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Mark and Peggy name these five horses among the top horses they’ve run themselves
Mark says that although he likes watching Fast Red Leggs (Red-Ronee Christina). Wild the babies grow and develop from scratch, his Man Ronnie ran out more than $65,000, and
favorite part of the operation is running at the racetracks. “From our early rodeo days, we’re both natural competitors,” he says. “It’s a lot of work and something you take pride in: to take a horse to the paddock. They’re big and strong and pretty, and it’s an achievement to get there. But the bottom line is, you’re competing with some of the best horsemen in the world. And even if they’re your best friends and you wish them well, you’re out there to win.”
Peggy’s pride comes from training. “I love seeing an animal go out there and learn and do the best they can do,” she says. “That’s what
I like best at the racetrack: to see the young horses grow and become confident, and per- form to the best of their ability. I’m the same with the barrels.”
They achieved their first stakes win in
the 1990s with Catch A Leprechaun (Prompt Verdict-The Queen And I). “His mother and full sister were our very first broodmares,” says Mark. “He was actually a handful. We sent him down to Sherm Hadley, who passed away a few years ago, and he won the Beehive Futurity at Laurel Brown. He outran the horse that had set the track record the week before. I think we only made $13,000 for the futurity, but that seemed like a lot of money back then!”
Mark says that historically, they’ve bred four or five mares each year but right now have seven or eight. “We have some down in New Mexico for the New Mexico-Bred program, and with racing struggling here in Idaho, we have three in training at Los Alamitos,” he says.
The Browns sell yearlings pretty much every year: sometimes all they raise; sometimes they keep a few to race. But there are times they keep them all to run themselves. Two
of the horses they bred and sold are multiple stakes winner Wild Man Ronnie (Reeds Dash- Ronee Christina) and graded stakes winner
Fast Red Leggs ran out $99,250. “A lot of the good horses we had, we sold at the sales,” says Mark, “so we take a lot of pride in them.”
THEIR TOP RUNNERS
Mark and Peggy name Kissed By An Eagle, Bos On Time, Jess My Kiss, Legendary Dreamer and Timely Delivery among the top all-time horses they’ve run themselves. Graded stakes placed Kissed By An Eagle, by One Famous
Eagle and out of their favorite mare, Dreaming
Of Kisses, by Legendary Dreamer, won the Los Alamitos Juvenile Challenge, and her trials to both the PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity and the Los Alamitos $2 Million Futurity in 2016, finishing the year ranked 47th by wins and 86th by earn- ings, with $140,031. On June 25, 2017, Kissed By An Eagle won the Vandy’s Flash Handicap at Los Alamitos, bringing her total earnings to $153,781.
Bos On Time, by One Sweet Jess and also out of Dreaming Of Kisses, won his trial to the Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity at Los Alamitos and qualified to the Bitterroot, the Challenge Juvenile and the Wild West futurities in 2016.
Jess My Kiss (One Sweet Jess – Dreaming Of Kisses) qualified for the Ed Burke $1 Million Futurity in June 2017 but sadly was bumped twice coming out of the gate in the final.
Timely Delivery (Volcom – One Prompt Chick, Chicks Beduino) won his trial to the Les Bois Juvenile Challenge in 2015, qualified
6 for the Los Alamitos Derby Challenge in 2016
and placed third in his trial to the Los Alamit Winter Championship this year.
“Dreaming Of Kisses could have been our fastest, but she got hurt,” Mark says. “She’s a beautiful black mare, and extremely fast. She
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Kissed By An Eagle
Bos On Time
Jess My Kiss
Legendary Dreamer
Timely Delivery