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In addition to Fontana Beaujolais, Debonairess has also produced stakes winners
her knee in the finals of the Heritage Place Futurity. We did surgery and she chipped again after about two starts. I have learned over the years that patience is a real virtue in this business and it is hard to do. But you need to get locked in and give it time.”
The official race record for Crazy Down Corona shows six starts with two wins and one second earning $73,162. She made her first start in a maiden race running second and earning her ROM. Her next start was in her trial for the Heritage Place Futurity with a win. Her fifth place in the finals shows that the chip was affecting her performance. She had surgery and came back as a three year old with three more starts. Her first race was an allowance win. She tried the Remington Park Derby trials, finishing out of the money and then she ran in the Miss Olene Handicap, also finishing out of the money. Holt saw
the potential of Crazy Down Corona as a broodmare, and she was retired to the
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was the dam of 14 ROM runners from 16 starters with five stakes winners and two stakes placed runners. In addition to Fontana Beaujolais, her stakes winners included Fast Debonair, winner of the 1998 Texas Classic Futurity-G1; Lady Mara, winner of the 1997 Oklahoma Futurity-G1; Savona, winner of the 1995 Manor Downs Futurity; and Native Debonair, winner of the 1989 QHBC Northwest Classic Futurity.
He continued, as the breeding to First Down Dash is another key move in the scheme of things. “Crazy About Corona was a real nice mare just a bubble off a real top stakes mare that ran out close to $100,000 and won or placed in two or three stakes. I had an offer to sell her and then I met Jeff Jones through another acquaintance, and he had a share in First Down Dash. I knew him good enough and I went to him and said if you provide the breeding, we will foal share on this mare. We got two embryos that year and only one of them took and that was Crazy Down Corona. That is how we got that family started.”
The official race record for Crazy About Corona shows that she had 16 starts with seven wins, two seconds and two thirds earning $90,252. She was a stakes winner in the Fair Meadows Belles Stakes with a second in the Bob Moore Memorial Stakes-G3 and thirds in the Remington Park Futurity-G2 and the Kansas Futurity-RG2.
The produce record for Crazy About Corona shows that she has ten starters with
ten ROM, one stakes winner and two stakes placed runners. Her stakes winner is Jess
One More Thing, winner of the 2013 Will Rogers Juvenile with a third in both the Speedhorse Futurity-G2 and the Fair Meadows Juvenile Stakes. Her stakes placed runners
were Alotalota, who was second in the 2019 Remington Park Juvenile Stakes; and Lota Cac, who was second in the 2018 Speedhorse Derby.
Crazy Down Corona was Crazy About Corona’s 2008 foal, and she had great potential as a racehorse. Holt tells what happened. “You have to have conviction and believe in your horse. We believed in Crazy Down Corona, and she was a race mare. She was so massive as a two year old. We chipped
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the dam of eight starters with five ROM, two stakes winners and two stakes placed runners. Of course, everyone is familiar with Empressum, the half-brother to Hes Judgeandjury. He is the other stakes winner out of Crazy Down Corona and winner
of the 2021 Rainbow Derby-G1, Ruidoso Derby-G1, Texas Classic Derby-G1 and the Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby- RG2. He set two New Track Records, going 440-yards in :21.030 in the Texas Classic Derby; and 400-yards in a time of :19.149 at Ruidoso Downs. He was named the Champion Three-Year-Old Gelding. He is having a stellar year in 2022, winning races like the Vessels Maturity-G1 and Go Man Go Handicap-G1 and has qualified for the Champion of Champions.
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Crazy About Corona, the second dam of Hes Judgeandjury, has produced stakes horses that include:
Jess One More Thing, shown winning the John Alotalota, shown winning an Allowance race at Crazy Down Corona, the dam of Hes Judgeandjury, Deere Will Rogers Juvenile Challenge. Remington Park. shown winning her Heritage Place Futurity-G1 trial.
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