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Construction began on a new $65 million research facility at Colorado State University.
June 3
The 2017 AQHA season at Remington Park concluded, with all leading horsemen titles
going to first-time winners. 2015 Champion Jockey Ricky Ramirez was named leading jockey. Ramirez also scored his 1,000th career Quarter Horse victory during the meet. Trey Wood secured his first Jack Brooks Leading Trainer Award. Terry and Irene Stennett were named leading owners. The track also declared their meet champions: Horse of the Meet and Champion Older Male Zoomin Effortlessly; Champion 2 Year Old was Nymeria; Champion 3-Year-Old Apollitical Scout; Champion Older Female
Time For Wine; Champion Distance Runner Jess A Hilbily Bone; Champion Oklahoma- Bred Bodacious Eagle; Champion Claimer Rarin; Champion Paint Painted Turnpike; and Champion Appaloosa Cant Be Caught.
June 21
Nancy Ellen Smith Graham, 83, passed away. She married Charles Graham, or “Doc” as he is known, in 1956. The Grahams are the owners of Southwest Stallion Station and Graham Land & Cattle Company. Nancy was a teacher and, for 16 years, served as principal of Elgin Elementary School.
The U.S. team won their second consecutive title in the 4th annual World Jockey Challenge at Indiana Grand Racing and Casino on June 24. Accepting for Team USA were Katie Clawson, Berkley Packer, Cheyanna Patrick, James Flores and Rodney Prescott.
June 23
The 2017 Ruidoso Downs Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held June 23 with the newest members being owner Dutch Masters III, jockey James Lackey, trainer Bubba Werner, and equine Heartswideopen. Dutch Masters III is the owner/breeder
of 17 Grade 1 victories including with Champions Four Forty Blast, Secret Card, and Higher Fire. James Lackey won 13 Grade 1 stakes as well as two Champion of Champions victories and including wins aboard Cash Rate and First Down Dash. Trainer Bubba Werner won major Quarter Horse stakes races at seven different tracks, including the All American and El Primero Del Ano derbies. Bred by Kirk Goodfellow and trained by Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame member Carl Draper, Heartswideopen won the 2007 Grade 1 All American and Ruidoso futurities. The mare was the 2007 Champion Two Year Old and Two-Year-Old Filly and the 2008 Champion Three Year Old and Three-Year-Old Filly. Heartswideopen was raced by La Feliz Montana Ranch LLC and is currently in Julianna Hawn Holt’s broodmare band.
June 23
Joe Donovan “Don” Jones passed away at the age of 87. Jones served in the U.S. Air Force before becoming the AQHA executive secretary, a position in which he served from 1968 through 1972.
June 24
The U.S. team won their second consecutive title in the fourth annual World Jockey Challenge at Indiana Grand Racing and Casino on June 24, winning six of 10 races to lead the way with 72 points. Jockeys adding wins to Team USA’s tally included DeShawn Parker, Cheyanna Patrick, Tommy Pompell, James Flores and Rodney Prescott. Team Mexico came in second with 69 points.
June 26
Gold Daze (Tolltac-Dashes Gold Digger, Dash For Cash) died after failing to recover from colic. Bred by Robert Moore, the 1994 mare earned $53,274, finished second or third in seven stakes events for owner Ray Stutts and trainer Don Poteet. Purchased in 2000 by Double Bar S Ranch LLC, Gold Daze produced 12 winners and the earners
of over $2.1 million, including 4-time Champion Jess You And I. Gold Daze had a yearling filly and a weanling colt, both by Mr Jess Perry.
June 28
AQHA Past President Jim Shoemake passed away after a battle with leukemia. Shoemake was a national director with the AQHA, joined the AQHA Executive Committee in 1998, and the presidency in 2002-2003. After serving as AQHA President, Shoemake served as a chairman of the American Horse Council Board and was later elected as Trustee Emeritus and continued to serve
the AQHA as a member of the finance and investment oversight committees. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2008.
June 29
Donald Dan Dailey, 82, passed away following complications from heart bypass surgery. Dailey raised and trained horses
his entire life, and stood such horses as Jet Of Honor, Johnny Boone, Mr Spotted Bull ApHC, No Compromises, Rakin In The Cash, and Whirling Fastball. At nearly 80 years of age, he and a partner won the Old Timers Heading and Heeling competition at the Lazy E Ranch.
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