Two-time Washington champion Absolutely Cool earned his 17th stakes placement when he finished second in the $35,000 Caballos Del Sol Handicap at Turf Paradise on November 15. The seven-year-old gelding by Absolute Harmony-Coup de Foudre, by Basket Weave, who was bred and is raced by Karl Krieg and is trained by Valorie Lund, had won the 2012 renewal of the stakes and finished third in the six-furlong sprint last year. Ridden by Rocco Bowen, Absolutely Cool improved his record to 7-9-8 from 30 starts and has earned $223,348.

Mark Dedomenico LLC, Dr. George Todaro and partners’ three-year-old filly Rever de Vous, who was stakes-placed at Santa Anita at two, won an allowance/$25,000 optional claiming (N) race in gate-to-wire fashion at Golden Gate Fields on November 14. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Distorted Humor, who was ridden to her 1 1/4-length win by Russell Baze, has a record of 2-1-2 in six starts and earnings of $56,270.

Though Dedomenico’s 2014 Gottstein Futurity winner Prime Engine ran eighth of 11 in the $1-million Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes (G3) on November 22, his and North American Thoroughbred Horse Company’s two-year-old filly Majestic Presence, by Majestic Warrior, finished third by 2 1/2 lengths behind Grade 1 winner Take Charge Brandi in the $400,000 Delta Downs Princess Stakes (G3) on the same card. Finishing seventh behind winner Ocho Ocho Ocho in the 1 1/16-mile Jackpot was Al and Sandee Kirkwood’s stakes-placed Red Button, a son of Distorted Humor.

The Kirkwoods’ homebred three-year-old filly Danceinthenightaway went gate-to-wire to take a five-furlong allowance by 3 1/4 lengths at Del Mar on November 23. Unraced at two, the Mark Glatt trainee, a California-bred daughter of Indian Charlie, is unbeaten in two starts and has earned $78,480.

On November 24, Tappingintherain, a four-year-old daughter of Tapit bred by the Kirkwoods and raced and trained by Glatt, took her second win in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance test at Turf Paradise , where she defeated Dr. George Todaro’s Decatur Princess, by Broken Vow, by 6 1/2 lengths.

Washington Quarter Horse breeder Abigail K. Kawananakoa’s homebred two-year-old filly A Goddess Thru Fire won the Corona Chick Handicap at Los Alamitos on November 14. The California-bred daughter of Walk Thru Fire has won four of six starts and earned $88,245. Kawananakoa also races multiple graded Quarter Horse stakes winner Significant Heart, a four-year-old California-bred daughter of Corona Cartel who took her eighth win in the Las Damas Handicap (G3) at Los Alamitos on November 21, upping her earnings to $240,267.

John Xitco, Dan Agnew and James Galvin’s Square Dancer, a four-year-old Florida-bred gelding by Circular Quay trained by Mike Chambers, won an about seven-furlong allowance over Turf Paradise’s grass course on November 19 to up his earnings to $91,745.  Terra Firma Farm’s full brothers Tale Spinner and Kahului Bluff, both Washington-bred sons of Raise the Bluff-Summer Straw trained by Joe Toye, ran second and sixth.

Temeeku, a three-year-old daughter of Unusual Heat bred by the Marion Christensen and her late husband David, won a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight over Del Mar’s turf course by 2 1/4 lengths on November 21. The California-bred distaffer has earned $52,706.

Claire and Jack Lein’s stakes-placed homebred mare She’s Stella Marie, a five-year-old Kentucky-bred half-sister to $219,546 stakes winner Posse Power, won an about mile allowance over Turf Paradise’s grass course on November 22. Trained by Robertino Diodoro, the daughter of Leroidesanimaux (Brz) has earned $55,233.

Five-year-old I Keep Saying, a stakes-placed Washington-bred son of Yankee Gentleman out of Washington-bred stakes winner Arco Iris, by Basket Weave, bred by sisters Jill Fabulich and Kay Cooper, went gate-to-wire to win a six-furlong $40,000 claiming race at Golden Gate on November 23. Racing for the Penney family’s Homestretch Farms Inc., trained by Jim Penney and ridden by Russell Baze, I Keep Saying improved his race record to 7-4-4 from 20 outings and upped his earnings to $107,213.

Battled, a four-year-old gelding by Master Command out of 2004 Washington champion three-year-old filly Grinch earned his third win in eight starts in a six-panel allowance race at Laurel Park on November 20. A $300,000 Barretts May Two-year-olds in Training graduate, Battled has earned $105,070. He is one of two winners – the other being $177,380 earner Whosville – out of Grinch, a multiple stakes-placed daughter of Salt Lake who was bred by Tod C. Manley and earned $164,284 while racing.

It was announced in mid-November 2014 that the Seattle-based mobile on-line gaming company Big Fish Games has been purchased by Churchill Downs Inc. for a reported $885-million. According to Churchill Downs CEO William Carstanjen, “The mobile-online gaming space gives us new products, new customers, new geographies. We don’t think we could expect to be successful dipping a toe into the water, and felt we needed to go big and start with scale. And with more expertise and experience.”