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Left - Ed Allred’s mare Oh La Proud, the dam of Look Her Over, is one of only four mares to produce
three AQHA Champions
Below - Check Him Out, the sire of Look Her Over
Canyon TB who won the Golden State Derby at odds of 92-1. That was my start,” Allred said.
Allred’s honed his pedigree knowledge over the years, developing some of the best maternal families in the industry. One of those is the
Oh La Ree line, which is being carried on smashingly by Oh La Proud and her daughter, Look Her Over.
Oh La Proud, by Shirley’s Champion TB, is one of only four broodmares to produce three AQHA racing Champions. Bred by Allred, Oh La Proud is the dam of Champions Hawkish (by Dash Thru Traffic, $685,631), Hawkinson (by First Down Dash, $448,299) and Flame
N Flash (by Walk Thru Fire, $439,151).
Other broodmares to have accomplished that outstanding feat are 1946 mare Garretts Miss Pawhuska, the dam of Champions Vanetta
Dee, Vannevar and Vandy’s Flash; 1976 Thoroughbred mare Trippy Dip, the dam of Champions Calyx, Florentine and Ive Been Blessed; and 1981 mare Our Third Delight, the dam of Champions Fortune Of Delight, Dean Miracle and Tres Seis. Oh La Proud has also produced stakes winner and Chariot Racing Champion Pride Of Katella (si 104, $199,187), and stakes winners Rare Walker (si 120, $110,702), Mister Katella (si 103, $88,510) and Look Her Over.
A 2004 mare by Check Him Out, Look Her Over (si 101) earned $173,326 on the racetrack, finishing in the top three in 13 of
27 starts. She won the California Breeders’ 550 Sophomore Stakes in 2007 and the AQHA Members Plus Stakes in 2009. In between those stakes-winning years, she ran second in the Mildred N. Vessels Memorial Handicap-G1 and third in the California Breeders’ Matron Stakes-RG2 and Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1 in 2008.
Look Her Over was also bred in 2008. Her first foal, the Walk Thru Fire gelding Once Over, was born on February 17, 2009. Like his dam, Once Over has excelled in the older horse ranks, although simple bad luck might be to blame for his slow start.
“Dr. Allred has been very patient with this horse,” trainer Scott Willoughby said. “This horse won his maiden in a time of :15.25 in his very first start, so we knew that he could run. We were very high on him right from the start, but he had a lot of bad luck and everything went wrong for him as a two and three year old. He ended up just barely missing a qualifying spot
to the 2011 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, but we knew that he was a talented horse. He’s matured a lot with time. He’s paying a lot more attention. He’s going to the gate a lot easier. He’s putting everything together.”
Indeed, the stellar season he turned in last year contributed to Look Her Over being honored as the Speedhorse Broodmare of the Year. Racing for Allred, Once Over has won five of 24 starts, finishing second or third
an additional eight times. He has earned $166,029 – a figure that is still growing as he continues to race in 2015. A majority of that total – $125,936 – was banked in 2014, when Once Over won three stakes races including
the Pete Woods Handicap and the Katella Handicap. The former he won by more than
a length, while in the latter he set what was, at that time, the meet’s fastest 350-yard time. His biggest, and most nerve-wracking, win came
in the $100,000 Spencer Childers’ California Breeders Championship-RG1, which was held on California Breeders’ Champions Night in late July. The 5-year-old gelding broke through the gates prior to the start of the race.
“I thought we were done,” Willoughby said. “He had to be loaded back in the gate and I didn’t know if he would have anything left. I thought that maybe he had run his race right there.”
As luck would have it, Once Over had plenty left. He went on to score a 1/2-length win in the Spencer Childers’ California Breeders Championship, his third stakes win of the year.
“Once Over ran great last year and everything that his dam, Look Her Over, throws has been a runner,” Willoughby said after the gelding was named the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association’s top aged gelding. “We’ve loved this horse from day one.”
At the same awards banquet, Allred was named the top owner and breeder, while Look
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