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Celina Molina made her dream to become a racehorse owner come true when she fell in love with and purchased Corona Cartel as a yearling at the 1995 Vessels/Schvaneveldt Sale for $42,000.
Carters Cartel ($1,432,963) at #22; and Foose ($1,217,470) at #25. These stallions represent the Corona Cartel branch of the Three Bars sire line and are only a part of stallions that are members of this sire line.
Corona Cartel has earned his place in sire line history by working his way to be the #2 all-time leading sire of money earners with over $57 million earned. He is not only in second place, but he is the #1 leading living sire of money earners. A review of the life and pedigree of Corona Cartel will show us some of the factors that came together for his success as a sire and now a sire of sires.
Corona Cartel was bred by Robert Etchandy and purchased as a yearling by Celina Molina at the Vessels/Schvaneveldt Sale in 1995. He was the dream horse for Celina Molina, a young lady and mother whose dream was to have a racehorse.
Celina had run across the colt in a magazine ad, and she told her brother that she wanted to buy him and race him. She had fallen in love with the colt and he was the horse she wanted and no other horse would do. Against the advice of family members, she bought the colt
anyway. Molina paid $42,000, making her a first-time owner of a racehorse that would become a legend in Quarter Horse racing.
Corona Cartel was turned
over to trainer Jaime Gomez to begin
what became a successful race career, with
his major wins coming at two. He won his maiden in April of 1996, but was disqualified from first to fifth. Corona Cartel came back to win his trial and final of the Kindergarten Futurity-G2. His next stakes win came in
the Tiny’s Gay Handicap in November. The colt then won his trial and final of the Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1 in December. He had ten starts with five wins at two and three stakes wins with earnings of $544,435.
The three year old race record of Corona Cartel was short, with four starts that began in July and included a fifth in the Vandy’s Flash Handicap and a second in an allowance in August. He got his only win in the trials of the PCQHRA Breeders’ Derby-G2, but finished fourth in the finals. He came out of the Derby with an injury and was eventually retired to stand at stud at the Lazy E Ranch in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where he stands today.
THE PEDIGREE
The pedigree of Corona Cartel has the distinction of being the combination of two horses that were competitors. His sire Holland Ease and his dam Corona Chick were both foaled in 1989 and they faced off on the track several times through their careers.
Holland Ease, bred and raced by Dutch Masters III, ran 27 races from 1991 to 1993 with six wins, seven seconds and eight thirds. He earned $361,227. He made 14 of his starts at two with four wins. He counted among his wins his maiden in June at Bay Meadows and an All American Futurity trial, qualifying for the big race. He ran sixth in the All American Futurity-G1. Holland Ease qualified third in his trial for the Kindergarten Futurity behind the winner Corona Chick. The colt then ran second in the Kindergarten Futurity-G2 just
Corona Cartel is the #1 all-time leading living sire of money earners with over $57 million and the
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