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Lake View Dreams, shown above winning the 2009 Kool Kue Baby Handicap, was the first stakes winner for the Colemans.
Lake View Dreams produced:
ESTABLISHING THEIR OPERATION
Randy and Sandy started out on their racehorse odyssey in 2005 when they approached Randy’s college friend, Blane Wood, about finding them a runner. Although Blane tried to discourage them at first, a few months later he found them 5-year-old 870-yard claimer Strawfly Saga. “We had more fun running that old claimer,” Randy says. “We never won with him, but he could run second to a good horse.
“We ran him for a year and I noticed, after watching Blane’s training operation, that the owners who were consistently winning were those who had bred their own horses. I told Blane that’s what we wanted to do, but we didn’t have the world’s largest budget. So, we went to the New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso with the intention of finding a mare we could buy with the money Strawfly Saga sold for.”
They bought one that they thought was pretty nice, and toward the end of the sale, Blane liked another one that was selling for nearly nothing so they bought her, too. The one they bought first didn’t end up doing much, and the other one qualified for the sale futurity. That same year at the Ruidoso Select Sale, Randy bought Runaway Romance (Special Leader– Runaway Flair, Runaway Winner) for Sandy as a birthday present, and she placed second in the West Texas Futurity-G1 in 2007.
“I’ve loved dearly four horses in my lifetime, and Runaway Romance was a true romance
for me,” Sandy says. “She did really well for us; she was our first black-type mare, she ran out a good amount of money and also produced good babies: Run With The Eagle (by One Famous Eagle), who qualified for the Rainbow Derby; and Runaway Renata (by Carters Cartel), who
qualified for the Oklahoma Bred Futurity. One mare did not run. Both of her fillies have produced winners.”
The next year they bought Lake View Dreams (Granite Lake–Runatac, Sixarun), their first
and only — so far — stakes winner in the 2009 Kool Kue Baby Handicap at Lone Star Park and the mare they consider their all-time best. “She qualified for so many big races and she’s such a good producer,” Sandy says. “All of her babies have tried to run. We haven’t had a Grade 1 winner out of her, but we’ve had a lot of qualifiers from her. She’s the queen here. She throws a lot of size and a lot of heart in her babies.”
In 2014, Lake View Dreams produced Ms Maggie May (by One Famous Eagle), who was the fastest qualifier for the 2016 Ruidoso Futurity out of 300-plus horses.
In 2015, the mare produced Cartel Cupid (by Corona Cartel). The gelding earned $212,795, winning his trials for the Rainbow, All American and Texas Classic futurities and the Ruidoso and Dash For Cash derbies. He finished fifth in the Grade 1 Texas Classic Futurity and second in the Grade 1 Ruidoso Derby, and this year, was a finalist in the Grade 1 Remington Park Invitational Championship. “He was the sweetest, kindest horse, but it
came time to sell him,” Sandy says. “That’s the hard part of this business: You love them, but you have to let them go some time. That’s the business and you’ve got to keep your eye on that eight-ball to keep it all going.”
Their broodmare band includes Folly Del Rey (PYC Paint Your Wagon–Disco Del Rey, Disco Jerry), a multiple stakes placed mare who earned $160,319 with two wins, three seconds and one third in 10 starts over two years. “She’s
Ms Maggie May (by One Famous Eagle), who was the fastest qualifier for the 2016 Ruidoso Futurity out of 300-plus horses.
Graded stakes placed Cartel Cupid, shown winning his Ruidoso Derby trial.
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