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Dash For Cash Futurity-G1
FAMOUS LITTLE REBA
by Tracy Gantz
Johnny Trotter knows how to build a success- ful pedigree. With Famous Little Reba, he started with the finest ingredients—One Famous Eagle on top, Corona Cartel as the broodmare sire, and Dash For Cash thrown in for good measure. The filly is bred similarly to Trotter’s Bodacious Eagle, and the owner won the Dash For Cash Futurity-G1 with Famous Little
Reba and the Dash For Cash Derby-G3 with Bodacious Eagle on Oct. 10 at Lone Star Park.
“I raised both of them,” said Trotter, who lives in Hereford, Texas.
Trotter purchased Little Rebas Corona, the dam of Famous Little Reba, for $48,000 at the 2012 Heritage Place January Mixed Sale from the La Feliz Montana Ranch dispersal. La Feliz Montana bred Bodacious Eagle in Oklahoma, while Trotter bred Famous Little Reba in Texas.
Ricky Ramirez piloted both of the horses
in the Dash For Cash events. (Famous Little Reba won her Sept. 26 Dash For Cash Futurity trial by 1 1/4-lengths with the 9th fastest qualifying time.) Trotter and Ramirez didn’t have much time to celebrate Bodacious Eagle’s victory in the Dash For Cash Derby before turning their attention to the Futurity.
“She got away terrible,” stated Trotter. “I didn’t have much hope for her winning in the first 200-yards. But, Ricky said he looked up and only had two horses ahead of him. She just kept getting stronger and stronger.”
She Looks Racy took the early lead from the rail. Ferarri GT loomed up as the first challenger, but then Famous Little Reba joined the fray. The three came together at the wire, with Famous Little Reba the winner by a nose in :19.705 for the 400 yards.
“We were right at the finish line, and she was rolling,” said Trotter.
Famous Little Reba began her racing career at Ruidoso Downs, breaking her maiden in her second start.
Third in her All American trial, Famous Little Reba was in the second flight of quali- fying times. That made her eligible for the All American Juvenile. “She put on a pretty good performance in the All American trials,” said Trotter.
“We dropped her out of the consolation and paid her in late to the Dash For Cash,” said Trotter.
The strategy worked, as she earned a $179,410 paycheck in the Dash For Cash
Futurity, not to mention a Grade 1 victory.
Trotter had offered Famous Little Reba for
sale at the 2014 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale, but he bought her back for $65,000. Trotter’s friend Randy Geiselman of Midland, Texas, bought into her after the sale.
“She got hurt early on,
and I didn’t know whether
she was going to be any good,” said Trotter, who would have refunded Geiselman his money if the injury had compromised the filly’s racing career.
She overcame the problem, however, and now they look like they have a very good prospect, not only for more racing, but also as a broodmare with that pedigree.
Little Rebas Corona has produced two starters, both winners. The other, a 3-year-old filly named Rebas Corona Eagle, finished third in the Lone Star Distaff Challenge a week before the Dash For Cash Futurity.
The second dam, the First Down Dash mare Dashing Little Reba, won the Rainbow Juvenile-G3 and has produced stakes winners
Reba Reba Corona and Rebas Corona, as well as stakes- placed Zoomin Fool.
Ferarri GT (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Ferarri Fast Prize) finished second for jockey L.S. Martinez. Paul Jones trains the gelding for owner J and M Racing and Farm. Ferarri GT’s two vic- tories have come in futurity trials, including his Dash For Cash trial win.
Trotter also bred third-placed She Looks Racy (First Down Dash-Miss Racy Jess), in part- nership with Burnett Ranches. Double A Ranch campaigns the filly, who was ridden by Manuel Gutierrez and is trained by Jorge Gonzalez. She Looks Racy has also won two futurity trials and was the second-fastest qualifier.
Completing the field were Volcom Flame (Volcom-Lethal Delight), JS Abel Dasher (The Louisiana Cartel-Shaken Easy Dash), Dash Dont Cheat (Down N Dash-Special Cheat), Django B (Teller Cartel-Miss Julie B), Teves (The Louisiana Cartel-Midnight Swingin), and Sissy Cartel (The Louisiana Cartel-Hot Regrets). Fastest-qualifier Nucky was scratched.
Lone Star Park $448,515 • 400 yards :19.705 • si 94
Mr Jess Perry
One Famous Eagle
One Famous Lady
FAMOUS LITTLE REBA, ’13-f.
Corona Cartel
Little Rebas Corona
Dashing Little Reba
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Famous Little Reba (#8) & Ricky Ramirez recover from a bumped start and win the $448,515 Grade 1 Dash For Cash Futurity by the bob of a head
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