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Crazy About Corona, the second dam of Hes Judgeandjury and Empressum, shown winning her Remington Park Futurity trial.
Fontanas Fantasy, a race winning daughter of Fontana Beaujolais, is the dam of stakes winner Okey Dokey Fantasy (shown).
from people wanting to buy her. When people start calling you wanting to buy your stock you need to look around because something
is happening. Well, come to find out John Bassett had a Royal Quick Dash, and he was telling people he thought he was the best
he had in the barn. Well, it didn’t happen
that way, but he was a stakes horse that ran out over $140,000. His name was Royal Medallion (by Royal Quick Dash and out of Fontana Beaujolais). So, I got real lucky right off the bat when I bought that mare and she hit on Royal Quick Dash. But now you look in that pedigree you see there are 8 or 10 black type horses, and she’s been bred to everything and produced. She doesn’t have all the
Mr Jess Perry, the Corona Cartel and all that, so I could breed her to anything at that time.”
Fontana Beaujolais was a race mare with 12 starts, two wins, two seconds and two thirds. She was a stakes winner of the 1994 Longhorn Futurity-G3 and third in the 1995 Longhorn Derby-G3. She earned $31,063.
The produce record for Fontana Beaujolais gives her 10 racing ROM
earners with two stakes winners and five stakes placed foals. Her stakes winners
are Crazy About Corona, the second dam
of Hes Judgeandjury and winner of the
Fair Meadows Belles Stakes; and Royal Medallion, winner of the New Mexico Derby Challenge-G3. Her stakes’ placed foals
were Shaboomator, who was second in the Ruidoso Derby-G1 and third in the Rainbow Derby-G1; Fast Fontana, second in the Fort Pierre Futurity; Frivilous Fontana, second in the Miss Houston Stakes; Paint Your Beau, second in the King William Handicap;
and Beaus Wagon, third in the Holiday Handicap. Fontanas Fantasy, a race winning daughter of Fontana Beaujolais, is the dam of Okey Dokey Fantasy, winner of the Ruidoso Futurity-G1. The stakes placed Beaus Wagon
horses. The Corona Cartel mare was one of many that has produced out of that family, but it all goes back to Debonairess.”
He later clarified what he got when he bought Fontana Beaujolais, “I got lucky!” He explained, “The Corona breeding was the first year Corona Cartel was syndicated and that first year they were getting $20,000 on that first syndicate breeding. But I was really
looking at Debonairess to be honest with you. There were only a couple of light stakes placed horses in that family when I bought her. She even had a Paint as the Grahams down in Texas had that mare, and they had bred her to the Paint Texas Hero.”
Then something changed, “I bought Fontana Beaujolais in January, and it wasn’t but about four months I started getting calls
In addition to Crazy About Corona, Fontana Beaujolais was the dam of stakes horses, such as:
Shaboomator, who ran second in the Ruidoso Derby-G1, shown winning trial.
Paint Your Beau, who ran second in the King William Handicap, shown running a training race.
Frivilous Fontana, shown running second in the Miss Houston Stakes.
Beaus Wagon, who ran third in the Holiday Handicap, shown winning her Los Alamitos Wild West Futurity-G1 trial.
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