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Alamitos. She went on with trainer Connie Hall to win several stakes and as a broodmare for us. But, unfortunately, I sold her prematurely, but I had the daughter Answer The Dream. I sold her, shortly before Answer The Dream started beating all those horses, to MJ Farms where they were successful with her. So just about everything on the farm traces back to those three mares.”
Sky Chicks is a 1993 mare by Chicks Beduino and out of Star Crafted by Pie In
The Sky out of The Pearl by Vanaqua. She was bred by Connie Hall and Patrick Ford and was purchased in 1994 by Kelly and Yearsley. Sky Chicks made 16 starts with four wins, three seconds and two thirds earning $47,912. She was second in the 1995 Classics Futurity and a finalist in the 1995 Los Alamitos Futurity-G1. She has produced 30 foals with 26 starters,
17 ROM and five stakes winners. Her stakes winners for the partnership include Southern California Derby-G1 winner Spike It And Fly, 2005 El Primero Del Ono Derby-G2 winner Dutch Schultz and Miss Blackhawk Stakes winner Rule The Skies. Sky Chicks was sold in 2011 to Johnny Trotter and Burnett Ranches where she has produced two more stakes winners in 2016 Texas Classic Futurity-G1 winner High Plains Perry and 2017 Remington Park Challenge Championship-G2 winner Sky Bo Dash.
Three Dee Dreams is by Heza Fast Man and out of Counting The Dreams by First Down Dash and her dam is Duck Galore
by Beat Inflation TB. She made 12 starts with four wins, two seconds, one third and total earnings of $36,662. Three Dee Dream won the 2000 Huntington Beach Handicap and was a finalist in both the 2000 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap-G1 and the 2000 Las Damas Handicap-G1. She produced
five foals for the Kelly partnership with four starters/ROM. Answer The Dream was her fourth starter, and she won the 2009 Juno’s Request Stakes-G3 and the 2009 Oklahoma Distaff Challenge. She was stakes placed
with a second in 2008 La Primero Del Ano Derby-G1, third in the 2009 Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1, third in the Charger Bar Handicap-G1 and a third in the 2009 AQHA Distaff Challenge Championship. Answer The Dream is the dam of 30 foals with 25 starters and 19 ROM. This includes three
stakes winners in Splendid Cause, winner of the 2017 Golden State Juvenile and the 2020 Will Rogers Distaff Challenge-G3, 2020 Los Alamitos Oaks winner Dreams Divine, and Sam Houston Juvenile Stakes winner Empty Arms. Her foals have earned $1,309,969.
Power Fade comes from the Sheeza Lil Val line of mares and that is where we will begin our look at this mare family. Kelly explained how he got Sheeza Lil Val, “I bought her at Heritage Place, and she was by Dashing Val, whom I liked. I believe Blane Schvaneveldt trained that horse at Los Alamitos and I
saw him run. She wasn’t a big mare, but she had a tremendous heart girth on her. I said, maybe she won’t win much, but she might be a broodmare down the line with her family. She had Dash For Cash through Dashing
Val on top and Zevi TB on the bottom. So, I bought her for $5,000 and she was a handful. In fact, her first start at Los Alamitos, the rider got off her at the gate and refused to ride her. The replacement rider won the
race. She went on to be a competitive mare and made some finals but didn’t win a lot of money. But she had everything else it took to be a foundation mare, and that she truly was.
Gordon and Juanita Crone of Lakin, Kansas, were the breeders of Sheeza Lil Val. Her race record shows that she had 19 starts with two wins, five seconds and two thirds earning $19,413. She was second in the 1997 The Classics Derby and third in both the 1996 Miss Betty Stakes and the 1996 The Classics Futurity.
Dashing Val earned $328,594 from 26 starts with six wins, three seconds and four thirds. He was a stakes winner of the 1988 Golden State Derby-G1 and in 1990, he won the Go Man Go Handicap-G1, Shue Fly Stakes-G3, Kaweah Bar Handicap-G3 and the Z Wayne Griffin Director’s Stakes-G3 and was named the 1988 Champion 3-Year- Old Colt. Dashing Val is by Dash For Cash and out of Audra Do by Jet Spice by Jet Deck. Audra Do is out of Annie Do by Voo Doo Rocket, and Annie Do is out of Annahi by High Step by High Time.
Dashing Val sired 909 foals with 609 starters taking home 463 ROM with 36 stakes winners. His leading money earner
is Vals Fortune, the winner of 15 stakes races with 23 starts and 20 overall wins and $1,111,591 in earnings and was named the
2008 Champion 2 Year Old and Champion 2-Year-Old Gelding. Dashing Val is the broodmare sire of 1,115 foals with 546 starters, 363 ROM and 20 stakes winners. They earned $9,005,977. His leading money earner in this category is Value The Man, who is out of Sheeza Lil Val.
Sheeza Lil Val is out of Sheeza Zevi Lady,
a race mare with just three starts, a first, a second and an unplaced finish. She is by Zevi TB, a son of Cornish Prince by Bold Ruler. Zevi’s dam is Spire by Kentucky Derby winner Carry Back. The dam of Sheeza Zevi Lady is Sheez Mylady Jet by Easy Jet and out of Sheeza Bar Baby by Diamond 2 Bar by Three Bars.
Sheeza Lil Val is the dam of 12 foals with 10 starters and three stakes winners. Her foals have earned $1,483,402. Her leading money earner is Value The Man, and he is also the leading money earner for Dashing Val as a broodmare sire. His stakes appearances include a win in the 2005 Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1. Sheeza Lil Val’s second stakes winner, Emperor Valerian, is the winner of eight stakes, including the Remington Park Distance Handicap-G3 and the Paul’s Valley Handicap-G3. Her third stakes winner is Valiantly, winner of the PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity-G1 and the Mission Beach Handicap.
Valdarama is a 2008 APHA mare out of Sheeza Lil Val by Country Quick Dash, who is registered in both the AQHA and APHA. Valderama made 20 starts as a Paint with three wins, seven seconds and two thirds earning $83,341. She was a stakes placed runner with seconds in the 2010 Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-RG1, the Lone Star Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1 and the Pot O’ Gold Futurity-G1. She was third in the 2011 Oklahoma Horsemen’s Association Paint & Appaloosa Derby-RG2.
When the conversation came to breeding for a Paint, Kelly talked about why he bred to Country Quick Dash. “Country Chicks Man is a half-brother to Country Quick Dash, who was one of the fastest horses I ever saw and competitively, he was practically unbeatable at 350 yards and could beat most horses at 400 yards. But beyond that, he didn’t measure up and he wasn’t a real big horse, but I liked his quickness, and I liked that family. I wanted to do a little with the Paints and Country Quick Dash seemed like a logical choice to breed to.”
When we look at the pedigree of Valdarama, we see that she has a breeding pattern of 3x3 to Zevi the broodmare sire of Country Quick Dash and the broodmare sire of Sheeza Lil Val. This is a “return the blood” breeding pattern.
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