Z Thoroughbred Racing Newsletter Z Volume 3, Issue 4, July 2013 ZTR’s Harbor Wind Notches 3rd Career Win Harbor Wind, the 4 year-old approaching the stretch, gelding by Harbor the Gold, won reached the front at the his 3rd career race at Emerald 3/16ths marker and held that Downs when annexing a advantage to the wire. $7,500 Claiming race on July 14th by 1 3/4 lengths in a time Harbor Wind has now earned of 1:10 2/5. over $50,000 in purses and WA -bred bonuses for his ZTR part- Harbor Wind is Z Thoroughbred ners. Washington State pays Racing’s top money earner owners a bonus of about 12 after racing the two previous percent of the purse monies seasons at 2 and 3 years-old at earned by their WA-breds finish- Harbor Wind, ZTR’s 4 yr-old gelding Emerald Downs. ing 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th at the Harbor Wind has earned over state race meet annually. winning at Emerald on July 14. Harbor Wind was away alertly $50,000 for his ZTR partners. then taken back off the two Harbor Wind’s record stands at leaders early. He angled out 3-3-3 in 16 starts. Sunpenny is Runner-up Twice in Maiden Allowance Races Sunpenny, Z Thoroughbred Racing’s 2 year-old filly by Good Reward out of multiple stakes winner Cascade Coro- na, finished 2nd in her first two Maid- en Special Weight races at Emerald Downs this summer. Under jockey David Lopez and trained by Frank Lucarelli, Sunpenny bounced off the rail in her first race losing ground but gamely coming back twice in the race. She finished a diminishing 3/4 length back of winner See My Tail Lights in a race time of 51.33 for the 4 1/2 furlongs earning her an Equi- Sunpenny finishing with “good courage” base Speed figure of 75 in her debut. per the DRF race chart caller. Sunpenny, is a Washington-bred 2 yr-old filly shown prior to Sunpenny is being pointed to the her 2nd race at Emerald Downs on July 19th. Her next race will WTBOA Allowance race on Saturday, be the WTBOA Allowance race with a $20,000 purse. August 10th for fillies that were sent through the Washington Thorough- WTBOA sale from breeders Rick and bred Breeders and Owners Associa- Debbie Pabst’s Blue Ribbon Farm. tion sales ring in 2011. With a purse This year’s WTBOA yearling sale has Inside this issue: of $20,000 Emerald Downs is offer- been moved up to the Tuesday follow- ing two races - one for fillies on Satur- ing the Longacres Mile and is being Harbor Wind’s 3rd Career Victory P.1 day and another for colts on Sunday. held on August 20th offering yearlings A minimum of 7 fillies must enter the from sires Harbor the Gold, Bluegrass P.1 Sunpenny Notches Two 2nds at Emerald Downs first race for females or else Sunpen- Cat, Private Gold, Stormin Fever, Ma- ny will run against the colts on Sun- Harbor Wind Winner’s Circle Photograph P.2 jestic Warrior, Scat Daddy, Proud Citi- day. zen, Einstein (BRZ), Grindstone, Sharp El Mesano’s Kin Win Major Stakes P.2 Z Thoroughbred Racing acquired Sun- Humor, Offlee Wild, and Zensational penny as a yearling at the 2011 among others. Page 2 Z Thoroughbred Racing News Ha(r)bor Wind’s Winners Circle Photograph From the Family of ZTR’s El Mesano - Verrazano in the $1M Haskell Somali Lemonade and Chief Havoc Win Graded Stakes Somali Lemonade, a 4 year-old filly out of Chief Havoc won the $150,000 Swaps Stakes Z Thoroughbred Racing’s El Mesano’s (G2) at Betfair Hollywood Park July 4th. Chief 2nd dam Chic Corine, won the $250,000, Havoc is a 3 year-old colt out of La Reina, a Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap (G3 daughter out of Eclipse award winning Turf) on July 2nd at Parx Racing at 8 1/2 Queena, who is a full-sister to Grade 1 winner furlongs on the turf. Somali Lemonade Chic Shirine dam of Chic Corine - Z Thorough- had not won since 2011 when she was bred Racing’s El Mesano’s 2nd dam. Chic victorious in the JPMorgan Chase Jessa- Shirine is also the second dam of the graded mine Stakes (G3) at Keeneland but had stakes winning Hungry Island, Soaring Empire, placed since in multiple graded events. and Somali Lemonade and is the 3rd dam of She has now earned $409,306. ZTR’s El Mesano. Another daughter of Chic Corine, Enchant- Chief Havoc made his first two starts at 2 in ed Rock is the dam of 3 year-old Eclipse England before shipping back to the United candidate and Wood Memorial winner States where he ran 6th behind eventual 2- Verrazano an earner of $951,300. Verra- year-old male champion Shanghai Bobby in zano will run next in Monmouth Park’s the one-mile Foxwoods Champagne Stakes signature event the $1,000,000 William (G1). Hill Haskell Invitational (G1) against Preakness winner Oxbow, Wood Memorial Z Thoroughbred Racing is currently El Mesano in training at Pegasus Training winner Verrazano, Kentucky Derby runner offering partnerships in unraced 2 Center in Redmond, Washington in June -up Golden Soul and Easy Goer Stakes 2013. He will ship early September to winner Power Broker all pointing to the year-old El Mesano from this out- Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley CA. mile and an eighth Grade 1 on July 28th. standing female-tail family. Partnerships forming now! Verrazano, who entered the Kentucky Derby a perfect four-for-four, enters the El Mesano Offering Page Haskell off an impressive front-running score in the Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on June 16. The colt by More Than Ready has won five of his six starts, El Mesano is in active training under trainer all with Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez Mike Puhich at Dr. Mark Dedomenico’s Pega- in the irons. Trainer Dallas Stewart will sus Training Center in Redmond, Washington. be represented by his first Haskell starter El Mesano will ship to Golden Gate Fields in with his expected entrant Golden September where he will debut under a trainer Soul. The Charles Fipke-homebred was a to be determined. hard-charging second to Orb in the Ken- tucky Derby and will be making his first El Mesano has filled out nicely since his acqui- start since the Belmont Stakes. Golden sition as a yearling by Z Thoroughbred Racing Soul is by sire Perfect Soul (IRE), the sire and should excel at routes of ground on the of ZTR’s Soul Intent, a 3 year-old colt turf given his sire Mizzen Mast, broodmare- currently active in Northern California. sire El Prado (IRE), as well as his 2nd dam-sire Nureyev’s affinity for the grass. Page 3 Z Thoroughbred Racing News Z Thoroughbred Racing LLC was founded by Steve Zerda in 2010 to bring the opportunity for thoroughbred ownership to more Z racing fans in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona. Steve is for- merly a successful airline executive whose interest in horse racing began back in 1978 when he calculated Beyer figures by hand for races at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, and Del Mar. Steve has Z Thoroughbred Racing LLC studied pedigree analysis and conformation to enable the acquisition Steve Zerda of quality stock for racing. Along with his company based in Ren- President Phone: (206) 617-1534 ton, Washington, Steve previously owned a portion of the multiple E-mail: [email protected] Grade I winning filly Turbulent Descent based at Hollywood Park, winner as a 2 year-old in 2010 of the Hollywood Starlet Invest in Winning! GI), and an Eclipse Award finalist for 2010. 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