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The photo on page 253 shows Sail On Bunny (Bunny Bid-Miss Myrna Mix, Fix-N-Mix TB) under regular rider Gary Sumpter after winning the 1982 Kindergarten Futurity at Los Alamitos.
Prior to this victory, the colt was injured during the Sun Country Futurity trials at Sunland Park and still managed to finish second. Trainer Jake Cascio performed a variety of treatments on his charge, including laser therapy, acupuncture, and an oxygen mask to combat pollutants. It all paid off when Sail On Bunny won the $607,710 Kindergarten.
Sail On Bunny was bred by Jake Box, who put the colt in the Ruidoso Yearling Sale. Box thought the colt would bring $14,000, but when the bidding only went to $9,500 Box bought him back and sold half interest to friend Ray Starbuck.
Sail On Bunny raced only as a two year old, earning $908,980. He was never off the board with a record of 10-6(3)-3(1)-1 and a 108 speed index. He won the 1982 West Texas Futurity, Kindergarten Futurity, and the Skoal Dash For Cash Futurity, and was second in the Faberge Special Effort Futurity.
After his win in the Skoal Dash For Cash Futurity, Don Tyner bought the colt for $4.5 million and Sail On Bunny began his career at stud. Tyner syndicated the colt for $4.5 million with 150 breeding shares. Box and Starbuck retained five shares and Cascio received two shares. The syndicate was mismanaged and there was a bankruptcy, with a bank holding the papers on Sail On Bunny. Box had no choice but to pay off the $300,000 owed on the colt. In the end, there were 54 good shareholders. Several years later, Sail On Bunny was put in the Heritage Place sale and Box bought him for himself.
Being in limbo had been a detriment to the stallion’s stud career, but W.L. Mooring and Billy Smith bought a piece of the horse and he was moved from Oklahoma to New Mexico. From 14 crops, Sail On Bunny sired just 729 foals and 538 starters. As a testament to his siring power, his small group of foals earned over $4 million.
At 16, Sail On Bunny colicked and went through surgery. He may have been okay had he not pitched forward and broken his leg. Every effort was made to save him, but in the end he was euthanized.
“Sail On Bunny was a pest from the day he was born,” Box once said. “I looked at him in those first few minutes. He looked back and I think we just fell in love with one another right then.
“I guess I’d still be fighting today if I hadn’t gotten Sail On Bunny back,” he went on. “I was determined that nobody was going to roll over me or my horse.” Box could not and did not go to the ranch when Sail On Bunny was buried.
Butch Southway Passes Away
Henry “Butch” Southway, 77, passed
away on March 7 in El Paso, Texas. Born
in Littleton, Colorado, Butch married Izora Hardy in 1966. He worked with his father prior to starting Southway Construction in 1974, which is still in operation. In 1988, he and his wife moved to New Mexico to spend winters at their horse farm with their race horses. Butch raced many successful Quarter Horses over
the years. Along with R.D. Hubbard, Johnny Cope and Ray Willis of Rafter W Stables, he co-owned 2-time 2018 Champion Hotstepper and 2016 Champion A Revenant. Southway had been a board member of Alamosa State Bank since 1988, was a lifetime member of
the Alamosa Elks, was a Past Master and 32nd degree Mason, and was a member of the Sand Dune Shrine Club and Al Kaly Shriners. Butch is survived by his wife Izora, sons Rocky and Clay, three grandchildren, and many other family members and friends.
Beer Wagon Dies
by Luis Prieto Zamudio, translation by Eduardo Silveyra
The five-year-old stallion Beer Wagon (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Fredaville, Mr Jess Perry) was euthanized on Feb. 10 after win- ning a 350 yard open allowance and having suffered an exposed dislocation in the fetlock of the left front extremity.
Beer Wagon (SI 103) reappeared at the Hipódromo de Las Américas after a break of 13 months because he was operated on two legs. He finished life with a record of 9-3-1 from 15 starts and earnings of over 1.3 mil- lion pesos. His victories include triumphs in the Mexican Association of Quarter Horse Breeders and Horsemen Classic and the AQHA Mexico Derby Challenge in 2017, for which he was named Champion Three-Year- Old American Colt; in January of 2018, he won the Inaugural Classic.
Raised in the United States by Robert A. Gentry and imported into Mexico by MVZ Rachuán Suárez Kuri, Beer Wagon
was owned by Cuadra El Cuartel where he was trained by José Luis Tavizón Barraza. His semen was collected post-mortem, so there is hope to see his offspring in the near future.
EN ESPANOL: MUERE BEER WAGON.
El entero de cinco años Beer Wagon (PYC Paint Your Wagon – Fredaville, por Mr Jess Perry), murió el 10 de febrero al ser eutanizado después de después de ganar una Allowance Abierta en distancia de
350 yardas, en la cual sufrió una luxación expuesta en el menudillo de la extremidad delantera izquierda.
Beer Wagon (SI 103), reapareció en el Hipódromo de Las Américas, después de
un descanso de trece meses debido a que
fue operado de ambas manos. Terminó
su vida con récord de 9-3-1 en 15 salidas
y ganancias superiores a 1.3 millones de pesos; sus victorias incluyen triunfos en los Clásicos Asociación Mexicana de Criadores y
Caballistas de Caballos Cuarto de Milla y en el AQHA México Derby Challenge, en 2017, por lo que fue nombrado Campeón Potro Tres Añero Americano; en enero de 2018 ganó el Clásico Inaugural.
Criado en los Estados Unidos por Robert Gentry A, e importado a México por el MVZ Rachuán Suárez Kuri, era propiedad de la Cuadra El Cuartel, donde lo entrenó José Luis Tavizón Barraza. Su semen fue colectado post morten, por lo que hay esperanzas de ver su descendencia en un futuro cercano.
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