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dealing with a lot of life, but you’re also dealing with a lot of death and that’s a real downer.
“I remember at one time, I had patients in every bed in the intensive care unit where I work, and several passed on,” he adds. “I remember walking out to my car and just sobbing. I told myself, ‘You’re going to be doing this for quite
a while and you can feel bad when these things happen, but you can’t let sadness get you down.’”
Present and Future
Dutch Masters III broodmares now reside on Bill’s ranch in Missouri, where Bill, a former Army medic and retired senior vice president of a Fortune 500 company, and his wife, Janis, care for them. The couple is no stranger to racing success. They won the All American Derby in 1998 with The Casanova (The Signature – Ooh A Sensation, Casady Casanova).
The Dales share more than a passion for racehorses with the Streelmans. Each has passed the 50-year anniversary milepost. “That’s another thing we have in common,” jokes Bill, “our wives have actually kept us around that long!
“Janis is a big help at the ranch,” he adds. “She loves the horses and racing, and we do all our own breeding. I do all the vet work myself and we foal the mares out.”
Doc also keeps a few mares with Jaime in California. “He comes to see his horses maybe once or twice a week,” Jaime says. “He’ll get a few out and sees the rest in their stalls, and we’ll talk about breeding.”
Although Doc absolutely loves winning a race, he also puts a high value on the relationships he’s formed through the years. “One of the best things in this whole business is the people who are involved. From racetrack owners to fellow horsemen, breeding farms and a lot of the ‘little people’ that make up the Quarter Horse business, they’re just fine, fine folks,” Doc says. “I’ve met
a lot of them and I count a lot of them as my friends. I’ve been involved in the Thoroughbred business a little, and it’s just not like that.”
Those relationships and Doc’s “failure is not
an option” outlook on life have contributed to the many trips to the winner’s circle that he and his connections have made throughout the past 35 years.
“Every year it seems like he comes up with one of the top horses in the business,” Bill says. “This year and last year it was Chazaq. He’s run out nearly $1 million. The year before that was Forget It, who ran out over half a million. Doc has been consistent all these years. If you could run out a list of great horses — I mean horses that anyone in the business would recognize the name the minute you said it — it’s the Who’s Who of the Quarter Horse race industry.
“You don’t become an all-star because of three good years,” adds Bill. “You become an all-star because of a career of good years. Lord knows, Doc has had a career of good years and it doesn’t look like he’s done.”
some of dutch Masters III
additional stakes winners
include . . .
Chazaq Checknbac
Dutch Masters III bred/owned Chicks Like Us
Dutch Masters III bred/owned Gold Nugget RD
Jumpn
Sassy Smith
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