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The great mare Garrettsmisspawhuska, the co-leading dam of AQHA Champions, produced
World Champion Vandy’s Flash
Vansarita Too, who Pool thought was one of the greatest broodmares
2-Time Champion Vannevar
Vernon sold Oh Kathy Oh to Loyd Jones when she was four, “and Loyd raised a couple
of colts out of her, including Realm Rogue by
a Thoroughbred, Mr. H.Z. Realm Rogue was sixth in the 1972 All American Futurity. I finally went back to Loyd, repurchased Kathy and never sold her again. She’s 20 years old, has an Easy Jet yearling and is again in foal to Easy Jet for an ’82 foal. I have her daughter, Susie Pool – named after my beautiful, wonderful wife – here at home. Her Tiny’s Gay colt, Rock Solid, will start this year. Susie Pool’s in foal to Easy Jet for an ’82 foal.”
Oh Kathy Oh has also produced Captain Kix, AAA, by Bar Raider, and Sonny The Bull si. 89 by Tiny’s Gay.
Vansarita Too is out of one of the
greatest broodmares that ever lived, Garrettsmisspawhuska, raised by Dee Garrett. Three of Garrettsmisspawhuska’s foals were Champions: World Champion Vandy’s Flash; Vannevar, Champion Gelding at 3 and 4; and Vanetta Dee, Champion Filly at 3, Champion Mare at 4, 5 and 6.
Vernon purchased Vansarita Too from Dee Garrett’s widow, Neva, in 1972, when the mare
was in foal to Go Man Go, and had Sinn Fein, by Three Oh’s, at her side.
“When I went to pick up the mare, I saw a filly I couldn’t take my eyes off of, and Neva told me she was Vansarita’s daughter, Gotta Go Too, by He’s Gotta Go. Neva and I did a little trading, and I hauled the filly, too. I’d gladly have purchased Sinn Fein, but Dr. Strole had already made a bid on him, and he came after the colt as soon as he was weaned.
“Vansarita Too had a filly in ’73, and I named her Granny Garrett, which is what Neva’s grandson, Billy Bowers, had always called her. Billy heads up the Val Verde track.
“I eventually sold Granny Garrett to Bobby French, for the same price I bought Vansarita Too, $100,000, and Bobby sold her to B.F. Phillips in 1980.
“Vansarita’s filly, Gotta Go Too, qualified for the 1973 finals in the Sun Country, Kansas, Rainbow and All American Futurities. I later sold her to B.F. Phillips. She had an Easy Jet foal, Gotta Go Easy, and one Dash For Cash foal before she died. Her foal went for around $15,000 in the All American sale. Vansarita’s
foal, Sinn Fein, turned out to be stakes winner and sire. He’s standing at Running U Stallions in Hamlin, Texas.
“Vansarita has a two year old and a yearling by Easy Jet. Her 1977 Easy Jet filly, Vansarita Flash, broke her coffin bone in training but turned on the speed before that, outworked everything I had in California. Vets have told me she’s on her way to being a hundred percent sound again, and if that happens, I may send her back to the track later this year. As for 1983, there’s only one place she’s going – to Special Effort. Vansarita Too’s in foal to Easy Jet for an ’82 foal, and she’ll be bred back to him.
“One of my mares is Chick’s Fantacia by Three Chicks out of Fantacia. She’s about twelve, has a Tiny’s Gay two year old, a Mito Paint yearling and is in foal to Rocket Wrangler for an ’82 foal. In 1978 we bred the mare
to Tiny’s Gay and got a filly that we named Pfeffernuse – you pronounce it “feffernoose,” and it means Christmas cookie in German. I guess a lot of people at Ruidoso Downs wish we had named her in English, because they tripped all over her name last year.
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