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2018 World Champion BODACIOU
See Bodacious Eagle’s Pedigree on page 46
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by Larry Thornton
Each December, the Grade 1 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos Race Course has proven to be a standard
bearer for championship honors in Quarter Horse racing. When we look back on the history of this race, we find that Mr Jet Moore was the winner of the first Champions of Champions in 1972. He was named World Champion for that year, starting a trend that has seen a substantial number of horses win the race and then take home championship honors with the Champion of Champions race being their crowning achievement.
The 2018 version of the Grade 1 race shows the caliber of horses it is known to bring together, giving it the prestige it has earned over the years. The horses at the starting gate had total earnings of $7,136,418 and included four that had made 12 starts in this race over the last few years. Included were former winners Heza Dasha Fire with 4 starts, Zoomin For Spuds with 3 three starts, He Looks Hot with 3 starts and BH Lisas Boy with 2 starts. Zoomin For Spuds, He Looks Hot and BH Lisas Boy, Jess Ravin, Jesstacartel and Tarzanito all qualified
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The race record for Bodacious Eagle, prior to the Champion of Champions shows the tenacity it takes to be a consistent racehorse and the kind of horse it takes to qualify for the Champion of Champions. Prior
to the finals, his record stood at
32 starts with 13 wins, 7 seconds
and 3 thirds. Bodacious Eagle has
raced in California, New Mexico,
Texas and Oklahoma, and his race
record from 2015 to 2017 shows
that he was a finalist in 16 stakes
races, won 4 stakes and placed
second or third in 3 stakes events.
Bodacious Eagle ran fourth or fifth
in six more races, which were all
Grade 1’s. His stakes wins included
the Texas Classic Derby-G1, Leo
Stakes-G1, Eastex Stakes-G2,
Higheasterjet Handicap-G3 and
the Dash For Cash Derby-G3. The
gelding had earned over $997,000
in his career to this point.
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