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PF CHIeF RunnIn BeaR
si 98, $143,374
World Champion Running Paint, Champion Running aged Horse, Champion Running aged Gelding
First Down Dash Okey Dokey Dale QH
Dash For Cash First Prize Rose Zevi TB
Mayolas Doll Baby Raja Baby
Roman Rockette Hempen TB Western Music
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug Cornish Prince Spire
Mighty Deck Mayola’s Pride Raja Baba Renova Proudest Roman Kitchen Window Indian Hemp Serry
Easy Jet QH Indian Music
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat Royal Charge Binky Bar
Dash For Cash Really Rapid Chick’s Deck Gloria Moon Easy Jet
Etta Leo Rigadoon TB Queen Omphale
Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go To Market Hide And Seek Jet Deck
Leo Jewel
Lady Bug’s Moon Casco Rose
Bold Ruler
Teleran
Carry Back Torrecilla
Top Deck TB Leolina
Royal Charge Mayola Bar
Bold Ruler
Missy Baba Reneged
Nova Cain
Never Bend
Roman Song
Dead Ahead
Sally Heather Nasrullah
Sasby
Spy Song
Santa Roseanna Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB
Tonto Bars Hank QH Soft Music
Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go To Market Hide And Seek Jet Deck
Leo Jewel
Lady Bug’s Moon Casco Rose
Grey Sovereign Romany Belle Rejected
Quick Eye
Depth Charge TB Shue Fly
Sugar Mint Dexter’s Fancy Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Go Man Go Rapid Volley Three Chicks Decketta
Top Moon
Be Good Gloria Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB Leo
Bandette Turn-To
Nut Brown Maid Gold Bailey Boy Gold Ruby Bar
Grand Point
Yes It Is
Okeydokey Baby
Is It True TB
Reba Mcintyre
PF CHIEF RUNNIN BEAR, ‘06-g.
Dash For Cash
First Down Dash
Dashing Cleat
Beduina
First Prize Rose Beduino TB Binky Royal
By Yawl Chicory Gin Heavy Weight Riga Queen
SC Running Cloud QH
Zenginner
Dash Of Gin
Queen Zenobia
Breeder: Randy Davis
Owners: Sherry Koltiska and Lynn and
Betty Bettinger
2011 Record: 7-5(3)-0(0)-1(0),
$51,871, 1st Lewis Wartchow Memorial Stakes-G1, Olympia Joe Handicap-G1, Colors Of The Wind Stakes; 4th Mr Lewie Memorial Handicap-G1
It’s hard enough to win one World Championship. To do it twice is an amazing accomplishment, yet that’s exactly what PF
Chief Runnin Bear did in 2011. The gelding, who was named World Champion in 2009 as a 3-year-old, overcame a troubled year in 2010 to return nearly perfect in 2011.
“He really shined as a 3-year-old...that was his first World Championship. We brought him back for his 4-year-old year and he just wasn’t performing,” said Brande Koltiska, whose mother, Sherry, owns PF Chief Runnin Bear in partnership with Lynn and Betty Bettinger. “We were worried. He’d get out there and run about 100 yards and he’d just kind of stop. We decided he was a World Champion the year before, and he didn’t really owe us anything. We just needed to give him the rest. We turned him out and it worked.”
PF Chief Runnin Bear returned nearly perfect in 2011, finishing third and fourth in his first two starts before going on a five-race winning streak and setting two track records for trainers Judd Kearl and Leslie Padilla. His accomplishments are blessing to his owners, who bought him as a long yearling to “have some fun” and take advantage of the good purses for Paint racing in Oklahoma.
“It’s funny because Lynn and my mom and Betty talk almost every day on the phone,” said Koltiska. “It’s not just about the horse anymore. It’s a long lasting friendship now.
“It’s a blessing, really,” she continued. “Not just the joy he has brought to us, but to all of our family. Anybody who is around him falls in love with him. He’s such a ham. He doesn’t act like a racehorse. You can send kids into his stall and they wrap their arms around him, he’s so gentle. At racetime, he turns into something totally different.”
What PF Chief Runnin Bear has turned into is a two-time World Champion who will be looking for a three-peat in 2012. According to Koltiska, PF Chief Runnin Bear is getting ready for the upcoming meet at Remington Park, where he will begin to defend his 2011 World Championship crown.
PC Chief Runnin Bear’s five-race winning streak included the Colors Of The Wind Stakes at Retama Park.
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