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Submitted by Sharon Brandsness-NQHA Member
WINNER SILENCES FOES IN SPENCER CHILDERS
Soul Of Silence upset a talented field at odds of 22-1 to win the $164,100 Grade 1 Spencer L Childers California Breeders Championship Handicap at Los Alamitos Race Course on Saturday.While the field of nine included three Grade 1 winners with 11 Grade 1 victories among them, Soul Of Silence had never even competed in a Grade 1 race before Saturday.
Soul Of Silence
Ridden by Saul Ramirez, Jr., for trainer Patricia Visscher, who also owns the 4-year-old gray gelding along with Douglas Rau and Marci South; and bred by Sharon Brandsness, Soul Of Silence gradually pulled away to win by 3/4 of a length in 19.59 seconds.Kirk Goodfellow's Catchmeinyourdreams finished second in the race for the fourth year, and Juan Alberto Tirado-Lizarraga's 2006 AQHA Champion Aged Horse Apollitical Time was third.
"[Soul Of Silence] had a lot of problems," Visscher said."We laid him out for a while and took the chips out of his knee."
Soul Of Silence's previous best performance was a win in the Grade 3 Vandy's Flash Handicap in July 2006.The son of sire Separatist and dam Royal Dip came into the Spencer Childers off a second-place finish in a 350-yard allowance race on June 22 after more than eight months away from the races.Soul Of Silence has now won five races in 13 starts and more than doubled his career earnings to $137,631.
Catchmeinyourdreams, at 8 years old, was running in his final Spencer Childers Handicap, according to his trainer Christopher O'Dell, after finishing second in 2003, 2005 and 2006.
"He ran his heart out," O'Dell said."It's hard to beat those younger horses.It was a good performance that he's 8 years old competing in that kind of race.He didn't get beat very far."
Catchmeinyourdreams became a millionaire in an allowance race in his last start in July and will retire as one of Los Alamitos' most accomplished horses, having won five Grade 1 races, including three straight Los Alamitos Championships.
Apollitical Time was looking for her third different California Breeders Champions Night win after capturing the 2005 Governor's Cup Derby and the 2006 California Breeders Matron Stakes.
The Spencer Childers Handicap had been won the previous three years by the Spencer Childers-owned Be A Bono.
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LAUREL CAPURRO-WACHTEL NAMED WRANGLER YOUTH LEADER OF THE YEAR
The American Quarter Horse Journal, August 14, 2007 – Laurel Capurro-Wachtel of Deeth, Nevada, is the 2007 Wrangler Youth Leader of the Year for the American Quarter Horse Youth Association. Capurro-Wachtel received the award at the Ford American Quarter Horse Youth Association World Championship Show in Fort Worth, Texas, on August 4.
“I’m shocked,” Capurro-Wachtel said. “I love the kids, and this is just so wonderful. I’m so honored to receive this award.”
The youth leader for the Nevada Quarter Horse Youth Association, Capurro-Wachtel helped the Nevada organization achieve its goals and set many new ones for the future.Some of the affiliate’s biggest achievements were innovative fundraising ideas to help young members attend the AQHYA Convention and Youth Excellence Seminar in Amarillo, Texas. To help Nevada youth learn about all aspects of the Quarter Horse industry, she put together local race days and judging workshops.
“It’s a neat way to have the year finish up,” she said. “I think this is my 10th year being youth advisor. I was involved as a youth myself and it was just something that I wanted to give back to the kids. I really value the youth program and I think it’s so important.”
Capurro-Wachtel has two daughters and said she has many more years to come as she watches her daughters grow up and show American Quarter Horses.
Wrangler Youth Leader of the Year Capurro-Wachtel has shared her organizational skills, team building ability and many other talents to ensure the success of future AQHA leaders.
The American Quarter Horse Youth Association is the largest single-breed equine youth organization with almost 30,000 members from around the world.
The Ford American Quarter Horse Youth Association World Championship Show is the world’s largest, single-breed youth world championship show. It is the pinnacle for youth around the world who earn the right to compete in each of the 33 classes representing halter, English, and western disciplines. Nearly 2,000 entries from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Italy and Venezuela competed at this year’s event, August 4 – 11.
AQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal or America’s Horse, visit www.aqha.com/magazines.
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