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                 SPEEDLINES
       Whistle Stop Cafe’s sire is Freighttrain B.
He was transferred to James Sills in 2015 and then later that year was purchased by Chad Hart. Bobby Cox bought him in 2015 and he stands at the Cox Stallion Station in Louisiana.
 Bill Price bred Freighttrain B with Bob Petersen.
  THE SIRE
Freighttrain B, the sire of Whistle Stop Cafe, was the winner of the 2010 Black Gold Futurity Championship-RG3, the 2011 Oklahoma Derby and the 2011 Black Gold Derby. He
was second in the Black Gold 350 Futurity. He earned $421,761 from 16 lifetime starts with nine wins, two seconds and one third. He set a New Track Record in 2011 at Remington Park for 250 yards in a time of :12.849.
Bill Price and Bob Petersen of Thackerville, Oklahoma, were the breeders of Freighttrain B. He raced for James Sills and Gerald Swindell of Cedar Hill, Texas. He was transferred to James Sills in 2015 and then later that year he was purchased by Chad Hart. Bobby Cox bought him in 2015 and he stands at the Cox Stallion Station in Louisiana.
Freighttrain B is the #3 AQHA Leading Sire of Money Earners and the #1 AQHA Leading Sire of Two-Year-Old Money Earners for 2020. His foals earned over $4 million overall in 2020, with Whistle Stop Cafe bringing in the most. She was followed by Sheza Freighttrain T, winner of the 2020 Lassie Futurity-RG2 and second in the LQHBA Sale Futurity-RG1 and the Mardi Gras Futurity-RG2. She earned $319,979 in 2020.
The overall sire record for Freighttrain B stands at over $11.2 million in earnings. This
Freighttrain B’s second highest earning foal is Lassie Futurity-G2 winner
Sheza Freighttrain T, shown winning her 2020 LQHBA Sale Futurity trial at Evangeline Downs.
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