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SPEEDLINES
The purchase of Sudden Fame by Bob Burt keeps us with a tie to a successful
cross for the Phillips Ranch. First, a little
bit about Sudden Fame. She was bred by Mikkelsen and Stowe of Vernon, Texas, and had eight wins from 28 starts and earnings
of $21,110. She was a stakes finalist in the San Mateo Invitational Stakes, the San Mateo Sophomore Stakes and the Marco Smolich Handicap, all in 1983.
Sudden Fame produced only four foals/ starters/ROM and two stakes winners with total earnings of $328,780. The first foal out of Sudden Fame was Win Fame, who was bred by Donald McMillon of Sweetwater, Texas. Win Fame put together a record of 31 starts with three wins, five seconds and five thirds winning $15,303. A multiple stakes finalist that won the 1988 Alamo City Futurity, Win Fame was purchased by Bob Burt in 1991.
Win Fame produced 10 foals with eight starters, six ROM and one stakes winner in Dash For A Win, who set four New Track Records at 250 yards. Those records were
set at Remington Park, Sam Houston Race Park and Lone Star Park. She also produced two stakes placed runners, including Quick Dash Fame (second in the 2003 Dixie Downs Derby) and Win A Dash (third in the 1998 New Mexico Derby Challenge-G3).
Yawl Be Sudden was the first foal Sudden Fame produced for Burt. She was sold, won one of her 10 starts and was a stakes finalist in the 1989 QHBC Southwest Derby. Fames Last Chance, the last foal out of Sudden Fame, was a multiple stakes finalist in the 1992 Governor’s Cup Futurity-RG3, and she equaled a Wyoming Downs track record going 300 yards in :15.400. Fames Last Chance is the dam of A Signature of Fame, who was second in the 2002 Desert Classic Futurity.
Tiny’s Gay is the sire of Sudden Fame. He was foaled in 1972 and in 1974 was named World Champion, Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and the Champion Stallion. Tiny’s Gay won his title based on his winning 12 of
his 13 starts, including the Kansas Futurity, Rainbow Futurity, Bay Meadows Futurity and Tumbleweed Futurity. His only blemish was a second place finish to Easy Date in
the All American Futurity-G1. He earned $444,721 and was never raced at three because he was retired due to an injury.
Tiny’s Gay was destined for greatness
as a sire, but fate stepped in again and he died after siring only six foal crops of 329 foals, 328 starters, 239 ROM and 16 stakes winners. His runners earned over $3.4 million. His leading money earner is 1979 Bay Meadows Futurity and 1979 Golden
Dash Ta Fame with his dam Sudden Fame at Vessels Stallion Farm in California.
State Futurity winner Merridoc, an all-time leading sire of over $13.4 million. An added note: Merridoc is the broodmare sire of foals by Dash Ta Fame that have Equi-Stat barrel racing earnings of $554,235. These foals all have a breeding pattern of 3x3 to Tiny’s Gay.
Tiny’s Gay is the broodmare sire of 1,026 foals that included 631 starters with 448 ROM and 39 stakes winners, with total earnings over $9.7 million. His leading money earner is the 1988 World Champion, Champion 2 Year Old and Champion 2-Year- Old Colt Merganser, who won four futurities in 1988, three of them Grade 1 races, including the All American Futurity-G1.
Tiny’s Gay is by 1965 Champion Stallion and 1966 Co-Champion Stallion and Aged Stallion Tiny Watch, who sired horses that won over $1.3 million on the track with 13 stakes winners. His leading earner is Tiny’s Gay. The daughters of Tiny Watch produced 235 ROM with 18 stakes winners, including Watch Me Uncle, winner of three stakes races including the 1979 Graduation Handicap. Tiny Watch is by Anchor Watch TB and out of Clabber Tiny by Clabber II.
The dam of Tiny’s Gay is Gays Delight, dam of 15 foals, 13 starters, 11 ROM and five stakes winners. She is the dam of Tiny’s Delight, a full sister to Tiny’s Gay. Tiny’s
Delight is the dam of AQHA Dam of Distinction Our Third Delight, dam of 12 ROM with eight stakes horses including four stakes winners. Her stakes winners include Tres Seis, who has proven to be a leading sire with his foals earning over $22 million on the track, including all-time leading money earning racing Quarter Horse and 4-time Champion Ochoa. Tres Seis is the sire of barrel racing money earners of over $1.9 million, including Suzytresseis, a National Finals Rodeo qualifier and earner of $165,634.
Gay’s Delight is by Rocket Bar TB and out of Miss Ginger Gay by Palleo Pete by Leo. This is another example of the Rocket Bar nick with the Joe Reed P-3 line of mares.
Bar Dearie is the dam of Sudden Fame, who won the 1975 Zia Handicap and earned $17,526. She is the dam of 11
foals with 10 to race, nine ROM and two stakes winners, including 1985 Pacific Handicap-G3 winner Brazen Britches and 1983 Cow Capital Turf Club Futurity winner Levis N Lace. Levis N Lace is a full sister to Sudden Fame, stakes finalist Loves Policy and Fame At Last, third place finisher in the 1982 Ruidoso 550 Championship.
The sire of Bar Dearie is Lake Erie, a Thoroughbred that ran in 93 races over a seven year period. He won 26 of these starts
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