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are all really nice. The babies he is throwing are the type of horses that breeders are looking for and (racing) breeders are breeding right back to him.
“I think he is going to hit,” Ray continued. “A lot of people here in the Northwest are really interested in him. There aren’t many Favorite Cartels (at stud), and I am really high on him. He has a really good mind, and he is throwing that into his babies. They all have a very good hip and shoulder. He has the length that breeders look for. He is extremely well-balanced himself, and well put-together.”
KVN CORONA
(Corona Cartel-Executive Looks, Executive Menace)
Stands at Lazy E Ranch
2021 Fee: $5,000
Lazy E Ranch is home to the leading freshman sire of 2020, Jess Good Candy, and the Guthrie, Oklahoma, operation stands a pair of stallions with first-crop yearlings this year, including 2-time Champion KVN Corona. With any luck, Lazy E Ranch could have another leading contender for leading freshman sire of 2022 with either KVN Corona or The Marfa Lights.
A handsome gray horse, KVN Corona announced his arrival on the racing scene with an undefeated 2-year-old season in 2017. Perfect in six starts as a juvenile, KVN Corona won the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1 at Los Alamitos. He won the PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity-G2, also at Los Alamitos. At season’s end, his 6-for-6 mark and pair of Graded stakes scores earned him the title of Champion 2-Year-Old Colt.
For an encore, he won four of seven starts the following season as a 3 year old, including the El Primero Del Ano Derby-G3 at Los Alamitos. He also finished second in the Los
Favorite Soldier
Alamitos Super Derby-G1 and was a finalist
in the Ruidoso Derby-G1. Named 2018 Champion 3-Year-Old Colt, KVN Corona retired with a near-perfect overall record of 13- 10-1-0, having bankrolled $868,077. He stood the 2021 breeding season for $5,000. He stands as the property of Keith Nellesen.
By Corona Cartel, KVN Corona is produced from the Executive Menace mare Executive Looks, who is the dam of 14 winners, including full brothers to KVN Corona in Big Lew, winner of the Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1, and stakes winners Marney Jo and KVN Little Sister.
KVN Corona is siring exceptional individuals as evidenced by the results of the Heritage Place Winter Mixed Sale in January, where a short yearling colt by the young stallion fetched $65,000 from Run Bayou Ranch LLC. Named Ledge Is On Fire, the colt out of Sassy On Fire was consigned by Lazy E Ranch, Agent. KVN Corona was also represented by a $35,000 colt purchased by Victor Diaz at the same sale.
“They are very attractive horses,” said
Lazy E Ranch’s Butch Wise on the first-crop yearlings by KVN Corona. “They are correct, and they have a good presence about them. We are excited about offering the first set of them this year.”
MR APOLLITICAL DASH
(Mr Jess Perry-Apollitical Dash, First Down Dash)
Stands at James Ranch
2021 Fee: $2,000
Competing on the top circuits at Los Alamitos and Ruidoso Downs, Mr Apollitical Dash demonstrated his class time and time again. Impressive winner of the Southern California Derby-G2 at Los Alamitos at three, where he defeated Kissed By An Eagle
KVN Corona
($352,581) and Lotta Blues Man ($935,399), Mr Apollitical Dash made 16 of his 18 starts in stakes company. In addition to his Graded stakes win, he also finished third in that year’s Old Habits Handicap at Los Alamitos.
At two, Mr Apollitical Dash came out running, winning his career bow by a 1/2-length at Los Alamitos. He captured three of six outings in his initial year of racing, including his All American Futurity trial at Ruidoso Downs. He also annexed his Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity trial and ultimately, finished fifth in the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1 at 400 yards.
Mr Apollitical Dash descends from an accomplished family. His sire, Mr Jess Perry, was a Champion on the racetrack and is a World Champion sire. His dam, Apollitical Dash (by First Down Dash, AQHA’s all-time leading
sire of multiple World Champions), has also produced Grade 1-placed Oneapolliticalflight, second in the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1 and a finalist for the Golden State Million Futurity-G1. Apollitical Dash is a half-sister to World Champion Apollitical Jess and is out of three-time Champion and AQHA Broodmare of the Year Apollitical Time.
Standing at James Ranch as the property of El Cabresto Inc., Mr Apollitical Dash stood the 2021 breeding season for $2,000.
RC ME LEAVING YOU
(Coronas Leaving You-Sixy Bottom, Streakin Six)
Stands at Delta Equine Center 2021 Fee: $1,500
RC Me Leaving You is a multiple stakes winner and multiple Graded stakes-placed son of Coronas Leaving You. The bay horse is the most successful runner out of the Streakin Six mare Sixy Bottom. RC Me Leaving You’s
He has a really good mind, and he is throwing that into his babies. They all have a very good hip and shoulder. He has the length that breeders look for. He is extremely well-balanced himself, and well put-together.
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