Page 60 - March 2016

SPEEDLINES
Linda Earley
Los Alamitos
Los Alamitos
Favorite Cartel is the sire of . . . Little Talks (shown winning of the 2015 Golden State Million Futurity-G1) has a return the blood pattern of the Special Effort/Easy Jet nick.
Strength In Numbers is Strength Of Heart by Heza Fast Man by The Signature by Noholme II. This gives this filly a 5 X 5 breeding pattern to Noholme II.
Favorite Cartel, by Favorite Trick, was bred by the partnership of Paul Jones and Thompson Racing Stable. He is now owned by Jones, Thompson and the Burns Ranch. Favorite Cartel was also raced for three years. His race record at two indicates that he was a multiple major futurity qualifier, but just couldn’t make it to a win in one of these events. He won his trial for the All American Futurity-G1, the Rainbow Futurity-G1 and the Golden State Million Futurity-G1. He would finish fourth
in the All American and get his first black
type with a third place finish in the Rainbow Futurity-G1. He came back at three to qualify in multiple stakes races with fifth place finishes in the Rainbow Derby and Los Alamitos Super Derby. He would get his stakes win at three in the Paul B Ford Handicap at 550-yards.
Favorite Cartel would break through with a couple of graded stakes wins at the age of four, winning the Bank of America Challenge Championship-G1 and the Bank of America Los Alamitos Championship Challenge-G2. He would retire with 25 starts, nine wins, and earnings of $607,669.
Favorite Cartel is out of the race winning mare Shenoshercorona by Corona Cartel,
who is sired by Holland Ease by First Down Dash and out of Corona Chick by Chicks Beduino by Beduino TB. This gives us an example of another First Down Dash/Beduino TB nick. The dam of Shenoshercorona is Shenoshespecial by Special Effort. She is out of Lit Bit Rusty by Easily Smashed by Easy Jet.
Favorite Cartel is the sire of 32 winners from 64 foals in his first crop, making him the leading sire in that category. He is also the #3 leading first crop sire of money winners, with his foals earning
$1,040,410. He sired three stakes winners. His leading money winner is Little Talks, winner of the Golden State Million Futurity-G1. The dam of Little Talks is Babe On The Fly by Strawfly Special, who is sired by Special Effort. The dam
of Strawfly Special is Fly In The Pie by Pie In The Sky by Easy Jet. This gives us a return the blood of the Special Effort/Easy Jet back through Babe On The Fly to Little Talks, who is sired by Favorite Cartel. Shenoshespecial, the second dam of Favorite Cartel, is sired by Special Effort and out of Lil Bit Rusty by Easily Smashed by Easy Jet.
When we draw back and look at the pedigree of Babe On The Fly, we see she is out of Six On The Beach by Streakin Six
by Easy Six by Easy Jet. The dam of Six
On The Beach is Cash Balance by Dash
For Cash. Thus, we have an Easy Jet/Dash For Cash cross. The dam of Favorite Cartel
is Shenoshercorona by Corona Cartel by Holland Ease. Holland Ease is sired by First Down Dash by Dash For Cash and Easy Henryetta, by Easy Jet. Thus, we have a Dash For Cash cross on Easy Jet. This is returning the blood of Dash For Cash, Easy Jet and Special Effort to Favorite Cartel through his dam with an outcross to Favorite Trick.
A $100,000 winner sired by Favorite Cartel but not a stakes winner to date is Crooked Path, who was a finalist in the All American Futurity-G1 and who is out of Tahma Hawk by Hawkinson by First Down Dash. Tahma Hawk is out of Takin On The Green by Takin On The Cash by Dash For Cash. Takin On The Cash is sired by Dash For Cash and out
of Takin On You by Easy Jet. This is another returning the blood of Dash For Cash and Easy Jet to Favorite Cartel through line breeding with an outcross on Favorite Trick.
Favorite Cartel is the sire of . . . Luv On The Run (#7, winning the 2015 John Deere Los Alamitos Juv. Chal.) has line breeding to the Dash For Cash/Easy Jet/Beduino TB cross with the outcross to Favorite Trick.
Luv On The Run is the winner of the Los Alamitos Juvenile Challenge. This horse is out of Luv In The Wind by A Classic Dash by First Down Dash. She is out of Normax by Beduino TB and she is out of Easy Jets Windi by Easy Jet. Corona Cartel, the sire of Shenoshercorona, is by Holland Ease, a Dash For Cash/Easy Jet stallion, and he is out of Corona Chick
by Chicks Beduino. Thus, we have line breeding to the Dash For Cash/Easy Jet/ Beduino TB cross in Luv On The Run with the outcross to Favorite Trick.
Crooked Path and two other Favorite Cartel runners have an interesting tie to Noholme II. Crooked Path has a 5 X 5 breeding pattern to Noholme II. Wait, a
stakes winner in the Rocky Mountain Spring Classic Futurity, has a 5 X 4 breeding pattern to Noholme II, as well as third runner Favorite Kiss with a 5 X 5 breeding pattern to Noholme II. This gives Favorite Cartel and the dams of these runners a nick with a blood affinity.
The success of Good Reason SA and Favorite Cartel is testimony to Favorite Trick as a Thoroughbred sire of running Quarter Horses. The role of Favorite Trick as an outcross is profiled through these two up- and-coming sires. Their success in 2016 is still going strong, as they are the sires to six
of the ten finalists in the 2016 Los Alamitos Winter Derby-G1. The first three across the finish line were Fire At Will (by Favorite Cartel), Jess Good Reason (by Good Reason SA), and Senor Gianni (by Good Reason SA). The 2016 Los Alamitos Maiden Stakes saw two runners sired by Favorite Cartel qualify. In the finals, they were winner My Favorite Check and second place finisher Flay. I guess we would have to say that Favorite Trick really has the “right stuff ” as an outcross on the great bloodlines of today.
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Favorite Cartel is the sire of . . . Crooked Path (shown winning
his trial & qualifying to the 2015 All American Futurity) has return the blood of Dash For Cash & Easy Jet to Favorite Cartel through line breeding with an outcross on Favorite Trick. Crooked Path also has a 5X5 breeding pattern to Noholme II.