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My Charlie Time, by Charlie Bird, after winning the 1987 Louisiana Breeders’ Laddie Futurity.
Rocket Wrangler, the sire of Charlie Bird
stakes winners and 39 stakes placed runners. He was also a noted broodmare sire with
his grandget earning $6,420,918 with 522 ROM, 38 stakes winners and 52 stakes placed runners. Kitaman was sired by Go Man Go and out of Kitabar by Three Bars. Kitabar was out of Wakita by Leo.
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of Strawberry N Cream was CF Buds A Smokin, the second dam of Cowboys Gun Z. She was third in 2004 Quicksilver Stakes. She had 13 starts with one win, five seconds and one third earning $14,415. She is the dam of seven foals with three starters and one ROM. That ROM was CF Smokin Gun, the dam of Cowboys Gun Z. Her race record shows 10 starts with one win, three seconds and two thirds earning $27,451.
The sire of CF Buds A Smokin is Strawflyin Buds, who made 18 starts with seven wins, two seconds and five thirds winning $315,974. He won the 1998
Kitaman, the sire of Strawberry N Cream - the third dam of Cowboys Gun Z
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The sire of Strawflyin Buds was Strawfly Special, winner of the 1990 Southern California Derby. He was sired by Special Effort, who was sired by Raise Your Glass and out of Go Effortlessly, who was sired by Double Devil, who was out of Bella St Mary, who was out of Dolly Mack. Go Effortlessly was out of Hijo Beauty by Spotted Bull. This gives Go Effortlessly a breeding pattern of 3x2 to Spotted Bull.
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also third in the 1997 Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1 and the Ed Burke Memorial Futurity-G1. The sire record for Strawflyin Buds shows that he had 283 ROM with 23 stakes winners and 30 stakes placed runners with earnings of $4,561,751. As a broodmare sire his grandget earned $7,659,164. This includes 234 ROM with 28 stakes winners and 19 stakes placed runners.
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stakes finalist in Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby. They were both sired by Count Giacomo.
The first foal out of My Strawberry Wine was Strawberry N Cream, the third dam of Cowboys Gun Z. This mare went unplaced in five starts. She was the dam of 11 foals with 10 starters, six ROM and three stakes placed foals. Her foals earned $164,472. Her stakes placed foals include Count The Pockets with seconds in the 1991 Remington Park Futurity-G1 and the Pegasus Stakes
and Creamin Count with seconds in the Remington Park Futurity, the Oklahoma Derby Challenge and thirds in the Sooner State Stakes-G3 and the Midwest City Stakes-G3.
Strawberry N Cream was sired by Kitaman, who had 30 starts taking home two wins, five seconds and five thirds earning $19,060. He was a stakes finalist in four stakes races including the Sunland Park Spring Futurity, Kansas Futurity, Laddie Stakes at Centennial and the All Distance Championship Series #2 at La Mesa Park. Kitaman became a consistent sire with his foals earning $4,410,936 with 60 ROM, 32
sire of horses like Little Blue Sheep, a two- time Champion Aged Mare and the second dam of leading sire and 2002 Champion Aged Stallion Jess Louisiana Blue.
Charlie Bird is the sire of My Strawberry Wine, the fourth dam of Cowboys Gun
Z. He was a stakes placed runner who
was second in the 1976 New Years Derby, the Juarez Derby and the Delta Downs Handicap. He was second in the 1977
Delta Downs Cup Series #1 and the Delta Downs Cup Series #2. He won 13 of his 35 starts with 10 seconds and 3 thirds earning $31,750. He sired 36 ROM runners with two stakes winners. The stakes winners
were My Charlie Time, winner of the 1987 January Futurity and the Louisiana Bred Laddie Futurity, and Patrick Bird, winner of the Rocky Mountain QHA Maturity. Charlie Bird was sired by the All American Futurity winner Rocket Wrangler, by Rocket Bar and out of Go Galla Go by Go Man Go. Rocket Wrangler was the sire of the legendary Dash For Cash. The dam of Charlie Bird was Miss Hijo Peggy by Hijo The Bull by Spotted Bull. The dam of Miss Hijo Peggy was Peggy N, and she was the dam of Prescott Peggy Joe, the dam of Peggy Toro the dam of Easy Six. Peggy Toro was sired by Hijo The Bull and that makes Peggy Toro and Miss Hijo Peggy 3/4-sisters.
My Strawberry Wine was unraced due to an injury. She became the dam of seven foals with five starters with two ROM and one stakes winner in Pocket Profit who won 24 of 46 starts. He made the finals in 25 stakes races, winning eight of them, including
the 1986 Hopes and Dreams Futurity-G3, Oklahoma Bred Futurity, Darrel Rose Futurity and Mid America Futurity. He
won the 1987 Budweiser Derby-G1 and the Nicholas Express Handicap-G3 as well as the 1989 Fair Meadows Stakes. Joys Profit was the other ROM runner, and he was a
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