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When Rose Bug was bred to Dash For Cash, she produced a race winning mare named Dashin Rosie. This mare was the dam of Run The Dash, the dam of 2007 World Champion Blues Girl Too. Thus, Diamond Spoon came from one of the great female families to become Danny Joe Miller’s blue hen mare.
Diamond Spoon was bred by John Collville, the owner of Tiny’s Gay. She earned an 84 speed index with eight starts, one second and one third earning $850. She was purchased in 1990 by Miller for $5,000 on the stipulation that she was bred back to Cameronian.
The produce record for Diamond Spoon shows that she had 16 foals with 13 starters, 12 winners/ROM with four stakes winners and one stakes placed runner with earners of $353,802. Her first stakes winner, Diamond Cam by Cameronian, won the 1991 Austin Futurity and was a finalist in the 1991 Bandera Downs Futurity-G2 and 1991 Longhorn Futurity-G3. He earned $24,853 on the track.
Diamond Spoon produced a total of four foals by Cameronian and they all earned their ROM. The first was Just Add Oats, who not only earned his ROM, but became a Superior race horse. He had five wins and earnings
of $26,953. Diamond Spoon’s next foal was born in 1989 - stakes winner Diamond Cam.
Dashing Cameo, the filly at her side when Miller bought Diamond Spoon in 1990, was a 3-time race winner. She was sold in 1993 and went on to produce Ok Jodys Dasher, a 4-time stakes winner including the 2002 Manor Downs Maturity-G3 and who had a bankroll of $88,998.
The fourth foal from the cross of Diamond Spoon and Cameronian was Diamond For Leigh, a stakes placed runner who was third
in the 1994 Gulf Coast Stakes and a finalist in the 1993 Manor Downs Futurity-G2.
Cameronian is a 3-time race winner of 16 races and $21,366. He sired six foal crops with 157 foals and 97 starters that have earned 61 ROM, including two stakes winners and six stakes placed runners with combined earnings of $640,875. His stakes winners were Diamond Cam and DD Pass Em, winner of the 1995 Space City Stakes. Leading money earner, Cam Goes Native, is a stakes placed runner with three seconds including the Head Pin Handicap in 2001 and 2002. He earned $87,429.
The daughters of Cameronian produced 236 foals with 85 starters, 61 ROM, six stakes winners, three stakes placed runners and earnings of $1,233,796. The leading money earner, Sassys Tuffy, a winner of $255,930, made the finals of 16 stakes races with two stakes wins and four thirds. His big win was the 2008 Texas Championship Challenge-G1.
The sire of Cameronian is Dash For Cash, who allows us to recall an interesting observation
about why Miller used Cameronian. “I felt
I was doing the right thing when I went to Cameronian and he was what I wanted.” He stated. “Everybody has their favorite bloodlines. There are bloodlines that some guys love and have had success with, but I didn’t. I put First Down Dash and Dash For Cash in my babies. They are so smart. They are intelligent athletes that will do just about anything. I have had Dash For Cash geldings here that I rode. I have taken them off the track and sent them to a roping trainer and in thirty days they are roping on them. The trainer said they are the smartest horses they have ever ridden.”
The other two stakes winners produced by Diamond Spoon include 1999 All American Futurity Consolation winner Takin On Spoon Man. This 1997 son of Takin On The Cash earned $219,508 and qualified for 13 stakes races, with three wins, three seconds and three thirds. He won the 2003 Go Man Go Handicap-G1 and the 2003 Laguna Hills Handicap and was second or third in four more 2003 stakes including a third in
the Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1. His 2003 racing season netted him the California Hi-Point Aged Stallion title.
Diamond Spoon’s other stakes winner was her 1999 foal Spoon Crest by Holland Ease. This gelding had 26 starts, with five wins,
eight seconds and five thirds, earning $24,164. He won the 2002 Santa Cruz County Derby, was second in the Robert Heubeck Memorial Handicap, fifth in the AQRA Turf Paradise Derby-G3, and was the 2002 AQHA Racing West/Southwest High Point 3-Year-Old Gelding.
The path to continued development of the Miller breeding program came through mares that he retained for the broodmare band.
He concentrated on good mares developing the next generation of mares from Diamond Spoon. One of those mares out of Diamond Spoon was Diamond For Leigh. Diamond For Leigh produced only six foals before her untimely death due to illness that included three ROM runners and one stakes placed runner. Her progeny earned $110,726.
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