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A Revenant’s winning connections, shown after the Rainbow Futurity victory, included owners Johnny Cope, R. D. Hubbard, Ray Willis of Rafter W Stables and Henry Southway, trainer Michael Joiner and jockey Cody Jensen.
I have eight in training right now that I had bought at the last round of sales and there isn’t a dud in the group. They are all racehorses. It’s crazy. Unbelievable, really.
“I was familiar with A Revenant as a racehorse,” Dunn added. “I had seen videos and photographs, but I never met him or saw him in the flesh. I had seen his babies, though. One thing that I really liked about him was that he was a 440 horse. His babies are 440 horses. Almost every baby of his that I have seen has the size and the bone it takes to be that All American and 440-type horse that everybody
is looking for. He just stood out in every way possible to me.”
A Revenant’s first 2 year olds came out running in 2021. The precociousness of his progeny vaulted him to the top of the first-crop sire standings, proving far and away the leading freshman sire of 2021. All told, A Revenant’s
52 runners last year resulted in 23 winners and three stakes winners with total progeny earnings of $1,184,494. The stallion’s nearest pursuer was the second-ranked freshman sire of 2021, Fly Thru the Fire, who racked up progeny earnings of $453,791 with the same number of winners as A Revenant (23).
A Revenant’s top performers on the racetrack last year included a trio of stakes winners.
His most accomplished winner was the New
Mexico-bred Revenant Moon, who won the Oklahoma Futurity-G2 and was a finalist in the Ruidoso Futurity-G1, while banking $224,418 for owners Trey Odom, Scott Bryant, Norman Allen. Revenant Moon was named the 2021 AQHA Champion 2-Year-Old Filly.
Ben Peterson’s Lil Longmire notched three wins in 2021, including a score in
the Pocatello Downs Juvenile Challenge. The bay Utah-bred filly was also runner-up in the AQHA Juvenile Challenge -G2 at Albuquerque. Idaho-bred Radar, campaigned by Vincente Treyes, captured the Crush the Curve Futurity at Pocatello Downs, and won two of four starts last season.
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