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John’s Top Mounts Include T hese Hallmark Horses
Ah Sigh winning the 1994 Ed Burke Futurity.
Ah Sigh
(First Down Dash-Cindio, Jonny Apollo). Ridden by
John, she was named the 1994 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly, 1995 Champion 3 Year Old and 1995 Champion Filly. She won the Miss Kindergarten Futurity-G2, the Ed Burke Memorial
Futurity-G1, and the Golden State
Dash For Kay
(First Down Dash-Growing Regard, Merridoc). With John in the irons for all of her first year and all but four sophomore races, the filly ran third in the Governor’s Cup Futurity-G1, qualified for the Grade 1 PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity, ran fifth in the Golden State Futurity-G1 and fourth in the Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1. At 4, she ran second in the Grade 3 Miss Princess Handicap and finished her four- year race career with $185,246.
Prissy Fein
(Sinn Fein-Miss Squaw
Bird, Good Bird Bars). As a
freshman, Prissy Fein won six
of 10 races, then came back
at 3 to win the TQHA Texas
Derby-G3, the Los Alamitos
Derby-G1, the Rainbow
Derby-G1, the Sophomore
Handicap-G2, the Pocahontas
Handicap-G3 and the Las
Damas Handicap-G1. At 4, she ran
third in the Grade 1 Horsemen’s
QHRA Championship, second in the Vessels Maturity-G1, then won the Dashingly Handicap, the Anne Burnett Invitational Handicap-G1 and the HQHRA Inaugural Handicap-G3. She also ran second in the Las Damas Handicap-G1 and third in the Champion of Champions-G1. By the end of her 5-year-old season, she’d banked $718,996 and held the 1985 Three- Year-Old Filly and Three Year Old Champion titles.
Futurity-G1; then, as a sophomore, she won the La Primera Del Ano Derby-G2, the Los Alamitos Derby-G1
and the Golden State Derby-G1. At 4, she ran second in the Mildred N. Vessels Memorial Handicap-G1 and the Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1 and third in the Grade 1 Champion of Champions. Her career earnings totaled $496,721.
Down With Debt winning the 1993 California Derby.
the California Challenge Championship-G3 and the AQHA Challenge Championship-G1.
At 5, her final year on the track, she won the Spencer L. Childers California Breeders’ Championship-G1 and the California Challenge Championship-G3, and ran third in the Vessels Maturity-G1. The filly’s career earnings totaled $404,381.
Sgt Pepper Feature
(Truckle Feature-Marketina, Corner The Market). The 1978 foal won $900,240 in seven years on the track, winning 20 of 62 starts with 11 seconds and eight thirds. He
was named AQHA’s 1981 Three- Year-Old Gelding and Three Year Old Champion titles and 1982 Aged Champion, Aged Gelding and World Champion titles. “We won about everything you can win in California,” says the gelding’s trainer, Mike Robbins of Reliance Ranches in Guthrie, Oklahoma. “John rode him most of his career.”
Jodys Glory
(Jody Chick-Lassie Be Good, Glory Be Good). One of John’s favorite mounts, the 1975 colt earned multiple stakes winner status along with being named the AQHA 1979 Champion Aged Stallion. He won 16 of 56 starts including the Shue Fly Handicap, the St. Nicholas Express Handicap’s second division and the Alameda Handicap. His career earnings totaled $120,776.
Down With Debt
(First Down Dash-I Owe You Me, Merridoc). With John in the irons starting at age 4, she was named 1994 AQHA World Champion, Aged Champion and Champion Aged Mare, and won the Las Damas Handicap-G2, the Go Man Go Handicap-G1,
the Vessels Maturity-G1,
Prissy Fein winning the 1985 Las Damas Handicap.
Easily A Rogue winning the 1992 California Sires’ Cup Derby-G3.
Easily A Rogue
(Calyx-Easily A Doll, Easy Jet) John rode her to a third in the All American Futurity Consolation at Ruidoso and the Kindergarten Futurity-G1 at Los Alamitos.
At 3, she won the La Primera
Del Ano Derby-G1 and the California Sires’ Cup Derby-G3
and ran third in the Golden State Derby-G1. She earned $302,968.
Chicks Beduino
(Beduino-A Classy Chick, Chick’s Deck). John piloted him to wins in the Bay Meadows Futurity-G1 and the Governor’s Cup Futurity-G3, and a second- place finish in the Dash For Cash Futurity-G1. At 3, the colt ran third in the Laddie Handicap-G2 and fourth in the Golden State
Derby-G1. He earned $412,099
Sgt Pepper Feature
Chicks Beduino winning the 1986 Governor’s Cup Futurity-G3.
and went on to sire outstanding get including Separatist, Whosleavingwho, Country Chicks Man, Jumpn
Beduino and Ima Chicks Dream.
Jodys Glory winning the 1979 St. Nicholas Express Handicap.
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