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UNCLE Dsi 97, $682,965
Champion 2 Year Old, Champion 2-Year-Old Colt
Holland Ease
Corona Cartel
Corona Chick
First Down Dash
Easy Henryetta
Chicks Beduino
Dash For Cash First Prize Rose Easy Jet
Babys Henryetta Beduino TB
A Classy Chick Sizzle Te Lilsalady TB
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug Beduino TB Miss Fast Chic Shelter Half Ocean Girl
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug
Jet Deck Lena’s Bar TB Lanovay
Baby Steel TB Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat Chick’s Deck Mayshego TB Azure Te TB Jet’s Fair Lady Reb’s Policy Here’s To Lil
Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go To Market Hide And Seek Jet Deck
Leo Jewel
Lady Bug’s Moon Casco Rose Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat
Fast Jet
Serena Chic Tentam
Gay Matelda Rollicking Pennsylvania Girl
Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go To Market Hide And Seek Jet Deck
Leo Jewel
Lady Bug’s Moon Casco Rose Moon Deck
Miss Night Bar Three Bars
Lena Valenti Lanolark TB Vera Vay Leadstealer Creole
Grey Sovereign Romany Belle Rejected
Quick Eye
Three Chicks Decketta Mayhego Aegean Goddess Nashville
Blue One
Jet Deck
Sooner Lady New Policy Yenoh Reb Exalted Rullah Jumpin Jackie
Three Bars Golden Rocket Go Man Go
La Galla Win Market Wise Pretty Does Alibhai
Scattered
Moon Deck
Miss Night Bar Leo
Linda Jewel
Top Moon
FL Lady Bug Levan
Prissy Hankins Grey Sovereign Romany Belle Rejected
Quick Eye
Jet Deck
Miss Breeze Bar War Chic
Sun Fly Intentionally Tamerett
Sir Gaylord Hasty Matelda Rambunctious Martinetta Tumiga
Bank Book Sadye
Sizzling Lil UNCLE D, ’17-C.
First Down Dash
Little Surfer
Runaway Wave
Dash For Cash
First Prize Rose
Runaway Winner
In the Curl TB
Breeder: McColee Land & Livestock, LLC Owner: Cavenaugh Quarter Horses, LLC Trainer: Clinton Crawford
Jockeys: Cody Smith & Ricky Ramirez
2019 Record: 6-4(2)-2(1)-0, $682,965, Rainbow F.-G1, All American Juv., 2nd Heritage Place F.-G1.
Don and Fran Cavenaugh haven’t owned racehorses for long and already they have a Champion in Uncle D. They credited many people for their success, and Don explained that his friend Brad Joyce started it all.
“If it hadn’t been for Brad, I never would have gotten in this business,” Don said. “In 2017, I told him I was wanting to buy some horses to bring back to Arkansas. I’d never heard of the Heritage Place. The day of the sale, he came to me and said, ‘There’s a horse sale in Oklahoma. Do you want to go?’ We loaded up and came.”
At the 2018 Heritage Place Yearling Sale, with the help of trainer Clint Crawford and Renee Wilson, they selected several horses, including Uncle D for $170,000. He was worth every penny.
Crawford debuted Uncle D in the trials for the Heritage Place Futurity-G1. The colt won his trial and ran second in the final after bearing in.
Uncle D spent the rest of his 2-year-old season at Ruidoso Downs. He qualified for the Rainbow Futurity-G1 by winning his trial. He proved best in the final, scoring by 1 1/4-lengths with Cody Smith aboard.
“He stood there like a champ, and
when the gates opened, he was all business,” said Smith.
Uncle D might have had an influence on the All American Futurity-G1, except for some bad luck in his trial. He bobbled after the start, finished second, and didn’t qualify.
“He actually got clipped and cut his leg,” said Fran. “We had to put some staples in his leg. For him to come in second, we were quite amazed.”
The wound turned out to be superficial, and Uncle D recovered in time to compete in the All American Juvenile. Despite brushing the gate, he won by a neck as the 6-5 favorite to bring his earnings to $682,965.
At the awards ceremony, the Cavenaughs told the crowd how blessed they were to have such a good horse.
“We get the award, but he deserves it because he’s the one that does the work,” said Fran.
Uncle D wins the Rainbow Futurity-G1
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