Griffin Place

Formal Plan (Griffin Place sales graduate) pulls ahead to win...

Sat, 26 May 2012 09:50:00 -0400

Formal Plan (Griffin Place sales graduate) pulls ahead to win race 10 at Churchill Downs. View race details and watch race replay…

Catherine Z’s Hope, a Griffin Place sales graduate whose...

Sat, 26 May 2012 09:26:00 -0400

Catherine Z’s Hope, a Griffin Place sales graduate whose earnings help support the Rivkin Center at Swedish Medical Center. Read the story…

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Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:49:03 -0400

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Stormin Kitty and her Preachinatthebar colt foaled 3/1/2012.

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:36:48 -0500

Stormin Kitty and her Preachinatthebar colt foaled 3/1/2012.

Foaling is in full swing. We are expecting about 30 this year.

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:27:43 -0500

Foaling is in full swing. We are expecting about 30 this year.

The foaling barn is filling up. We are looking forward to our...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:05:46 -0500

The foaling barn is filling up. We are looking forward to our first foal of the year.

Bold Magestrate

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:36:01 -0500

December 2011

We lost Bold Magestrate yesterday. She enjoyed 4 healthy years of retirement.

We were reminiscing last night about all she meant to us. I remember Michael Dickinson, trainer of DaHoss, telling me she was the first horse he trained in the USA. I have her win photo from the Bryan Field Stakes which she got in 56.3. The jockey makes “Maggie” look even smaller than she was. She was 15.1 maybe if she had long toes and shoes on. In spite of her size, Michael Dickinson always referred to her as “The Crusher”. We loved her for what she produced for us, and for her personality. She did everything with great gusto like when she would roll and shake off, she would do her signature groan/growl which you could hear all over the farm. She was always in “fast forward, leave me alone mode”. We will miss her.

WTBOA 2011 Summer Sale Consignment

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:50:00 -0400

(name below photo)

Hip 89 Private Gold x Banana Raspberry c.

Hip 95 Sea of Secrets x Carrie’s a Jewel f.

Hip 205 Siren Harbor 2008 filly by Harbor the Gold

Rain Shadow and her City Zip colt. 4/3/11.

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:15:00 -0400

Rain Shadow and her City Zip colt.

4/3/11.

Stormin Kitty with Cool Bird (the mascot) and Cool Bird (the...

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:06:32 -0400

Stormin Kitty with Cool Bird (the mascot) and Cool Bird (the foal) in the background. VK

Piper the Great Dane wearing her purple coat.

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:48:37 -0400

Piper the Great Dane wearing her purple coat.

Cool Bird watches Terry in the background.

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:40:02 -0400

Cool Bird watches Terry in the background.

Cool Bird video!

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:00:00 -0400

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Cool Bird video!

Cool Bird (the mascot,) Stormin Kitty, and Cool Bird (the foal)...

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:44:00 -0400

Cool Bird (the mascot,) Stormin Kitty, and Cool Bird (the foal) visit with each other.

Stormin Kitty gets a treat from Cool Bird (the mascot) while...

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:32:00 -0400

Stormin Kitty gets a treat from Cool Bird (the mascot) while Cool Bird (the foal) watches.

2011 filly by Rocky Bar out of Time For Magic owned by Ken Miles

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:18:29 -0400

2011 filly by Rocky Bar out of Time For Magic owned by Ken Miles

Stormin Kitty had a nice big Grindstone colt February 24th. His...

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:21:00 -0500

Stormin Kitty had a nice big Grindstone colt February 24th. His name is Cool Bird and he has his own Facebook page. Check him out at: http://on.fb.me/eloypm

Griffin Place Hall Of Fame Finalist

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:53:00 -0500

GP is a finalist in the 2011 Washington Racing Hall of Fame BREEDERS list. Check it out…

2010 Washington 2-Year-Old Champion Filly LADY GOLIGHTLY (Matty...

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:25:00 -0500

2010 Washington 2-Year-Old Champion Filly

LADY GOLIGHTLY
(Matty G—Lady Beverly, by Frosty the Snowman)
Owners: Lady Golightly Racing (Mr. & Mrs. William T. Griffin and Tom & Melissa Wenzel)
Breeders: Mr. & Mrs. William T. Griffin (Griffin Place)
Trainer: Tom Wenzel
2010 Record 4 - 2 - 1 - 1 $49,600
Stakes: Barbara Shinpoch S. (EmD), Diane Kem S. (R) (EmD).
WTBOA Sales Graduate

1/29/11 Griffin Place sales graduate, Formal Plan, earns black type:

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:26:00 -0500

Portland Meadows held their richest race in over two decades when a field of eight sophomore distaffers contested the $82,700 Portland Meadows Oaks on January 29. The race was one of a trio of stakes run on a rare Saturday card at the Rose City oval.

Early leader Formal Plan dropped back to fourth before finishing with good energy to earn second. Owned by trainer Jennifer Tooley and her partner Bradley Brooks, it was only the California-bred daughter of Formal Gold-Choice Plan’s second start, following her impressive maiden win just 11 days earlier. Margaret Root’s Oregon-bred stakes filly Chick Power (Seattle Shamus-Happy Chick) finished another 4 1/4 lengths back in third place.

Congratulations to her breeder, Willowcreek Farm.