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Jim Bader Futurity
Tellher To Fly
by Tracy Gantz
Jockey Stormy Smith and trainer Brent Clay were a lethal combination on Iowa Champions Night, Oct. 26, at Prairie Meadows. Together they won four races, including three stakes, culminating in the Jim Bader Futurity with Tellher To Fly. Smith added a fifth victory and fourth stakes in the Q Racing Challenge Distance Stakes.
In the Bader Futurity, Tellher To Fly broke from post eight, to the out-
side of a four-horse squeeze
play. Burn Down Sweet,
Makes Alota Sense, Chics Dig Gold, and MRF First Danali bumped each other inside of Tellher To Fly. Smith kept Tellher To Fly out of trouble, as they raced in third. The filly powered home to take command and win by a half-length in :17.832 for the 350 yards. Robert and Sandra
Brown own Tellher To Fly and bred her in Iowa. Clay started her at Remington Park, where she won a maiden race and her trial
for the Heritage Place Futurity-G1, though she didn’t qualify for the final. Tellher To Fly finished second in her Bader trial to fastest- qualifier Catchin Fire to be the second-fastest qualifier in a time of :18.105.
Two Sick To Fly, the winning dam of Tellher To Fly, has produced four winners from five start-
ers. Of those, Make Me Fly won the 2011 Will Rogers Derby Challenge-G3 and fin- ished fourth in the 2010 All American Futurity-G1 and Fly Me Anywhere won the 2008 Bader Futurity, 2008 Iowa Double Gold Futurity, and 2009 Polk County Derby.
Catchin Fire (Chicks A Blazin-Rodeo Rona) finished second under Agustin Silva.
Kasey Willis trains the filly for owner Thomas Lepic. Catchin Fire won three consecutive races prior to the Bader final, including the IAQHA Fall Sale Futurity.
Clay also trains third-place TCF New
Love (Rare News-Manets Lovenromance). John Lawless owns the filly, and Juan Vazquez piloted her. Disqualified after finishing first in a maiden race, TCF New Love scored her first official victory in her Bader trial.
Completing the field were TCF Sixoclock News (Rare News-Sixarun Sal), Ivorys Special Lady (Ivory James-Special Moon Beam), Takin (Mr Eye Opener-Takin A Hike), Burn Down Sweet (Sweet First Down-Burn Down Chickie), Chicks Dig Gold (La Jollas Gold- Shezareal Master), MRF First Danali (First Dinastia-Bug Yawl), and Makes Alota Sense (Talkalota Bull-Saving Up).
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Two Sick To Fly
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Polk County Derby
euFaula Me
by Tracy Gantz
Sheri Lynn Andrew bred two stakes winners on Iowa Champions Night, Oct. 26, at Prairie Meadows. Her homebred Jess A Little Twisted won the Future of Iowa Stakes, while Eufaula Me, owned by John Lawless and bred by Andrew, won the Polk County Derby. The two horses are related, in that Eufaula Me’s dam, Yawls Spreadn Rumors, is a half-sister to Jess A Little Twisted.
Brent Clay trains both Eufaula Me and Jess A Little Twisted, and Stormy Smith rode the pair. Eufaula Me from post three and Count The Menace on the rail broke on top virtually together in the 400-yard Polk County Derby. Soon Eufaula Me drew off, as he won by an easy two lengths in a time of :19.753.
Eufaula Me cap- tured the 2011 Jim Bader
Futurity, finished third in last year’s
Altoona Derby-G3 and Iowa Double Gold Futurity-RG3, won the 2012 Iowa Double Gold Derby, and finished second is the 2012 Oklahoma Derby. With the exception of his racing debut, when he finished fifth, Eufaula Me has never run worse than third.
Though not a stakes winner, Yawls Spreadn Rumors finished third in the 1997 Jim
Bader Futurity and second in the 1999 Terrace Hill Stakes-RG3. In addition to Jess A Little Twisted, the mare’s half-siblings include 1999 Bader Futurity winner Holland As Yawl and stakes- placed Yesesnosnmaybes. Yawls Spreadn Rumors has produced nine starters, all winners, including stakes winners Okey I Am and Wheres Your Wagon plus stakes-placed Who The Lmi,
Who The Lru, and Where The Lmi.
Clay also trained Brimmin (Brimmerton- Eye Speed Too), who came on late to pick up
second under Doug Frink. Owned and bred by Craig Kirby, Brimmin was coming off two consecutive victories.
Charlton Hunt conditions third-place Count The Menace (Executive Menace- Countess Rare Bar) and owns him with Starlet Hunt. Cody Smith piloted the gelding, who ran third in the 2011 Bader Futurity, second in the 2012 Three Cherries Stakes, and third in the 2012 Iowa Double Gold Derby.
Completing the field were Mississippi Bad Boy (Mr Eye Opener-Purple Robe), Rock Bass (SC Chiseled In Stone-Rushin Bullette), PYC Biscuit (PYC Paint Your Wagon-West Crest Dance), and Chicks Fly (Chicks Regard-Two Sick To Fly). Jess A Little Twisted was scratched.
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Okey Dokey Dale
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