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The petite Champion Hot Idea with her trainer Gene Tefertiller.
$330,000. Town Policy finished second with Call Me Gotta third and Jun Jun Ni fourth. The order of finish for the rest of the field was Gambling Streak, Stoa Minga, Medley Glass, Junes Feature, Biffy Pass and Kita Bar None.
Terry Lipham addressed the muddy track this way, “I thought we’d win the All American until it rained, but I’d never ridden her in the rain and I didn’t know whether she could handle it or not. She’s never even worked in the mud.”
Reports on the race noted that the muddy track favored the outside lanes with better footing and that is where Hot Idea came from, starting from the #9 post position. The colt Call Me Gotta started in post position #10, while Town Policy started in post position #2. So, the muddy track may have been an equalizer in the 1977 All American Futurity. The interesting part is that Hot Idea won the race in :21.76 versus her time of :22.12 in the trials. Town
Policy ran the race in :21.91 versus his time of :22.07 in the trials.
Hot Idea would have just three starts in 1977 and her win in the All American would net her the Champion Two-Year-Old Filly title. She came back at three to start 11 times with four wins, two seconds and one third. Her only other stakes accomplishment was a second in the World’s Championship Classic, although she was a finalist in several other stakes events. Hot Idea retired with $374,617 in earnings.
Hot Idea produced seven foals with six starters and five ROM and earners of $90,991. Her leading money winner was Hot Dash, a finalist in the Los Ninos Handicap that earned $29,784. Easy Idea, a race winning daughter
of Hot Idea, was the dam of Easy Bully, who won the Great Lakes Earl Clark Memorial Futurity. Dashing Idea, a race winning daughter of Easy Idea, is the dam of Corona Coquette,
a five time stakes winner with four Grade 3 events including the 2002 Oklahoma Juvenile Challenge-G3.
Hot Idea overcame a number of obstacles to win the All American Futurity to defeat her main rival, the legendary Town Policy. Town Policy would earn $862,180 racing from the age of two to nine. He won eight stakes races and four racing titles and proved to be a great racehorse for the times, but in his All American defeat, he was tamed by his Delilah.
An added note: An All American win
was not in the cards for Town Policy. He was second to Medley Glass, a filly in the 1978 All American Derby. Medley Glass was seventh in Hot Idea’s All American. Even though it had rained for several days prior to the Derby, the track had time to dry out and it was listed as fast for the derby. Gene Tefertiller was the trainer of Medley Glass for the derby win. Hmm!
Hot Idea overcame a number of obstacles to win the All American Futurity
to defeat her main rival, the legendary Town Policy. Town Policy would earn $862,180 racing from the age of two to nine. He won eight stakes races and four racing titles and proved to be a great racehorse for the times, but in his All American defeat, he was tamed by his Delilah.
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