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the beginning of a sire career that mirrors the success of his race career.
Go Man Go sired 942 foals, 778 race starters, 552 ROM, 83 stakes winners and 63 stakes placed foals with combined earnings over $7.5 million. He sired seven Champions that won 19 Championships. The daughters of Go Man Go produced 3,283 foals with 2,213 starters that earned 1,421 ROM, including 107 stakes winners and 141 stakes placed runners. Go Man Go is the maternal grandsire of five Champions that have won 18 Championships with combined earnings over $17.9 million.
The sire record of Go Man Go shows that he was successful from the beginning. He sired his first 11 foals in 1958 after serving his first mares in 1957, the year he won his third World Champion title. From this crop, he sired eight ROM, including one stakes winner and two stakes placed runners.
Dynago Miss, his first stakes winner, was out of Dynaflo Miss by Red Miller. Dynago Miss won five of her 18 starts, including the Ruidoso Futurity. She also ran sixth in the 1960 All American Futurity. Dynago Miss retired to the broodmare band and produced four ROM, including leading money earner Mr Easy Go, a stakes placed runner who was second in the Raton Futurity.
One of Go Man Go’s stakes placed runners from his 1958 crop was Mr Meyers out of Miss Meyers by Leo. This colt placed third in four stakes races, including the Colorado Wonderland Handicap and the Inaugural Handicap. He also made the finals of the 1960 All American Futurity, finishing fifth just ahead of Dynago Miss. Mr Meyers earned 12 AQHA halter points to garner an AQHA Championship.
Mr Meyers became a million-dollar sire with earnings of over $1.2 million. His leading money earner is Jet Deep out of Three Deep by Depth Charge TB. Three Deep is out of Myrna Three by Three Bars TB. Three Deep was also a finalist in the 1960 All American Futurity, running second behind Tonto Bars Hank.
Race winner Angie Miss, by Go Man Go, also made the finals of the 1960 All American Futurity giving her sire three finalists in this futurity from his first foal crop. Angie Miss
is out of Johnny Angel by John Red. Angie Miss is the dam of 12-time Champion Kaweah Bar, including the 1968 and 1970 World Championship titles.
Go Man Go didn’t produce any registered foals in 1959, but came back in 1960 with four stakes horses, including 1962 All American Futurity winner Hustling Man. The colt also won the 1962 Los Alamitos Thanksgiving Stakes and the 1963 South Texas Derby.
Go Man Go had three runners from his first foal crop compete in the 1960 All American Futurity. They are Dynago Miss, Mr Meyers and Angie Miss.
Angie Miss, from Go Man Go’s first foal crop, is the
dam of 2-time World Champion/10-time Champion Mr Meyers was 5th in the 1960 All American Kaweah Bar, shown here with then trainer
Futurity and also earned 12 Halter points. Bob Arnett (left) and owner A. B. Boney Jr. (right).
Jet Deep (above) is the leading money earner by Mr Meyers. Jet Deep is out of Three Deep, who also competed in the 1960 All American Futurity and was 2nd to Tonto Bars Hank and ahead of Jet Deep’s sire, Mr Meyers.
bad habit in his races. One of the races that showcased this issue was the time Roan Man beat Go Man Go. He remembered the race this way. “They brought him back out here (to Los Alamitos) and Clabber’s Win beat him once or twice, and Roan Man beat him once by accident. You see, as a two year old he was kind of a bad horse. He wasn’t really bad, but he’d kind of act up in the gate. He’d just stand there and let them other colts break. And then he’d just run down there like he wanted to and he would run straight, until that time he got hemmed in. After that, he would bolt to the outside, especially if you hit him.
“Well before the race with Roan Man, they called me in and told me I’d better keep him straight, or else. So, I tried to keep him
straight, and when I decided he was running straight so I could really get after him, it was too late. Roan Man beat us by a neck. But then he went on to the Championship and he just won it like he wanted to,” explained Strauss about this erratic behavior in some of his races. Go Man Go maintained his Championship form and continued his winning ways.
Despite his erratic behavior, the race record of Go Man Go shows us his tenacity to compete and perform at high levels, as he raced from age two to six winning eight division and World Championship titles. During his race career, however, he started a second career as a sire before he left the track. His visit to the breeding shed marks
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