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Annie Eye Over
Mr Eye Opener
Dash For Cash
Rocket Wrangler
Rocket Bar TB
Go Galla Go
Find A Buyer TB
To Market
Hide And Seek
Bedawee
Beduino Tb
Romany Royal
Jo-Ann-Cat
Ought To Go
Go Man Go
Do Good Bam
Six Gun Annie
Sixarun
Streakin Six
Easy Six
Miss Assured
Chickarun
Chick’s Deck
Ida Run
Easy Carrie Ann
Easy Jet
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB
No Compromise
Moolah Bux TB
Gary Jones
You never know where a great broodmare
is going to come from. Sometimes, it is a mare that had a phenomenal career on the race- track, winning stakes race after stakes race and earning championship titles. Other times, it is a mare that never won a race but has a fabulous pedigree behind her, giving her genes for speed that she then passes down to her foals. Or, it could be a mare that is just kind of average— she raced, but not with any kind of notoriety, and has a nice female family behind her.
The latter could be said of 2011 Speedhorse Broodmare of the Year Annie Eye Over.
While she showed great potential as a yearling and 2-year-old, circumstances led her to the winner’s circle only once, and not in stakes company. And while she has some black-type in her pedigree, her maternal family isn’t full of champions. She’s just a nice mare. A nice mare that developed into one whale of a broodmare, and the dam of one of the industry’s current leading aged geldings, Llano Teller.
THE RACEMARE
“I bought (Annie Eye Over) after she had been in training for a little bit from some guys from Lubbock, Texas,” said Terry Wootan.
“I read it in Speedhorse that she was for sale. She was at Sunland, and we flew up there and looked at her, my trainer and I. We thought she was a good individual and we bought her. That was the third horse I’d ever owned.”
The year was 1999. Wootan kept the then 2-year-old filly in training in preparation for the summer meet at Ruidoso Downs.
“She looked really good at Ruidoso. Her first work they didn’t give her Lasix, and she bled real bad. She still had the bullet work of the day. Time wise, we worked her 330 and it would have broke the track record. She didn’t get over bleeding that bad; she didn’t run very good at Ruidoso.”
Annie Eye Over made her first start on June 4, 1999, in a 330-yard maiden race. She finished eighth that day, beaten 3 1/4 lengths while clocking :18.010. She made her next start a month later, on July 8, 1999, in a 400-yard futurity trial. The results were even worse—a ninth-place finish, beaten 7 3/4 lengths. Those two starts made up the entirety of Annie Eye Over’s 2-year-old racing season.
Wootan still had high hopes for the
filly, and had her ready for the 2000 Manor Downs meet in Texas. Making her first start as a 3-year-old, Annie Eye Over broke her maiden by a head in a 350-yard maiden race on February 13, 2000. Two weeks later, she ran sixth in an allowance in what would be the final start of her short career.
“She showed a lot of talent, then she hurt something in her shoulder. That’s why we retired her,” Wooten explained. “I took her right off the track and to Granada Farms and bred her that year and she was a broodmare from then on.”
Annie Eye Over left the racetrack with one win in four starts, earnings of $1,200, and a register of merit. Circumstances may have pre- vented her from reaching her full potential on the racetrack, but Wootan still had faith in her as an individual and as a young broodmare.
THE BROODMARE
Annie Eye Over went to Granada Farms to be breed to Streakin La Jolla. The resulting foal was Eyesa Streakin, a 2001 gelding that won two races as a 2- and 3-year-old. He finished in the top three in six of 15 starts, earning $8,402. It wasn’t a bad start for the young broodmare.
The next year’s foal should have been just as promising, as it was sired by leading sire Corona Cartel. Unfortunately, a bit of bad luck hit, and Annie Eye Over’s Corona Cartel colt died before he was even registered.
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Gene Wilson & Associates
Annie Eye Over was a well-built mare who passed on her large chest and big hip to her foals.
Gene Wilson & Associates
Annie Eye Over broke her maiden at Manor Downs as a 3-year-old.