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juvenile and banked $452,635. He returned
to place 3rd in the Farnam Stakes at Prairie Meadows as a 3 year old, retiring to stud with a slate of 8-3-1-1 with $456,010 in earnings. The half-brother to graded stakes winner Somethin Like This is produced from the stakes-placed First Down Dash mare Dividends Declared,
a royally-bred mare who is a full sister to Champion Four Forty Blast and Grade 1 win- ner Holland Ease.
“We have great expectations for his year- lings,” said Phillip Stewart, farm manager
at Bob Moore Farms. “We took some short yearlings to the January sale (Heritage Place) so that people could get an idea of what they are going to look like. We sold a colt there for $21,000 that Eddie Willis has now. They were very well received by the public, so much so that we probably picked up another 30 or 40 breedings from those yearlings.
“The thing that we have seen here at the farm and with some of the other yearlings, he throws a great deal of correctness. They are all really straight, really correct individuals. All of them are very attractive and look a lot like him. He passes a lot of himself on. I would expect early speed is going to be in their future. We have great hopes for him.”
Mighty B Valiant
(Valiant Hero-Mighty B Doll)
Stands at Lazy E Ranch in Oklahoma 2015 Fee: $2,000
Mighty B Valiant was a pre- cocious racehorse. He went 4-for-7 as a juvenile, winning the Remington Park Oklahoma- Bred Futurity and
finished 2nd in the Heritage Place Futurity-G1
to fellow freshman sire High Rate Of Return. He also was 5th in the Rainbow Futurity-G1. All told at 2, the half-brother to Grade 1 winner Mighty Invictus amassed earnings of $542,373. He placed in 3 of 4 starts at 3 before retiring to stud.
“He is one of the best bargains out there,” Wise said of Mighty B Valiant. “He’s a beauti- ful horse. He was dominating, and I mean dominating in every sense of the word as a
2 year old. In his 2 year-old year, I think his
combined winning margin was something like nine lengths. He beat good horses badly.”
Mighty B Valiant was represented in the Heritage Place Mixed Sale in January by First N Lil Bit B, a short yearling filly who fetched $25,000 from Robert Wood and Kay Flatt.
“He’s a high-class horse with a beautiful group of foals, just stunning,” Wise added. “They (yearlings) will speak for themselves. I don’t have to say anything about them. They are really pretty. His first one brought $25,000 at Heritage Place in January, and that’s not too bad for a $2,000 stud fee. They are high-class horses and they all have the same kind of look. They are very correct, beautiful hind legs on them. We expect them to do extremely well.”
One Dashing eagle
(One Famous Eagle-One Sweet Dash) Stands at Lazy E Ranch in Oklahoma 2015 Fee: $12,750
Safe to say, expectations are sky high for One Dashing Eagle, the most accomplished of the stallions with first-crop yearlings this year. Racing only as a freshman
and earning $2,079,065, One Dashing Eagle was a World Champion, Champion 2 Year Old, Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and High Money Earning Horse in 2012. His well-chronicled exploits include facile wins in the All American Futurity-G1, Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1 and Golden State Million Futurity-G1.
Never worse than 2nd in 7 lifetime starts, the sorrel stallion is out of graded stakes winner One Sweet Dash and is a half-brother to stakes winners/New Track Record setters One Sweet Jess and Hes A Standout.
One Dashing Eagle’s first short yearlings were well received by the marketplace, and included a $42,000 unnamed colt purchased by Ed Melzer at the Heritage Place Winter Mixed Sale.
“(His first yearlings offered) were hugely popular,” said Wise. “They really have a great look. They are extremely correct. They are well received by horsemen.
“This horse bred every good mare in the United States in his first two years,” Wise
continued. “His first two books were just tremendous. They were off the scale. But, it’s expected when you are the first horse of any breed to make $2 million as a 2 year old and win three Grade 1’s as a 2 year old. There are a lot of expectations for this horse. He works on a broad spectrum of mares. Horsemen out there have a huge affinity for this young stallion, so his yearlings should sell very well.”
PaintyOurOwnwagOn
(PYC Paint Your Wagon-Jessica Ravin) Stands at AVS Equine Hospital in Florida 2015 Fee: $1,000
A stakes winner at ages 2 and stakes- placed at 3 and 4, Paintyourownwagon visited the winner’s circle all three years he competed on the racetrack. At 2, he
won the Kansas Jackpot Futurity-RG3 at Will Rogers Downs and was 5th in the Sunland Park Winter Futurity-G2. He also set a 300-yard New Track Record that year at Will Rogers Downs. He went on to finish 2nd in the Great Lakes Stakes and 3rd in the Canterbury Park Derby, and was
a finalist in the Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge-G2, Prairie Meadows Derby Challenge-G3, Skip Zimmerman Memorial Stakes, Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby, and Hialeah Sophomore Invitational. He retired following his 4-year-old season, having won 4 of 19 starts and banking $103,097.
Paintyourownwagon is a half-brother to graded stakes winner Jess Cuervo and is out of the stakes-placed Mr Jess Perry mare Jessica Ravin. His 1st through 4th dams are all stakes runners and/or stakes producers. This is the female family of multiple Champions, including Florentine, Calyx, Ive Been Blessed, This Snow Is Royal, etc.
“Paintyourownwagon really stamps his babies,” Dr. Fisch of AVS Equine Hospital said. “They are all very correct, big-boned, well- balanced and powerful just like their daddy. I haven’t seen a one who isn’t very smart and easy to work with. Since they look so good right off the bat, we have actually had good demand
for them as weanlings. They are such a good, uniform group of individuals that I think they will do very well in the sale ring.”
20 SPEEDHORSE, July 2015