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Ann Blair by the Thoroughbred Joe Blair. The dam of Vandy Lou Miller is Gloria Lohman, who was purchased by Constance Miller and is where she started this line of mares. Gloria Lohman is by Leo and Gloria Lohman’s dam is a daughter of Zantanon. The Leo blood and the Jean Ann Blair blood gives this mare a breeding pattern of 3x5x5 to Joe Blair, the sire of Joe Reed P-3 who was the sire of Joe Reed II and Little Fanny, the sire and dam of Leo.
Remember Me Rose has 34 foals,
25 starters, 24 ROM and seven stakes winners. Tessta Rossa was her first foal and her first stakes winner of the 2016 Kisses To Yawl Handicap with earnings of $52,372. Jabulani, a full brother to Tessta Rossa, was third in the 2013 Sam Houston Derby-G3 and earned $29,620. They were both sired by Azoom, who is by Shazoom and out of Crystalinas by Beduino TB.
This brings us to her foals sired by Walk Thru Fire. They include Intense Fire, the second stakes winner out of Remember Me Rose with a first in the 2018 First Down Dash Derby and with earnings of $74,416. Remember The Rose is next from this cross and she is a multiple
stakes finalist including in the 2017 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1 with earnings of $67,583. The third runner from this cross is race winner Monster Hand with $13,767 in earnings; the fourth runner from this cross is Allyson Felix, a race winner of $15,086; and the fifth starter in this cross is Remember When, a finalist in the 2020 Rainbow Futurity. Walk Thru Fire is by First Down Dash by Dash For Cash and out of Sweet Beduino by Beduino TB.
Remember To Dash is the next runner we will look at out of Remember Me
Rose. This mare earned $68,037 and was
a multiple stakes finalist in the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, Golden State Million Futurity-G1 as well as second in the California Breeders’ Freshman Stakes, all
in 2017. Remember To Dash is a full sister to Yippie Yi Yo, a money earner of $2,712 with four seconds and one third in 10 starts. They were sired by First Down Dash.
Mr Jess Perry has sired three starters out of Remember Me Rose. They are
Mr Perry Rose, a race winner of $9,030; Moonshine Memory, a winner of $1,650; and Remember Mr Jess, a winner of $6,130. All three of these runners have earned their ROM. Mr Jess Perry is sired by Streakin La Jolla and out of Scoopie Fein by Sinn Fein.
Hiclass Girl, shown winning the 1986 Heritage Place Futurity-G1 at Blue Ribbon Downs, is the top Quarter Horse earner by Zevi TB - the sire of Im Moonlighting, the dam of Remember Me Rose.
World Champion Winalota Cash, whose broodmare sire is Zevi TB, shown winning the 1995 Texas Classic Futurity-G1 at Trinity Meadows.
The sire of Im Moonlighting is Zevi
TB. He won two races with one second and two thirds, earning $16,750. He won his maiden at Ruidoso going 4 1/2-furlongs in :45 3/5, which was 3/5ths of a second off the Track Record for that distance. Zevi, as a sire of Quarter Horses, had 782 starters, 585 ROM and 62 stakes winners with earnings over $9 million. His leading money earner
is Hiclass Girl, winner of the Heritage Place Futurity-G2 and Shebester Futurity.
Zevi brings in another important broodmare sire in the pedigree of Remember Me Rose. His maternal grandget earned more than $30 million and include 1995 World Champion Winalota Cash. Zevi is by Cornish Prince by Bold Ruler. The dam of Cornish Prince is Teleran
by Eight Thirty, a source of speed. The dam of Zevi is Spire by Carry Back and Spire is out of Torrecilla by Sideral. Zevi
is another one of those Thoroughbreds to have no common ancestors in the first four generations of his pedigree.
Shine On Moon, the dam of Im Moonlighting, was bred by Constance
Miller. She won one of her 11 starts, with one second and two thirds earning $309. She is the dam of 13 foals with eight starters earning six ROM including one stakes winner. They earned $80,510. Her stakes winner is Long Gone Zevi, winner of the 1997 Great Northern Maturity and a full brother to Im Moonlighting. Shine On Moon is by Top Moon, who is by Moon Deck and out of Rica Bar by Barred.
The dam of Shine On Moon is the unraced mare Cedell, who was also bred by Constance Miller. This mare is the dam of 13 foals with six starters earning four ROM. Her leading money earner is Harry Bug, by Lady Bug’s Moon, who was a finalist in the 1976 Blue Ribbon Futurity.
Cedell is by Clabber Bar by Three Bars TB. Clabber Bar is out of Peggy N by Clabber. Cedell is out of Vandy Lou Miller, who earned $1,755 and was third in the 1962 Southeastern Oklahoma Derby. She is the dam of three starters with one ROM.
The pedigree of Vandy Lou Miller is an interesting one. She is by Vandy by Going Light TB and Vandy is out of Jean
Remember Me Rose’s first foal and first stakes winner is Tessta Rossa winning the Revelacion Classic at the Hipodromo de las Americas.
Jubulani, a full brother to Tessta Rossa, in the post parade for the 2013 Sam Houston Derby-G3, where she finished third.
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