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Kansas Futurity-G1, Rainbow Futurity-G1 and All American Futurity-G1.
Mini Rumors joined the Wheeler broodmare band to produce three more foals. Winner First Rumor was her first foal. She earned an 85 speed index and was the dam of one unraced foal.
The next Mini Rumors foal we will look at is her Thoroughbred daughter JS Apollos Pride. This unraced mare is sired by Apollo. JS Apollos Pride has five foals with two Quarter Horse foals and two Paint foals. The fifth foal, JS Apollos Flash, is double registered. JS Apollos Flash is an APHA ROM runner that has earned $10,733 with one win, two seconds and one third in ten starts. She was a finalist in the 2014 Pot O’ Gold Futurity-G1 and has no AQHA starts. Her sire is Royal Quick Flash.
The second Paint ROM runner out of
JS Apollos Pride is JS Miss Judy by Judys Lineage. This mare has one win and a third in ten starts with earnings of $6,228. The third Paint runner out of JS Apollos Pride is 2-time Grade 1 finalist JS Apollo Six by Texas Six. This mare was a finalist in the 2017 PSBA Futurity-G1 and the 2017 Speedhorse Lone Star Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1 and earned $12,721. JS Apollos Pride is currently owned by Rafter C Quarter Horses of Brook Park, Minnesota.
Iwilliewantarunner, a Quarter Horse daughter of Mini Rumors, is the dam of Hotwiredotcom. Iwilliewantarunner had two wins in eight starts and earnings of $18,747, including a fifth in the Golden Driller Stakes-G3.
It is at this point we see Jim’s fondness
for the influence of the mare on the foal and the role of the Thoroughbred mare in their program. “I used to really study the pedigrees and try to figure out what I thought would cross,” he explained. “And now I feel that 50 to 70% of the influence on the foal comes from the mare. You can have a stud that has 5 to 6 % stakes horses and you come up
with a female line that is showing 25 or 30% stakes horses and that shows a pretty heavy influence on the baby.”
Jim went on to tell why Iwilliewantarunner is a broodmare for him. “I ran her, and she went out four times, winning two. She got a 101 speed index, so I figured I would keep her as a broodmare.
“Part of the reason I kept her was her Thoroughbred breeding, as I like the Thoroughbred cross with Quarters and Paints,” he added. “I thought she was a pretty outstanding mare and everything she has produced has run a little. Hotwiredotcom is her best runner.”
Willie Wanta Dash is the sire of Iwilliewantarunner. When I asked Jim why he bred to Willie Wanta Dash, he said,
“When they moved Willie Wanta Dash from California to Oklahoma I went to look at him, and he was about as good a bred and
as good a lookin’ horse as you could find to cross on a Thoroughbred sprinting mare.”
Willie Wanta Dash earned $356,705, winning five stakes races and placing second or third in six stakes races. His stakes
wins came in the 1997 QHBC Juvenile Classic-G3, the 1998 Texas Classic Derby-G1, the 1998 QHBC Sophomore Classic-G2, the 1999 QHBC Championship Classic-G2 and the 2000 First Down Dash Handicap.
The year 2000 was a very good year for Willie Wanta Dash. Other than his win
in the First Down Dash Handicap, he was second in the West/Southwest Championship Challenge-G2 and the Z Wayne Griffith Director’s Stakes-G3. He was third in
the Duplicate Copy Handicap and the Champion of Champions-G1. His 2000 race record was rewarded with his being named the 2000 Champion Aged Stallion.
Willie Wanta Dash is by First Down Dash, and this great stallion needs no introduction as he was a Champion on the track and now is the all-time leading sire of racing money earners with over $85 million. His sire is Dash For Cash and his dam is First Prize Rose by Gallant Jet.
Jim said there was much about the pedigree of Willie Wanta Dash that he liked. “I like his mother. Oh yes, I like his daddy and he was about as good a horse that has ever been bred,” Jim said. “But back in
the day, my nephew rode for Bob Gilbert down in Texas, and then he would go to Los Alamitos with him. He rode a mare out of Kiptys Charger, the sire of the dam of Willie Wanta Dash. I thought she was a nice mare and so, I really liked that female line.”
Liquid Charge is the dam Willie Wanta Dash. She is a daughter of Kiptys Charger and was an ROM race mare with earnings of $2,045 from eight starts with one third place finish. She is the dam of eight foals with six ROM/starters, earners of $456,626, two stakes winners and one stakes placed runner. Beside Willie Wanta Dash, she is the dam of stakes winner Hi Tech Attack, winner of the 1995 First Down Dash Handicap.
Kiptys Charger was a successful racehorse earning $319,355 with three stakes wins including the 1978 Juvenile Invitational Championship, the 1978 Pomona Futurity and the 1979 El Primero Del Ano Derby. The sire record for Kiptys Charger shows that he sired 580 foals with 355 starters, 233 ROM and 16 stakes winners. His runners earned over $2.8 million, including and his leading money earner Kipscash, ($286,099) winner of seven stakes including the 1987 Go Man Go Handicap-G1.
Kiptys Charger is the broodmare sire of four Champions:
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