FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - AUGUST 19, 2009
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DOUBLE BAR S RANCH EXCITED WITH ITS 2009 EQUINE SALE CONSIGNMENT

LOS ALAMITOS RACE COURSE, CYPRESS, CA... Jerry Young, the ranch manager at the Double Bar S Ranch, has spent a lifetime around Quarter Horses. His experience and expertise have helped him develop a fine eye for fine equine specimens. He knows what he likes and he likes what he knows. And when he sees something that he likes, his judgment is usually right on.

"I remember when we saw (champion) Carters Cartel as a baby," Young says. "We picked him right from the start. He was a different looking Corona Cartel baby but we liked him a ton. He was hurt at the end of his career or there's no telling how good he could have been. He is now in his first year standing at Lazy E Ranch and Lazy E has bred some nice mares to him. His babies will be born next year and we're excited to see them."

"When you are looking at babies, it's been the same way for a long time," Young explains. "Most are looking for pedigree and balance. You are always looking for an athletic looking horse. It's like what D. Wayne Lukas said, 'you're looking for a cat in the tree. When you see them, you know that's the one,' " Young added with a smile.

Double Bar S Ranch will bring in some fancy cats - seven yearlings in total - to the Los Alamitos Equine Sale on October 3 and 4 and many of these yearlings are highly regarded by Young and Double Bar S Ranch. The babies will feature a nice mixture of bloodlines from up-and-coming stallions like Azyoucansee and One Corona combined with broodmares featuring the classic lines of Dash For Cash, Azure Te, Jet Deck and The Signature.

Two of the seven yearlings in the Double Bar S Ranch consignments are out the mare Ladies N Jens. A daughter of Dash For Cash, Ladies N Jens started 31 times and finished in top three 15 times to the tune of $83,511. She ran in the 1998 Golden State Futurity and the Southern California Derby and Golden State Derby in 1999. All but three of her starts came at either 350 or 400 yards. Ladies N Jens, who competed in 14 stakes races in her career, has one filly sired by Ed Burke Million Futurity finalist One Corona (Hip #4 Unnamed) and another filly sired by the deceased Strawflyin Buds (Hip #33 named Budderscotch).

"We've always liked the looks of One Corona's babies," Young explained. "There are not a whole lot of babies sired by One Corona but he looks like he's definitely going to work out as a sire. He's been standing in Utah, but we are thinking about bringing him back to Double Bar S Ranch. We love the fact that he gives his babies a nice overall look to them.

"What we really like about Ladies N Jens is that her daughters have developed not only into nice runners but also wonderful producers. It's that old Dash For Cash line. We feel that the fillies out of this mare will themselves become great broodmares. Budderfly Effect is a daughter of Ladies N Jens sired by Strawflyin Buds that has already shown that. It goes back to the Strawfly Special and Dash For Cash cross that has always seemed to work. One Corona is a son of Strawfly Special, just like Strawflyin Buds, so that's what we are trying to recapture by breeding Ladies N Jens to this young stallion."

Budderfly Effect won the 2004 Northwest Juvenile Challenge at Les Bois and was second in the Bitterroot Futurity earlier that year. In the breeding world of Quarter Horse racing, she is best known as the mother of Effectiveimmediately, a filly that is undefeated in two starts this year and who looked promosing when posting the fastest qualifying time to the Kindergarten Futurity earlier this year. Effectiveimmediately did not race in the Kindergarten final but she is expected to make her next start in the trials to the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity in mid September.

The young Arizona-based stallion Azyoucansee has two babies as part of the Double Bar S Ranch consignment. He has a filly that is a half sister to Los Alamitos Invitational Championship winner Strength In Numbers and also a colt Hip #223 named More Than You Know out of A Tiny Bit More. Azyoucansee ran in nine stakes races in his career, including a second to Flys R Streakin in the 2002 Governor's Cup Futurity and a third in the 2003 Southern California Derby.

"He was a couple of ticks away from being a superstar horse," Young said of Azyoucansee. "He had a huge heart as a racehorse and we've already seen a couple solid runners sired by him win this year. He is a great looking horse, a big, stout specimen. Trainer Chris O'Dell has a filly named Azshecanfly that was really impressive this year.

"We believe that the (Hip #177) filly out of Strength Of Heart is an outstanding broodmare prospect. Her mother produced Strength In Numbers and obviously Strength In Numbers has shown what she is capable of doing at 440 yards. Strength Of Heart made 15 starts and all but two were at distances longer than 300 yards," Young continued.

"A Tiny Bit More had a lot of run as a two-year-old, but she became ill and we almost lost her," Young explained. "When she came back, she ran once more after long bout of pneumonia. We retired after she broke her maiden and bred her. Her first foal was Corona Couture, who proved to be a nice mare.

"A Tiny Bit More's baby (Hip #223) in the sale is an outstanding colt. He's big and burly looking. His confirmation is something that we love. I can't say enough about this colt. He's a big, strapping colt and I think when people see him, they'll like him. We'll make them look the best that we can and let everyone make up their mind. I'm excited about this colt."

One Corona is the sire of Hip #199 What Up and Hip #234 Nosay. The filly named What Up is out of the First Down Dash mare Up Down Dash, a multiple allowance winner at Los Alamitos who ran third to Shahayla in the 1997 Las Damas Handicap. What Up is a half sister to Bud Cheeks, who ran second to Hulapai in the Grade 3 Dillingham Handicap earlier this year.

"First Down Dash mares have always been a good outcross to the blood of Strawfly Special," Young added. "Up Down Dash is a foundation type mare for us and that's why we went to One Corona with her. We've had a couple of Strawflyin Buds out of her that have been productive and we hope for much of the same (from What Up).

Nosay is out of Band Of News, another mare that Young described as "an old foundation type mare."

"A guy gave Band Of News to us and she was 24 when we bred her to One Corona," Young said. "She was just one of those old hard-knocking mares. She was a thing from the past, but it is that old blood that some people really like. She is a Band Of Azure mare and these mares have always crossed well with Strawfly blood. We thought that by mixing in a little bit of that old blood with the new blood of One Corona that maybe it would result in a little bit more magic."

The Double Bar S Ranch consignment wraps up with Hip #315, a filly named Things That Fly sired by Strawflyin Buds. Things That Fly is out of the mare Dividends Declared, a First Down Dash mare out of the great producer Easy Henrietta. Dividens Declared is a full sister to the outstanding runners Holland Ease (the sire of Corona Cartel), champion Four Forty Blast, and stakes winner Brisco County Jr. Dividends Declared ran third to Metallic Lion in the 2003 Governor's Cup Futurity and also qualified to the Ed burke Million Futurity and the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity and Derby races. Dividends Declared earned over $100,000 in her 12-race career.

"We are looking forward to a good sale," Young said.

In order to receive a sales catalog for the upcoming 2009 Los Alamitos Equine Sale, please contact the Pacific Quarter Horse Racing Association (PCQHRA) or simply logon to www.losalamitosequinesale.com and click on catalog request. The PCQHRA can be reached by dialing 714-236-1755 or by e-mailing pcqhra@earthlink.net. The 2009 catalog will be released in the first week of September.