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John trained many stakes winners and graded stakes winners
An all-time favorite horse of John’s is Fols Audition, shown winning the 1989 Black Gold Futurity-RG2.
John’s second top horse is Auditions Legacy, shown Third on John’s lifetime top horses is Prowl, shown Another top runner of John’s is You Betcha Can, shown after winning the 1996 Remington Park Champ.-G1 after winning the 1999 Mile High Futurity-G2 after winning the 2006 Blink Of An Eye Handicap.
“I don’t know how we did it with four kids,” he adds. “We were at the barn at 5:00 every morning and we’d have them there with us every day. They had to go in the tack room or some- where, but they all ended up being good kids and they all graduated from college.”
STAKES WINNERS
John and Cathy have been blessed with many good horses. Among John’s first stakes winners was Miss Pink Signal, bred and owned by Jo and Steve Burns DVM, a 1975 mare who won the Timberline Derby at Centennial Race Track in Denver. At the time, Steve was in veterinary school and in his spare time, he rented walkers to horsemen at the track.
An all-time favorite of John’s was Fols Audition, a 1987 filly bred and owned by Ralph Glendening and Lee Mills. By Fol’s Native and out of Audition by With Ease, she ran third in the Remington
Park Futurity and won the Black Gold Futurity Championship her freshman year. The following year, she won the C E Willhite Memorial Derby- G3 at Gateway Downs and the Black Gold Derby at Blue Ribbon Downs. Her third year out, she ran third in the Moore Handicap at Remington, and second in both the Chisholm Trail Handicap and the Woodlands Championship-G3. Her fourth and final year on the track, she won the Bill Cody Stakes at Arapahoe and ran second in the Black Gold Maturity at Blue Ribbon Downs.
Another of John’s standouts from the Glenden- ing-and-Mills partnership was Auditions Legacy, by Cash Legacy and also out of Audition. The 1991
gelding sits second on John’s lifetime Top Horses ranking, with wins in the West/Southwest Champi- onship Challenge-G3 and the Central Championship Challenge-G3 as a sophomore and the Remington Park Championship-G1 and the Central Champion- ship Challenge-G3 at The Woodlands in 1996.
Third on John’s Top Horses ranking is Prowl, owned by longtime friends and owners Dwight and Lonnie Terwilliger. The 1997 gelding by Bully Bullion and out of Miss Denali by Master Salls, won the Rocky Mountain-G3 and the Mile High- G2 futurities at Arapahoe and ran second in the Kansas Jackpot Futurity-G2 at The Woodlands his first year, then as a sophomore he won the Rocky Mountain Derby-G3, ran third in the West/South- west Derby Challenge-G2 and second in the Mile High Derby-G2, all at Arapahoe. His third year, he ran third in the Dash For Speed Handicap and second in the Mile High Handicap.
Another of John’s clients-turned-friends was the late Thomas Bradbury, who was also inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame and whose daughter, Lisa Beauprez, has continued to manage Bradbury Land and Cattle’s horse operation for her dad since his passing two years ago. Among their top runners are You Betcha Can, whom Tom bred and then ran in partnership with Vaughn Cook and Marvin Will- hite. The 2002 Corona Cartel son out of the Special Effort daughter Better Think Twice ran second in the Cherry Creek Futurity-G3 and won the Mile High Futurity-G2 at Arapahoe his first year out, then ran second in the West/Southwest Derby Challenge-G3 at Arapahoe and won the Kansas Derby-G3 at The
Woodlands as a sophomore. His third year out, the gelding won the Blink Of An Eye Handicap and the Bob Moore Memorial Stakes-G3, both at Reming- ton. “We recently lost three great men who contrib- uted so much and had such a passion for the Quarter Horse industry; they will be missed,” John says.
Also on the Bradbury owner’s roster were Dolls Prodigy, who was bred and co-owned with Marvin Willhite; and In Kuh Hoots, bred and owned by Tom, his son Tom Jr. and daughter Lisa.
Dolls Prodigy, a 1996 filly by Ronas Ryon and out of Ive Been Lied To by Six Fols, won the Rocky Mountain Futurity-G3, the Cherry Creek Futurity-G3 and the Mile High Futurity at Arapahoe as a freshman, then ran third in the Mile High Maturity at Arapahoe in 2000. She earned $117,535 and a 17-8-1-2 record in four years on the track. She also set a New World Record for 350 yards at Arapahoe Park.
In Kuh Hoots, foaled in 2014, won the Cherry Creek Futurity and ran second in both the Rocky Mountain and Mile High futurities. In just one year racing, the One Dashing Eagle gelding out of Shazoom daughter Forever Brad- gelina earned $101,446 and a 13-4-3-2 record. Champagne Legacy was another of John’s
top winners. The 1991 filly by Cash Legacy and out of Shesafriendly Bug by Easy Approach, was bred by Stephen and Joyce Gemlich and owned by Stephen. She won 20 of 41 races, with four seconds and 10 thirds. She earned $134,279 in her five mid-1990s years on the track, including a freshman win in the Cherry Creek Futurity
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