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by John Stinebaugh. Named the AQHA Champion Two Year Old and Two-Year-
Old Gelding, Jess Savin Candy won last year’s runnings of both the Ruidoso Futurity-G1 and the Rainbow Futurity-G1.
Sinuous fairly ran away with this award in 2020 and finished near the top of the rankings again in 2021 as the number four by stakes winners. Her 2018 filly Whistle Stop Cafe, the 2020 AQHA World Champion, was honored as the 2021 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. Bobby D. Cox bred Whistle Stop Cafe, who is trained by Trey Wood for Whitmire Ranch. A victory in the Rainbow Oaks highlighted the 2021 campaign for Whistle Stop Cafe.
Coronas Fast Honey finished as the number
3 dam by total stakes winners. Her progeny with stakes victories all came at Los Alamitos: Favorite Honey in the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity-G2 and Fire Fast Honey in the Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity-G2. Silver Racing Farm LLC bred both
BomB CyClone
starters and Monty Arrossa trains them. Favorite Honey is owned
by Five Livestock Company LLC and Steve Wright,
while Dennis Jensen and Randy Young own Fire
Fast Honey. Remember
Me Rose had eight members of her brood make
starts last year and Favorite Cartel sired six of them, including all three stakes winners. Bomb Cyclone si 98 was the top earner in the brood
in 2021, capturing the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1 as part of a 3-1-0 rookie record in five starts.
Bomb Cyclone finished his two-year-old campaign
with an $853,887 bankroll. The gelding is owned by Rosenthal Ranch LLC and trained
by Christopher O’Dell. Bomb Cyclone’s stablemate, Powerful Favorite
si 106 tallied a pair of wins in stakes company among four total triumphs in 2021. Powerful Favorite won the Brad McKinzie Winter Championship-G1 and the Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1. Powerful Favorite also finished second in the Mr Jet Moore Handicap-G2 at Ruidoso, placed third in the All American Gold Cup-G1 and made the field for last year’s running of the Champion of Champions-G1 at Los Alamitos.
Go To Girl si 93 won the Chiquitas Stakes at Los Alamitos last year—the highlight in a
nine-race season that included four wins and produced $34,572 in prize money. The filly
also made the field and finished fourth in the PCQHRA Breeders Derby-G2. Steve D. Burns DVM bred and owns Go To Girl, who is trained by Michael Casselman.
Runforyourlife si 96, a former winner of
the 2019 Golden State Million Futurity-G1, placed second in the 2021 version of the First Day of Spring Stakes at Los Alamitos. Another horse sired by Favorite Cartel, the gelding also is owned by Rosenthal Ranch LLC and trained by Christopher O’Dell.
Remember Me Rose’s other 2021 starters include Cyber Monday si 98 (by Favorite Cartel), winner of the 2020 Ruidoso Futurity-G1 who logged one victory in four starts in 2021; Majority Interest si 95 (by Seperate Interest), a winner in two of eight starts and a finalist in the California Breeders Freshman Fillies Stakes; and 2020 winner Remember You si 87 (by Favorite Cartel).
Remember Me Rose fared well herself as a runner, reaching the winner’s circle in nine of 18 starts with an $820,895 bankroll. That includes five stakes victories in the 2007 Ruidoso Derby-G1, the 2007 Sunland Park Winter Futurity-G2, and the 2006 runnings of the AQHA Juvenile Challenge Championship-G2 at Lone Star, the Southwest Juvenile Championship at Zia Park, and the Mexico Juvenile Challenge in Mexico City.
For a full analysis of the pedigree of Remember Me Rose, please see Larry Thornton’s Speedlines feature on page XX.
Bomb Cyclone winning the
Los Alamitos $2 Million Futurity-G1 at Los Alamitos.
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