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Dashair
Dashair si 100 (First Down Dash-Such An Easy Effort) will stand the 2017 season at C Hangin C Performance Horses in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. The 2001 sorrel stallion earned $37,134 and was a finalist in the Rainbow Futurity-G1 and West/ Southwest Derby Challenge-G3. He is a multiple stakes winning sire of over $1.5 million in earners.
Feature Mr Bojangles
Feature Mr Bojangles si 103
(Feature Mr Jess-Catch This Dash,
First Down Dash) will stand the 2017 season at Jumonville Farms in Ventress, Louisiana. The 2009 sorrel stallion
won three graded stakes events, earned $899,434, and was named the 2011 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and the 2013 Champion Aged Stallion. Feature Mr Bojangles is a stakes sire from his first crop to race in 2016.
Little PYC
Little PYC (PYC Paint Your Wagon- Mini Melt, First To Flash) will stand the 2017 season at C Hangin C Performance Horses in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
The 2011 brown stallion earned $40,861 and was third in the Northlands Futurity and a finalist in three additional stakes events. Little PYC’s first foals are year- lings of 2017.
Masters Call Dies
Multiple stakes winner Masters Call (Hennessy TB-Check Her Twice, First Down Dash) passed away at the age of 11. Bred by Zory Kuzyk and owned by Dr. Ed Allred, R. D. Hubbard, et al, Masters Call earned $108,757 winning eight races, including the Los Alamitos Two Million Juvenile and the Farnam Stakes. The 2010 California Hi-Point Aged Stallion, Masters Call is a stakes sire from limited starters.
Daryl Wells Jr. Passes Away
Longtime track announcer Daryl Wells Jr. has passed away at the age of 56. Wells was the track announcer at Fort Erie Racetrack for more than 30 years, and also at Ajax Downs. Wells started calling races in 1976, following in his late father’s footsteps. His father, Daryl Sr., who was a race announcer from the late 1950s until the mid 1980s, was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in August.
Okey Dokey Dale Dies
Okey Dokey Dale (First Down Dash- Okeydokey Baby, Zevi TB) was laid to rest after being diagnosed with a rare tumor on his kidneys. Bred by Henry Brown and raced by Howard Moore, the 1996 brown stallion was owned by Ryan Humphrey. Okey Dokey Dale won the Ruidoso Derby-G2, earned $250,091, and was named the 1999 Champion 3-Year- Old Colt. From 14 crops to race, he was the sire of 433 winners and 59 stakes winners with over $13.8 million in earnings, including three Champions. Okey Dokey Dale was laid to rest on the highest hill of the Humphrey Quarter Horse ranch near Whitesboro, Texas.
Phil Chess Passes Away
Longtime Quarter Horse breeder/owner Phil Chess passed away Oct. 19 at the age of 95. Chess bred and raced several successful Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds, including 1999 Texas Classic Derby-G1 winner Jakes Jockmo and Grade 2 winner Ms Klee, a homebred daughter of Jakes Jockmo. Chess, who was born Fiszel Czyz in Poland, moved to Chicago where he co-founded the Chess Records label in Chicago. Chess Records was sold and Phil retired to Arizona. Phil and his brother, Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess, were inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1995.
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The photo on page 175 shows 2-time Champion Pokey Bar winning the Los Alamitos Invitational Championship, which would later be named the Los Alamitos Super Derby, under jockey Kenneth Chapman on May 5, 1962. Pokey Bar would earn $162,632 winning 12 of 20 starts, including 7 stakes events. His other stakes victories included the 1961 All American Futurity and Kindergarten Futurity, and the 1962 Ruidoso Derby. He set a New World Record for 350-yards at Pompano Park and two New Track Records at Los Alamitos for 440-yards. He was named the 1961 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt, was the High Money Earning Horse that year, and was the 1962 Champion 3-Year-Old Colt.
Pokey Bar was by 14-time AQHA Champion sire Three Bars TB and out of 1955 Champion Mare Pokey Vandy, by Vandy.
Pokey Bar was bred, owned and raced by Hugh Huntley, who served as an AQHA Director and was named an AQHA Honorary Vice President in 1971. Huntley, who attended every AQHA convention from 1946 until 1970, passed away in 1987. He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1996. Huntley is the only owner to have ever won three All American Futurities: he won the very first All American Futurity in 1959 with Galobar; he won the 1961 All American Futurity with Pokey Bar; and he won the 1963 All American Futurity with World Champion Goetta.
Pokey Bar was trained by Newton Keck. “This was the toughest one of the lot,” Keck once stated. “He just wouldn’t give up.” For his great speed, broadcasters and reporters dubbed the colt “Huntley’s Flying Machine”.
This year’s $767,750 Grade 1 Los Alamitos Super Derby was run on Nov. 6 and was won by Big Lew.
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