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Champion Corona Cash, out of Corona Chick, winning the 1997 All American Futurity-G1.
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In addition to Fontana Beaujolais, the second dam of Crazy Down Corona, Debonairess is also the dam of stakes winners:
Fast Debonair, shown winning a race in 1998 at Remington Park.
Mr Dark Jet, the sire of Debonairess.
Just Another Jet, Mr Dark Jet’s leading money earner winning the 1988 Cibola Handicap
Lady Mara, shown winning the 1997 Oklahoma Futurity-G1.
Fontana Beaujolais was a stakes winner of the 1994 Longhorn Futurity-G3 and third in the 1995 Longhorn Derby-G3. She earned $31,063. The produce record for Fontana Beaujolais gives her 10 racing ROM with two stakes winners and five stakes placed foals. Her stakes winners are Crazy About Corona and Royal Medallion, winner of
the New Mexico Derby Challenge-G3. Her stakes placed foals were Shaboomator, who was second in the Ruidoso Derby-G1 and third in the Rainbow Derby-G1; Fast Fontana, second in the Fort Pierre Futurity; Frivilous Fontana, second in the Miss Houston Stakes; Paint Your Beau, second
in the King William Handicap; and Beaus Wagon, third in the Holiday Handicap.
Steve Holt said he liked her sire Moon Lark, a son of Top Moon, and Moon Lark was out of Pan O Lan by Lanolark. But the key was her dam. He explained
it this way, “Fontana Beaujolais had a lot of pedigree that had multiple black type horses. The Corona Cartel mare was one of many that has produced out of that family, but it all goes back to Debonairess, and I was really looking at Debonairess to be honest with you.”
Debonairess was a race mare with 15 starts and two wins, three seconds and six thirds earning $43,690. She was stakes placed
Steve recalled, “I got lucky! The Corona breeding was the first year Corona Cartel was syndicated and that first year they were getting $20,000 on that first syndicate breeding. There were only a couple of light stakes placed horses in that family when
I bought her. She even had a Paint as the Grahams down in Texas had that mare and they had bred her to the Paint horse
Texas Hero.
“I bought Fontana Beaujolais in January, and it wasn’t but about four months I started getting calls from people wanting to buy her,” Steve added. “When people start calling you wanting to buy your stock, you need to look around because something is happening. Well come to find out John Bassett had a Royal Quick Dash, and he was telling people he thought it was the best he had in the barn. Well, it didn’t happen that way, but he was a stakes horse that won out over $140,000. His name
was Royal Medallion. So, I got real lucky right off the bat when I bought that mare; she hit on Royal Quick Dash. But now you look in that pedigree you see there are eight or ten black type horses and she’s been bred to everything and produced. She doesn’t have all the Jess Perry, the Corona Cartel and all that so I could breed her to anything at that time.”
14 starters from 16 foals with three Grade 1 stakes winners in Corona Cash, Corona Cartel and Valiant Hero. Corona Chick is an AQHA Dam of Distinction and is the dam of one Champion in Corona Cash by First Down Dash.
Crazy Down Corona made six starts with two wins and one second earning $73,162. They were hard earned starts plagued by
a knee chip problem. She made her first
start in a maiden race running second and earning her ROM. Her next start was in her trial for the Heritage Place Futurity with a win. It appears her sixth place in the finals shows that the chip may be affecting her performance at this point. They performed surgery, and she came back as a three year old with three more starts. Her first race was an allowance win. She tried the Remington Park Derby trials, finishing out of the money, and then she ran in the Miss Olene Handicap, also finishing out of the money. She retired to the broodmare band.
The produce record of Crazy Down Corona shows eight starters, five winners/ ROM with two stakes winners/Champions and two stakes placed runners. Her stakes winners are Empressum and Hes Judgeandjury. Her stakes placed runners are Lotas First with a third in the 2021 Belles Stakes and she was a finalist in the 2021 Prairie Meadows Distaff Challenge-G3. Her second stakes placed runner is Cartel Envy, who was third in the Cherokee Nation Stakes as well as a finalist in the Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby-RG3.
Crazy About Corona is the dam of Crazy Down Corona and Steve Holt tells how he got this mare. It started with the purchase
of Fontana Beaujolais, the dam of Crazy About Corona by Corona Cartel. Fontana Beaujolais was sired by Moon Lark and out of Debonairess by Mr Dark Jet. He bought Fontana Beaujolais in foal to Corona Cartel.
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