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NEWS BRIEFS
Tres Seis
Champion Tres Seis (Sixarun-Our Third Delight, Reb’s Policy TB) will stand the 2022 season at Zerlotti Genetics Ltd. in Pleasanton, Texas. Tres Seis earned $856,901 in his career, winning six races including the Golden State Futurity-G1. The 1999 stallion is the sire of over $25.7 million in earners, including AQHA’s all-time leading money earner 4-time Champion Ochoa ($2,781,365). He is also a Champion broodmare
sire of over $23 million including 2-time Champion Hotstepper si 98 ($1,336,359). Tres Seis is a half-brother to Champion Dean Miracle and AQHA Broodmare of the Year Fortune Of Delight.
Ryder Rite
Unraced Ryder Rite (Favorite Cartel-A Regal Classic, A Regal Choice) will stand the 2022 season at Cavenaugh Quarter Horses in Wayne, Oklahoma, previously the James Ranch. Ryder Rite is a full brother to multiple Graded stakes winner and California Hi-Point Three- Year-Old Gelding Rite Regal. This is the female family of Champions Separatist and Way Maker. Ryder Rite will stand for a fee of $850 with considerations, and his first crop are weanlings of 2022.
A Sweet Jess
A Sweet Jess (Apollitical Jess-One Sweet Dash, First Down Dash) will stand the 2022 season at Cavenaugh Quarter Horses in Wayne, Oklahoma, previously the James Ranch. A Sweet Jess is a race winner at Ruidoso Downs and won or placed in three of eight starts. The 2017 sorrel stallion is a half-brother to World Champion One Dashing Eagle and Grade 1 winner One Sweet Jess. A Sweet Jess will stand for a fee of $1,000 with considerations, and his first crop are weanlings of 2022.
Good Candy P
2017 sorrel stallion Good Candy P (Good Reason SA-Send Me This Wagon, PYC Paint Your Wagon) will stand the 2022 season at Cavenaugh Quarter Horses in Wayne, Oklahoma, previously the James Ranch. Good Candy P is a wire-to-wire winner at Ruidoso Downs in his trial to the Ruidoso Futurity-G1, in which he was
a finalist, and he was also a finalist in the Grade 3 Mr Master Bug Stakes at Remington Park. The earner of $58,891 is a 3/4-brother to 2-time Champion, High Money Earning Horse and All American Futurity-G1 winner Jess Good Candy, and he is the first foal out of stakes winner Send Me This Wagon. Good Candy P will stand for a fee of $1,000 with considerations, and his first crop are weanlings of 2022.
Photo by Mark Herron, TRACK Magazine
Dan Moon Passes Away
Longtime Idaho
horseman Danny
Alvin (Dan) Moon
passed away on Oct.
16 following a battle
with idiomatic pul-
monary fibrosis. Dan
served in the Army
National Guard from
1964-1970, was a
Sergeant First Class in the 116th Engineer Battalion and served in Vietnam from 1969-1970. After
his service, he worked for John Price & Associates from 1970-1979, and then moved to Bateman Hall Construction and then partnered as owner
in the company until he retired in 2010. Moon married his wife Connie in 1974 and they made their home in Ririe, Idaho, where they raised four children. Dan was a successful breeder and owner of Quarter Horses, racing them on the flat tracks and in chariot racing, with 76 firsts and the earners of $527,622. Perhaps his best horse was Jet Wings One ($81,360), winner of the 2021 Adequan Los Alamitos Derby Challenge and a finalist in the Adequan Challenge Championship-G3 on Oct. 23. Moon is survived by his wife Connie of 47 years, four children, nine grandchildren and numerous other family members and friends.
Moonin The Eagle Dies
2016 Champion Aged Stallion Moonin The Eagle (One Famous Eagle-Your First Moon, First Down Dash) was euthanized on Oct. 15. The 2012 gray stallion earned $548,985 winning seven races, including the Remington Park Invitational Championship-G1, Sam Abbey Memorial, Hialeah Maturity, and South Florida Derby. He was ranked as a leader by earnings in 2015 and 2016 and set 440-yard New Track Records at Remington Park and Hialeah Park. As a sire, Moonin The Eagle
was the #3 leading freshman sire in 2020 and is currently ranked as the #3 leading sophomore sire of 2021. His top money earner is Grade 1 winner Flash Bak (2021, $566,282). Moonin The Eagle was bred by Vessels Stallion Farm LLC. He was seized by the federal government in 2016 and was then purchased by Bobby Cox for a record $2.1 million in the 2018 Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale.
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