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“They’re just good people. They try hard at it and that’s where success comes from.” – W. L. Mooring, Double LL Farms
Nagano Moon’s 2005 multiple Champion sire,
Champion First Moonflash (left), is the Lazy A
breeding program’s top earner thus far.
First Moonflash stood his entire career at Double LL Farms.
HOMEBRED HONORS
These days, the Lazy A broodmare band comprises six to eight mares. “We raise maybe four or five babies a year,” Norma says. “We try to keep a mare or a filly, something we’re interested in breeding, and race her to prove her. We keep one or two a year, although now that Seth is training for us, he tries to talk me into more!”
They take the babies to the summer yearling sales: the New Mexico-Bred at Ruidoso at the All American trials during August, and they take those that qualify to the Select Sale at Ruidoso Labor Day weekend.
Their foundation mare was the 1998 filly Nagano Moon, by Dash For Cash grandson Major Rime and out of Tilted Moon, whose second dam was Chargerette 105, by Tiny Charger. She retired to grandma status after producing Dash Ta Moon, First Moonflash and Vancouver Moon, among others.
She produced the Alvarez’s first stakes winner, Dash Ta Moon, by Dash Ta Fame,
in 2003. Dash Ta Moon won six, ran second in six and ran third in three of 18 starts, winning $352,305 in three years. Her first year out, she won the Ruidoso Quarter Horse Sale Futurity and ran second in the Zia Juvenile Invitational. As a sophomore, she ran second in the New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association (NMHBA) Stakes-G2 and the Yulla Stakes and won the Sunland New Mexico-Bred Invitational Handicap and the New Mexico Fillies and Mares Championship. Her final year out, she won the Lubbock Stakes, ran second in the New Mexico Fillies and Mares Championship, and third in the New Mexico Classic Championship-G1 and the Lou Wooten Handicap-G1.
Nagano Moon’s 2005 foal, First Moonflash, is the Lazy A breeding program’s top earner thus far. By First Down Dash
son First To Flash, the talented colt earned Supreme Racehorse status at four, winning The Championship at Sunland Park-G1 in
both 2008 and 2009, and the Grade 1 New Mexico Championship Challenge, New Mexico Classic Cup Championship and the Jess Burner Memorial Handicap in 2009. He amassed 14 wins and four thirds from 25 starts, bankrolling $969,828, and finishing 2009 as the Champion Aged Stallion, Second by Wins and Ninth by Earnings. He broke four World Records and still holds that record at 440 yards and has sired multiple AQHA Champions.
“To have the mother and have such an extraordinary horse that broke all those records and stayed sound makes me very proud,” Norma says. “We’ve always bred for soundness. Breeding a horse that can hold up is really important to me.”
Another of Nagano Moon’s accomplishments as a dam was the 2010 filly Vancouver Moon, by FDD Dynasty. She earned $350,719 in two years, running second in the Rainbow Futurity and fourth in the All American Derby.
The Alvarez’s foundation mare is 1998 filly Nagano Moon, who produced The Alvarez’s first stakes winner was Dash Ta Moon (shown winning the Lubbock Stakes). Dash Ta Moon, First Moonflash and Vancouver Moon.
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