WA Racing Hall of Fame

WASHINGTON RACING HALL OF FAME MEMBERS

Jockeys – Gary Baze, Ralph Neves, Gary Stevens, Russell Baze, Basil James, Albert Johnson, Johnny Adams, Larry Pierce, Lennie Knowles, Joe Baze, Vicky Aragon (Baze), Paul Frey, Gallyn Mitchell, Ricky Frazier, Gary Boulanger, Jack Leonard, and Juan Gutierrez.

Trainers – Allen Drumheller, Jim Penney, Tom Smith, Charlie Whittingham, Bud Klokstad, Frances Keller, R. H. “Red” McDaniel, Glen Williams, Kathy Walsh, Bill McMeans, Tim McCanna, Wayne Branch, Howard Belvoir, Ben Harris, Wesley Ward, Larry & Sharon Ross, Marion Smith, Doris Harwood, Ruth Parton and Frank Lucarelli.

Horses – Captain Condo, Chinook Pass, Trooper Seven, Saratoga Passage, Sir William, Peterhof’s Patea, Belle of Rainier, Sparrow Castle, Biggs, Pataha Prince, Hilco Scamper, Military Hawk, Chum Salmon, Travel Orb, Loto Canada, Noosa Beach, Mustard Plaster, Snow Plow, Atta Boy Roy and Stryker Phd.

Breeders – Herb Armstrong, Jerre Paxton, George Drumheller, Guy & Barbara Roberts, Dan Agnew, Frank Brewster, Wilbur Stadelman, Les Turner, Grousemont Farm, George Newell, Czech-Mate Farm, Gunshy Manor, Herman Sarkowsky, Robert Edwards, Rick & Debbie Pabst, Penney Fam, Griffin Place and Neal and Pam Christopherson’s Bar C Racing Stables Inc.

Owners – George and Norma Sedlock

Lifetime Achievement – Joe Gottstein, Ron Crockett, Pete Pedersen, Jack Hodge, Ralph Vacca, Robert Geller, Mark Dedomenico, Aaron T. Van De Vanter and Joe Withee.

2023 MEDIA GUIDE

The Class of 2024

The 2024 will be inducted on Saturday, Aug. 10 before the races by the Winner’s Circle.

Former jockey Basil Frazier, Grade 1 winning mare Flag de Lune, and racing writer/broadcaster Jon White compose a stellar field of 2024 Washington Racing Hall of Fame inductees. In addition to the above three, longtime trainer and former NFL and University of Washington running back Junior Coffey was announced as winner of the Lifetime Achievement award for 2024.

The Class of 2023

The 2023 was inducted on Saturday, Aug. 12 before the races.

The two horses inducted were both graded stakes winners and WTBOA Sale graduates.

Atta Boy Roy (2005 horse by Tribunal), was a three-time Washington champion with $602,276 earned over his 36-race career (three-to-eight). Among his five stakes wins was a victory in the 2010 Churchill Downs Handicap (G2). He also placed in six other stakes (including three Grade 3 events) while racing for Roy and Ellie Schaefer’s R. E. V. Racing being trained by Valorie Lund. Atta Boy Roy, who is a half-brother to 2007 Washington horse of the year and Longacres Mile (G3) winner The Great Face, was bred by Patricia Murphy and Rick and Debbie Pabst. His dam, the stakes-placed Synastry mare Irish Toast was named 2009 Washington broodmare of the year. Atta Boy Roy was Washington’s leading freshman sire in 2016, and went on led the state sire ranks from 2018 through 2020 before moving to Kentucky.

2023 Washington Racing Hall of Fame: Atta Boy Roy – YouTube

Stryker Phd (2009 gelding by Bertrando) was bred by the Spokane-based Char Clark Thoroughbreds and Todd Havens. Stryker Phd was a three-time Washington horse of the year (2014-16) and two-time Longacres Mile (G3) winner. He also scored four Washington older horse titles while running for Jim and Mona Hour. The $631,011 earner in addition annexed the Grade 3 Berkeley Handicap and seven other stakes during his 33-race career over six seasons (2012-17) in which he won 11 races and placed in 29 more (11 stakes). Trained successfully, first by Margo Lloyd and later by Larry and Sharon Ross, Stryker Phd is a son of the Smart Strike mare Striking Scholar (voted Washington broodmare of the year in 2014).

2023 Washington Racing Hall of Fame: Stryker Phd – YouTube

Trainer Frank Lucarelli. The New York native has seven Emerald Downs training titles to his credit and leads the Auburn track in all-time wins (1,122) and earnings ($12,706,343) and is second in stakes wins (56). Among the Washington champions he’s trained are 2017 horse of the year Mach One Rules, additional two-year-olds No Curfew, Trackattacker, Time for Gold and most recently Cobra Jet in 2021. He also nurtured older filly or mare titleholders Point of Reference and Marva Jean and three-year-old distaffer Nifty Misty Dawn, his first state champion in 1988. Another of his top trainees was Grade 3 stakes winner Gallant Son, who won a total of eight stakes, earned $552,528 and is his top earner. Another graded stakes winner in Lucarelli’s barn was Santa Ana Stakes (G2) winner Stormy Lucy. According to Equibase records, from 1979 through March 5, 2023, Lucarelli has saddled the winners of 2,035 races and the earners of $26,668,054.

2023 Washington Racing Hall of Fame: Frank Lucarelli – YouTube

Breeder Neal and Pam Christopherson’s Bar C Racing Stables Inc. is based just south of the Washington border in Hermiston, OR, the couple sends many of their mares to foal at their friends Melodie Bultena and Doak Walker’s Desert Rose Racing LLC in nearby Kennewick. Through the years the Christophersons have bred seven Washington champions – including 2021-22 champion sprinter Papa’s Golden Boy – in their own names, two Washington champions in partnership with Desert Rose Racing, one in partnership with Desert Rose Racing and Bill and Carol Ginger, and one in partnership with Ken and Pat Paulson. Two-time champion Ladyledue, who was bred with the Paulsons, became their first Washington champion in 2007. The Christophersons also bred California champion Galilean and three Oregon champions. In addition, among the successful stallions they have stood is standout Harbor the Gold, Oregon’s 14-time leading sire and sire of 29 Washington, Oregon and California champions.
Bar C Racing Stable led the Washington breeder ranks in 2015 and 2016, and has ranked second on seven other occasions since 2007, including 2020-22. The Christophersons also stand Dynamic Impact, Sire of 2022 Washington champion juvenile filly Miss Dynamic.

2023 Washington Racing Hall of Fame: Bar C Racing Stables Inc. – YouTube

The late George and Norma Sedlock are the first recipients in the newest Hall of Fame category – owners. The Bellevue couple founded G & N Thoroughbreds in 1982 and the last runner (Bankers Year) to fly their purple and gold silks came in 2007. In-between they raced such outstanding runners as Washington champions Military Hawk (a homebred) and Colonel Stevens, who not only sired Military Hawk – who ranks second ($686,128) only to Saratoga Passage among all Washington-bred earners – and Cadette Stevens. Also a homebred daughter of Colonel Stevens, Cadette Stevens won ten stakes, placed in a dozen other added money events and earned $453,5365, Military Hawk was inducted into the Washington Racing Hall of Fame in 2013. Among the couple’s other top stakes winners were Crowning Meeting ($514,732), Grade 3-,placed Radar Contact ($417,277), Erin’s Lord, Singing Year, Marketal, Military Force and Funny Tale.
The Sedlocks were also among the original investors in both Emerald Downs and in the WTBOA Sales Pavilion and Offices located at the Auburn track. George also served as secretary of the Emerald Racing Association during the transition from Longacres to Emerald Downs.

2023 Washington Racing Hall of Fame: G & N Thoroughbreds – YouTube

The 2021 Inductee

Joe Withee was inducted into the WA Racing Hall of Fame on June 20, 2021, the 25th anniversary of Emerald Downs Opening Day, June 20, 1996.

The 2019 Inductees

The class of 2019 was inducted on Sunday, September 15:

Ruth Parton (Trainer), Griffin Place (Breeder), Snow Plow (Female Horse) and Aaron T. Van De Vanter (Special Achievement).

The 2018 Inductees

The class of 2018 was inducted on Sunday, September 9:

Doris Harwood (Trainer), Juan Gutierrez (Jockey,) Mustard Plaster (Male Horse), Penney Farm (Breeder) and George Todaro (Lifetime Achievement).