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NEWS BRIEFS
APPALOOSAS
LEADING SIRES OF 2022
MONEY EARNERS - WINNERS
“SW” in the “Wins” column indicates the number of Stakes wins. # indicates freshman sire.
1
1
Hes Relentless AQHA, 2011
6
5
/1
$66,101
/$11,017
Queen For Cash/$24,650
2
Sire, Year
3 IvoRy KIng, 2012
Current Wins/ Year Starters SW
8 2/0
‘22 Earnings/ Avg. Starter
$24,334 /$3,042
Leading ‘22 Earner/ ‘22 Earnings
First King Kiss/$7,535
3
2
KJ tayloR, 2015
4
3
/1
$19,383
/$4,846
Easy N Bodacious/$11,515
4
3
Jess louIsIana Blue AQHA, 1998
1
2
/0
$17,338
/$17,338
Mr Apollo Blue/$17,338
5
4
second PaInted sIgn AQHA, 2009
4
1
/0
$16,056
/$4,014
Paint Em A Vision/$13,862
SPEEDHORSE PHOTO ARCHIVE ANSWER
The photo on page 202 shows Talent Bar. Foaled in 1963, Talent Bar was bred by Hoss Inman Estate and was sired by Royal Bar and out of Della’s Queen by Leo Tag.
Talent Bar began his career on the track at two years of age and raced through his three year old season. During that time, the colt won nine races from 24 starts, including the 1965 Rainbow Futurity and Sonora 220 Futurity. Talent Bar also placed third in the 1965 Alamo QHBA Futurity and second in the 1966 Winter Garden Derby, where he set a New Track Record for 400 yards in :20.450. He accumulated $41,759 in earnings during this time.
After his career on the track, Talent Bar went on to sire 88 winners, nine of which are stakes winners. Among those stakes winners is his top earner Salty Talent, who won the 1973 Rainbow Derby, 1972 Thanksgiving Futurity, 1973 La Pitahaya Derby and 1973 El Paisano Derby. The gelding set a New Track Record at L.I.F.E. Downs in 1972 for 330 yards. Talent Bar also sired 2-time New Track Record setters Talented Lady and Talent Bank and New Track Record setters Texas Talent and Talent Bug.
Talent Bar was purchased by P.C. Perner at the 1964 All American Yearling Sale in Ruidoso Downs for $2,800, and the following winter the horse was used on the ranch. Perner borrowed the money to pay Talent Bar late into the Rainbow Futurity, headed to Ruidoso and he and his horse stayed in the only place available – in the shed row. Talent Bar won the Ruidoso Futurity, but the next day had a bone chip in his knee and started breeding mares while continuing to race. Perner retired Talent Bar in 1966. The horse went back to being a ranch horse and eventually became a barrel horse, winning several saddles and trophies.
This year’s $1,000,000 Rainbow Futurity-G1 was won by Eye On The Card on July 24. The colt is owned by Omar Hernandez, trained by Santos Carrizales Jr. and was ridden to victory by Juan Pulido.
Kiss My Hocks
Sorrel stallion Kiss My Hocks si
109 (Tempting Dash-Romancing
Mary, Tres Seis) will stand at Lazy
E Ranch in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
The 2014 Champion 2 Year Old,
Champion 2-Year-Old Colt earned
$1,199,385 winning the Ruidoso
Futurity-G1, Rainbow Derby-G1
and Sam Houston Futurity-G2 while also setting a 330-yard New Track Record at Sam Houston Race Park. Kiss My Hocks is the sire of over $7 million, including top earner and 4-time Graded stakes winner Jess My Hocks si 110 ($441,102).
Bodacious Dash
Bodacious Dash (First Down
Dash-St Pats Tea, Mr Jess Perry) will
stand the 2023 season at Woods Farm
in Bear River, Wyoming. The 2008
sorrel stallion won six races, including
the Texas Classic Futurity-G1, on
his way to earnings of $756,495.
Bodacious Dash is the sire of over
$2.3 million in money earners, including top earner and Remington Championship Challenge-G2 winner Sky Bo Dash (242,075). Bodacious Dash, who stood the 2022 season for $3,000 at A&A Ranch in New Mexico, is the property of Bobby Simmons and Trent Woods.
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SPEEDHORSE August 2022
Rank
RANKINGS AS OF JULY 25, 2022
Courtesy ApHC
William Jones Miller
Money Earned Winners