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The legacy of Rocket Bar lives on through his many fifine runners, but his ultimate legacy is the continuation of the Three Bars sire line through his son ROCKET WRANGLER (pictured), the sire of Dash For Cash.
SPEEDLINES
Rocket Wrangler’s THREE
million-dollar siring sons are...
Dash For Cash
Torrey Pines Stakes, sixth in the Peninsula Stakes, and tenth in the Horsemen’s QHRA Championship in 1973. He made 23 starts with 10 wins, four seconds and four thirds, earning $252,167.
Rocket Wrangler is the sire of $9,407,809, including 1,221 starters that earned 835 ROM with 56 stakes winners. His leading money earner is two-time World Champion Dash For Cash. The maternal sire record for Rocket Wrangler shows that his grandget earned $15,222,243, including 1,232 ROM from 1,902 starters with 85 stakes winners. His leading money winner as a broodmare sire is Miami Cartel by Corona Cartel, who is a four time stakes winner, including the 2002 Los Alamitos Derby-G1.
Three sons of Rocket Wrangler that
are million-dollar sires are Rocket’s Magic, Wranglers Ridge and Dash For Cash. We will start with Rocket’s Magic, winner of the Old South Futurity and Florida Futurity and third in the 1976 All American Futurity. It has to be noted that his dam, Magic Spots TB, has
a great deal of King Ranch Thoroughbred blood in her pedigree. She is by Uproar and out of Candle Lighter by Firm Ground by the King Ranch Kentucky Derby winner Middleground. The dam of Candle Lighter
is Miss Charge by Depth Charge, who was used on the King Ranch. Middleground and Depth Charge are both by Bold Venture, another King Ranch stallion. This gives Candle Lighter a breeding pattern of 3x3 to Bold Venture.
Rocket’s Magic is the sire of $3,889,388, including 402 starters earning 227 ROM with 16 stakes winners. His leading money earner is Magic Magic Magic, winner of five stakes races including the LQHBA Futurity-G2, Louisiana Bred Laddie Futurity-G3 and Delta Downs Louisiana Breeders’ Futurity-G3.
Wranglers Ridge, the next million dollar sire by Rocket Wrangler, was a multiple stakes finalist with a stakes win in the 1978 Los Ninos Handicap. He is out of Fantacia by Ridge Butler. Fantacia is out of Fantasy by Lightning Bar. Fantasy is out of the great Quarter running mare Miss Bank. This is the female family of leading sire One Famous Eagle.
Wranglers Ridge is the sire of $1,845,908, including 289 starters, 196 ROM and 18 stakes winners. His leading money earner is Kipadeucy, a four-time futurity winner including the 1990 Denim N Diamonds Futurity-G1.
Dash For Cash, the third and most prolific million dollar sire by Rocket
Rockets Magic
Wranglers Ridge
Rocket Wrangler is the sire of $9,407,809, including 1,221 starters that earned 835 ROM with 56 stakes winners
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