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Stakes placed High On Corona, out of Rare High, went on to win over $75,000 in the rodeo arena.
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Rare High, the dam of High Valor, winning the 1999 Heritage Place Futurity-G1.
earned $566,221. He was the PRCA/AQHA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year in 2019 and 2020. He was voted the WPRA Horse With The Most Heart in 2021. They were fifth in the WPRA standings for 2021 with earnings of $195,595. They have won a number of rounds in the NFR, including the second and fifth round in 2019 and the second and tenth round in 2021. Due to Covid restrictions they didn’t compete at the 2020 NFR.
Lana tells about how she went to the barrel pen with High Valor, “I purchased his dam (Rare High) with the thought I would raise racehorses out of her. She had a little shorter stockier type of build. When he was born,
he was just a curious little colt and so much fun. And he was built like her. I prepped to sell him as a racehorse, but he never got as big as those sale yearlings we see that are big strapping colts that are just huge and have a huge presence about them. He was not that as a yearling, he was smaller and hadn’t really gotten into his own. But I had fallen in love with him so I just could not sell him. So, I kept him and took him to the barrel pen.
Rare High was a race mare that had 19 starts with four wins and three thirds earning
$30,381. She was a multiple stakes finalist in the 1999 Speedhorse Gold Cup Futurity-G2, the Las Colinas Stakes and the 2000 Speedhorse Invitational Stakes 2nd Division. The produce record for Rare High shows that she produced 11 foals with six performers/ starters on the track. She produced five ROM with one stakes placed runner and earnings of $63,712. The first foal out of Rare High was High On Corona and he is her stakes placed runner with a third in the 2005 Dash
Lana Merrick Bailey, one of the first to breed to Valiant Hero, aboard Scoti Flit Bar winning the third round at the 1987 NFR.
For Speed Handicap. He was also a finalist
in the 2005 Kansas Derby-G3. He placed first, second or third in eight of his 12 starts earning $15,430. When High On Corona left the racetrack, he went on to win over $75,000
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