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Paint racing news
Bringing you the latest news relating to Paint running horses
2018 aPHa claiming Derby
The APHA Claiming Derby, sponsored by Grand Bank, will take place June 23, 2018, as an overnight claiming derby. The first payment of $250 is due April 1; a $250 time of entry pay- ment is also required, with preference to high earners. Contact Karen Utecht for more details.
they’ll be ‘Kissin My Dash’
Here is a chance to own an Oklahoma-bred American Paint Horse and benefit the APHA Claiming Futurity purse at the same time! Kissin My Dash is a 2016 gelding by The Dashing Hero out of Kiss This Chrome. This outstanding gelding is currently in training, has current payments in the Oklahoma Paint
Futurity and PSBA Futurity, and is ready to take you
to the winner’s circle. He is bred and owned by Steve and Tracy Wright of Wright Farms of Coweta, Oklahoma.
Tickets are $500 each, and a minimum of 10 tickets must be sold to complete the raffle, otherwise refunds will be issued.
The gelding will be raffled off at the Heritage Place Winter Mixed Sale January 18–20, 2018. All proceeds will go towards the 2018 APHA Claiming Futurity purse at Fair Meadows Race Track in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
2018 racing Owner Participation Fee
An annual racing participation fee of $25 must be paid by owners of race starters, pay- able by March 1 of the horse’s racing year. A late fee of $100 will be assessed after March 1. Non-payment of this fee will not reflect on a horse’s past performance as records will be kept on all horses; however, if a horse quali- fies for any award they will be ineligible to receive the award until all fees are paid.
All racing year-end awards will be awarded to the owner or lessee on record as of December 31 of the qualifying year given the owner or lessee on record has paid all fees and is a cur- rent member.
nomination Forms
2018 nomination forms can be found on the Paint Racing website at apha.com/ racing/ or visit our Facebook page “APHA Paint Racing.”
Contact APHA for Paint racing related questions
Karen Utecht, Director of Racing racing@apha.com 817-222-6444 • apha.com/racing
speedhorse Photo archive answer
The photo on page 223 shows the #1 all-time leading living sire of money earners Corona Cartel (Holland Ease-Corona Chick, Chicks Beduino), who was owned by Celina Molina and trained by Jaime Gomez, returning to the winner’s circle after scoring a wire-to-wire win
in 1996 Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1 under jockey Eddie Garcia. This stakes race did not reach $2 million until 2011. After the Los Alamitos Million Futurity victory, Gomez told Speedhorse, “There’s definitely something wrong with me as a trainer if a horse can’t win with that type bloodline.” There is certainly nothing wrong with Gomez, who will be inducted into the Ruidoso Hall of Fame 2018 class in June and who is the trainer of Champions Carters Cartel, Higher Fire, Jess You And I, and Secret Card. And, there was certainly nothing wrong with Corona Cartel.
Corona Cartel, a 1994 bay stallion bred by Robert D. Etchandy, raced at two and three years of age. In those two years, he earned $557,142 from a race record of 14-6(3)-3-0. His other stakes victories came in the 1996 Kindergarten Futurity-G2 and 1996 Tiny’s Gay Handicap, and he was also a finalist in the 1997 PCQHRA Breeders’ Derby-G2 and 1997 Vandy’s Flash Handicap-G3.
Corona Cartel did not receive any Champion awards following his stellar 1996 freshman season in which he earned $544,435 winning five of 10 starts and three stakes events. Toast To Dash rightfully took the honors that year with eight wins from nine starts and was named the Champion 2 Year Old and Champion-2-Year-Old Colt after winning the Texas Classic Futurity-G1, Kansas Futurity-G1, Manor Downs Futurity-G1 and Manor Downs Laddie Futurity-G3.
After his career on the track, however, Corona Cartel made his own kind of history when he began stud duty at Lazy E Ranch in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where he has stood his entire stallion career and where he still stands to this day. Corona Cartel is one of only three stallions to pass the $50 million mark in progeny earnings. From 17 crops to race, Corona Cartel is the sire of over $56.7 million in earners. This puts Corona Cartel first on the all-time leading living sire list and second on the all-time sires list behind the legendary First Down Dash. Corona Cartel is the sire of eight Quarter Horse Champions, including 2007 World Champion Blues Girl Too. Corona Cartel is also the broodmare sire of four Champions.
The 1996 Los Alamitos Million Futurity that Corona Cartel won was the second running of this race. The 1995 version was won by Evening Snow. The 2017 Los Alamitos $2 Million Futurity-G1 was won wire-to-wire on Dec. 17 by J Fire Up, who was also trained (and co-owned) by Jaime Gomez.
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