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Texas Hero’s leading money earner Texie Two Step, shown winning a PSBA Classic trial.
SPEEDLINES
World Champion Texas Hero, sire of Elaina Go Go.
to Dash For Cash. Elaina Sweetness had only two starts, with one third place finish. She is the dam of four APHA starters with two ROM, including Sequoyah Stakes second placed Suzys Hero by Texas Hero, earner of $57,092.
Elaina Rae QH, by Zevi TB, is the dam of Elaina Sweetness QH. She earned $380,133, but never won a stakes race. Elaina Rae was second in both the All American Futurity-G1 and the Heritage Place Futurity-RG1. Her produce record shows that she is the dam of eight ROM and two stakes placed runners: Jessie Rae, who was second in the AQRA Turf Paradise Derby-G3; and First To Elaina, second in the QHBC Sunbelt Juvenile Handicap. The dam of Elaina Rae is race winner Desirae by Mighty Deck by Top
Deck. The dam of Desirae is Wading Rader by Indian Hill and Wading Rader is out of Miss Sungress by Nail.
The Nick
A nick is the phenomenon that happens when a stallion and a mare combine to produce outstanding foals.
We can find a variety of ways a nick can happen. We commonly see a nick when a stallion is bred to a line of mares sired by a specific broodmare sire. Then we see that
a nick can happen between an individual stallion and mare. That is the nick we see with CRM Livewire when crossed RP Miss Reckess Dash by Reckless Dash.
When we look for genetic patterns that have contributed to the nick, we see
that RP Reckless Wire and her siblings have a breeding pattern of 6x5x5x5x3 to Dash For Cash and a breeding pattern
of 7x6x6x6x4x5 to Rocket Wrangler,
the sire of Dash For Cash. When we
see the position of Dash For Cash and Rocket Wrangler in the pedigree, we see
it is balanced throughout the pedigree. A balanced pedigree is one that shows the common ancestor spread through the pedigree providing several lines or avenues for those genes to come down into the foals produced from this cross.
This time we see this balanced cross has produced some consistent runners
that are sound - the kind of consistency that allowed RP Reckless Wire to be the 2021 Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Triple Crown High-Point Champion.
Raise A Jet, sire of Texas Hero.
Elaina Rae, dam of Elaina Sweetness.
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