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second in his All American Futurity trial and won the All American Juvenile with a speed index of 106. He earned $769,319 in three years on the track, and ended 2015 ranked ninth overall by earnings.
Depending on whether you’re talking to Fred or Carolyn, BV Sheslikethewind and BV Travelin Soldier follow as second and third in their all-time runner rankings.
Graded stakes winning mare BV Sheslikethewind, by Apollitical Jess and out of the Helmuths’ Corona Cartel daughter Corona Cayenne, earned $194,032 as a freshman in 2019. Her wins include the Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity trial and the Ruidoso Futurity trial, with a second place finish in the G1 Ruidoso Futurity finals.
BV Travelin Soldier, a Graded stakes placed colt by Corona Cartel and also out of the Helmuths’ broodmare Ms Tres Seis, earned $211,282 in two years, including winning his Heritage Place Futurity trial, running second by a hair in the G1 finals, and third in his All American Futurity trial. He returned as a 3 year old to win his Heritage Place Derby trial.
Fourth on the couple’s ranking of runners, although not a homebred, is Jeaniologi, by Dominyun and out of All N The Jeans, by Corona Cartel. The 2016 filly ran second in her Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity trial and finished the finals in fourth, earning
$93,691 in her sole year on the track. “She had a bullet work in her schooling race at Remington, then ran a 97 speed index in her first out,” Fred says. “She followed that with a 98 speed index on her second out and then ran 103 in her third, but a week later, she died. I never had a horse run those kinds of times so early.”
THEIR BEST BROODMARES
Along with her years of handling the office chores for the family’s businesses including the horses, Carolyn’s main role is choosing breedings for their mares. “She gets a feeling about it and she’s usually right,” says Bubba.
Their top mare — “hands-down” — says Fred, is Ms Tres Seis, a 2004 Tres Seis mare out of Ms Dash Beduino, by First Down Dash. “We were at a sale and Ms Dash Beduino wasn’t in foal. She hadn’t been in foal for a year or two. We walked off and talked about it, and then bought her. Within the next 15 minutes, we had three different pages to come to the information desk from people offering to buy the mare,” says Fred. “If you know my wife, if someone wants to buy a horse she owns, she’s not going to sell!”
Ms Dash Beduino’s first baby, Eyesa First, by Eyesa Special, won $105,700, crossing
the wire first in the Kansas Futurity-G2 as a freshman and second in the Kansas Derby-G3 the following year. Fred and Carolyn consider Eyesa First their third-best broodmare. She
produced Graded stakes placed BV Valentine Wagon ($87,898) and BV Wagon Wheel ($36,702), both by PYC Paint Your Wagon, and stakes winner BV Comeback Kid ($86,460), by Corona Cartel. BV Valentine Wagon won the FI Lady Bug Stakes her first year out, then came back her second year to win the Prissy Gold Digger Stakes, qualify for the Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby, run second in the Don Steele Memorial Stakes and third in the Jack Brooks Stakes.
Ms Tres Seis was Ms Dash Beduino’s second foal, and has produced foals with earnings exceeding $1 million including BV Midnite Express, BV Travelin Soldier and BV Mr Tellercartel ($71,381), who ran fifth in the Lady Bug’s Moon Stakes her first year out, and then came back her sophomore year to run second
in the Golden Driller Stakes and fourth in the OQHRA Fall Classic Stakes.
The Helmuths consider Corona Cayenne, bred by Robert Nunnally, as their second top producer. The Corona Cartel mare out of Streakin La Jolla daughter Party Girl Affair produced BV Never Let Go ($95,746), by Shazoom; BV Pepper Shaker ($75,076), by Royal Shake Em; and BV Sheslikethewind. BV Never Let Go won the Oklahoma Horsemen’s Association Futurity in 2010; BV Pepper Shaker won his Heritage Place Futurity trial in 2013 and ran fourth in the G1 final.
The Helmuths own two homebreds out of Ms Tres Seis...
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BV Midnite Express (above) won the Heritage Place Futurity-G1 at Remington Park in 2015.
BV Travelin Soldier (right) earned over $200,000 in his career and is the sire of 100% money earners from his first crop to race in 2019.