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Among Cross Triangle Ranch royalty is 3-time Champion Corona Chick (below left). Julianna purchased the 1989 mare as a 4-in-1 package with King Corona at her side (center) and in foal with Katy Corona (right) and Corona Cool Cat.
King Corona sold for $500,000 as a yearling. Julianna’s ÿrst big seller helped make the ranch a stand out at the sales.
Katy Corona was the $300,000 high seller at the 2007 Heritage Place Winter Mixed Sale.
Corona Chick is the #2 all-time leading dam, including:
• Coco Corona (by First Down Dash), a stakes placed mare who was a finalist in the Rainbow F.-G1 and Ruidoso D.-G1
• Valiant Hero (by First Down Dash), who tallied $668,633 while winning the Dash For Cash Juv. Invit., Texas Classic F.- G1 and Heritage Place D.-G2; finishing 1/2-length out of first in the Rainbow D.-G1; and qualifying to the All American D.-G1
• Captain Courage (by Mr Jess Perry), earner of $213,251 and qualifier to both the All American F.-G1 and All American D.-G1
• Mighty Corona (by First Down Dash) ranked 20th by earnings in 2008 with $309,216, qualifying to the All American F.-G1 and running second in the Texas Classic F.-G1
• A Dash Of Sweet Heat (by Mr Jess Perry), who brought $650,000 as the high-selling yearling
at the 2011 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale and whom Julianna bought back from the Zetas IRS auction for the Cross Triangle’s broodmare band
• Lovely Corona Chick, also a member of the Cross Triangle broodmare band, and Corona Chick’s final foal
“Work hard and good things happen.”
Top Texas Ranger, winner of the
1988 Graham Farms Futurity-G3, was Julianna’s ÿrst stakes winner as an owner/ breeder. She counts the gelding as one of her all-time best horses.
FOLLOWING HER HEART
While at the Gonzales Ranch, Julianna purchased three mares at the Oklahoma Sale when it was owned by Dale Robertson. “I’ve always loved a fast horse,” she says, “so I decided I would try raising a competitive racehorse.
“I bred the mare Doin’ Flipflops to Mr Crimson Ruler when he was owned by Miss Marion of the 6666s and by B.F. Phillips.” The breeding produced Top Texas Ranger — her first stakes-winning horse as an owner and a breeder — whom Julianna counts among her all-time best, in 1986.
Also among ranch royalty, and the horse that put Julianna and the Cross Triangle on the map as top breeders, was Corona Chick, 1991 Champion 2 Year Old and Champion 2-Year-Old Filly, 1992 Champion 3 Year Old, and 1997 Champion Broodmare of the Year. Julianna bought the earner of $591,326 in 2001 as a four-in-one package: Corona Chick with King Corona (by Holland Ease) by her side and in foal with Katy Corona
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