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SPEEDLINES
Dream and keep the great Special Effort’s title intact. It is the fact that KJ Desparado won the All American Futurity that makes this race so elusive to win. He had run in all three Triple Crown races, going unplaced in the first two. And that is part of what makes the All American Dream so hard to achieve; on any given day, in any given year, we can never be sure who the winner will be.
Our look back at the All American Futurities of 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002 and 2012 will show us again just how elusive the All American Futurity can be when
it comes to running in these three races.
We will look at the All American Futurity winners Hustling Man (1962), Possumjet (1972), Mr Master Bug (1982), Dash Thru Traffic (1992), AB What A Runner (2002) and One Dashing Eagle (2012). But for a variety of reasons, they only won the All American Futurity, fulfilling the All American Dream, but did not win any of the other All American Triple Crown races.
Hustling Man with his connections after winning the 1962 All American Futurity.
Hustling Man Wins The 1962 All American Futurity (400 Yards)
JB Ferguson, breeder and owner of Hustling Man.
When Hustling Man won the 1962
All American Futurity, he was continuing a trend of winners owned and raced by their breeders during the first few years of the race that started in 1959. The winners Galobar in 1959 and Pokey Bar in 1961 were bred and raced by Hugh Huntley. Tonto Bars Hank in 1960 was listed as bred by Wayne Rosen, but it was Milo and C. G. Whitcomb who were responsible for the breeding, and they ended up racing him. The breeder and owner of Hustling Man was J. B. Ferguson of Wharton, Texas, an oil man and Texas rancher.
Ferguson got his start in breeding an All American winner in a most interesting way, as he started by buying Cajun-Bred Running
Horse mares. The Cajun-Bred Running Horses were a great source of speed that had been bred to run. A great example of this
is Della Moore, who was bred in Louisiana and successfully raced in Louisiana and Texas before she produced the foundation sires
Joe Reed P-3 and Joe Moore. Ferguson also bought the King Ranch-bred Top Deck to breed to these mares. One of the great horses he bred was Go Man Go, the 3-time World Champion that he raced to his championship titles. He was sired by Top Deck and out of Lightfoot Sis, one of the Cajun-Bred mares.
May West Ferguson was one of the Cajun-Bred Runners that he bought. She was sired by Marco Way, a Thoroughbred, and she was out of Dalley by Forester, a
Cajun-Bred Runner. May West Ferguson was officially raced as Mae West in the American Quarter Racing Association. Equibase lists her having 13 starts with six wins and four seconds. She set a New Track Record at Arrowhead Park for 330 yards in :17.8 and equaled a Track Record of :18.2 for 350 yards in the Speed Stakes in the Tucson Speed Trial. Ferguson bred May West Ferguson to Hy Diamond to get Diamond Mae. Diamond Mae was the 1954 Co-Champion Two-Year-
Cajun bred Running Horse Della Moore produced foundation sires Joe Reed P-3 and Joe Moore.
Eldridge Strauss aboard Go Man Go.
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Ferguson purchased Top Deck to breed to his Cajun-bred mares.
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