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3-Time Champion Corona Chick, the dam of Valiant Hero, winning the 1991 Dash For Cash Futurity.
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Corona Cartel won three stakes including the Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1,
Tiny’s Gay Handicap-G1 and Kindergarten Futurity-G2. He made 14 starts with six wins and three seconds earning $557,142. He is the #2 AQHA Leading Sire of Money winners with 10 Champions and earnings of over $67 million. His leading earners include World Champion Blues Girl Too, and Champions Teller Cartel, Five Bar Cartel, KVN Corona, Uncle D and Flying Fig. He is the broodmare sire of horses that have won over $67 million including World Champion Bodacious Eagle.
Corona Cash followed Corona
Cartel. She is the first of 11 foals sired
by First Down Dash and out of Corona Chick. This mare raced 32 times with
19 wins and 11 stakes wins. She won
the All American Futurity-G1, Ed Burke Memorial Futurity-G1 and Governor’s
Cup Futurity-G1 in 1997 to be named
the Champion Two Year Old and the Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. She won
the Los Alamitos Derby-G1, Governor’s Cup Derby-G1, Las Damas Handicap-G2 and Town Policy Handicap-G3 in 1998 to be the Champion Three Year Old and the Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She won the Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap-G1, Las Damas Handicap-G2 and Z Wayne Griffin Director’s Stakes-G3 in 1999. Her only stakes win in 2000 was in the Dash For Speed Handicap. Over her race career, she earned $1,542,880.
The second First Down Dash foal for Corona Chick was Count Corona. He was an ROM earner with six starts and two thirds.
#2 All-Time Sire of Money Earners Corona Cartel, a half-brother to Valiant Hero.
4-time Champion Corona Cash, a full sister to Valiant Hero, winning the 1997 All American Futurity-G1.
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