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GONE TO BE BRIGHT Champion Alberta Bred Three-Year-Old Colt/Gelding by Kathy McNiven
He came back as a 3 year old and quickly broke his maiden in Lethbridge. He went on to win two more races in 2018 and ran a close second in the Alberta Bred Derby, which makes him black type and stakes placed.
Jack and Deborah believe that Gone To Be Bright’s best race (to date) was the Alberta Derby trials. He won his heat, running the 400 yards in a quick 19.827 seconds.
He had 11 starts in 2018, and finished the year with 3 wins and 3 seconds for earnings in 2018 of $18,197 CDN.
I asked Jack and Deborah to tell me some interesting things about their colt: ‘Mr. Personality – Gone To Be Bright.’
“He’s black, he’s beautiful, he loves horse cookies (special trips have to be made to give him a cookie), and he’s everybody’s favorite (especially Deborah’s),” says Jack. “Spends a little too much time looking at the girls, tests your patience in the saddling ring, but he really tries to please. Give him a clear lane to run in and he will fly!”
Congratulations to the Gonetothebrightside syndicate. We hope you have another great year with your colt in 2019.
Gone To Be Bright is owned
by a syndicate, the hottest trend in Quarter Horse racing. A group of family, friends, or associates purchase a race horse together
(or have someone purchase it for them). The costs are then divided, and everyone has a lot of fun. The group can be as small, or as large as you like. Jack says, ”Syndicates have a lot to offer for people wanting to participate in Quarter Horse racing.”
Gone To Be Bright (SI 101) was declared the 2018 Champion Alberta Bred 3-Year-Old Colt or Gelding at the AQHRA awards night Nov. 17, 2018.
This 3-year-old black colt was bred by Jack R. and Deborah Williams and was foaled in Alberta on March 30, 2015. Jack says Gone To Be Bright is, “the result of 35 years of line breeding, selection and a carefully chosen outcross to the fastest horse in the world at 870 yards, Gone To The Mountain.”
He is out of Jack and Deborah’s home bred mare DJ Bright Tarbaby, who, again, has all of the bloodline characteristics that are key to the Williams’ program.
Gone To Be Bright is owned by Gonetothebrightside
Syndicate. “This syndicate has been instrumental in bringing this unique Alberta breeding program to fruition: Edmonton businessmen and experienced Thoroughbred race horse owners, Jim Barker and Joe Fenrich teamed up with Bright Future Farms to get these horses on
the track. The syndicate will be running Gone To Be Bright again in 2019 and has others in the pipeline,” says Jack.
Gone To Be Bright started his 2-year-old career at Sam Houston in Texas, and then on to Ruidoso, New Mexico, where he competed in the AQHA John Deere Juvenile trials. He finished the year with a nice second at Rocky Mountain Turf Club in Lethbridge.
Gone To Be Bright running in the Alberta Aged Series Maiden Stakes at Rocky Mountain Turf Club
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