Page 97 - Speedhorse December 2019

Corona Cartel
1994-2019
Speedhorse would like to express our condolences to
the connections of Corona Cartel.
Corona Cartel passed away on Dec. 18, 2019. The bay stallion was the all-time leading living sire of money earners with over $63 million at the time of his passing, and is now the #2 all-time leading sire of money earners behind only First Down Dash. Corona Cartel’s son PYC Paint Your Wagon now assumes the position as the #1 all-time leading living sire of money earners with over $35 million (behind the pensioned Walk Thru Fire).
Corona Cartel (Holland Ease-Corona Chick, Chicks Beduino) earned $577,142 and won three stakes races during his race career, including the Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1 and Kindergarten Futurity-G2. He is the sire of 9 Champions, including World Champion Blues Girl Too, and the broodmare sire of 6 Champions, including World Champion Bodacious Eagle.
Corona Cartel was bred by Robert Etchandy and originally owned by Celina Molina. Corona Cartel was later syndicated, and The Corona Cartel Syndicate includes Mel & Jacque Bollenbach, Dr. & Mrs. Bill Bullock, Double Bar S Ranch, Jaime & Connie Gomez, Julianna Hawn Holt, Abigail Kawanakoa, Celina Molina, and Bill & Mary Price. The stallion entered stud in 1997 at Lazy E Ranch in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and has stood there his entire career.
The following is a release from Butch Wise of
Lazy E Ranch:
“I deeply regret that Corona Cartel, upon veterinary advice and with humane consideration, was euthanized today due to age related infirmities.
The term ‘great’ may be used too loosely in today’s society, but without question his accomplishments at the racetrack and in stallion service place him at the highest levels of success in our industry. From October 26, 1997, the day Corona Cartel arrived at Lazy E Ranch, I and the staff of Lazy E Ranch were around and exposed to true greatness.
Today, there is a tear in the fabric of the horse universe because Corona Cartel has left us. All of
the Lazy E staff cherished the 22 years we had with him, for he brought to us the example of what a racehorse and a stallion should be. He was smart, kind and had an air of quiet dignity that few possess. The word regal often comes to mind when one thinks of him.
It is a rare week that we do not receive a phone call or an email from somewhere in the world from an owner or breeder seeking to be involved with his genetics. The desire for his bloodlines is worldwide today because his influence has permeated so many other facets of the horse industry. Aside from racing, the Corona Cartels are known as horses that can perform at the highest levels, no matter the task or the discipline. His intelligence and that of his offspring have served their owners well. Their willingness is legendary.
Corona Cartel’s influence is flowing forward. He has become a Sire of Sires and currently has five sons in the Top 25 Leading Sires of Money Earners. Also, he is the #2 Leading Broodmare Sire of 2019. In these days of “super books,” it is important to note that the largest number of mares in any of
his books was only 101 and that was in a bonus syndicate year. For the most part, he bred only 88 syndicate mares each year. An incredibly remarkable accomplishment when one considers he has sired nearly $63,000,000 in earners, breeding limited books. He was responsible for more $100,000-sale yearlings than any other sire throughout the last 22 years!
We thank Celina Molina for initially having the trust and confidence in Lazy E Ranch to begin his stallion career here, and we are eternally grateful to all the members of the Corona Cartel Syndicate for continuing to allow us to manage their asset once he was syndicated and until his passing.
Our association with this tremendous group of breeders continues as we are now charged with managing the frozen semen for the Syndicate going forward. We thank them for allowing us this continued association with Corona Cartel.
Corona Cartel has been interred at Lazy E Ranch.”
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