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cant be caught
horse of the Year, champion three-Year-Old gelding
aphc si 96, $113,625
Dewan Glitterman TB
Moon Glitter
Easily Smashed QH
Bold Ruler Sunshine Nell In Reality Foggy Note Easy Jet Smash It TB Beduino TB Caesar Babe
Noholme II TB Mable Chick Too Dash For Cash Tiny Be Mine Dash For Cash Miss Jelly Roll Ichibon
Miss Battle Van
Nasrullah
Miss Disco Sun Again Nellie Flag Intentionally My Dear Girl The Axe II Silver Song
Jet Deck Lena’s Bar TB Foggy Road Wembley Blue Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat Little Caesar R. Dee Dee-An
Star Kingdom Oceana
Moolah Bux TB Mable Chick Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Go Man Go Triple Tiny Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Roulade TB That’s Kay Nashville TB Fiddled Out Battle Ground TB Levan’s Goldie
Nearco
Mumtaz Begum Discovery
Outdone
Sun Teddy
Hug Again
American Flag
Nellie Morse
Intent
My Recipe
Rough’n Tumble
Iltis
Mahmoud
Blackball
Royal Note
Beadah
Moon Deck
Miss Night Bar
Three Bars
Lena Valenti
Misty Flight
Traffic Dream
British Roman Nasrulline
Grey Sovereign Romany Belle
Rejected
Quick Eye
Winken Wayne QH
J And B Little Red Nose Bar Grill
Unknown
Stardust Impromptu Colombo
Orama Mahmoud Anchors Ahead Triple Chick
Wild Mable X. TB Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go
To Market Hide And Seek Top Deck TB Lightfoot Sis Triple Chick Clabber Tiny Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go To Market Hide And Seek Royal Note Busher’s Gal That’s My Boy Sophie Bee Nasrullah Bonnie Beryl Rebel Cause Fiance Centime
Sea Anemone Levan
Zanda I
With Intent
CANT BE CAUGHT, ‘13, g. The Signature
Perfect Intention
Caesaduino
Rare Form
Unique Form QH
Rollin Ichie
Especially For You
Roll The Cash
Ichie Battle
Breeder/Owner: John C. Diediker
2015 Record: 7-4(3)-1(1)-2(2), $69,765, Speedhorse Graham P&A D.-G1, Natl. Cowboy & Western Heritage P&A S.-
G1, Mister Lewie Mem. S.-G1, 2nd Lewis Wartchow Mem. S., 3rd Lorelei P&A D.-G3, Don Drake P&A Mem.
by Tracy Gantz
Cant Be Caught sparkled at Remington
Park. The Appaloosa took on all comers during the meeting and came away with a perfect four- for-four record. In the process he twice defeated previous Appaloosa Horse of the Year Major Tom, earning the 2015 Horse of the Year title.
Owner-breeder John Diediker of Parsons, Kansas, pointed Cant Be Caught for the Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Derby-G1 at Remington. “We only had two or three months off,” Diediker said. “I did surgery and took some chips out of his ankles.”
Cant Be Caught drew into the trial with Paint World Champion Texas Silk. With jockey Randy Wilson aboard, Cant Be Caught qualified the fastest to win by 3/4-length. Wilson was unable to ride Cant Be Caught back in the final due to injury. Cody Jensen ably deputized for him, and they won the March 21 final by 1 1/4 lengths.
“I guess his next big test will be Major Tom,” said Diediker after the race. “I think we’re going to have to go against the older horses.” That opportunity arose on April 18 in the Mr. Lewie Memorial-G1. Jensen again stood in for Wilson, and bettors made Cant Be Caught the slimmest
of favorites over the older Major Tom. The older Champion outbroke the 3-year-old, but Cant Be Caught overhauled him to win by 1/2-length. “This horse is a racehorse,” said an elated Diediker. “Major Tom had the start to beat us tonight.”
The two excellent Appaloosas squared off again in the May 31 National Cowboy Hall of Fame Paint & Appaloosa Stakes-G1. Wilson returned on Cant Be Caught, and they defeated Major Tom by a length. No Appaloosa finished ahead of Cant Be Caught throughout 2015, and he never finished worse than third. Cant Be Caught ran second to the Paint Dashin JJ in the Lewis Wartchow Memorial-G1 at Fair Meadows. At Will Rogers Downs, he finished third to the Paints Texas Silk and Shezapaintyourwagon in the Lorelei Derby-G2 and third to Texas Silk and Dashin JJ in the Talimena Handicap.
Diediker raced both of Cant Be Caught’s parents—the Appaloosa sire With Intent and the Quarter Horse mare Unique Form. “You don’t raise many like that,” said Diediker. “If you get one in your lifetime, you’re lucky.”
Cant Be Caught wins the 2015 National Cowboy Western Heritage Museum Paint & Appaloosa Stakes at Remington Park
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