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We will start with her dam RP Miss Reckess Dash and her race record. She earned $4,239 racing seven times with one third place with a 91 speed index. She is the dam of five foals with four APHA registered foals and two AQHA registered foals. She has one foal that is dual registered AQHA/APHA in RP Young Kevin, a nonstarter sired by Dos Poruno. This colt colicked and died before he could start his race career. Her first starter was RP Recklesslivewire, the winner of $38,457
and a multiple stakes finalist, including a second in the 2018 Tulsa State Fair Stakes. The second starter is RP Live Wire Dash, the winner of $209,941. This gelding had 26 starts with eight wins, seven seconds and two thirds. He ran in 15 stakes races and officially won three stakes races in the 2018 Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1, the 2018 Pot O’ Gold Futurity-G1 and
the 2019 Lewis Wartchow Stakes-G1. He finished first in the 2018 Oklahoma Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1 but was disqualified and placed ninth. He was named the 2018 APHA World Champion Running Stock Horse, the APHA Champion Running
Stock Two Year Old, the APHA Champion Running Stock Two-Year-Old Gelding and the #1 APHA Solid Paint-Bred Honor Roll Gelding. Here is an interesting statistic about the soundness of this family. When we include the 11 starts by RP Reckless Wire with the starts of RP Live Wire Dash and RP Recklesslivewire, we see that they have 62 starts and have placed first, second or third in 41 of their starts, denoting the consistency and soundness of her runners sired by CRM Livewire. The three runners all have a speed index above 90. They have earned $344,488 for average earnings of $114,829.
Reckless Dash, the sire of RP Miss Reckess Dash, was bred and raced by Joe Kirk Fulton and his Fulton Quien Sabe Ranch. He was the winner of 11 of his 24 starts racing from two to four with three stakes wins in the 1990 Remington Park Derby-G2, the 1991 Jet Deck Handicap-G3 and the 1990 Longhorn Derby. He was stakes placed in three stakes, including seconds in the 1989 QHBC Juvenile Classic-G1, the 1991 World’s Champion Classic-G1 and the 1991 Champions Prep Stakes (Division 1). His other stakes appearances include being a finalist in the 1989 All American Futurity-G1 (4th), the 1989 Kindergarten Futurity-G1, the 1990 All American Derby-G1, the 1991 All American Gold Cup-G1 and the 1991 Champion of Champions-G1. He earned $315,229.
myself through the years that I am going to get a good Quarter Horse mare and breed her to Reckless Dash.”
He continued, “I found an own daughter of Merganser that I got from a lady who owned a cutting horse ranch just down the road. Her dad bought the Bobby Cox bred Texas Teal at the Heritage Place Sale. She had been injured and was only broodmare sound. They bought this mare being an own daughter of Merganser and bred good on the bottom side. We all know that Bobby Cox only breeds the best. They brought her home and raised four babies out of her through cutting horses. This mare got off to another ranch and he raised four or five nice geldings out of her that were real good ranch bred horses. I bred her to Reckless Dash, and I got this bay filly. We didn’t start her till she was three and she won out about $4,000. Then
it just clicked with CRM Livewire and all of her babies have run out of this cross.”
When asked what prompted him to fulfill his dream of breeding to Reckless Dash, he said, “I just knew because of Jack Brooks with Merganser, and I liked that breeding. And anything Bobby Cox has something
to do with as the broodmare man is good.
I figured that she would be a good mare to invest in and I just loved Reckless Dash.”
The process wasn’t easy. “He was 25
when I got the mare bred. She was 17 when
I bought her. The lady wanted me to bring the mare down there and that was way down south. I said, ‘My mare is old and kind a crippled.’ It was a pretty good drive to go pick the semen up, but she said, ‘We will try it.’”
“So, I went and picked the semen up and drove like 90 miles an hour down there and back. Well, I came back and got the mare bred and she didn’t settle. So, she said, ‘Let’s try this one more time.’ She said, ‘He is pretty old, and his semen doesn’t ship good.’ So, this time she met me in Ballinger down south. I was on time and got back and the mare settled, and I got this bay filly.”
Perkins was very pleased with his new filly named RP Miss Reckless Dash. “This mare is a super nice mare. She is nice to be around, and she throws a lot of sense in her foals, and they are sound. I guess her and Livewire have just clicked. They don’t get sore and they are 100% sound so far. She is a 100% producer from starters. We missed last year. We didn’t get her bred back, and now I have her under lights. We are going to flush her and then let her carry one if we can.”
Let’s look at the pedigree of RP Reckless Wire and see where her soundness and disposition may come from in this cross.
Reckless Roula, Reckless Dash’s top money earner.
The sire record for Reckless Dash shows that he is the sire of horses that earned over $3.1 million in the AQHA/APHA. This includes 189 AQHA racing ROM and 13 stakes winners. His leading money earner is Reckless Roula, winner of $307,167. This horse was the winner of the 1995 QHBC Juvenile Classic-G2 and he was second in the 1995 Texas Classic Futurity-G1. The second leading money earner for Reckless Dash is Reckless Bug, a multiple stakes finalist in races like the 2007 Alex Picov Memorial Championship with a second place, and a third in the 2005 Canadian Futurity. He earned $103,662.
Reckless Dash has sired 16 APHA registered foals with nine race starters, seven ROM, one stakes winner and six stakes placed runners. The APHA runners have earned $100,445. His stakes winner is Reckless Cat, winner of the 2007 Great Lakes Paint Derby-G3. Reckless Cat was the 2007 APHA Champion Running Two-Year-Old Gelding. His leading APHA money earner is Reckless Rocket with $40,992 in earnings. This horse was second in the 2006 Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1.
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