About Griffin Place

SERVICES OFFERED; Boarding and Foaling “Kindergarten” Purchasing at Sales Selling and Sales Preparation WHO ARE WE? Located at the foothills of the Cascades, near Buckley, Washington, Griffin Place is a Thoroughbred breeding farm. We are actively involved in breeding and marketing, and we are committed to the Washington Thoroughbred industry. We are BREEDING FOR EXCELLENCE. Excellence starts with good mares, and we have assembled what we think is an outstanding broodmare band. It includes the dams of G1 SW RINGS A CHIME, Washington Champion, BEST JUDGEMENT, Canadian G1 winner LADY BEVERLY, Alberta Horse of the Year, LATE NITE MARTINI, and ATOYAC, dam of our most recent stakes winner KEAGAN, winner of the Turf Paradise Derby. We also purchased, and have since sold, the dam of multiple G1SW TOCCET. See our horses for a full list of our mares. We have a strong history of breeding, raising and selling top class horses. We were Washington’s Leading Breeder by money won in 2000. That year, two of our homebreds, RINGS A CHIME and BEST JUDGEMENT became Washington Champions. RINGS A CHIME became our first G1 stakes winner, and Washington Horse of the Year. Her dam, OUTOFTHEBLUEBELL was voted Broodmare of the Year. In 2002 we had incredible good fortune when our mare, Cozzene’s Angel produced TOCCET who became the leading two-year old in the nation by money won and a multiple G1 winner. TOCCET won the G1 Champagne at Belmont, the G1 Hollywood Futurity at Santa Anita, the G2 Remsen at Aqueduct, the Laurel Futurity and set a new record for graded stakes wins by a two-year old. The year 2005 hallmarked a defining year for us in the sale ring. We topped the Keeneland January sale when Cozzene’s Angel sold for $1,350,000. Then we topped both Washington sales. Our Tribunal filly out of Bold Magestrate brought $100,000 in the WTBA summer sale, and we were the agent for Carnation Farm’s Free At Last colt out of Northern Whirl which was the high seller at the Winter Mixed Sale. An unprecedented achievement. We do not stand stallions but we own multiple shares in the Washington stallions CAHILL ROAD, DELINEATOR, FREE AT LAST, HE’S TOPS, LIBERTY GOLD, PRIVATE GOLD, MATTY G and RAISE THE BLUFF. We continue to be active supporters of the Washington Thoroughbred industry. Mary Lou is a member of the WTBA Board of Directors, the WTBA Finance Committee, the Northwest Race Series Committee and chairman of the Magazine Committee. In addition, Griffin Place proudly supports the Racetrack Chaplaincy program and sponsors the WTF Art Show, children’s division.