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in that one start and then after surgery for the injury she retired to the broodmare band. But sadly, she produced only two foals, and both earned their ROM in racing.
The Urschels didn’t let another low keep them from continuing. Jolene recounted
what happened next, “Dan and Leo were
so devastated, so I said, ‘Let’s go and find something else.’ We got the plane out and started looking. We tried to buy several of the good horses that were running at Ruidoso at that time, but they would not sell them to us. We ended up out in California watching some of the trials and races out there. Pie In The Sky caught our eye and we bought him. He was third in the Kindergarten Futurity and the Skoal Dash For Cash Futurity. Then, we transported him to Ruidoso for the All American. The trials were his first races at Ruidoso.”
Pie In The Sky, by Easy Jet and out of Miss Jelly Roll by Roulade, came through for the Urschels and ran the fastest qualifying time in 32 trials. He then came back and won the finals by 1 1/4-lengths, giving them the All American Futurity win. He was named the 1979 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. He retired with a record of five wins in 13 starts and earnings of $616,328.
Jolene told the following story about Pie’s All American win, “If you have ever seen a picture
of Pie In The Sky at the finish line of his All American it shows him taking a funny step or jump across the finish line. That is because people had to walk on the track to get to the infield. And when Pie In The Sky got there, he a saw a line and jumped it. So I guess he jumped into All American Futurity history as the 1979 winner.”
Dan and Jolene had won the All American, but they wanted to go back, so in 1980 they bought a gelding named Mighty Deck Three, a son of Mighty Deck and the mare Miss None Such by Mr Bar None. The Urschels took a similar route that they took with Pie In The Sky, only this time Mighty Deck Three ran in the Rainbow Futurity and won. He came back in the All American Futurity trials for a win and then he finished second by a nose in the finals to Higheasterjet. This was the slimmest margin of victory until Mr Piloto beat JLS
Mr Bigtime by the same margin in 2010. Higheasterjet was trained by Johnie Goodman and ridden by Billy Hunt.
Special Effort entered the picture at this point, but let’s look at some of his history before we go on. The dam of Special Effort was Go Effortlessly, by Double Devil a son of Double Bid. The dam of Double Devil was Bella St Mary by Spotted Bull TB. The dam of Go Effortlessly was Hijo Beauty TB by Spotted Bull. She was bred by the Tom L. Burnett
Cattle Company of Fort Worth, Texas, a part of the Burnett Estates that was owned at that time by Anne Burnett Tandy, the daughter of Tom Burnett who was the son of Samuel Burk Burnett, the founder of the famous Four Sixes Ranch of Guthrie, Texas.
Go Effortlessly, foaled in 1969, was purchased by L. D. Roden of Joshua, Texas, as a weanling. Earl Cowey bought her as a yearling, and he started her on a very long race career. Her first start came in January of 1971. Some of the highlights of her race career was a second in the 1973 La Carrera de Amistad Stakes at L.I.F.E. Downs and she set a New Track Record in 1973 in a 400 yard allowance at Columbus, Texas, going in a time of :20.26. She mostly raced in allowances. Cowey sold her to Harold Stone in late 1973. He really made her work
in 1974 with 16 starts, winning only one and placing second twice. Her race career shows 51 starts from 1971 to 1974 winning eight with seven seconds and four thirds, earning $6,085 with a speed index of 98. She raced at 13 different tracks.
Stone sold Go Effortlessly in late 1974
to Allen Moehrig and she started her life as broodmare. Special Effort by Raise Your Glass
TB was her fourth foal. Raise Your Glass had 19 starts with four wins, five seconds and four thirds, earning $81,222. He won the Tremont Stakes. He was a son of Raise A Native by Native Dancer. His dam was Champagne Woman by Barbizon. Raise A Native and Barbizon were both Champion Two Year Olds, showing the early maturity needed for good racing at the age of two.
Raise Your Glass became a successful sire of both Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds. He was a million dollar sire of Thoroughbreds and a $10 million sire of Quarter Horses.
His money earners include Medley Glass, winner of the 1978 All American Derby-G1; Native Gambler, winner of the 1980 All American Derby-G1; Sompinlikaglass, winner of the 1986 Firecracker Futurity-G1; and Ryons Glass, winner of the 1985 Firecracker Futurity. One of his leading Thoroughbred runners was Raise A Governor, winner of 25 of his 67 starts including the 1993 Belmont Day Sprint at 5 furlongs, the 1992 Derby Day Breeders’ Stakes at 6 furlongs, and the 1991 Preakness Day Handicap at 7.5 furlongs.
Reports indicate that Marvin Selig and Emmett Donegan loaned Moehrig the money to
The Urschels purchased Mighty Deck Three in 1980, and he won the Rainbow Futurity and ran second in the All American Futurity.
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