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HONORS Gentry Farms and the Gentry Brothers, who, while living, frequently raced under solely Bob’s name to avoid having to obtain two licenses in states where that would’ve been required, earned abundant accolades. Among them are:
2020 - #63 on AQHA Top Breeders list (Gentry Farms)
2020 - #79 on AQHA Top Owners list (Gentry Farms)
2020 - #41 AQHA All- Time Horsemen (Gentry Brothers)
2020 - #46 AQHA All-Time Horsemen (Robert A. Gentry)
2003 - AQHA Special Recognition Award (Robert A. Gentry)
2015 - AQHA Special Recognition Award (Heritage Place)
AQHA Dams of Distinction: Fearless Freda, Dashing Freda, Zipp Zoro
#2 Leading Breeder (as of 3/5/2021)
#4 Leading Owner by Money Earned
(as of 3/5/2021)
Fredaville is #3 Leading Dam for 2021
(as of 3/5/2021)
Fovee is the #4 Leading Dam of 2021 (as of 3/5/2021)
Gentry Farms founding broodmare Cute Kiss.
FOUNDING BLOODLINES - CUTE KISS
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Topping the Gentry brothers’ list of horse-racing successes was buying farm- founding broodmare Cute Kiss, a 1967 filly by three-time AQHA World Champion
Go Man Go and out of the War Admiral granddaughter Cute Trick, AQHA’s 1956 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly. Cute Kiss became stakes placed, qualifying for the All American Futurity and running third in the La Pitahaya Derby at L.I.F.E. Downs.
The Gentry brothers bought Cute Kiss in 1971 and as a broodmare, she produced Easy Jet daughter Easy Kiss in 1975. Easy Kiss
won six of 21 outs, finishing second and third four times each and earning $101,022 in two years — not bad earnings today, and big bucks in the ’70s. Her wins included two futurity consolations at Ruidoso.
Easy Kiss produced seven foals, including the multiple Graded stakes winner Such An Easy Effort, by Special Effort, in 1985. At two, Such An Easy Effort won the Denim
N Diamonds Futurity-G1 at Hollywood Park and ran second in the QHBC Juvenile Classic-G1 at Los Alamitos. At three, she won the La Primera Del Ano Derby-G1 at Bay Meadows, the Heritage Place Derby-G2
at Blue Ribbon Downs, and the Sunland Park Fall Derby-G3. At Sunland Park at age four, she ran second in the West Texas Maturity-G3 and won the QHBC Distaff Classic-G1. Her career comprised 14 wins, six seconds and three thirds from 33 outs, with earnings of $496,127.
The prolific winner was also a prolific producer. As a broodmare, Such An Easy Effort carried on her bloodline’s winning legacy as the dam of 18 foals, 17 of whom raced and earned 16 ROM. Notable are 1993 Dash For Cash filly Fearless Freda, an earner of $262,121 who went on to AQHA Dam
of Distinction status; and 1996 First Down Dash daughter Deelish, who became a two- time Champion (1998 AQHA Champion 2-Year-Old Filly, 2000 AQHA Champion Aged Mare) and earner of $603,673.
Deelish in turn produced Mr Jess Perry daughter Deeheiress for the Gentrys in 2001, and in 2008 Deeheiress produced Rollickin Red, by the Thoroughbred Roll Hennessy Roll. Rollickin Red earned multiple stakes winner status with $353,002, tallying 10 wins and three seconds from 17 starts and finishing 2012 ranked 14th by wins.