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Foaled in 2000, Tricky Dust won 12 stakes races and earned over $425,000.
Foaled in 2001, Prankster CF became the 2005 Champion Distance Horse winning 6 stakes events and earning over $230,000.
Spotted Bull, who hails from the same bottom side as the sire of Favorite Trick, is found twice in the pedigree of Special Effort and is an important sire in racing Quarter Horses.
Phone Trick sired 53 stakes winners, with 22 of them being graded stakes winners. His outstanding two years olds include not only Favorite Trick but also Phone Chatter, who won the 1993 Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Fillies and the 1993 Champion Two-Year-Old
Filly title. Some of his other two year old winners include Speed Dialer ($384,601), winner of the Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes-G2, Caller I D ($380,958), winner of the Arlington-Washington Futurity-G2, and Zavata ($346,533), winner of the Saratoga Special Stakes-G2.
The leading money winner sired by Phone Trick is Caller One, an earner of over $3,200,000. He counts among his wins the 2002 Dubai Golden Shaheen (UAE-G1) at 1200 meters, or about six furlongs. Some other noted sprinters sired by Phone Trick include Day Trader ($447,864), two-time winner of the Sunland Park KLAQ Handicap (5.5 furlongs), and Confide ($340,766), winner of the Swale Stakes-G3 (7 furlongs).
The sire of Phone Trick was another well known sprinter named Clever Trick, who won 8 stakes races with five of them coming
in his two-year-old year. He won 18 of 29 starts and earned $419,787. Two of his two- year-old stakes wins came in the 6 furlong Sugar Bowl Stakes by 6 1/2-lengths and the 6 furlong Don Leon Stakes by 5-lengths. He won two stakes at three, including
the Bachelor Stakes (6 furlongs), and the Gravesend Handicap (6 furlongs) at four.
Clever Trick got off to a great start by becoming the leading freshman sire of winners in 1984 with 18 winners earning $500,000. He sired eight stakes winners in that first
crop, including Phone Trick. He would sire 75 total stakes winners with earnings of over $43 million. His Bloodhorse online obituary
in 2004 tells us that through 2003, Clever Trick was high ranked as a lifetime leading
sire of winners - fourth behind Sadler’s Wells, Mr. Prospector and Mr. Leader. He had sired 591 winners to that point. An added note: Clever Trick is the sire of Tricky Creek, a stakes winner who is the broodmare sire of the phenomenal runner Beholder.
The sire of Clever Trick is Icecapade, a winner of 7 stakes including the William du Pont Jr Handicap-G2 and Nassau County
with a barn fire that killed six stallions. The Quarter Horses lost were Fredericksburg (full brother to Dasha Freda, dam of the 2015 World Champion Heza Dasha Fire), Southern Cartel, winner of the Ruidoso Derby-G2, and The Down Side, winner of the 2003 Champion of Champions-G1. Besides Favorite Trick, the other Thoroughbreds that were lost included Saratoga Six and Gone Hollywood.
The sire of Favorite Trick is Phone Trick, a noted Thoroughbred sprinter and winner of nine of his ten starts with $395,112
in earnings. His stakes wins came in the
San Carlos Stakes-G2 (7 furlongs), True North Handicap-G2 (6 furlongs), Bold
Ruler Stakes-G2 (6 furlongs), Palos Verdes Handicap (6 furlongs), and the Debonair Stakes (7 furlongs). His only defeat came with a second in the Tom Fool (7 furlongs) to the Champion Sprinter Groovy.
Phone Trick equaled and then lowered
the track record for 6 furlongs at Hollywood Park, establishing the record in a time of 1:08 4/5. Phone Trick was retired after breaking a sesamoid bone while training for the Breeder’s Cup Sprint in 1986.
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