose Racing and Invoice and Carol Ginger, and one in partnership with Ken and Pat Paulson . Raised with the Paulsons, two-time champion Ladyledue turned the primary Washington champions in 2007. The Christophersons have additionally bred California champion Galilean and three Oregon champions. He’s the 14-time main father and father of 29 Washington, Oregon and California champions.
Bar C Racing Secure led the Washington breeder rankings in 2015 and 2016, and has been second for seven extra occasions since 2007, together with in 2020-22. The Christophersons additionally personal the 2022 Washington champion child mare Miss Dynamic Sire Dynamic Affect.

The late George and Norma Sedlock are the primary recipients – homeowners – within the latest Corridor of Fame class. The Bellevue couple shaped the G&N Thoroughbreds in 1982, and the final runner to fly their purple and gold silk (Bankers 12 months) arrived in 2007. They competed with excellent runners, amongst them Washington champions Army Hawk (pet) and Colonel Stevens. He isn’t the daddy of Army Hawk and Cadette Stevens, who ranked second solely to Saratoga Cross ($686,128) amongst all Washington-bred winners. Cadette Stevens, who can be the native daughter of Colonel Stevens, received ten shares, participated in a dozen different extra cash occasions, and earned $453,5365. Army Hawk was inducted into the Washington Racing Corridor of Fame in 2013. Crowning Assembly ($514.732), Rank 3-, Radar Contact ($417.277), Erin’s Lord, 12 months of Music, Sunday, Army Energy and Humorous Story.
Sedlocks have been additionally among the many authentic traders at each the Emerald Downs and the WTBOA Gross sales Pavilion and Places of work situated on the Auburn circuit. George additionally served as secretary of the Emerald Racing Affiliation in the course of the transition from Longacres to Emerald Downs.

This 12 months’s inauguration ceremonies will likely be held on Saturday, August 12, at some point earlier than the Longacres Mile.

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