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bad, and we didn’t want her suffering any more, so we put her to sleep. She got to where she couldn’t even hardly walk,” Wootan said of Annie Eye Over, who was gone at the young age of 12. “Most of her success has come after she was gone.”
THE LEGACY LIVES ON
Annie Eye Over has a total of five foals running in 2012, including Llano Teller,
who won the Bank of America Remington Championship Challenge-G2 and is now quali- fied for the Bank of America AQHA Challenge Championship-G1 at Prairie Meadows.
Her legacy also continues through her daughters, several of which are current mem- bers of Wootan’s broodmare band.
“I’ve got three of her daughters. I’ve got all of her daughters except Little Annie Eye Over,” Wootan said. “Eyesa Lil Cuervo pro- duced Llano Cartel, who was second in the Remington Park Juvenile. He bucked in the time trials (to the Remington Park Futurity). He had the seventh fastest time the first night and bucked, and they qualified five. We run him back, still a stallion, and he run second.”
Llano Cartel was gelded shortly after the Remington Park Juvenile, and recently
competed in the trials to the Ruidoso Futurity-G1. Stumbling badly at the start, Llano Cartel was bumped off stride and still recovered to challenge in a blanket finish. While he did not qualify for the finals, his impressive run bodes well for future efforts.
“He’s a little bitty horse,” Wootan said of Llano Cartel. “He’s not as big as Llano (Teller), and Llano isn’t that big.”
While they may not be big in stature, Annie Eye Over’s descendents are definitely big in performance and big in speed—two of the marks of a great broodmare, and the 2011 Speedhorse Broodmare of the Year.
Eyesa Lil Cuervo, by Lil Bit Cuervo, was Annie Eye Over’s first stakes winner.
One of Llano Teller’s major 2011 wins came in the All American Derby-G1, where he defeated eventual World Champion Cold Cash 123.
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