BIG WEEK AT HERITAGE PLACE By BEN HUDSON TRACK Magazine’s On-The-Scene Owner/Editor With a catalog that includes a recent All American Futurity G1 JACK McREYNOLDS winner, a recent Running Champion, the dam of this year’s No. 1 ranked A cowboy on the big West Texas ranches before stallion, more than 100 yearlings and the third edition of A Night With moving to Oklahoma, Jack was the managing partner The Legends of American Quarter Horse Racing, October 31 through at Oklahoma Stud. Over the years, Jack managed the November 2 should be a very exciting week at Heritage Place. breeding careers of such stallions as Go Man Go, The Oklahoma City facility kicks things off Thursday (October 31) Tiny Charger, Alamitos Bar, Double Bid, Victory when horses will be available for viewing. The catalog features 655 Stride (TB) and Fleet Kirsch (TB). head of yearlings, weanlings, broodmares and broodmare prospects, stallions and stallion prospects and horses of racing age. DEE RAPER The pre-sale party in the back starts at 5 p.m. Thursday with food Still active today with his wife Betty as owners and drinks provided at the booths as everyone gathers up for the three- and managers of Belle Mere Farms in Norman, day event. At 6 p.m., the crowd will move into the Heritage Place Oklahoma, Dee is the guy who took time from auditorium for the 3rd annual A Night With The Legends of American managing the careers of Mr Eye Opener and Bully Quarter Horse Racing. Bullion to help expand gaming at race tracks in This event debuted in 2011 with a group of legendary breeders Oklahoma. and owners and last year included some of the breed’s top riders. This year 10 legendary farm managers will be on-stage to talk about what it ROYCE ROGERS was like to run a big farm and to discuss their view of the state of the Royce managed the breeding careers of Jet Deep, business. The Signature, World Champion Tiny’s Gay, Zevi (TB), Champion Bunny Bid and World Champion These men have indicated that they will be on-stage Super Sound Charge and managed farms in Texas Thursday evening for the big event: and Colorado before opening his own farm just west of Weatherford, Texas, which he still runs today. LEONARD BLACH, DVM A partner in 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine CLARY SPENCER That Bird, at Buena Suerte in Roswell, New Mexico, At his farm in Edmond, Oklahoma, just a few miles Dr. Blach managed the breeding careers of such north of where Remington Park now lies, Clary legendary stallions as World Champion runners and Spencer stood the legendary Top Moon who had a World Champion sires Easy Jet and Go Man Go. breeding fee of $3,000 in 1976 . the year after Bugs Alive In 75 set a new single season earnings record when he won the All American Futurity. ELLIS GRAGG Owner/manager of Coffee Creek Ranch in Edmond, LARRY STEVENS Oklahoma, Ellis trained and raced horses for many A stallion manager from the time he was 12 years years and then stood such stallions as What Luck (TB), old, Larry worked at Vessels Stallion Farm, Go Flight, Champion My Easy Credit, the outstanding Billingsley Creek Ranch, Spencer Farms, El Rancho runner Masters Salls (TB) and many others. Murrietta and several other places, handling some very prominent stallions and retired after managing CHARLES W. GRAHAM, DVM Abigail Kawananakoa’s Kennewick Quarter Horse Owner/manager of Southwest Stallion Station for Farm for nine years. five decades, this AQHA Hall of Fame member has stood such stallions as 1968 All American Futurity GRADY STOWE, DVM winner Three Oh’s, 1970 All American Futurity After practicing veterinary medicine in North Central winner Rocket Wrangler and 1971 All American Texas, a young Dr. Grady Stowe put together a Futurity winner Mr Kid Charge. partnership of horsemen that started Santa Rosa Stud CLAYTON KEYS in Vernon, Texas, where they stood World Champion A legend in sale management in Oklahoma and Tiny’s Gay, The Signature, Jet Deep, Loom (TB) and New Mexico, Clayton Keys was at Citation Farms Champion Bunny Bid. in Jenks, Oklahoma, the place “where champions produce champions” and stood such major stallions Butch Wise of Lazy E Ranch and Ben Hudson of TRACK Magazine as Mr Meyers, Triple Chick, He’s Gotta Go and will emcee the Legends event. Videos of the first two Legends programs Champion Jet Deck Junior. will be available at the TRACK booth during the sale. ~ TRACK’S Monday Report SPECIAL • October 24, 2013 • Page 2 ~ The Legends event is produced by Heriage Place and TRACK Magazine. The highlight of the 655 head consigned to the Heritage Fall Mixed Sale has to be 2010 All American Futurity winner Mr Piloto, 2011 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Separate Fire, 2009 Champion and very hot young stallion Tempting Dash and the multiple stakes producing broodmare Dashin Follies. Dashin Follies is the dam of PYC Paint Your Wagon, the leading sire of 2012 and currently the No. 1 sire of 2013. In addition to these horses, there will be four embryos (one out of Dashin Follies and three out of Separate Fire) in the sale. The above horses are part of a 9-horse consignment from VSE Corporation on behalf of the United States Department of the Treasury. Tempting Dash, a six-year-old First Down Dash stallion that was the Champion Two-Year-Old Colt of 2009, is scheduled to sell in absentia as hip #175. One of the most popular young stallions in the WATCH FOR US AT breed, Tempting Dash has a health-related quarantine issue that should prevent him from traveling to Oklahoma City. HERITAGE PLACE All of the VSE horses will sell on Friday with Tempting Dash being TRACK Magazine’s Maria Meras will be on-the-scene the first (#175) and a Corona Cartel embryo (#220) being the last. at the Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale November 1-2 Other major individual consignments include 12 head from Bobby Cox, 19 head from Fulton Quien Sabe Ranches, 11 head from Kelly/ dispensing sale results and selling caps and giving away Yearsley Equine, 18 head from Mickey Tiner, 15 head from Womack hundreds of copies of TRACK Magazine! Cavender Farms and 14 head from Shamrock Ranch plus the usual TRACK is the exclusive distributor of large consignments from 6666 Ranch, Belle Mere Farms, Burns Ranch, Granada Farms, JEH Stallion Station, Lazy E Ranch, Bob Moore on-site sale results at the following sales: Farms, Marty Powers, Robicheaux Ranch, Royal Vista, Royce Rogers, H Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale H Heritage Place Southwest Stallion Station and Vista Equine. H TQHA Sale H Los Alamitos Equine Sale For more information on the sale or A Night With The Legends of American Quarter Horse Racing, go to www.heritageplace.com. A H LQHBA Yearling Sale downloadable catalog is available at that site, as well as instructions www.trackmagazine.com for Equineline’s free iPad version. Information to access the live videostreaming of the sale is also available on the Heritage Place [email protected] website. Preliminary sale results may be viewed on our website during and after the sale! Mail to: TRACK Magazine P.O. 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