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($19,209), Lady Joy ($12,985) and Poker Lil ($11,395). The Cricket Bars Futurity has been an interesting race for these runners. Captain Bucko won it in 2011, Cobra Cash was second in 2012, Poker Lil was third in 2013 and Lady Joy was third in 2014.
We Go Charge, the dam of Easy We
Go, brings us to the second line of Vaughan Appaloosa runners. “I did a lot of research going back to We Go Charge, and I
found two mares that I thought would be producers and I hit the jackpot. One of them was Sure Nuff Fast, an own daughter of Bills Ryon out of Wego For Cash. She turned out to be a good producer and I now stand a stud out of her.”
Sure Nuff Fast earned $17,060 on the track running in 13 races with four wins, two seconds and one third. She was third in the 1999 Americana Appaloosa Futurity. She earned a Bronze Medallion for 3-Year-Old Fillies.
Sure Nuff Fast is the dam of 8 foals with
7 starters/winners/ROM. She produced her runners for a number of owners over the years with Vaughan being her last owner. She is the dam of six Bronze Medallion winners earning eleven Bronze Awards. Her leading winner,
G I Jana, has four Bronze Awards including
the 2007 Bronze Medallion for 2-Year-Old Filly, the 2008 Bronze Medallion for 3-Year- Old Filly, and the 2009 and 2010 Bronze Medallions for Aged Mare. G I Jana also earned the titles of 2008 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, 2009 and 2010 Champion 4-Year-Old and Older Mare and has earnings of $98,377.
Sure Nuff Fast has five other Bronze Medallion winners. Ivory Queen, who received the 2011 Bronze Medallion for 2-Year-Old Fillies and the 2012 Bronze Medallion for 3-Year-Old Fillies, was also the 2012 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly. Ivory Queen earned $47,398 and was second in the 2010 Cricket Bars Futurity. Ivory King, a full brother to Ivory Queen, was the 2015 Bronze Medallion winner for 3-Year-Old Colt and the 2016 Bronze Medallion winner for Aged Stallions. Ivory King was also the 2015 Champion 3-Year-Old Colt and had total earnings of $20,535. The other three Bronze Award winners are 2013 Bronze Medallion winner as a 2-Year-Old Colt General Wave, 2010 Bronze Medallion winner for 2-Year-Old Filly Lady Star Dancer, and 2011 Bronze Medallion winner for Aged Gelding Rocket Ball.
Sure Nuff Fast is by Bills Ryon by Windy Ryon, a son of Go Man Go by Top Deck. Sure Nuff Fast is out of Wego For Cash by Rocket Wrangler by Rocket Bar by Three Bars. The dam of Wego For Cash is the Appaloosa mare Wego Lady Bug by Scooter Bug G by Lady Bug’s Moon. Scooter Bug G is out of
Joyball, the first broodmare owned by Gary Vaughan to become an ApHC Hall of Fame member, is the dam of Captain Bucko.
4-Time Champion Captain Bucko, shown winning his trial to the 2011 Speedhorse Lone Star P&A Futurity-G1
“I had a friend, Joy Holder, whose husband had died and she had some good Appaloosa mares. So, I cut a deal with her to breed the mares on a foal share and that is how I got into the Appaloosa game.
“Now I’ve got two different bloodlines, the Whirling Fastball/Appaloosa cross,
which has turned out to be a real good cross. Probably one of the best bloodlines out there right now. I started that line by crossing him on the Easy We Go bred mares that Joy had.”
Easy We Go, an Appaloosa stallion, is by Easy Jet. His dam is the Appaloosa mare We Go Charge by Diamond Charge, who is by Hy Diamond and out of Lovely Lupita by Depth Charge. The dam of We Go Charge is the Appaloosa mare Wego Melody.
Easy We Go is the sire of $1.3 million from 169 starters with 138 money earners. His leading earners include: Mr Poverty ($99,768), winner of six stakes races, including the 1989 Supreme Futurity, 1990 Indian Summer Handicap and 1991 Supreme Maturity; Come Easy Go Easy ($75,902), winner of four stakes races, including the 1983 Sallisaw Futurity and the 1984 Silver And Gold Invitational Handicap; Im Easy Goin ($69,397), winner of the 1983 Oklahoma Futurity and the Cricket Bars Futurity; and We Go Diamonds ($33,655), winner of the 1988 World Stallion Classic Futurity.
The Whirling Fastball/Easy We Go cross is highlighted by Joyball, who was bred
by Joy Holder-Smith and owned by Gary Vaughan. She is by Whirling Fastball and out of a granddaughter of Easy We Go. Her dam is Easy Boppin Jones by Tip Jones Jr by Top Moon. Easy Boppin Jones is out of Go Easy Labor by Easy We Go. The dam of Go Easy Labor is Labor Day Moon by Top Moon.
The race record of Joyball shows 17
starts with two wins, three seconds and one third. This mare was finalist in the 2003 Oklahoma Appaloosa Triple Crown races: the Cricket Bars Futurity, Supreme Futurity and Oklahoma Frontier Futurity. She earned $20,311 and a Bronze Medallion for 3-Year- Old Fillies in 2004.
Joyball is the first Vaughan broodmare
to become an ApHC Hall of Fame member. When she entered the Hall of Fame, she
was one of only six mares to join with five
or more foals earning the Bronze Racing Medallion. Her leading money earner is 2-time Bronze Medallion winner Captain Bucko, who was the 2011 Supreme Champion 2-Year-Old Colt, 2-Year-Old Sprint Champion, Champion 2-Year-Old Colt, 2012 Supreme Champion 3-Year-Old & Older Colt and the Champion 3-Year-Old Colt. Captain Bucko won the 2011 Cricket Bars Futurity, O.H.A Paint & Appaloosa Futurity, Victoria Ennis Memorial Handicap and 2012 Paul Harber Memorial Handicap. Joyball’s other Bronze Medallion foals include Col Bucko ($54,360), Cobra Cash
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