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Motivator, the leading money earner by Diamond Charge, winning the 1970 Go Man Go Handicap at Los Alamitos.
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Hy Diamond as a broodmare sire has grandget that have won $507,015 with 142 starters that earned 65 ROM including eight stakes winners. The leading money earner is Hustling Man, winner of the 1962 All American Futurity-G1. Hustling Man was out of Diamond Mae. Another pedigree note: Deep Diamond and Diamond Charge were both out of Depth Charge mares.
Hygro, the sire of Hy Diamond, the sire of Diamond Charge, was a stakes winner of the Joliet Stakes, Helpful Stakes, Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap and second in the Eastern Shore Handicap. He had 18 starts with nine wins, five seconds and earnings of $33,235. He sired 150 Thoroughbred foals with 115 starters and 10 stakes horses. One of his stakes winners was Quien Es, a multiple stakes winner including the Great Lakes Handicap.
He sired 65 AQHA registered foals with 19 starters and eight stakes winners. His leading stakes winner was Hy Dale, winner of the Ruidoso Downs Quarter Mile Championship and the Pacific Coast QHRA Championship. Hygro was sired by Epinard and out of Ruddy Light by Honeywood.
Lovely Lupita is the dam of Diamond Charge. She was a race mare with six starts, one win and one third earning $244. This mare was the dam of only three foals/three starters and Diamond Charge was her big money winner. She had one other ROM in Be Glad.
The sire of Lovely Lupita was Depth Charge, the winner of five of his 16 starts with three seconds and two thirds earning $5,943. He was third
in the 1943 Myles Standish Stakes. He went on to be a successful sire of both Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds. His Thoroughbreds earned $1,824,132 with 149 starters and 12 stakes horses. His stakes horses include Baloma, winner of the Debutante Stakes at the Fairgrounds in New Orleans. She was a New Track Record holder for 2 furlongs going in :21.4 at the Fairgrounds. She did it twice: in January and February of 1952 at the same track.
As a Quarter Horse sire, Depth Charge sired 221 foals with 115 race starters. They earned 80 ROM, with 14 stakes winners and 14 stakes placed runners. His runners include four Champions that earned seven
earning $22,436. His stakes win came
in the 1961 Inaugural Handicap. He was second to Tonto Bars Hank in the 1960 Kansas Futurity. He set a Ruidoso Downs New Track Record in his trials to the Kansas Futurity at 330 yards.
The sire record for Diamond Charge shows that he sired 265 foals with 173 starters that earned 83 ROM with 20 stakes winners and 13 stakes placed runners. His leading money earner is Motivator, a stakes finalist in 13 stakes races with a stakes win in the 1970 Go Man Go Handicap.
Hy Diamond, the sire of Diamond Charge, had 17 starts with five wins, four seconds and three thirds earning
$9,650. He was stakes placed in the Governor’s Cup Handicap and the Duncan F. Kenner Stakes.
The sire record for Hy Diamond shows that he sired 60 Thoroughbred foals with 36 starters and two stakes horses. One of his stakes horses
was Deep Diamond, winner of 1958 Debutante Stakes and the 1961 Ascot Speed Handicap. As a Quarter Horse sire, Hy Diamond sired 117 foals, 71 starters that earned 83 ROM and four stakes winners with one Champion. They won $146,628. His leading money earner is Diamond Charge, and his Champion is Diamond Mae, the 1954 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.
Hustling Man, whose broodmare sire is Hy Diamond – the sire of Diamond Charge, and his connections after winning the 1962 All American Futurity-G1.
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