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° Our War Hero—2017, by Valiant Hero. Multiple stakes placed, the gelding ran third in his Jim Bader Futurity trial, the Cyclone Derby,
and his trial and the final for the Polk County Derby, all at Prairie Meadows.
and the final for the Black Gold Lassies Championship Futurity at Will Rogers Downs. She ran second in her Rainbow Oaks trial, finishing the Rainbow Oaks final fourth at Ruidoso. And she ran third in her Heritage Place Derby trial and in the Junos Request Stakes G1 at Remington Park. She was named Prairie Meadows’ Champion 2-Year-Old. “I won’t sell another baby of hers,” Bob says. “I’m getting old enough now that if I get a good horse, I’m keeping it!”
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THEIR BREEDING PROGRAM
Now 18, Queen Of Anywhere remains one of SummerHill Farms’ leading broodmares. “She’s still in good shape and looks fit,” Bob says. “Every year when she foals out, we look at her placenta to see if it still looks healthy, and every year it looks like a 3-year-old’s so we keep breeding her and she breeds right back. She’s just a real machine.”
A half-sister to Git Er Done (by Holland Ease), Queen Of Anywhere hails from the family of Eyesa Jumpn and Jump Jive An Wail.
Her descendants include:
• HEROS QUEEN—2009, by Valiant
Hero. Dam of . . .
° Apollitical Queen—2016, by
Apollitical Jess. She won four of 15 starts with three seconds and two thirds and earned $92,574 and stakes winner status with a win in the Polk County Derby’s trial and final at Prairie Meadows.
• TELL HER SHES QUEEN—2011, by Teller Cartel. The stakes-winning mare earned $68,839, with a win in the Polk County Derby. Dam of . . .
• PAINT ME ANYWHERE —2012, by PYC Paint Your Wagon. She was named Iowa’s 2020 Broodmare of the Year, having produced Summer Hill broodmare Painted Secret, by First Down Dash son Hez Our Secret, in 2019. “She was just
a total specimen but for one reason or another, she never won a race. Yet she’s by far my best broodmare,” Bob says. Paint Me Anywhere produced:
° Kiss Me Anywhere—2017, by Kiss My
Hocks. He won four of 16 starts with two seconds and two thirds, earning $130,644 and stakes winner status. His wins include his trial and the final for the Jim Bader Futurity, and he ran second
in his Rainbow Futurity trial and the Cy-Hawk Stakes and third in his Polk County Derby trial, at Prairie Meadows. “He was 2 Year Old of the Year at Prairie Meadows and I’m standing him at stud at Cedar Rapids,” Bob says.
° Paint Me Tres—2018, by Tres Seis. She won four of 10 starts, finishing her race career as Graded stakes placed with $170,511 in earnings. Her wins include her Rainbow Futurity trial, and her trial
• WAGONS QUEEN—2015, by PYC Paint Your Wagon. The mare sold to a buyer from Mexico after winning her Jim Bader Futurity trial and running second in the Future of Iowa Stakes.
Bob and Sandy also bred Tellher To Fly, by Teller Cartel and out of the Strawfly Special mare Two Sick To Fly. The 2010 filly ended her track career as a stakes winner with $88,907, having won her Heritage Place Futurity trial and the Jim Bader Futurity. She was also named Prairie Meadows’ 2-Year-Old Horse of the
Year. “Her dam produced three stakes winners and Make Me Fly [by Make It Anywhere], the only Iowa-Bred horse to ever qualify for the All American Futurity,” Bob says of the talented 2008 Graded stakes winning gelding who finished Quarter Horse racing’s premier event a very respectable fourth.
Tellher To Fly went on to produce Kisss And Teller (by Kiss My Hocks) in 2019. The filly won both her Hawkeye Futurity trial and the final and ran second in her Jim Bader Futurity trial at Prairie Meadows, achieving stakes winner status and career earnings of $68,846 last year.
Kisss And Teller winning the 2021 Hawkeye Futurity at Prairie Meadows.
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Make Me Fly (#7), the only Iowa-bred horse to ever qualify for the All American Futurity-G1.