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Mean Streak is the second stakes winner out of Wego For Cash with earnings
of $42,959. His wins include the 1994 Speedhorse Gold & Silver Cup Paint & Appaloosa Futurity. He earned the Bronze Medallion for Two-Year-Old Geldings. Her third stakes winner is If You Got The Money, a winner of nine races and $26,881. His wins include the 1997 Texas Futurity. This horse was honored as the 1997 Bronze Medallion Racing 2-Year-Old Gelding.
Her stakes placed runners include Little Rime ($44,977) with six race wins. He
was second in the 2002 Speedhorse Paint
& Appaloosa Derby and the O.H.A. Paint & Appaloosa Derby. He was named the Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding that year. He is a 2-time Bronze Medallion winner. Her next stakes placed runner is Come On Y’All, a winner of 14 races earning $63,452. Her stakes placed finishes include seconds in the Classy Lassie Stakes and the California Stockton Stakes. This mare was a two time Bronze Medallion winner. Her third stakes placed runner is D. J. Indy ($32,566) with nine wins. He was third in the 1993 Texas Classic Futurity and is a Bronze Medallion winner as a 2-Year-Old Gelding.
Wego For Cash is out of Wego Lady Bug by Scooter Bug G. 1980 Louisiana Poor Boy Futurity winner Wego Lady Bug had five wins with earnings of $22,282.
We Go Ladybug is the dam of seven starters with four race winners. Her foals have earned $32,741. Her leading money earner is Wego For Cash followed by Codys Private Jet, a third place finisher in the 1991 Appaloosa Prep Maturity with earnings of $7,689.04, and Pocket Queen, a race winner earning $5,826.70.
Scooter Bug G. raced only as a 2 year old, winning six races with one second and one third. He won the 1974 Texas Futurity and the Santa Fe Futurity. He also won three divisions of the Santa Fe Distance Series and earned $21,345.87 and a Bronze Medallion as a 2-Year-Old Colt.
Scooter Bug G. is the sire of runners that have won over $395,000, including 1979 World Wide Futurity winner Mister Clyde ($59,871); Turf Bug B ($27,622), who was second in the 1982 Cricket Bars Futurity and third in the Oklahoma Futurity; 1980 Stallion Stakes Futurity winner Boogie Bug ($24,387), who was also third in the 1980 Hopes And Dreams Futurity; and Bear Trac ($21,863), who was second in the 1980 Kansas Sunflower Derby, Cricket Bars Derby, and third in the Texas Derby and 1979 World Wide Futurity. You will note that Mister Clyde finished first in the 1979 World Wide Futurity and Bear Trac was third in the same race.
Appaloosa mare Eyesa Knockout,
by Mr Eye Opener QH by Dash For Cash.
Eyesa Knockout is the dam of Admiral Tom. She is out of the Appaloosa mare Wego For Cash by Rocket Wrangler QH.
The dam of Scooter Bug G is none other than We Go Charge, who won the 1968 Centennial Juvenile Stakes and the 1968 Oklahoma Futurity at Stroud, Oklahoma. We Go Charge was second in the 1969 Oklahoma Allowance and third in the 1969 Anthony Downs Allowance. Her overall record shows that she had five wins, five seconds and two thirds in her 19 starts.
We Go Charge is the dam of earners of $281,742.21 with 11 starters, 7 winners, 4 stakes winners and 4 stakes placed runners. She is also the dam of four Bronze Medallion winners. Three of her four Bronze Medallion winners were the full brother and sisters Easy We Go, We Go Easy, and Go Easy Lovin’. Easy We Go earned $92,375 while winning eight of his ten starts. He had nine starts at two in 1979 and won eight of them, including the Kansas Sunflower Classic Futurity, Texas Futurity and the Cricket Bar Futurity. Easy We Go was second that year in the World Wide Appaloosa Futurity.
We Go Easy is the winner of $81,627.11, but she had a very interesting race career that saw her win eight stakes races, including the 1975 Texas Futurity, 1976 World Wide
Derby, California Appaloosa Derby and Nez Perce Derby. Despite this stakes success,
she is remembered for a match race she had with a Thoroughbred named Right Pocket, who was no slouch on the track and earned $136,174 with 35 wins in 85 starts. Right Pocket showed his speed when he set a New Track Record in 1973 at Commodore Downs going five furlongs in :58.60. He also set a New Track Record at Commodore Downs going four furlongs in :46.20. He won the Speed Ball Handicap at the age of seven in 1976. We Go Easy won the match race by 1-length after sustaining an injury in the race. She is considered a legend in the annals of Appaloosa racing.
Go Easy Lovin’ is the winner of $76,511.80 while winning or placing first or second in six stakes races at the age of two and three. She won the 1981 Cricket Bars Futurity and Oklahoma Futurity with seconds in the Texas Futurity and World Wide Futurity. She won the Texas Derby and was second in the California Appaloosa Derby in 1982. She had 14 starts with 8 wins, 4 seconds and 1 third in her two years of racing.
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