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First impressions
A closer look at stallions with first-crop yearlings of 2016
by Michael Compton
Brace For Bernal
(Furyofthewind-Zoom Bracer)
Stands at JEH Stallion Station at Oklahoma Stud 2016 Fee: $1,500
This
Champion son
of Furyofthewind
was a force on the
racetrack, finishing
first or second in
11 of 15 career
starts and banking
$322,326. His nine victories included wins in the Bill Hedge Memorial Stakes and Will Rogers Juvenile Challenge at Will Rogers Downs at
age two. The following season, the brown horse with a white tail took down top prize in the Heritage Place Derby-G1 and the Remington Park Oklahoma-bred Derby en route to year- end honors as Champion 3-Year-Old Colt.
“His yearlings look good. They are real smart and very well put together,” said Brace For Bernal’s owner Noel Lopez-Prieto. “A lot of his yearlings look just like him. We are happy with them. A lot of them also have his white tail. They sure look like him; I hope they run like him. He is a long-legged horse and he has real good bone. He was always sound and had a big heart on the track. You can see that his yearlings have a set of legs on them.”
crM livewire aPHa
(Cartel Success QH-Elaina Go Go) Stands at Bowlan Farms
2016 Fee: $1,250
A Champion Running Paint Horse each year he competed on the racetrack, CRM Livewire boasts more than his share of accolades. As a juvenile, he was Champion Running 2 Year Old, Champion Running 2-Year-Old Colt,
and #1 Honor Roll Stallion. At three, he was World Champion Running Paint Horse, Champion Running 3 Year Old, Champion Running 3-Year-Old Colt, and #1 Honor
Roll Stallion. Among his key victories in that
sophomore season were wins in the Speedhorse Paint and Appaloosa Derby-G1 and the APHA Masterpiece Challenge at Lone Star Park.
At four, CRM Livewire was once again World Champion Running Paint Horse, Champion Running Aged Stallion, Champion Running Aged Horse, and #1 Honor Roll Stallion. All told, he bankrolled $100,708, winning eight of 22 lifetime starts—four of them stakes—and placed in seven others.
CRM Livewire hails from a running family. His dam, Elaina Go Go, is a full sister to stakes- placed Suzys Hero and his third dam, Elaina Rae, finished second in the All American Futurity-G1.
DasH Master Jess
(Mr Jess Perry-Dash Master Miss) Stands at Scarlett Hill Farm, Inc. 2016 Fee: $2,500
Hialeah
Derby winner
Dash Master Jess
is a 2010 son
of Champion
Mr Jess Perry.
Dash Master
Jess hails from a
strong female family as well. His dam, Dash Master Miss, was a Grade 1 winner and
has been a brilliant producer with multiple stakes winners, including Grade 1 winners Significant Speed (who produced Grade 1 winner Jess Significant, the dam of Champion Significant Heart) and Push The Pace.
As a 4 year old, Dash Master Jess annexed the Sam Houston Championship Challenge-G2, as well as that year’s Hialeah Invitational Championship. He retired to stud with earnings of $275,697, having won eight of 20 outings.
Fast Prize JorDan
(PYC Paint Your Wagon-Fast Prize Doll) Stands at Robicheaux Ranch, Inc.
2016 Fee: $2,000
A precocious 2
year old, Fast Prize
Jordan wasted little
time making an
impression on the
racetrack. A 2009
son of multiple
Grade 1 winner
PYC Paint Your Wagon, Fast Prize Jordan won four of seven starts as a juvenile. Winless at three, the handsome bay came back at four to capture the Mighty Deck Three Handicap and the Mr Jet Moore Handicap, both at Remington Park.
Fast Prize Jordan is produced from the multiple graded stakes-placed mare Fast Prize Doll and is a sibling to stakes-placed runners Fast Prize Doll Too and Fast Prize Robyn.
“We have five or six here at the farm and they all look really good; two of them are outstanding,” said Jude Robicheaux of Robicheaux Ranch. “We have high expectations for all of them. The ones we have that we are getting ready for the sale, we really like. He is definitely stamping them.
“I think he received a better set of mares in his second and third year at stud, which is really saying something,” Robicheaux added. “We
tried to get numbers to him early and he still bred good mares in that first year, but it’s always
a good sign when people come back to breed to
a stallion in their second and third years at stud. That tells me they really liked their babies or the babies they saw, so that’s very encouraging. We have high expectations for him and his yearlings.”
First Prize Doc
(PYC Paint Your Wagon-First Prize Dash) Stands at Hebert Quarter Horses
2016 Fee: $1,500
This 2009 son of PYC Paint Your Wagon is from a stellar female family replete with black-type,
The old adage “hope springs eternal” is especially fitting for the connections of the following first-crop sires represented by their first yearlings in 2016.
With the sale season fast approach- ing and prospective buyers eager
to see the first yearlings by these
freshman sires, it’s an ideal time to focus on this year’s emerging young stallions and to gain some insight on their representative first progeny destined for the auction ring in the coming weeks and months.
We made every attempt to reach the
connections of these stallions. We hope you enjoy the upcoming sale season. Good luck with your yearling purchases!
Following are brief profiles of 11 stal- lions with first-crop yearlings of 2016 (as advertised in the Speedhorse 2016 Stallion Register statistical pages).
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