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SPEEDLINES
Whistle Stop Cafe’s dam is Sinuous shown winning her Heritage Place Derby Trial.
No Fees is the dam of Sinuous.
THE DAM AND THE FEMALE LINE
Sinuous by Mr Jess Perry is the dam of Whistle Stop Cafe. Sinuous is bred and owned by Bobby Cox. She is stakes placed with a third in the Heritage Place Derby-G1 and a second in the Dash For Cash Derby-G2. She was also a stakes finalist in the Remington Park Derby-G2 and the Texas Classic Derby-G1. She earned $105,956.
The produce record for Sinuous shows she is the dam of 20 foals, 13 starters and
13 ROM, with three stakes winners and three stakes placed runners. Her other stakes winners are So Rapido by Corona Cartel, winner of the 2017 Sam Houston Derby-G3, and Marfilmio by Ivory James, winner of the Two Rivers Stakes. Her stakes placed runners are: Cannonball Run by American Runaway, who was second in the 2018 Evangeline Downs Futurity; Mansory by Ivory James, who was second in the 2020 Prairie Dash Stakes; and Bigtime Connoisseur by Bigtime Favorite, who was second in the 2015 TQHA Sires’ Cup Derby and third in the Sam Houston Juvenile.
The dam of Sinuous is No Fees by Runaway Winner. No Fees was bred by
Iris Buchanan and transferred to the partnership of John Buchanan and Bobby D. Cox in 2002. She went to the track with John Buchanan as the trainer and she went six for six from five starts in 2003 and one start in 2004. She won the TQHA Sale Futurity-RG1, the Texas Juvenile Challenge in 2003 and the Miss Houston Stakes in 2004. She earned $166,320.
No Fees is the dam of 35 foals with
31 starters and 24 ROM including one stakes winner and three stakes placed foals. Her foals have earned $719,621. Her stakes winner is Hawkeye, the winner of $219,737. He is a two-time stakes winner in the Sam Houston Classic Stakes-G2 and the Harris County Stakes. Her other two stakes placed runners are Andorite, third in the Remington Park Futurity-G1, and Heavy Croozer, second in the Heartbeat of America Handicap-RG3.
Feefees Celebration by Takin On The Cash is the dam of No Fees. She was bred by Paul F. Gratton. Gratton and John Buchanan formed a partnership to race Feefees Celebration in 1999. She had two starts and two wins with earnings of $7,760. Then she was transferred to John’s wife, Iris. In 2005, she was transferred to a partnership of Buchanan/Eller/Pitman. She was then purchased by Bobby Cox in 2015.
Feefees Celebration produced 14 foals and 11 ROM with one stakes winner and
one stakes placed runner as well as four stakes finalists. Her foals earned $295,569. Her stakes winner was No Fees. Her stakes finalists are Prime Fees by Prime Talent, Fee Lion by Panther Mountain, Ivory Celebration by Ivory James, and Tempting Fee by Tempting Dash. Her stakes placed runner is Zoomin N Celebrating with a second-place finish in the TQHA Sires’ Cup Derby. This mare was disqualified and placed ninth in this race, but she still shows up as a stakes placed runner.
Fitting Celebration is the dam of Feefees Celebration. She is a 1990 mare bred in Florida by John Shaw Jr. of Jacksonville. Her sire is Ronas Ryon by Windy Ryon
and she is out of Dream Duck by the Thoroughbred Duck Dance. The dam of Dream Duck is Here Comes My Baby by the Thoroughbred Third Martini. Here Comes My Baby is out of Shining Saint by St Bar. Her dam is Shining Note by Palleo Pete, and Shining Note is out of Gold Note. Gold Note is the dam of Golden Note, who is a full sister to Shining Note.
Fitting Celebration was sold as a yearling in 1991 to Paul F. Gratton of Tarpon Springs, Florida. She raced from 1992 to 1994 with eight wins in ten starts, earning $47,775. She was a stakes winner of the 1993 Speedhorse Gold & Silver Cup Derby-G2. It was in this derby that she set a New Track Record of :19.550 for 400 yards at Trinity Meadows. After this race, she entered the training barn of John Buchanan. She made two more starts in
No Fees winning the TQHA Sale Futurity.
Hawkeye is the only stakes winner out of No Fees.
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Hawkeye shown winning the Sam Houston Classic-G2