Horse Racing

Texas Red Moves To Ohio’s Buckeye Stallion Station


Eric Hurst’s fledgling Ohio breeding operation got a significant boost two weeks ago when he won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and bred for the fourth season. Texas red for your stallion list.

‘s 11-year-old son Alex’s Fleet currently guarding mares at Buckeye Stallion Station, a 130-acre subsidiary of Hurst Racing Stables near Hubbard, Ohio. Stalls cost $3,000, with special consideration given to approved mares.

“I had a 10-year plan, and I was lucky that Texas Red came to me in my seventh year,” Hurst said of the livestock operation he runs along with an established spawning and recovery program. good set up. “He’s a great horse; an amazing horse to look at and, I think, a great opportunity for Ohio breeders.”

Texas Red has been standing at Crestwood Ranch near Lexington since 2017 but he slowly gets lost in the relentless wave of first year studs.

Erich Brehm, who raced and co-owned the Texas Red with Wayne Detmar, Lee Michaels, Gene Voss and coach Keith Desormeaux, said: “He had good support the first few years and then every single one after that. who are focusing on new stallions. “We needed a new home because he couldn’t get a mare. Looking back, I would have started putting him on the regional market because there was a lot of support with state money.”

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Brehm started buying stallions in early February and received requests from ranches in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas. The ownership team chose Buckeye Stallion Station because they liked the Ohio-accredited program, and Texas Red already has some good runners in Ohio.

Hurst says: red hot girl who has two wins and a second at Mahoning Valley Racecourse this year, and many roads who came in second in the Miss Ohio Best Stocks Ohio contest in 2nd place and also has two wins this year in Mahoning Valley.

“If these horses had been recognized by Ohio, they could have added $18,000 to $20,000 to their wallets,” he said. “I feel like Texas Red will perform very well here.”

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, the Texas Red falls outside the group of Chilean, 3-time bet winner Ramatuelle, who comes from the family of several Chilean champions. Afleet Alex became the 2005 3-year-old foal champion after winning the Preakness Stakes (G1) and the Belmont Stakes (G1) after finishing third in the Kentucky Derby (G1).

Brehm purchased Texas Red for $17,000 from a shipment of Three Chimneys Sales at Keeneland’s September 2013 Annual Sale. He became the winner of the third start with a score of 2 and became the 1st place in the next start with a third place in FrontRunner Stakes (G1). He went on to win the Breeders’ Cup for the Underage with a time over 6 1/2 Carpe Diem And start . A final time of 1:41.91 was the third fastest time in Teen history. At age 3, he was runner-up in the San Vicente Stakes (G2) and Dwyer Stakes (G3) before winning over Jim Dandy (G2).

Texas Red will retire 3-3-1 in nine starts and earn $1,767,300. He picked 36 winners, led by winner Sorrento Stakes (G2) My Girl Red and runner-up Dogwood Stakes (G3) someone Said So. His descendants have earned more than 2.3 million dollars.

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