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“I think they are going to be pretty popular (this year),” McCormick added. “I’m looking for more of an impact, not necessarily this year, but the year after. There was a change
in ownership and management, and he got significantly better mares this year, and a better quality. I think he is going to be a very good cross on the Corona Cartel line, the Tres Seis and the First Down Dash (lines).”
One Famous Icon stood the 2022 breeding season for $2,000 at Copper Ridge Equine in Phoenix, Arizona.
RIP TIDE
(Corona Cartel-Little Surfer, First Down Dash)
Stands at Tate Farms
2022 fee: $2,000
Rip Tide, a stakes-winning full brother to 2019 Rainbow Futurity-G1 winner and 2-time Champion Uncle D, is a son of Corona Cartel. All told, Rip Tide won six of 20 lifetime starts and placed in 10 others, amassing earnings of $123,283. He captured the Par-A-Dice Stakes at Delta Downs as a 6 year old, completing 330 yards in a brisk :16.362, just missing the track record while earning a 107 speed index. He was second in the Mr Jess Perry Derby at three, and second in the Esplanade Stakes at six, and was
a finalist in the Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1 and the Vessels Maturity-G1.
By Corona Cartel, the sire of multiple Champions, Rip Tide hails from a strong female family. His dam is the stakes-winning and New Track Record-setting First Down Dash mare Little Surfer, a sister to Champion Ocean Runaway, World Champion Wave Carver, stakes winners Wave Her Down, Trisk, and Aquafina, and to stakes-placed Sir Runaway Dash—also a successful sire—Bring The Bling, and Seaside.
Little Surfer is the dam of 16 winners
from 21 starters. In addition to Rip Tide,
she has also produced Champion 2 Year Old & Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Uncle D and graded stakes-placed Call Me Cole, third in the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1. Rip Tide’s second dam is Runaway Wave, an AQHA Broodmare of the Year and the dam of 30 winners and a pair of Champions in Ocean Runaway and Wave Carver.
Stephen Tate of Tate Farms has been impressed with Rip Tide’s first crop, saying, “With a lot of stallions, you look at 30 babies and you will find three or four really good ones, a few others that are good, and the rest are just average, but with this horse, I think, he mostly has really good ones. I’ve got quite a few that I like a bunch. They definitely look a lot like him. They are gray like him, they have big shoulders on them, and they are all really nice, very athletic babies.
“The first year, in my opinion, is the most important,” Tate noted of the importance of a stallion’s first yearlings being well received by the market. “He was bred to a bunch of good mares, and he has nice babies. I think they are going to do very well.”
Rip Tide stood the 2022 breeding season for $2,000 at Tate Farms in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
TARZANITO
(Favorite Cartel-Ancient Empress, Stoli) Stands at Robicheaux Ranch Inc.
2022 fee: $3,500
Bred in California by Patricia Visscher, Tarzanito won or placed in 18 of 26 career starts, earning $429,657 in a stellar racing career. He was named the AQHA Racing Champion Aged Stallion in 2018, following a season that saw him win the Go Man Go Handicap-G1 and place in three other Grade 1 events. He also won the Sgt. Pepper Feature Handicap and finished second
in the Golden State Million Futurity-G1 and Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1 and third in the Vessels Maturity-G1, Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1, Spencer Childers California Breeders’ Championship-RG1, Cypress Handicap and A Ransom Handicap.
A son of perennial leading sire Favorite Cartel, Tarzanito is the top horse for his dam, Ancient Empress, a winning daughter of Stoli. His second dam is the multiple Grade 1-finalist Streakin Millie, a sister to stakes winner Dashing Millie and stakes-placed The Pharo.
“We’re very excited about him and his first yearlings,” said Ryan Robicheaux of Robicheaux Ranch. “You’re always excited about the first crop of a young sire. You want to see what the babies look like when they are born and what they are going to grow up and be as yearlings. So, far we’re very pleased. I think his yearlings are going to get a lot of recognition at the upcoming sales.
“His yearlings are very leggy,” Robicheaux continued. “He is throwing that Favorite Cartel height, but he has passed on the body that we hoped he would as well. He is a massive horse, but there is a lot of air underneath him. It looks like he is throwing that on his foals; they all have very good bodies. It looks like they will go down the track.”
As far as what the future holds for Tarzanito, Robicheaux said, “He is doing everything we thought and hoped he would. There are always two things a freshman stallion needs to do: He needs to be bred to a great book of mares and have his weanlings grow up into nice yearlings. He has checked off those boxes so far, and now, they just need to run well in 2023. We’re excited.”
Tarzanito stood the 2022 season at Robicheaux Ranch in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana for $3,500.
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