Page 58 - Speedhorse August 2018

A few of the favorite horses Andreini has owned include . . .
1993 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Jumping Tac Flash, dam of Champion Carters Cartel. Andreini also owned Beat Your Pants Off, the dam of Jumping Tac Flash as well as of Champion Splash Bac.
He also met Blane Schvaneveldt. “We were partners for years and years,” he says. “We owned many great horses — a lot of good mares and a lot of great racehorses. He’s the guy who really helped me the most through those years.”
In 1988 — exactly 100 years after his father was born — Andreini bought JL Ranch, named for himself and his wife, Linda, and in 2004 he hired Danny Cardoza, who had previously worked at Vessels Stallion Farm, to run it. “I’ve loved our relationship,” he says. “He’s been a great mentor and he knows a lot about the business. He’s helped me a great deal and he’s a great watchdog.”
A FEW FAVORITES
As Andreini progressed in the racing business, he owned the 1991 Tolltac mare Jumping Tac Flash, who earned $147,065 in two years, winning seven of 15 starts. “She was Champion 2-Year-Old Filly and I kept her for two years,” he says. Then Blane Schvaneveldt, who trained the filly and who’d suggested Andreini buy the filly, asked if he wanted to sell her. Andreini agreed, and Jumping Tac Flash brought $250,000 from the List family at the Pomona Sale.
Andreini also owned the 1986 filly Beat Your Pants Off (Six Fols-Splashing Bunny, Jet Creek), the dam of Jumping Tac Flash, who earned $22,440. “She produced more foals than any other Quarter mare in the country; her record still stands,” Andreini says. “Every time you’d go to get an embryo, you’d get 10. She was such a great producer,
Militante, shown returning from the 1990 Sooner Trailer California Derby
Day Challenge.
and every one of her foals brought $40,000– $50,000 minimum. I was going to sell her, too, and then I thought, ‘I made a lot of money on Jumping Tac Flash so I’ll keep her’, and I’m glad I did!”
Another horse he loved was Militante (First Down Dash–Militia, Pie In The Sky), because he was such a big brute of a gelding. “He ran fifth in the All American for a man who owned a newspaper in Mexico and Blane said I ought to buy that horse. All he wanted to do was run and you couldn’t slow him down. It was a thrill to see him run those big 440-yard races and beat everybody’s butt!”
Check Him Out, a 1999 colt by Hennessy TB and out of First Down Dash daughter Check Her Twice, was another of Andreini’s favorites. The multiple-graded-stakes-winning stallion earned $418,528, ranking 16th by earnings in 2001, and 23rd by earnings and 29th by wins in 2002. “He was by a very expensive stud that D. Wayne Lukas ran, whose stud fee was $500,000,” Andreini says. “I bought out Lucas’ share of the colt, partnering with Zory Kuzyk. That horse was very, very difficult to beat in those derbies. In retrospect, he’s one of the best broodmare sires the industry has ever seen.”
He also has a 5-year-old mare named Gotcha Bella (Mr Jess Perry–Designateddriver, Corona Cartel) who had the second fastest time in works for the 2015 All American. “She bled badly so we couldn’t run her there, but she came back and won some stakes races at Los Alamitos,” he says. “She’s a beautiful mare; one that I raised and kept.”
Champion sire Check Him Out, shown returning from his win in the 2001 Ed Burke Memorial Futurity.
Bred (solely or in partnership) winners of more than $3.5 million:
• Dashin Vike ($142,432), dam of multiple stakes winner Runaway Wagon
• Fetching Beauty (with Vince Genco, $135,000)
• Gotcha Bella ($56,921)
• Head Turner (with Blane Schvaneveldt, $294,032)
• Imjumpn (with Blane Schvaneveldt, $56,495), PCQHRA Broodmare of the Year in 2009
• Jumpn Beduino (with Blane Schvaneveldt, $267,825)
• Lindas Dasher (with Blane Schvaneveldt, $331,703)
• Volcom ($430,433), sire of 2014 All American Futurity winner JM Miracle and 2016 Champion Volcom Bay
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