Page 50 - Speedhorse March 2019

SPEEDLINES
Five Bar Cartel’s dam, Five Bar Molly, is shown winning the 2007 Vessels Maturity at Los Alamitos
Dilly was then purchased by cattle buyer Zan Rasberry and moved to Texas. The move prompted her name being changed to Della. She was later purchased by Mrs. Moore, who was the wife of a bank official at the Bank of Commerce in Houston. Della was purchased by Henry Lindsay for Mrs. Moore. She
was purchased to race a horse named Dan Murphy who was reportedly considered the “World Champion Race Horse.”
The race with Dan Murphy was set
up in either 1919 or 1920 depending on who you got the information from. This would make Della Moore about four or five when the race took place. It was about this time that it was discovered that Della Moore was expecting a foal by Joe Blair, a fast Thoroughbred. The foal was Joe Reed P-3. After foaling, Della Moore returned to racing and to her match with Dan Murphy. Dan Murphy would beat her, but under circumstances that seem unusual. She lost her jockey and so, she lost the race.
Quickly has a much more defined race record. She had 85 starts racing from 1932 to 1937. She would win 32 starts with 14 seconds and 13 thirds and earned $21,530. Her record shows that she never placed or won a stakes race.
Lena’s Bar was a stakes winner with 76 starts, 24 wins, 18 seconds and 10 thirds with earnings of $28,311. She won the 1958 C. L. Madden Bright Eyes Handicap, the 1958 Buttons and Bows Stakes and the 1959 Bright Eyes Stakes. This mare raced for five years from 1957 to 1961.
This review shows why the racing career of Five Bar Molly made me think of “Great Sires Have Great Mothers.” She has an unusual racing career in that she was raced and then she disappeared in 2002 only to come back to become a major stakes winner at the age of nine in 2007.
Five Bar Molly started racing for her breeder The Five Barkers Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2000. Her record shows eight starts with four wins and two thirds earning $21,870 as a two-year-old. She broke her maiden in her first start at Laurel Downs in the trials for the Du-Bar/Lee Giles/Frank Hart Futurity. She then finished third in the finals. She followed that with another trial win in the Utah Classic Futurity-RG2. She was sixth in the finals. She raced at Wyoming Downs winning a Futurity trial and then she won the Stakes Consolation. She also won an Elko County Fair Futurity trial qualifying for the consolation where she finished fourth.
The three-year-old campaign for Five Bar Molly started back at Laurel Brown with a fifth in her first start. She came back in the trials for Utah Classic Derby-RG3 with a win and then a win in the finals to give her the first stakes win. Then she won a Silver Dollar Derby-RG3 trial earning a fourth in the finals. She had one more start at three with
a win. Her record at three included six starts with four wins and earnings of $14,890.
Then, in September 2001, Esmeralda Flores bought Five Bar Molly. A recent visit with Francisco Flores confirmed that Five Bar Molly was bought to be used as a match race
mare in Mexico. Before she left for Mexico in 2002, she had two starts both at Los Alamitos Race Course in allowances. Both races were run in January where she was first in the first one and she was second the other one. She earned $9,300 in these two starts.
The second thing that happened before she left for Mexico was being bred to Strawfly Special by embryo transfer. Fly Bar Special was foaled in 2003. She was raced by A Regal Choice Inc. She won the Pomona Juvenile Championship in 2005. Her record shows that she ran seventh in the Governor’s Cup Futurity-RG1. The three-year-old campaign shows that she ran in a number of stakes trials and stakes garnering only one second place. That was in the Los Alamitos Winter Derby-G1. She made just two starts in 2007 both in allowance races.
Fly Bar Special made her mark on the races again in 2008. She won the California Breeder’s Matron Stakes-RG2 and she was second in the Miss Princess Handicap-G3. She would make the finals of Los Alamitos Winter Championship-G1, the Mildred
N. Vessels Memorial Handicap-G1, the Vessels Maturity-G1 and the Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1. The total record for this mare shows 27 starts with five wins, four seconds and one third earning $110,787.
Five Bar Molly went to Mexico, but she proved so good that it became hard to match her. So, to find a match she became a mystery mare. Here is how it was explained in the April 27, 2007 issue of Speedhorse profiling
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