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The Bigtime and Royal Fast in the James Isaac Hobbs Stakes-G2 at Zia Park and was a finalist in the Lovington Stakes-G2. He notched a
win at four, taking an optional claiming race at Ruidoso Downs, boosting his career earnings to $110,373 before retiring to Lone Star Farms/ Rafter S Ranch in Texas.
His dam, Jess Genuine, has produced 14 winners, including eight blacktype runners. She is the grandam of Rappid, winner of the Speedhorse Futurity-G3, and stakes winner/ New Track Record setter Azoomin Jamie.
James Fowler of Lone Star Farms/Rafter S Ranch is extremely high on Bogart’s first yearlings.
“They are magnificent,” Fowler said. “They are the quickest colts I’ve seen in my life. They are fast. All of them have excellent conformation and they have really good minds. Everyone who has seen them has fallen in love with them. He was bred
to a bunch of nice mares. We are very high on his yearlings and so is everyone else who has seen them.
“Bogart is a nice, easy horse to get along with,” Fowler said of the stallion. “You can handle him with your little finger. He loves people, is easy to manage, and he settles his mares.”
Flare For Ivory
(Ivory James-Special Phoebe) Stands at Vista Equine Colorado 2020 fee: $2,000
Flare For Ivory possessed a flare for winning. The son of Ivory James and out of Special Phoebe, by Special Effort, emerged victorious in six of his 18 lifetime starts, placing in three others. As a 2 year old, he won two races, including his Ruidoso Futurity trial at 350 yards and his Rocky Mountain Futurity trial at Arapahoe Park, also
at 350 yards. He finished third in his West Texas Futurity trial at Sunland Park, and was fourth in the Ruidoso Juvenile Invitational.
The following year at three, he won his Heritage Place Derby trial at 400 yards over the Remington Park strip and captured an allowance race at Ruidoso Downs. At four, he won two stakes, proving best in the Arapahoe Park Sprint Bonus Challenge at 300 yards, and winning the Dash For Speed Stakes at 300 yards at Arapahoe.
Flare For Ivory is produced from the Special Effort mare Special Phoebe, a Champion Aged
Big Lew
Mare who recorded 12 wins to the age of four, earning $139,963 during her racing career. She has proven to be an outstanding producer as well. She is the dam of 16 winners from 25 starters, including the likes of Grade 3 winner A Special Sno Flo and stakes-placed Special Phoenix.
Flare For Ivory’s second dam is Dashing Phoebe, a two-time Champion and AQHA Hall of Fame Horse, as well as an AQHA Dam of Distinction. Dashing Phoebe won the Kansas Futurity-G1 and is herself the dam of 15 winners, including four-time Champion Heartswideopen.
Jake Dahl from Vista Equine Colorado has been impressed with Flare For Ivory’s youngsters.
“We don’t have any of the yearlings in sales prep yet, but from the babies we’ve seen, we’re really liking them,” Dahl said. “We had one go in the winter mixed sale and it sold well. They all have really good dispositions. They have the same build as their sire; big, kind of leggy colts, big-bodied. They look fantastic. We’re excited about them.
“When I brought him to the farm, and we have reiners, cutters, and other racehorses here, my guy who handles the studs, said, ‘We need more stallions like this one.’ He said, ‘This
is the most easy-going stallion we’ve ever had here.’ That tells you all you need to know about what kind of horse he is. That is the best way
I can explain it. He is a good-mannered stud.
I like his disposition so much, there isn’t really another stallion I can compare him to.”
Fly Thru The Fire
(Walk Thru Fire-Babe On The Fly) Stands at Burns Ranch
2020 fee: $2,500
Fly Thru The Fire was cut out to be a racehorse. By Walk Thru Fire, the sire of World Champions Heza Dasha Fire and Last To Fire, among numerous other Champions, Fly Thru The Fire descends from a prolific female family. His dam, Babe On The Fly, has produced 34 starters and 24 winners, including multiple Grade 1 winner Rock You, Grade 1 winner Little Talks, stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Ali Babe Foose, and many other black-type runners.
Fly Thru The Fire came out of the blocks quick at two. Unbeaten in two starts in 2013, the sorrel colt won his Ruidoso Futurity trial at
Bogart
350 yards and his All American Futurity trial
at 440 yards. At four, he captured an optional claiming race at The Downs at Albuquerque, finished fourth in the La Plata Stakes-G3, and was a finalist in the Higheasterjet Handicap-G3.
He became a stakes winner at five, winning the City of Hialeah Stakes at Hialeah Park at 400 yards, defeating Jessies First Down and Lucky Me. He finished second in the Sam Houston Classic-G2 at Sam Houston, and
he also placed in the Sam Abbey Memorial Invitational at Hialeah and in the Downs at Albuquerque Fall Championship.
Power Jam TB
(Concord Point-Musical Rhythm) Stands at Jumonville Farms
2020 fee: $2,500
Power Jam appears set for a fast start to his stallion career, which makes sense when you consider how fast he was a racehorse, setting two New Track-Records in his Southern California racing career. The Thoroughbred stallion was all business on the racetrack, and he comes by his talent naturally, hailing from
a strong black-type family. His third dam is Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Eliza, a multiple Grade 1 winner and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-G1 Fillies winner in 1994. As a broodmare, Eliza produced eight winners, including stakes winner Samuel Morse, as well as graded stakes- placed Miss Doolittle, who in turn produced Florida Derby-G1 winner and successful Thoroughbred stallion Dialed In.
By multiple graded stakes winner Concord Point, a son of perennial leading Thoroughbred sire Tapit, Power Jam captured the Pirate’s Bounty Stakes at Del Mar as a 4 year old in 2016. In the race, the fleet-footed gray blazed
a track record for 5 1/2-furlongs, getting the distance in 1:02.10, eclipsing the previous record of 1:02 1/5 set by the legendary Ack
Ack in 1970. In his third lifetime start at Santa Anita, he set the 5 1/2-furlong track record, winning in 1:01.71. He retired to stud with three wins from five starts for trainer Bob Baffert, having amassed earnings of $130,240.
“We are very excited,” said Power Jam’s owner Ken O’Brien. “We have bred a lot of
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