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Gratton, who with John Buchanan formed a partnership to race Feefees Celebration in 1999. She had two wins from two starts with earnings of $7,760. She was then transferred to John’s wife, Iris. In 2005, she was transferred to a partnership of Buchanan/Eller/Pitman. She was then purchased by Bobby Cox in 2015.
Feefees Celebration produced 14 foals, 11 ROM, one stakes winner, one stakes placed runner and four stakes finalists. Her foals earned $295,569. Her stakes finalists are Prime Fees by Prime Talent, Fee Lion by Panther Mountain, Ivory Celebration by Ivory James and Tempting Fee by Tempting Dash. Her stakes placed runner is Zoomin N Celebrating, with a second place finish in the TQHA Sires’ Cup Derby. This mare was disqualified and placed ninth in this race, but she still shows up as a stakes placed runner.
The stakes winner and first foal out of Feefees Celebration is No Fees by Runaway Winner.
No Fees (the second dam of Whistle Stop Cafe) was bred by Iris Buchanan and transferred to
the partnership of John Buchanan and Bobby D. Cox in 2002. She went to the track with John Buchanan as the trainer and she went six for six, with five starts in 2003 and one start in 2004. She won the TQHA Sale Futurity and Texas Juvenile Challenge in 2003, and the Miss Houston Stakes in 2004. She earned $166,320.
No Fees went to the broodmare band and her first two foals were bred by the Buchanan/Cox partnership. They were Andorite by First Down Dash, who finished third in the Remington Park Futurity-G1; and Heavy Croozer by Panther Mountain, who was a second place finisher in the Classic Chevrolet Heartbeat of America Handicap. Bobby Cox bought No Fees for the Cox Ranch broodmare band in 2006.
No Fees is now the dam of 35 foals
with 31 starters and 24 ROM. She is the dam of one stakes winner and three stakes placed foals with earnings of $719,621. Her stakes winner is Hawkeye, winner of the Sam Houston Classic Stakes-G2 and Harris County Stakes and 2nd in the Canterbury Championship Challenge with earnings of $219,737. This son of One Dashing Eagle was a finalist in the 2017 All American Futurity-G1 and the 2018 Rainbow Derby-G1. Hawkeye is another Cox bred
to pass through the John Buchanan training barn. See Worthy, Jess Scared Money, Zenergy and Mulliner were her stakes placed runners. Zenergy is the dam of the Cox bred stakes winners Zenergetic, winner of the
No Fees is the second dam of Whistle Stop Cafe
No Fees, shown winning the TQHA Sale Futurity-G1 in 2003
Mother’s Day Stakes, Selma Stakes and Miss Houston Stakes, and Enthusiastique, a stakes winner in Mexico of the The Prize Classic.
The third foal out of No Fees is Sinuous by Mr Jess Perry. This mare was stakes
placed with a third in the Heritage Place Derby-G1 and a second in the Dash For Cash Derby-G2. She was also a stakes finalist in
the Remington Park Derby-RG2 and Texas Classic Derby-G1 with earnings of $105,956.
Sinuous is the dam of Whistle Stop Cafe. She is also the dam of 19 other foals with 13 starters/ROM, three stakes winners and two stakes placed runners. Her other stakes winners are So Rapido by Corona Cartel, winner
of the 2017 Sam Houston Derby-G3, and Marfilmio by Ivory James, winner of the Two Rivers Stakes on Sept. 25 and second in the North Central QHRA Futurity, 2019 Rocky Mountain Championship and third in the Gopher State Derby; Canonball Run by American Runaway was second in the 2018 Evangeline Downs Futurity; Mansory
by Ivory James, was second in the 2020
Prairie Dash Stakes; and Bigtime
Connoisseur by Bigtime Favorite was
John Buchanan is a common denominator when you see Cox bred horses in the winner’s circle.
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