ANOTHER STAKES WINNING WEEKEND FOR HARBOR THE GOLD OFFSPRING

September 13, 2009

KOALA BEACH DOMINATES DENNIS DOGE STAKES (From Emerald Downs Home Page)
Koala Beach overpowered five foes and posted an eight-length victory in the $50,000 Dennis Dodge Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings. With Gallyn Mitchell riding at 120 lbs., Koala Beach ran 6-½ furlongs in 1:15 3/5 and paid $3, $2.20 and $2.10.

Doris Harwood, who has a record 19 wins this season with 2-year-olds, is the trainer for owner and husband Jeff Harwood of Kent, Wash. The Harwoods also combined to win this race last year with Noosa Beach.

A Washington-bred by Harbor the Gold, Koala Beach was stakes placed three times this season—all against Hollywood Harbor—before Sunday's route. Overall, the gelding has a 2-2-1 record in five starts with earnings of $55,718—including $26,178 for the win in the Dodge.

Edaciously finished in second place, followed by Private Jettz, Fast Trade, Movie Clip and Tough Road. Hollywood Harbor, meanwhile, is pointed to the $75,000 Gottstein Futurity on Sept. 26.

WHO'S YOUR NEXT EX runs second in Trooper Seven Stakes.  
Quinalt rallied boldy and snapped a 10-race losing streak with a 1¼-length victory in the $50,000 Trooper Seven Stakes for 3-year-old colts and geldings.  Who's Your Next Ex, ridden by Deborah Hoonan, held on tenaciously for second place, a nose ahead of third-place finisher Siberian Cocktail. He's All Heart finished fourth, followed by Roy's Tops, Toss'm Again, Big Liberty and Eighty Eight.

HOLLYWOOD HARBOR leads huge weekend for HARBOR THE GOLD

(FROM THOROUGHBRED INFORMATION AGENCY) "Continuing his dominance over the Northwest youth division, speedy Hollywood Harbor stretched out to a mile for the first time on August 29 and completed a rare sweep of Emerald Downs’ initial three stakes for juveniles when he captured the $45,000 Washington Thoroughbred Breeders Association Lads Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over another runner from the second crop of Oregon sire Harbor the Gold, Koala Beach.

Saddled by trainer Chris Stenslie and installed as the 2-5 favorite among eight starters on the heels of his runaway victories in the track’s 5 1/2-furlong Northwest Stallion Strong Ruler Stakes on July 18 and six-furlong Premio Esmeralda Stakes on August 9, Hollywood Harbor set fractions of :22.80, :45.80, 1:10.20 and 1:22.80 over the wet-fast surface before he cruised home unchallenged in 1:36.40, just shy of the stakes record.

“I think he intimidates the rest of the horses because he’s such a good horse,” said winning rider Deborah Hoonan-Trujillo. “He’s so good, and these types of good horses don’t come around too often.”

Hollywood Harbor is out of the multiple stakes-winning Slewdledo mare Miss Slewette. Sold for $21,000 as a yearling, the Washington-bred gelding has earned $70,101 from four starts for owners One Horse Will Do Corp. and John Holmes.

Tracking his cropmate in second throughout was the Doris Harwood trainee Koala Beach, who ran second in the Strong Ruler and third in the Premio Esmeralda for owner Jeff Harwood. The Washington-bred gelding concluded the Lads Stakes under jockey Gallyn Mitchell 9 1/2 lengths clear of the third-place finisher, padding his four-race earnings to $29,540.

A local debut winner on June 28, Koala Beach was produced by the unraced Distinctive Cat mare Kittyzallwet, a half-sister to Hollywood Harbor.

Both the winner and the runner-up were bred by Bar C Racing Stables Inc.

One day after Hollywood Harbor and Koala Beach completed the Lads Stakes exacta, another gelding from their sire’s 2007 crop reached the Emerald Downs winner’s circle. Washington-bred Bogachiel, the first foal out of Swiss Yodeler’s daughter Alpine Song, was a two-length maiden winner at six furlongs for trainer Bonnie Jenne and owner/breeder Frank McDonald. Ridden by jockey Troy Stillwell in the $20,000 claiming race, Bogachiel stopped the clock in 1:10.60 and elevated his three-race bankroll to $8,631.

With six stakes horses and cumulative progeny earnings of more than $327,000 from his first two crops of racing age, 8-year-old Harbor the Gold is Oregon’s leading second-crop sire of 2009. The Bar C Racing Stables stallion is a two-time winner by Seeking the Gold and a half-brother to 1996 Eclipse Champion 2-Year-Old Boston Harbor. — August 30, 2009"

HOLLYWOOD HARBOR, broke his maiden by five lengths in the Northwest Stallion Strong Ruler Stakes at Emerald Downs on July 18 and took the Premio Emeralda by 5 1/4 lengths on August 9. He has earned $45,351 in his trio of starts.

11-2-08 A WINEBERG WEEKEND
FOR BAR C HORSES AT PORTLAND MEADOWS
     

Chief Jafatica continued his winning ways as he took the 2008 Bill Wineberg Stakes at Portland Meadows November 2nd.  The 2 yr. old son of Tiffany Ice out of Dixie Leigh Red by Chief's Crown was sent off as the 7-5 favorite.  He drew off in the lane to defeat Ex Tremely Cool by 4 1/2 lengths.  After winning the OTOBA Sales Stakes earlier in the meet, he is eligible for the breeders bonus should he win the $40,000 Os West Futurity on Oregon Championship Day on December 7th.  Chief Jafatica races for owner D.H. Walker and Trainer Jim Fergason.  He was bred by Neal and Pam Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stables.

Catalina Harbor survived a strong early pace duel to draw off and win the 2008 Janet Wineberg Stakes.  Though there were only 4 head  in the Janet Wineberg, as they went into the turn, the four of them were in a line straight across the track.  Catalina surged to the lead turning for home and drew off to win by four and 3/4 lengths.  Catalina Harbor is the second stakes winner from the first crop of freshman sire "Harbor The Gold" and the first foal out of Silver City Lilly by Tiffany Ice.   Bred and owned by Bar C Racing Stables and trained by Jim Fergason, who had a training triple on Sunday!