Grade 2 El Primero Del Ano Derby winner Hes Chickless will begin his stallion career in 2025 at Burns Ranch in Menifee, California.

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MENIFEE, CA–DECEMBER 18, 2024–Hes Chickless SI 104, California's Hi-Point 3-Year-Old Colt of 2023 will begin his stallion career at Burns Ranch in Menifee, California, in 2025. His fee has been set at $2,500, and cooled semen will be available.

Bred by Ronald or Jeryl Hartley, the son of champion and leading sire Hes Relentless won or placed in 16 races and earned $261,255. He won the El Primero Del Ano Derby(G2), Ah Sigh Handicap, and A Ransom Handicap Stakes, was second in the Kaweah Bar Handicap(G3), Fred Scane Handicap, and third in the Dillingham Handicap Stakes, and Independence Day Handicap.

Hes Chickless was also a finalist in the Los Alamitos Super Derby(G1), Los Alamitos Winter Derby(G1), Brad McKinzie Winter Championship Stakes(G1), PCQHRA Breeders Futurity(G2), Golden State Derby(G2), Los Alamitos 2 Million Juvenile Stakes, Moonist Stakes, Vandys Flash Handicap, and Azure Three Handicap Stakes.

Hes Chickless defeating Party Politics in the $195,200 El Primero Del Ano Derby at Los Alamitos Race Course.
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In six crops to race, his sire Champion Hes Relentless SI 107 ($616,380) is the sire of 52 stakes winners, 2 champions, and 250 winners with earnings over $18.8 million.

Hes Relentless' top performers include Hes Judgeandjury SI 98 (champion twice, $1,990,272, All American Futurity-G1, etc.), Dark Nme SI 110 (champion, to 3, 2024, $1,701,335, Texas Classic Futurity-G1, etc.), Hes Innocent SI 98 ($358,134, Firecracker Futurity-G2, etc.), Hesa Party Wagon SI 108 ($356,235, James Isaac Hobbs S.-G2, etc.), Relentlessly SI 104 ($343,743, Heritage Place Derby-G2, etc.), etc.

Hes Chickless is out of the multiple stakes-placed mare Chickitita, by Tac It Like A Man. She is the dam of 8 ROM, 6 winners, 3 black type including Grade 2 winner Hes Chickless SI 104 (see above), stakes winner Hard Headed Chick SI 98 ($101,871), Golden State Juvenile winner Chickititas Favorite SI 94 ($60,395), etc.

The second dam is the stakes-producing Corona Cartel mare The Devine Miss Em SI 90, a half-sister to stakes-placed Bilini SI 94 and Arethas Song SI 92. The third dam is the Dash For Cash mare Beths Beluga, a sister to stakes winner Specially Fast.

For additional information or breeding contracts, please call Burns Ranch at (951) 301-0201.