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by Jennifer K. Hancock
Sale SeaSon
The summer solstice has passed and while many of America’s best athletes will soon be competing in the Rio Olympics in Brazil, America’s fastest athletes are running
at tracks across the United States. That also means that it’s time for the yearling sale season to get underway.
If you’ve downloaded the
free AQHA Robin Glenn
Pedigrees RPG Catalog
App, you can download multiple sale catalogs to your mobile device so that you don’t have to lug around a sale catalog. The free app lets you make notes and do research right from the sale pages and includes up-to- the-minute catalog corrections and additions.
The TQHA Yearling Sale kicks off sale season July 29-30 at the Exhibition Hall at The Freeman in San Antonio. The sale begins at 10:30 a.m. each day. This year’s TQHA catalog features 274 yearlings, down slightly from 300 last year and an increase from the 263 cataloged in 2014.
Due to the recent EHV-1 outbreaks, TQHA has implemented new rules for horses entering the 2016 TQHA Yearling Sale. All horses will be required to have a health certificate that is dated no more than 7 days from the start of the sale. Sale horses must be vac- cinated for EHV-1 no less than 14 days or more than 30 days prior to the sale. Recommended vaccines are Pneumabort-K or Calvenza. The vaccination record must also be written on the health certificate which will include the date administered, brand, and serial num- ber. For more information on the TQHA Sale, includ- ing health certificate requirements, visit tqha.com.
The Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association Yearling Sale will be held Aug. 12-13 in Kinder, Louisiana, at the Coushatta Casino Resort Pavilion. For more information, visit www.lqhba.com.
The Ruidoso Horse Sale Company will hold the New Mexico Bred Sale Aug. 19-20 and the Select Quarter Horse Yearling Sale Sept. 2-4. The sale begins each day immediately after the racing program at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack. Visit www.ruidosose- lectyearlingsale.com for more information.
Heritage Place’s 38th Annual Quarter Horse Yearling Sale will be held Sept. 22-24 in Oklahoma City. Visit heritageplace.com for more information.
The Los Alamitos Equine Sale will be held October 1-2 in California. Visit www.losalamitose- quinesale.com for more information.
Good luck as you comb the catalog pages and walk the stall aisles looking for the 2017 All American Futurity winner!
Wyoming DoWnS
Live horse racing returned to Wyoming Downs Racetrack in Evanston, Wyoming, on July 9.
The gates opened at 11:30 a.m., and first post was at 1:05 p.m. The season extends each weekend through Sunday, July 31, with approximately nine races per day.
“In addition to our Wyoming entries, we expect our largest group of owners, trainers, horses and jockeys to be from Utah and Idaho,” said Joan Ramos, Wyoming Downs operations manager. “We anticipate good crowds not only from Salt Lake City, but also from the Inner Mountain West.”
Wyoming Downs grandstands hold up to 5,000 people with stalls for 850 horses.
A July 24 silent auc- tion will include auction items provided by the local Evanston commu- nity and many equine industry organizations and racing enthusiasts with proceeds going to benefit racehorse trainer Mike Taylor.
A longtime trainer on
the Intermountain racing
circuit, Taylor, 55, was
severely injured in an
accident when his truck
collided with a semi-trailer in Idaho on June 10.
“The accident has left Mike fighting for his future with many expenses accumulating,” said event organizer Brande Koltiska.
“Mike and his family have been a huge asset to the racing community, and he needs strength and support now more than ever.”
For more information or to donate an item, contact Ms. Koltiska at (512) 517-9532 or by e-mail at bkoltiska@gmail.com. Those unable to attend the benefit for Mike Taylor, but wanting to help with medical costs, can make donations at www. gofundme.com/29ww2dxw.
This is the fourth year horses have raced at Wyoming Downs since Eric Nelson repurchased Wyoming’s only privately owned horseracing track and brought live racing back to the state. The res- urrection of live racing was made possible through the Wyoming legislature’s approval of historic racing terminals in 2012. The historical racing terminals are now located in Wyoming Downs off- track betting facilities throughout Wyoming and the income funds the track’s operations, purses and other track expenses.
For more information, visit www.wydowns.com.
The MonTh in review
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Mike Taylor
10 SPEEDHORSE, July 2016
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