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SPIT CURL DIVA si 114, $829,353, 6-Ntr’s Champion Aged Mare
Breeder: Little Deer Creek Quarter Horses
Owner: Lepic-Morgan Partnership Trainers: Jody Brown and Paul Jones Jockey: David Brown
2011 Record: 7-3(3)-2(2),0(0), $118,415,
1st Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge-G2, Keokuk Stakes-G3, Golden Driller Stakes, 2nd Indiana Downs Classic Stakes, Fair Meadows Belles Stakes, 5th AQHA Challenge Championship-G1, Ntr PRM 440yds.
Spit Curl Diva is one of two 2010 Champions to repeat in 2011. The Champion Aged Horse and Champion Aged Mare of 2010 was once again named Champion Aged Mare in 2011, following a season that saw her win three stakes races.
Owned by the partnership of Tom Leipc and Sara Morgan, Spit Curl Diva has been the best older mare in the country for two straight years while facing the toughest competi-
tion from coast to coast. In 2011, she ran in Indiana, Oklahoma, Iowa and California, taking on the boys at every turn. And she did it all after a championship campaign in 2010 and a turn in the breeding shed in early 2011.
“We were very excited at the end of last year, and we were wondering what to do. We had heard so many times that it was tough to breed and come back and run, and Jill (Mixer, Sara’s mother) and we all got together and decided we’d go ahead and take that chance. We pulled three embryos from her—we’re going to have three babies in the next two months.”
Lepic admitted they were understandably nervous when the mare returned to the track in early summer, but they needn’t have worried. After finishing second in the Indiana Downs Classic Stakes, Spit Curl Diva promptly set a 440-yard track record at Prairie Meadows.
“We’re just blessed to have this kind of horse. It was an amazing year again, and we’re going
to retire her now,” said Lepic, adding that the decision to retire Spit Curl Diva was sealed with her second championship. “Not many mares have had the career that she’s had, and we’re
so fortunate that we’ve got some babies on the way. We’re hoping that we’ll have some young runners on the way soon. It’s hard to find a mare that can run the way she runs, and then to have some babies come back to run again, but she’s done all she can do for us. She’s going to just enjoy life in the field now, and we’ll watch the babies run beside her and be blessed that we had this opportunity. It’s been great.”
Mr Jess Perry
Spit Curl Jess
Lil Spit Curl
Streakin La Jolla
Scoopie Fein
On A High
Spit Curl Lark
Streakin Six
Bottom’s Up
Sinn Fein
Legs La Scoop
Dash For Cash
Yankee Doll TB
Moon Lark
Fresh And Fit
Rocket Wrangler
Find A Buyer TB
Fleet Kirsch TB
Go Maggie Go
Beduino TB
Miss Fast Chic
Sticks An Stones
Another Investment
Easy Six
Miss Assured
Raise Your Glass TB La Jolla
Three Oh’s Vansarita Too Scooper Chick
La Ferne
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Mito Paint
Crafty Yankee
Top Moon
Pan O Lan
Jet Smooth Sudden Chick
Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go
To Market
Hide And Seek Fleet Nasrullah Royal Kirsch
Go Man Go Maggie Mcgowan Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat
Fast Jet
Serena Chic
Easy Jet
Hop Skip And Jump Good Investment Lady Schreen
Easy Jet
Peggy Toro
Little Request TB Assured
Raise A Native Champagne Woman
St Bar
Top Pretty TB
Three Chicks OhMyOh
Vandy Garrettsmisspawhuska Triple Chick
Scoop Bam Quicksilver King
Nikita
Rocket Bar TB
Go Galla Go
To Market
Hide And Seek
Mito
Herb’s Miss
Crafty Actor
Picks Girl
Moon Deck
Rica Bar
Lanolark TB
Hank’s Panita
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB
Scooper Chick
Ceebar Angel
Three Bars Golden Rocket Go Man Go
La Galla Win Market Wise Pretty Does Alibhai Scattered Nasrullah Happy Go Fleet Royal Charger Kirsch
Top Deck Lightfoot Sis Three Bars Vandy’s Candy Grey Sovereign Romany Belle Rejected
Quick Eye
Jet Deck
Miss Breeze Bar War Chic
Sun Fly
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB Tiny Charger Straw Doll
Jet Deck Dynago Miss Good Investment Schreen King
SPIT CURL DIVA, ‘06 m. Dash For Cash
Some Dasher
Some Kinda Diva
Runaway Diva
Some Romance
Runaway Winner
Precious Stones
48 SPEEDHORSE, February 3, 2012
Spit Curl Diva set a 440-yard track record in the Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge-G2.
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