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NEWS BRIEFS
Painted Turnpike
Painted Turnpike APHA (PYC Paint Your Wagon QH-High Class Turnpike, Royal Quick Flash) will stand the 2020 season at WestWin Farms in Purcell, Oklahoma. The 2013 bay overo stallion is the 2015, 2016 and 2017 World Champion Running Breeding Stock Horse. With eight additional Champion titles, Painted Turnpike was also the first and only Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Triple Crown winner. He has 26 wins from 31 starts, including 19 stakes wins, and earnings of $463,905, making him the all- time leading Paint money earner. From his first crop of four starters, Painted Turnpike is the sire of three stakes winners and nearly $200,000.
Epic Leader
Epic Leader (Confederate Leader-Firewater Fiesta, Fire Water Flit) will stand the 2021 season at Lazy E Ranch in Guthrie, Oklahoma. With lifetime barrel earnings of over $170,000, the 2008 gray stallion is a multiple Champion Barrel Horse including the BBR Finals Slot Futurity Champion, Old PacWest Slot Race Champion, and the Ecurie 5-55 Drummond Futurity Champion. He was also
Wagon Tales
fourth in the BFA World Champion Futurity 1D and was the WPRA World Finals Derby Reserve Champion. Epic Leader was the 2012 leading barrel futurity sire and continues to top the charts with leading runners in the cloverleaf, including multiple Barrel Champion Epic Guy with over $133,000 in earnings.
Wagon Tales
Wagon Tales (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Signs Zoomer, Shazoom) will stand the 2021 season at Randy and Stacy Hill’s Charette-Hill Racing in Lexington, Oklahoma. The 2011 bay stal- lion earned $427,579 racing from two to four, winning the Remington Park Juvenile and A Ransom Handicap at Los Alamitos. He was also third in the All American Futurity-G1, Heritage Place Futurity-G1 and Leo Stakes-G1. From just two crops to race, Wagon Tales is the sire of over $750,000 from limited Quarter Horse and Paint starters, including multiple Grade 1 winning Paint DTL Chasin Tale si 91 ($231,596).
Attila’s Storm TB
Attila’s Storm TB (Forest Wildcat-Sweet Symmetry, Magesterial) was purchased by
Jimmy Vasquez and partner, and will stand the 2021 season at Double L Farms in Bosque, New Mexico. The 2002 bay stallion won the Toboggan Handicap-G1 and Fall Highweight Handicap
at Aqueduct, with $534,983 in earnings. Attila’s Storm is the sire of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse earners of over $13.7 million and $54,712 average earnings per starter, including 4-time stakes winner Hush’s Storm TB (2020, $475,466).
RANKINGS AS OF AUGUST 22, 2020 Courtesy ApHC MONEY EARNERS - WINNERS
APPALOOSAS
LEADING SIRES OF 2020
Epic Leader
Attila’s Storm
Rank
“SW” in the “Wins” column indicates the number of Stakes wins. # indicates freshman sire.
Sire, Year
Current Year Starters
Wins/ SW
‘20 Earnings/ Avg. Starter
Leading ‘20 Earner/ ‘20 Earnings
1
1
Hes Relentless AQHA, 2011
4
5
/1
$52,535
/$13,134
Queen For Cash/$32,863
2
4
Red stoRm Cat AQHA, 2005
1
2/0
$17,646 /$17,646
Admiral Tom/$17,646
3
4
apollitiCal Blood AQHA, 2012
1
2
/0
$17,589
/$17,589
Captain Blood/$17,589
4
5
Capo de Capi AQHA, 2008
3
1/0
$14,829 /$4,943
Dark Cheetah/$9,341
5
3
ivoRy King, 2012
5
3
/0
$13,638
/$2,727
La Fontaine/$5,206
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Money Earned Winners