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Little Step Derby %@>-534@&-87 C es di e n t Read more at N R C H AP r Keep2-Year-Olds Sound IT-YOURSELFER” ToddCrawford THE “DO - • Equi-Stat Junior Sires quarterhorsenews.com. NEWS.COM QUARTERHORSE / $3.99 • / APRIL 1, 2012 VOLUME 34, NUMBER 7 WEEK OF APRIL 2, 2012 QU A RTERHORSENE W S .CO M Because animals often Get the Latest Online at require immediate energy, gly- Unfortunate cogen is stored in branched or tree-like configurations in the ■ NRHA European Futurity liver and muscles. As the gly- Chic Dream Whizard, owned cogen breaks down, individual by Larisa Rizzi, and Canadian Circumstance glucose molecules flow from the Morey Fisk, won the Futurity multiple branch points and can Open Championship with a 223. then immediately be utilized for energy in the muscles or carried ■ NRCHA Stakes away from the liver by the blood Jon Roeser, Lemoore, Calif., to other organs for energy. Each rode Heart Of A Remedy to branch is like a PEZ dispenser, win the NRCHA Stakes Open as one glucose molecule is Championship. Roeser’s brother, taken, another one is immedi- Dan, Marsing, Idaho, won ately pushed into place. It takes the Intermediate Open riding lots of branches to sustain an Roosters Rozalena. animal’s metabolism. ■ The Competitive Edge An enzyme is a substance There is a time and a place for that causes a very specific bio- analyzing old performances. logical reaction in the body. If After all, this is how we avoid starting a truck were a bodily making the same mistakes over function, the enzyme is the and over again. hand that inserts the key into the ignition and turns. It is ■ The News Desk the GBE (glycogen branching Read all the latest: California enzyme) that causes an ani- ranchers face drought hard- mal’s glycogen to branch out in ship, latest on cattle prices, and several directions. Without that NYTimes Series on horse racing enzyme, the glycogen maintains fatalities and medication. The American Quarter Horse Association report- a straight chain formation as is ed recently that, according to its findings through seen in plants. genetic testing, 5.4 percent of a 200-horse study An animal suffering from GBED has no chance for sur- group tested positive as carriers of the GBED vival because there are not Come “Like” us on Facebook and (glycogen branching enzyme deficiency) gene. enough glucose branches to join the more than 145,000 other fans feed the body’s basic energy who are enjoying our postings. The Western pleasure horses had the unhappy dis- latest: text CUTTING to 99000 to get demands. Foals with GBED the top riders/scores from every two tinction of being the group in which the gene have one thing in common: sets texted to your phone by Tom Holt was most prevalent, at 13.2 percent, followed they all die. Some are aborted. during the Super Stakes. by cutting (6.8 percent), working cow horse (4.7 Some are delivered stillborn. Some live hours and a few live Video percent) and halter (2.6 percent). months. ––KT See the Action Central (Above) A normal foal, such as this one, gets up and nurses immediately after birth. Foals affected Watch cutting, reining and with GBED often are not strong enough to stand on their own. —Photo by Stephanie Duquette reined cow horse championship runs at quarterhorsenews.com. 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QUARTER HORSE NEWS / QHN Insider Staying Power here comes a time in every sire’s life when the successful offspring Peptoboonsmal’s Top Performers The’s produced go on to become Horse Earnings leading parents themselves. It’s a bit- Little Pepto Gal $526,229 tersweet moment. It ensures the con- Copaspepto $465,472 tinuation of his bloodline and proves One Time Pepto $331,097 the value of his prodigy, but it also Peptos Stylish Miss $305,712 marks a transition from leading sire to Boon Too Suen $261,641 leading grandsire. Freckles Lena Boon $259,818 Sweet Lil Pepto $237,783 Every once in a while though, a power- Peptoboonsmal has sired hundreds of Miss Stylish Pepto $226,138 ful sire like Peptoboonsmal (Peppy San successful get, but he refuses to move into Boonsmal Doctress $216,193 the grandsire column just yet. Badger x Royal Blue Boon x Boon Bar) —Photo by John Brasseaux stays strong as his offspring carry on the Swingin Star Pepto $210,581 Mountain Futurity in Ardmore, Okla., legacy. These daddies remain at the fore- Total Performers 679 Once In A Blu Boon (Autumn Boon front, even as times change. Total Offspring Earnings $18,795,916 The 1992 stallion, owned by Jackson x Dual Pep) brought his daddy back Land and Cattle, Jackson Hole, Wyo., into the spotlight. The 2008 stal- and bred by Larry Hall Cutting Horses, performers became top sires and dams lion, owned by Charlotte Farms Inc., Weatherford, Texas, hit the cutting over time. As a dam, Little Pepto Gal has Rosston, Texas, and bred by the late Bill industry wide open in 1995 at the foaled eight performers that have earned Freeman, marked a 223 and took the National Cutting Horse Association nearly $276,000. One Time Pepto has Championship title. Futurity where he marked a 225 for the produced 125 performers that have gar- A few weeks later at the Pacific Coast win. He amassed $80,487 in the show nered more than $2.1 million. Cutting Horse Association/Core Balance pen during his derby year, at which Another son of the great Derby Classic/Challenge in Paso Robles, time, he retired to stud. Peptoboonsmal, Hes A Peptospoonful Calif., Peptoboonsmal demanded atten- His popularity as a sire boomed. (Miss Smarty Rey x Smart Little Lena) tion again when his 2006 daughter According to Equi-Stat, between 1995 spent less time in the cutting pen than Peptos Opus Cat (Opus Cat x High and 2008, he sired 679 performers. some of his siblings, earning $72,951 Brow Cat), owned by David and Lisa Some of his most successful perform- toward his record, but the late 1998 Anderson, Alberta, Canada, and bred ing offspring are 1998 mare Little Pepto stallion produced 207 money-earners by Wagonhound Land and Livestock, Gal (Freckles O Lena x Doc O’Lena) and with a combined Equi-Stat record of Douglas, Wyo., grabbed the Classic/ 2001 stallion One Time Pepo (One Time more than $3.6 million. Challenge Open title with a 228.