QUALIFYING HISTORY

TrackDateRaceNameFinish 
Remington Park6/1/201311Remington Park Inv. Championship3Chart

CONNECTIONS
 C Dwayne Gilbreath
Trainer

Dwayne "Sleepy" Gilbreath is the all-time fifth-leading trainer in American Quarter Horse racing. Gilbreath has sent out 1,392 winners and the earners of more than $27.37 million from 7,239 starters. In addition to training all-time leading money earner Ochoa ($2,781,365, by Stoli), who won the Grade 1 All American Futurity and Derby (G1), he has won the All American Derby with Six Popper ($562,679) and Snow Big Deal ($405,333), and the All American Futurity (G1) with On A High ($1,167,234) and champion Refrigerator ($2,126,309).

 Roy Baldillez
Jockey

Baldillez has ridden the winners of 1,364 races and the earners of more than $17.58 million from 9,931 mounts. Baldillez is the regular rider of champion and all-time-leading earner Ochoa ($2,687,615), who he rode to win the 2011 All American Futurity (G1) and the 2012 All American Derby, and also of 2011 world champion Cold Cash 123 ($1,326,306).

 Steve Denny
Owner

Steve Denny has in his own name two winners from seven starters and the earners of $12,490.
PEDIGREE
The Long Knife - The 10th-fastest qualifier is one of the three least-experienced qualifiers to the Futurity, who (like fifth-fastest qualifier Hez Our Secret and ninth-fastest Big Daddy Cartel) has made only two starts.

The Long Knife won both of his races, including winning the 18th of 22 trials by 1 1/2 lengths. Bred by Steve and Lynn Denny’s Becklyn Farm of Graham, Texas, and owned by Steve Denny, the gelding is out of a graded stakes-placed earner of $22,703 who is a full sister to the stakes-winning Cash Crunch ($91,973) and a half sister to the stakes-placed Rare Ruler ($121,078), a Rare Form gelding who ran in the final of Streakin Flyer’s All American Futurity (G1). The Long Knife is trained by Dwayne “Sleepy” Gilbreath, a three-time winner of the Rainbow Futurity, and was ridden in the trials by Roy Baldillez, winner of the 2004 Rainbow Futurity aboard Thewayouwantmetoo.

Becklyn Farm has bred 54 winners from 360 starters, with earnings of $570,673. They include Grade 2 winner Tango Blue.

Tac It Like A Man (2004, First Down Dash-Jumping Tac Flash by Tolltac) is a Grade 1-winning earner of $417,763 who compiled a record of 12-6-0-2. With 31 starters in his first crop, Tac It Like A Man is represented by three stakes winners, seven other winners and the earners of $185,453 to be this year’s third-ranked freshman sire and the 77th-ranked sire overall.

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