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“...ifwe can’t enjoy our horses, we’re in the wrong business.”
only reason that I sent him back to the track after we bred him was to run 870. We took him out of the pasture the first of June and
put him in training. We got him in shape and we ran him 870, and he won and won handy. Willie Lovell was riding him, and Willie even stood up in the stirrups at the last. The old track was muddy and sloppy and Willie wasn’t even pushing him. We never started him again. He was just going away from wire to wire. My Talent’s granddam, My Question, could run from 220 to half-a-mile any place they wanted to run her. She was a great race mare.”
Both Talent Bar and My Talent will stand
at the Perner Ranch during the 1974 breeding season. P.C. pasture breeds altogether. He says, “I put my studs out the first day of February and pick them up the last day of May. I’m fortunate that with both of these horses I can add mares and take out mares without any problem. I feed them every day and give them plenty of room, and I’ve never had any trouble with getting
any of them skinned up. They take care of themselves if you just leave them alone.”
Talent Bar has never been bred to a stakes winning mare. He has never been bred to a stakes producing mare, but he has made some stakes producing mares. Up until the last two years, he was never bred to a AAA mare. So, Talent Bar has to be given credit. He and his colts are making believers out of more people every year!
Talent Bar.
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LOOKING BACK - AN EXCERPT FROM JANUARY 1974 ISSUE
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