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IvorIonaaPHa si98,$127,919
World Champion, Champion 2 Year old, Champion 2-Year-old Filly, #1 Co-Honor roll Mare
Breeders: Mickey & Stanley Johnson
Owners: Randy Hill & Mickey Johnson
2016 Record: 7-5(2)-0-1(1), $127,919, Speedhorse Graham P&A F.-G1, Speedhorse Lone Star P&A F.-G1, 3rd Speedhorse P&A. F.-G1
When good friends get together and come up with a Champion, it just doesn’t get any better. Randy Hill and his wife, Stacy Charette-Hill, partnered with Mickey Johnson on Ivoriona, who was named the World Champion Paint Running Horse of 2016. “Our dads were partners for 30 to 40 years, and we’ve been partners for about 20 years,” said Hill. “We’ve owned a couple of good ones, but nothing like this.”
Mickey and Stanley Johnson bred Ivoriona in Oklahoma, and she truly was a group project.
“We raised that filly,” said Hill, who with his wife also trained her. “From day one we knew she was special. She handles herself professionally and hits the ground easily. What I like about her most is her mind.”
Ivoriona descends from good bloodlines, being by the Quarter Horse stallion Ivory James and out of the stakes-placed Texas Hero Paint mare Friona, a full sister to Paint World Champion Texas Wildcat and Paint Champion Verona. “On the bottom side, it goes back to that Quarter mare of Herb Graham’s, Savona (the 2nd dam),” said Hill.
Graham created what is now the Grade 1 Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Futurity. Following a maiden victory in her debut, Ivoriona dead-heated with PHQ Goodbye Earl to win the Speedhorse Graham at Remington Park after qualifying the fastest. It was the first leg of the Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Triple Crown.
Ivoriona encountered traffic trouble in her trial for the second leg, the Speedhorse Paint and Appaloosa Futurity at Fair Meadows, and she finished fourth. She still qualified for the final, where she finished third.
That loss meant Ivoriona couldn’t win the Triple Crown. However, she could become the 2016 Speedhorse Triple Crown High Point Champion by running well in the third leg, the Speedhorse Lone Star Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1.
Ivoriona conquered her rivals resoundingly in her trial by two lengths and easily qualified the fastest. Sent away as the heavy 2-5 favorite in the final, the filly took command early and came to the wire a length on top.
“She got such a good start away from the gate that it was hard to catch her,” said Hill.
That effort not only earned Ivoriona the trophy for the race, it made her the High Point Champion and brought her earnings to $127,919.
“We are really proud of her,” said Hill. “She has a lot of class. She knows what to do.”
Ivoriona wins the Speedhorse Lone Star Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1
Corona Cartel
Ivory James QH
Dashin Follies
Holland Ease
Corona Chick
Strawfly Special
First Down Dash Easy Henryetta Chicks Beduino Sizzling Lil Special Effort Fly In The Pie First Down Dash Hempes Folly
Easy Jet Too Kallista QH
Dash For Cash QH Larking Kit QH Raise Your Glass TB Cloverlane Gal
Mr Dark Jet Cause Im Easy
Dash For Cash First Prize Rose Easy Jet QH Babys Henryetta Beduino TB
A Classy Chick Sizzle Te
Lilsalady TB
Raise Your Glass TB Go Effortlessly
Pie In The Sky Flying Rockette Dash For Cash First Prize Rose Hempen TB Jets Runaway
Easy Jet QH
Indian Music
Raise Your Glass TB Light Foot Lass Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Lanolark TB
She Kitty
Raise A Native Champagne Woman Fast Time Leo
My Texas Bandy Three oh’s
Miss Dark Jet
Easy Six
Cause I’m Sassy
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB
Gallant Jet
Rose Bug
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB Lanovay
Baby Steel TB Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat
Chick’s Deck Mayshego TB Azure Te TB
Jet’s Fair Lady Reb’s Policy
Here’s To Lil
Raise A Native Champagne Woman Double Devil
Hijo Beauty TB Easy Jet
Miss Jelly Roll Rocket Bar TB Fly Straw Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug
Indian Hemp Serry
Easy Jet War Folly
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB
Tonto Bars Hank QH Soft Music
Raise A Native Champagne Woman Lassie’s Go Man Talley Jane
Rocket Bar TB
Go Galla Go
To Market
Hide And Seek Alate
Frank’s Lark
Robin Reed
Little Meow
Native Dancer Raise You
Barbizon
L’Amour Toujours Leo
Shady Lena
Band’s Quemado Candy U
Three Chicks ohMyoh
Jet Deck
Dark Sin
Easy Jet
Peggy Toro
Rebel Cause
Sassy T Bars
Dashing Folly IvoRIoNA ‘14, f.
Texas Hero
Friona
Raise A Jet
Breakaway Baby
Raise The Gamble
Debonairess
Savona QH
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Dustin orona Photography