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Grade 1 winner Favorite Cartel traces back to Lil Bit Rusty on his maternal side.
Corona, their pedigrees are all highly influ- enced by Rocket Wrangler, the sire of Dash For Cash and Rusty Rockette.
Lil Bit Dash is a daughter of Dash For Cash and Lil Bit Rusty. Lil Bit Dash was another aver- age runner with a speed index of 85. She won one race out of six. Lil Bit Dash is the dam of Boknaai, a stakes winner in the Corona Cartel Stakes and the Lovington Handicap and stakes placed or a finalist in 13 more stakes including an eighth in the Ruidoso Futurity-G1. Boknaai’s sire is Mr Jess Perry. Lil Bit Dash also produced stakes-placed Lil Bit Cuervo, who was third in the Four Corners Futurity-G3 in 2001. Lil Bit Cuervo is sired by Chicks Beduino.
Lil Bit Strawfly is a daughter of Lil Bit Dash sired by Strawfly Special. This mare has an 80 speed index with one third in five starts. She is the dam of Good Luvin, winner of the Selma Stakes, King William Handicap and Simulcast Services Stakes in 2011. Good Luvin is by Separatist, by Chicks Beduino.
Another Lil Bit Rusty daughter is Shenoshespecial, by Special Effort. Shenoshespecial was a winner of only one start in six tries on the track. She was bred to Corona Cartel, producing Shenoshercorona. Shenoshercorona won only one race in 15 starts, but is now the dam of 2008 La Pacifica Handicap winner Shescheckinumout, sired by Check Him Out. Shescheckinumout placed or was a finalist in eight more stakes races including a third in the California Distaff
Challenge-G3. Hes Regal is another stakes runner out of Shenoshercorona. Hes Regal
was second in the Tom Tucker Memorial Handicap and third in the Kindergarten Futurity-G1. The most significant runner
out of Shenoshercorona is Favorite Cartel,
by the Thoroughbred Horse Of The Year Favorite Trick. Favorite Cartel won the Paul B. Ford Memorial Handicap; the Los Alamitos Championship Challenge-G2 and the AQHA Challenge Championship-G1. He placed or was a finalist in nine Grade 1 stakes including a third in the Rainbow Futurity-G1. He won $607,669 in his three-year racing career.
Shenoshespecial is also the dam of Ariel Cartel, by Corona Cartel. Ariel Cartel is
a non-winner in two starts who produced Bigtime Cartel, by Bigtime Favorite, by Chicks Beduino. Bigtime Cartel is a track record holder, running 250 yards at Louisiana Downs in :13.057 for a 110 speed index. This year,
the Shenoshespecial colt Henoshersecret, by No Secrets Here, was fourth in the Golden State Million Futurity-G1 and a finalist in the Governor’s Cup Futurity-RG2.
KEY PEDIGREE INGREDIENTS
What makes a mare a blue hen? Well that is the question we can’t give a definitive answer to at this point. But we can review some factors about Lil Bit Rusty as a blue hen mare. Her pedigree is an interesting factor in this review. She was sired by one of Easy Jet’s fastest sons, Champion Easily Smashed. Easily Smashed sired runners that earned $9,313,437 with
793 ROM and 63 stakes winners. His stakes winners include Invisible Injun who won the Texas Classic Derby-G1 in a track record time of :21.350. His leading money earner is Chrises Smash, winner of $276,529. Easily Smashed
is the No. 13 leading sire of winners with 720 winners.
Easily Smashed is the broodmare sire of
the winners of $16,337,632. This includes 69 stakes winners and 788 ROM. His leading money winner from this group is Lil Bit Rusty’s son Whosleavingwho. An added note— Whosleavingwho is also Chicks Beduino’s leading money winner through 2012.
When we look at the nicking patterns of the Easily Smashed daughters on various stallions we can make some interesting observations. When 10 Easily Smashed daughters were crossed on Chicks Beduino they produced
19 foals, 18 starters, 13 winners and 3 stakes winners with total earnings of $1,512,559. Two of the stakes winners—Whosleavingwho and
Beduinos Rusty—were out of Lil Bit Rusty, and they both account for most of the money won on this cross. Equineline.com records show that this is an AEI of 8.30, the highest for any of the runners out of Easily Smashed daughters when crossed with other stallions.
Corona Cartel was bred to seven Easily Smashed daughters. They produced 12 runners and 8 winners with 6 stakes winners. They have won $1,205,122. Lil Bit Rusty produced three Corona Cartel foals. Jet Cartel and My Heart Goes Bang only had one start between them and that was an unplaced finish. But Coronas Leaving You won $278,358. The Corona Cartel/Easily Smashed cross has an AEI of 5.45, and this is the second highest AEI rating on the Easily Smashed daughters. (The young sire Jet Cartel has already been repre- sented by stakes winners on the racetrack.)
Now let’s look at Rusty Rockette, who pro- duced seven foals, all of which raced, and six ROM. Her only stakes winner is Lil Bit Rusty. Rusty Rockette is the dam of one stakes-placed horse in Putitonya, who was third in the Alamo QHBA Futurity-G3. He earned a modest $3,177 and is sired by Speedy Hemp.
The only other black type to come out of
the Rusty Rockette line comes through a full sister to Lil Bit Rusty named Smashed Rockette. She has a 94 speed index and was a final-
ist in the Heritage Place Derby-G1. Smashed
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Lil Bit Rusty’s sire Easily Smashed.
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