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dutch Masters iii homebreds include . . .
Multiple Champion sire Holland Ease
2000 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Secret Card
1993 Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding Four Forty Blast
produce racing greats Holland Ease (1991 All American Futurity finalist, winner of the Golden State Derby in 1992 and sire of Corona Cartel); Four Forty Blast (1993 Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding and earner of $321,356); and Brisco County Jr., a multiple graded stakes placed colt who won $118,225 in 1995 and 1996.
Their next big winner was Secret Card (Raise A Secret – Docs First Card, First Down Dash), who earned $367,114 and the 2000 Champion 2-Year- Old Filly title, and went on to produce 2004 All American Futurity finalist Separate Secrets.
Also, included on Dutch Masters III’s list of All American Futurity finalists were The Fling King (1994), Flys R Streakin and Meteoric (both in 2002).
Among the horses Doc names as his all-time greats is Dutch Masters III’s number-one earner, Higher Fire. The homebred Walk Thru Fire mare out of Raise A Secret daughter Higher Math won five of 15 races, including the Grade 1 Golden State Million and Ed Burke Million futurities, earning Champion 2 Year Old and
2005 Champion 2 Year Old, Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Higher Fire, Dutch Masters III’s number-one earner
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Champion 2-Year-Old Filly honors in 2005. Along the way, the partnership bred Chicks
Like Us (Chicks Beduino – Miss Royal Baby Doll, Royal Quick Dash), who won the 2004 PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity G1, ranking 39th by wins and 20th by earnings that year; Gold Nugget Rd (Walk Thru Fire – Ya Tey Hay, Chicks Beduino), who won the Kindergarten Futurity-G1 and was ranked 66th by earnings in 2005; Check This Runner (Check Him Out – Make A Run, Calyx), who ranked 59th by earnings in 2006; and Checknbac (Check Him Out – Running Bac, Splash Bac), who won the Governor’s Cup-G1 in 2006 and was ranked 28th by wins and 43rd by earnings in 2006.
In 2007, Dutch Masters III bought Sixish, by Hawkinson and out of Sixarun daughter Sixarunner, at the Ruidoso Sale for $23,000 and the gelding racked up $530,505 in two years on the track.
Chazaq (Corona Cartel – All About Ease, First Down Dash), whom Denny Boer returned to partner on, made the winner’s circle in the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1 in 2016 and the Los Alamitos
Super Derby-G1 in 2017, ranking 48th by wins and 9th by earnings in 2016, and 13th by earnings in 2017. “Doc was the happiest guy in the world that day,” says his longtime trainer Jaime Gomez, Los Alamitos’ leading trainer by money earned in 2017. “I never saw him so pumped up, ever!”
Behind h is s uccess
One major factor in Doc’s success
relates to his background as a physician. “I love studying the genetics of the breeding program,” he says. “We all study each horse’s conformation and bloodlines.”
Consistency is also key in the program. “In 35 years, I’ve really had just three trainers: Kurt Perner, Bob Baffert, and then Carlos Lopez and Jaime Gomez worked together for a few years. I’ve been with Jaime well over 20 years now. He’s got good people working for him at his ranch and at the racetrack. He has one groom for every four horses, so they get a lot of attention.”
“Doc is just like family to me. I call him ‘Pop,’” says Jaime, who is actually a couple