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After again winning his trial, the colt ran a solid race to finish fourth in the finals, won by 25-1 longshot Foose Cash Sr.
Five Bar Cartel’s juvenile record of five wins from seven starts and $654,368 banked made him a serious contender for a year-end title.
In January 2014, his connections proudly accepted his award as 2013 AQHA Champion Racing Two-Year-Old Colt.
Five Bar Cartel’s sophomore campaign was shorter, consisting of only the trials and finals of the All American Derby-G1 and Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1.
At Ruidoso Downs, he posted runner-up finishes in the trials and finals of the former; in the latter at Los Alamitos, he won his trial and was fourth in the finals.
At the end of 2014, Five Bar Cartel retired from the track with a record of 11-6-2-0 and $1,068,825. In five Grade 1 appearances, he never finished lower than fifth.
FROM SHEDROW TO STALLION BARN
“I needed a horse in Louisiana, and a Corona Cartel is what I was missing in my
barn. When I saw him, he knocked my eyes
out. That horse could have gone anywhere with the credentials he had. San Gregorio picked us to start his career. It really meant a lot to me.
It was one of the first big horses I went and got myself,” said Ryan Robicheaux, whose father, Jude, filled Robicheaux Ranch with a high- powered stallion line-up that included Heza Fast Dash and Game Patriot.
“I was very lucky that I had an ‘inside source’ in Saul [Ramirez Jr.],” Robicheaux added of the personal connection that helped seal the deal
for Five Bar Cartel to stand in Louisiana. “Saul’s brother works for me at sales. I’m good friends with all of the Ramirez family. Saul knew the San Gregorio family very well, and they agreed to send Five Bar Cartel to us in Louisiana.”
In addition to being sired by leading sire Corona Cartel, Five Bar Cartel is out of the Dash Ta Fame mare Five Bar Molly si 107, who banked $187,109 while winning 12 races and earning the title of AQHA Superior Racehorse. Racing to the age of 9, she won the Grade 1 Vessels Maturity, Grade 3 Miss Princess Handicap and Restricted Grade 3 Utah Classic Derby, while recording a slew of stakes-placings along the way.
“With him not having a Mr Jess Perry bottom side, it was a good outcross for mares in Louisiana, plus across the country,” Robicheaux added of Five Bar Cartel’s strong maternal line.
Five Bar Molly has also produced restricted graded stakes winner Fly Bar Special si 103 ($110,787), a Superior Race Horse and Califor- nia Hi-Point Aged Mare, Grade 1 stakes-placed winners Freedom Choice si 88 ($281,423) and Cartels Big Gun si 90 ($42,092), and Grade 1 finalist Mollys Cartel
si 91 ($150,163), among others.
Breeding inquiries quickly came in for Five
Bar Cartel, who became the first $1 million earner to stand at Robicheaux Ranch, where his introductory stud fee was $4,500.
A total of 87 AQHA foals were registered in his first crop, born in 2016.
Five Bar Cartel’s budding success as a young sire was on full display at the 2017 Louisiana Quarter Horse Association Yearling Sale in Kinder, Louisiana. On July 29, 2017, TM Ranch paid the sale-topping price of $182,000
In his first crop to race, Five Bar Cartel sired 58 starters and 27 winners who accumulated 42 wins and seven stakes wins.
He had six stakes winners and two stakes-placers, in addition to 40 Register of Merit recipients.
for On Point, a yearling son of Five Bar Cartel consigned by Ryan and Jude Robicheaux. The hefty tag not only topped the 2017 sale, but also set a record as the highest price in the 41-year history of the sale.
“We had a lot of high expectations, and you can set yourself up with those kinds
of expectations,” Robicheaux said of Five Bar Cartel’s first real test as a sire in the fall yearling sales.”
“His yearlings brought all kinds of money that year, money that we’ve never seen in our state, for sure,” he continued. “Everybody was hoping he wouldn’t be a flop, and he wasn’t.”
By the end of the three-day sale, Five Bar Cartel topped the sire standings, with 26 yearlings selling for an average of $29,223.
Those 2017 yearlings hit the track running in 2018. In one of the earliest two-year-
old stakes races of the year, the West Texas
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