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with earnings of over $36 million. His top earner is Rainbow Derby-G1 winner Papaws Paint.
He is also the sire of Champion The Fiscal Cliff and 3-time APHA World Champion Painted Turnpike. PYC Paint Your Wagon is the brood- mare sire of over $9 million. This great stallion has left his mark on the racing industry and will continue to do so through his many foals in the years to come. Frozen semen is still available. Contact Lazy E Ranch for more information.
SPEEDHORSE Photo Archive Answer
The photo on page 189 shows 2-time Champion Little Blue Sheep (St Bar-Miss Olene, Leo) after winning the 1976 Vessels Maturity under Terry Lipham for owner/breeder L.R. “Bobby” French Jr. and trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
Foaled in 1972, Little Blue Sheep is by St Bar, who is also the sire of Champions Vespero and Power Trainer. Little Blue Sheep is out of AQHA Hall of Fame horse Miss Olene, by legend-
ary sire Leo, who is the sire of 4 Champions including World Champions Miss Meyers, and the broodmare sire of 14 Champions including World Champions Goetta and Vandy’s Flash.
Racing from two years of age to six, Little Blue Sheep won 25 races from an impressive 78 starts with 63 of her starts coming in stakes competition. The consistent runner amassed earn- ings of $389,355. Along with the Vessels Maturity, she won 14 additional stakes races, including the West Texas Derby, Go Man Go Handicap, Double Bid Stakes and Bay Meadows Inaugural Handicap, where she set a New Track Record for 350 yards. She was named AQHA Champion Aged Mare in 1977 and 1978.
Little Blue Sheep was retired from the track in 1979 and went on to become a successful broodmare. In 1980, she was sold with a Dash For Cash foal at her side to Brown Badgett for $600,000, which at the time was the highest price for a Quarter Horse mare. She headed to Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky and became the first Quarter Horse mare bred to the iconic Thor- oughbred stallion Raise A Native. In 1984, two of her foals became stakes winners: her top earner Browns Dasher (her first foal, by Dash For Cash), winner of the New Mexico State Fair Handi- cap; and Rheaetta (by Raise A Native), winner of the Juarez Juvenile.
In 1985, Little Blue Sheep was purchased by Senator J.E. Jumonville, who bred her to Loui- siana Slew TB, with one of the resulting foals being 1988 filly The Louisiana Girl. It is through The Louisiana Girl that Little Blue Sheep’s legacy continued. The Louisiana Girl produced Champion Jess Louisiana Blue, a leading sire of over $19 million in earners. According to Jumon- ville, “. . . her impact on me might well be part of what compelled me to come into the business as seriously as I’m in it now.”
On her journey to Kentucky, Little Blue Sheep and her Dash For Cash foal stopped and spent the night at Dee and Betty Raper’s First Call Farm in Oklahoma. “I got a stall ready for the mare and her foal and couldn’t help thinking I could always say, ‘Little Blue Sheep slept here,’” Dee Raper said. Thus was the impact she had on the Quarter Horse industry.
Stoli My Heart Dies
Stoli My Heart (Stoli-Streakin To Music, Streakin La Jolla) died the first week of March. The 2003 bay stallion raced from two years
of age to three, winning three of his 11 starts with $108,790 in earnings. Stoli My Heart
ran third in the Heritage Place Futurity-G1, Speedhorse Gold & Silver Cup Futurity-G1 and Longhorn Futurity-G2. Bred by the
Pierce Family Partnership and owned by Manuel Garcia and Blanca Salinas, Stoli My Heart sired three winners from just 13 starters including top earner Ek Co Co ($42,241).
Streakin Flyer Dies
Streakin Flyer si 96 (Strawfly Special-Streakin For Love, Streakin Six) died March 8 at the age of 26. The 1994 bay gelding raced from two to five, winning five of 14 starts and earning $1,141,128. Streakin Flyer won the 1996 All American Futurity for Mike and Janelle Green’s Southern Rose Ranch and trainer Donnie Lee Strickland. The Greens purchased Streakin Flyer for $18,000 at the Ruidoso Select Sale from breeders Dan
and Terry Lovingier. “We decided this might
be the one and only time we had a chance to go to the All American Futurity as someone other than a spectator,” Janelle Green told Speedhorse. “Donnie has made our dream come true.”
Sunland Racetrack & Casino Donates $2 Million
Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino, on behalf of the Stanley E. Fulton Foundation, donated $2 million to
New Mexico residents hardest hit by
COVID-19. Led by the New Mexico Coalition of Community Foundations, the All Together Fund will oversee dis- tribution of the donation. “In times like these, it is important that we all come together as New Mexicans to help those that are most vulnerable,” said Rick Baugh, general manager of Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino
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