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RYLEES BOY si 121, $1,321,166, 2-Ntr’s
Champion Aged Horse, Champion Aged Gelding
Heza Fast Man
Heza Motor Scooter
Hot Tin Lizzie
The Signature
Fast Copy
Ronas Ryon
Air Mail Express
Noholme II TB
Mable Chick Too
Fast Jet
Can’t Copy
Windy Ryon
Rona Bar
Dash For Cash
Miss Air Mail
Top Moon
Pan O Lan
Jet Deck
Rocket Venture
Easy Jet
Rebel Cider
Senator Bob
Ladyalexanderthatche
Star Kingdom Oceana Moolah Bux TB Mable Chick Jet Deck
Miss Breeze Bar Duplicate Copy Can’t Catch It Go Man Go Silent Light Three Bargains Sand Juana Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Ichibon Romabar
Moon Deck
Rica Bar
Lanolark TB
Hank’s Panita
Moon Deck
Miss Night Bar Rocket Bar TB
Lady Venture
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB
Bright Rebel
Cider Louise
Flying Bob
Carrie Delahoussaye H Alexander Border Singing Girl TB
Stardust Impromptu Colombu
Orama Mahmoud Anchors Ahead Triple Chick
Wild Mable X. TB Moon Deck
Miss Night Bar Breeze Bar Clampitt TB
Go Man Go Triple Lady Piggin String TB Spunky Gal
Top Deck TB Lightfoot Six Dividend
Lantana Belle TB Three Bars TB Little Marina Adams Sanddrift
Bama Paprika Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go To Market Hide And Seek Nashville TB Fiddled Out Three Bars TB Josephine R
Top Moon Moonlight Night Barred
Caprica
Alate
Frank’s Lark Tonto Bars Hank Panita D
Top Deck TB Moonlight Night Barred
Belle Of Midnight Three Bars Golden Rocket Johnny Dial Chicaro Stop Moon Deck
Miss Night Bar Three Bars
Lena Valenti Rebel Cause
Me Bright Saipan Kid
Cider Bow Chicaro TB Unknown Mare Doc Horn TB Babby
Lobo 1
Mare by Rialto General Thatcher Glow
RYLEES BOY, ‘05 g.
Moon Lark
Pipistrelle
Rocky Jones
Josie Gun
Jet Venture
Optimax
Senators Cyclone
Breeder: Gary Nesbitt
Owner: Lorena Velazquez Rodriguez Trainers: Paul Jones and Gerardo Ochoa-Pena Jockeys: Ramon Sanchez and Joe Ruiz
2012 Record: 7-4(3)-1(1)-0(0), $609,685, 1st
Champion Of Champions-G1, 1st Bank Of America Challenge Championship-G1, 1st Bank Of America Sunland Championship Challenge-G2, 2nd KOFX-FM Stakes-G3, 6th Remington Park Invitational-G1, 10th Go Man Go Handicap-G1
It isn’t always easy to pick up a horse in the middle of the season—especially a good horse. The pressure is high to keep the horse
performing at the same level, and when that level is in Grade 1 company, the stakes are even higher. Such was the case with Rylees Boy, who transferred to trainer Paul Jones’ barn midway through his 2012 campaign.
The now 7-year-old gelding had already earned one championship title—2011 Champion Aged Gelding—and he was on track to be a serious contender for another in 2012 if he could finish the year strong.
He did just that.
Rylees Boy started his season at Sunland Park, finishing second in the KOFX-FM Stakes-G3 and then winning a trial and
the final of the Bank Of America Sunland Championship Challenge-G2. He made one start at Remington Park, finishing sixth in the Remington Park Invitational Championship-G1, before moving to Jones’ barn at Los Alamitos.
Rylees Boy’s first start for Jones was a throwaway race, as the gelding was bumped repeatedly and forced to check in the Go Man Go Handicap-G1, finishing last. Counting on the veteran runner to rebound, Jones hauled him to Prairie Meadows in Iowa for the AQHA Challenge Championships, where Rylees Boy won the Grade 1 Bank Of America Challenge Championship. That win gave Rylees Boy a berth to the Champion Of Champions-G1, fulfilling owner Lorena Valezquez Rodriguez’s dream of running in that race, and taking it one step further with a late-charging victory in the older horse classic.
“Rylees Boy has been a big thrill to have
in the barn. He’s the first horse at age 7 to win the Champion Of Champions. He’s just
a great horse,” said Paul Jones. “Our goal will be to try to get him back in the Champion Of Champions again for 2013. It’s amazing that a horse his age can keep doing what he’s doing. It’s really a pleasure as a trainer to have this kind of horse in my barn.”
Rylees Boy and Ramon Sanchez are up late to win the $750,000 Grade 1 Champion of Champions.
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