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“He’s a tremendous businessman to start with. Because of that, he has a lot of common sense and realizes that not everything works, so he appreciates it when it does.” – Tom Maher
REAPING REWARDS
Paul’s stallion picks have helped build Summer Run’s successful program. Along the way, the Luedemanns and their partners have formed a network of sorts to take advantage of the Oklahoma-Bred, Iowa-Bred and Minnesota-Bred programs. “We try to stay where the big breed money is from,” Paul says. “Our horses usually start out in Oklahoma, then some will go to Ruidoso, some will come up to Canterbury and some will go to Prairie Meadows.”
Summer Run also has bred and/or raised its share of winners in its own right, including Beep Beep Zoom Zoom, Beep Beep Rev Rev and Foxy Cowgirl.
Beep Beep Zoom Zoom, a multiple stakes-wining 2017 mare by Hes Relentless and out of Etta Betta Zoom, by Shazoom, has earned $55,993 with two wins and three seconds from 13 starts. Her wins include the Cam Casby Futurity and the Minnesota Futurity, both at Canterbury Park, and she ran second in her trial for the Minnesota Quarter Horse Racing Association Stallion
Auction Futurity and her trial for the Minnesota Derby.
Her 2020 half-sister, Beep Beep Rev Rev by A Revenant, finished her freshman year 11th by wins, crossing the wire first in the North Star State Futurity and the Minnesota Futurity, then won the Canterbury Park and Minnesota derbies as a sophomore this year.
“We have fun driving down the road and coming up with these names for our foals,” Maren says. “We named Beep Beep Zoom Zoom because of her dam, Etta Betta Zoom, and then Beep Beep Rev Rev because of her sire, A Revenant. Canterbury Park’s track announcer loves it when we come up with these names!”
Also on Summer Run’s short list of accomplished runners is Foxy Cowgirl, a
2021 foal by Flying Cowboy 123 and out of Valiant Hero daughter Foxy Millie. Owned in partnership with Corey Wilmes and Xcel Farms, the freshman filly broke her maiden her first out, then went on to win her trial and the final for the Jim Bader Futurity at Prairie Meadows. In her three wins from three outs, she’s earned $91,690.
“We’ve been fortunate to have some of the top 2- and 3-year-olds at Canterbury Park for the past four or five years,” Paul says, and they were named Canterbury Park’s Race Owners of the Year in 2019.
But, like most in the race business,
Paul and Maren don’t always find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. “He’s a tremendous businessman to start with,” says Tom. “Because of that, he has a lot
of common sense and realizes that not everything works, so he appreciates it when it does. In racing, you have to take the bad with the good.”
TEAM PROPS
Paul and Maren credit their success to their team, including partners past and present. “Tom has been around the industry a lot longer than I have and he’s been a good friend,” Paul says. “He’s so knowledgeable about the industry. I can’t even tell you how many horses he has in training, and he’s passed his racing wisdom on to me. I also learned a lot from Al and Clare Lundgren,
Beep Beep Zoom Zoom winning the Cam Casby Futurity at Canterbury Park
Coady Photography
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