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Racing SupReme
Dashin Brown Streak, a 2010 gelding by Hotdoggin out of the Streakin La Jolla mare Annas Streakin Dash, is the latest AQHA Supreme Race Horse. Created in 2002, the Supreme Race Horse award recognizes a racing American Quarter Horse who during its career earns $500,000 or more, wins two or more open Grade 1 stakes races and at least 10 races. Dashin Brown Streak is the 108th horse to earn the award. Bred by Flat Get It Farms Inc. of Villa Rica, Georgia, Dashin Brown Streak is owned by the estates of C.W. Navarre and Melvin Hatley, based in Oklahoma City. From a career that has spanned five years and includes 23 starts, Dashin Brown Streak’s record includes 11 wins, four seconds and three thirds with earnings of $543,631. His resume includes Grade 1 victories in the
2015 Leo Stakes and 2015 Remington Park Invitational Championship and the 6-year-old ran second in the 2016 Leo Stakes-G1. Dashin Brown Streak will be recognized at the Jan.
18 AQHA Racing Champions Ceremony in Oklahoma City.
Wyoming’S 2017 DateS Set
The 2017 racing calendar for the Cowboy State has been set by the Wyoming Pari-Mutuel Commission. Wyoming Downs in Evanston
will host a 16-day meet from June 24 – Aug.
13 to begin the 2017 season. The action then moves to Sweetwater Downs in Rock Springs for a seven-day season from Aug. 19-Sept. 4. The Central Wyoming Fairgrounds in Casper will conduct a four-day meet from Sept. 9-17, and Wyoming’s final 2017 races will be contested during a five-day meet at Energy Downs in Gillette from Sept. 23-Oct. 1.
Will RogeRS DoWnS goeS pink In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness
in October, Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs racehorses paraded past the stands in unconventional pink saddle towels and silks each Sunday last month. “Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs has always been a part
of Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” said John Lies, the track’s racing secretary and announcer. “We are honored to continue that tradition and continue promoting awareness for this important cause.”
One race every Sunday during the month of October is selected and named in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Quarter Horses in that race
are dressed with pink saddle towels, and the house silks are emblazed with the special pink-ribbon breast cancer logo. All those in attendance that are breast cancer fighters and survivors were invited to join in a special photo with the race’s winner in the winner’s circle. A copy of the photo is offered to the guests, and the moment is shown across the world on the track’s simulcast feed.
The campaign is personal for Lies. “My mother is a 12-year breast cancer survivor,” he said. “One of our own outriders is as well. She provided an example of how fighters and survivors exist right here in the midst of our own racing family. We are pleased to do whatever we can to help Race for a Cure.”
Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs opened in Dec. of 2005 and is currently undergoing a $3.5 million renovation to update the casino and horse racing track. It features
six months of live horse racing, comprised of
a spring Thoroughbred meet and fall Quarter Horse meet. Simulcast racing from around the world is broadcast year round inside the casino.
Rule change SubmiSSion DeaDline appRoaching
The American Quarter Horse Association invites members to make a difference in
the world’s largest equine breed registry by submitting items to be considered by AQHA standing committees at the 2017 AQHA Convention, which will be held March 17-20 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio. Each spring, AQHA holds a convention to review AQHA rules and policies. During the convention, member-submitted rule changes and suggestions are also reviewed. AQHA wants to hear
any suggestions you have to make AQHA membership, programs and services reach their fullest potential.
AQHA members have until Dec. 31, 2016, to submit items for the convention. AQHA standing committees will meet at convention to consider the submitted items. Download and complete the rule-change proposal form; there are two versions
of the form available for your convenience at www.aqha.com/convention. Log in to the AQHA Member Services area for a list of the standing committees. Once you have completed the form, please return it via email to rulechanges@aqha. org. If you prefer, items can also be submitted
by mail at: AQHA, Attn.: (Committee Name), P.O. Box 200, Amarillo, TX 79168. For more information on the 2017 AQHA Convention, visit www.aqha.com/convention.
the SeaSon of thankS
It’s November and time to give thanks.
I’ve got so many things to be thankful for this year. I’m always thankful for fast horses and great friendships developed by a mutual love and admiration of those four-legged speedsters. This year I’m especially grateful to be part of an industry that honors one of our heroes lost by investing in our future in his memory.
The Sam Thompson Memorial Foundation announced the inaugural class of scholarship winners in October. Following fundraising events at the 2016 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale and a donated breeding to Jess Good Candy being auctioned at the Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City, the foundation awarded scholarships totaling $33,000 for the 2016 recipients.
Congratulations to Blayke Haggard, Skyler Teal Danley Burks, Braiden Burks, Makenzie Atkinson, Courtney Conklin, Shianne Andrew, Sarah George, Hailey Stenslie, Yancye Guymon, Lana Grubb and Jacob A. Kester.
You can learn more about the recipients
at www.thestfoundation.org/scholarship. The Foundation Scholarship Awards Program benefits applicants from the horse racing community for the 2016-2017 school years. To make contributions to the scholarship fund, which the Foundation gives 100 percent of the proceeds directly toward scholarships, contact Mindy McArthur at MM@MindyMcArthur. com ‎or Laura Joiner at Ljburger7@aol.com.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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