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Real Wind was the first New Mexico bred to win the All American Futurity.
Deal Stowe with Real New, the dam of Real Wind
marvelous example of one man’s faith in his own abilities and opinions.
Deal Stowe, at last owns the kind of horses that he dreamed of owning so many, many years ago at Elida when the cowboys rode their “good” horses into town for the rodeo.
And after all, isn’t that what boyhood and man- hood are all about, making dreams come true?
gate and led Renewal into the pen with Golly. Fate was kind to the former Elida match race king this time, for Renewal was once again serviced by Golly and, as a result, she turned up pregnant with Real New, who a dozen years later was to give birth to a future win- ner of the All American Futurity, the world’s richest horse race.
It was of little consequence to Deal Stowe that this mating took place in August. What was important was that at last there was some hope for his future as a race horse breeder. His $4,000 race mare was in foal.
Stowe’s friend stood by his agreement and bought Renewal’s first foal, although he kept her unraced until she was five. As could be expected, she came up for sale but $65 was
the best offer found. The mare was still an appendix mare and potential buyers saw her no more than just that. All except Deal Stowe. Stowe offered $500 and quickly found that
he owned the five-year-old maiden. He says, “Three weeks after she dropped her first foal, I raced her at Lubbock and earned a AA rat- ing. Later that summer, I took her to Ruidoso and she was in the same race with Quincy Rocket where she set a new track record.
“Oh, my mare was dead last, but even so, she got her AAA rating. I ran her back one more time and she AAA’d again, and then I brought her home.”
During the 60’s, Stowe had acquired a That’s My Boy son, I May Go, who, although he dis- played good siring ability with Mr Go Bar and a few other foals, he failed to possess the necessary quality and popular bloodlines that Stowe felt he needed for a successful stud operation.
“I’ve got to have some of that Go Man Go breeding,” said Stowe after watching the
f leet Duplicate Copy daughter, Impressively, display unbelievable speed during a season at Ruidoso Downs.
“I watched the races, studied bloodlines reli- giously, and to my satisfaction, I thought that Go Man Go was destined to be a sire of sire’s despite what some horsemen declared to the contrary.
“They didn’t convince me. I like Jet Deck sons, but they’re like mail boxes, everyone has one. So, I decided a Go Man Go son was what I wanted to round out my breeding program.
“In spite of advice from friends who declared it won’t work, I was told that Blair and Nancy Folck had a Go Man Go son out of a Clabber Bar mare for sale. I called Blair in Albuquerque, where he and Doc Severinsen were in the hotel room visiting. Blair said he wanted $45,000 for Go With The Wind.
“I told him I’d consider giving $35,000, but that I’d have to sell some mares. He said he’d be by the next day or so to talk more about it.” A subsequent meeting, plus a hurried flight by Stowe to Los Alamitos to see Go With The Wind, resulted in the two men making a trade.
Stowe says this about Go With The Wind, “I love this horse. He moves the way a horse is supposed to move. I can fault him a little for too much length in his back, but he looks the part of a race horse. He moves his hind leg like a running horse should, swing- ing from point on his hip like a pendulum.
“He has an exceptional good hind leg, and he’s the best headed Go Man Go I’ve ever seen.”
And so, Deal Stowe put together the final ingredients that it took to create a winner of the world’s richest race.
He did what all Quarter Horsemen aspire to do. It’s an intriguing tale of persistence. It’s a
Stowe here with Go With The Wind, whom he considered his “ideal” as a sire.
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