Fresh off his win in the $702,896 Ruidoso Derby (G1), Llano Teller saw a seventh-place finish in the Rainbow Derby (G1). The tough gelding last year won the Remington Park Futurity (G1), was third in the Heritage Place Futurity (G1), fourth in the Texas Classic Futurity (G1) and seventh in the Rainbow Futurity (G1). He has earned $870,123.

Terry Wootan’s Wootan Racing, based in Llano, Texas, has bred the winners of 13 races from 45 starts, with earnings of $921,567 in two foal crops. Llano Teller is chief among those Wootan-bred money-earners. Wootan says this gelding – who stands out from the crowd with his white socks and blaze face – has been called a “little Napolean” because of his small stature and big attitude.

“He doesn’t like to get outrun. He doesn’t like to get passed,” Wootan said. “He’s a really gritty little horse.”

But sometimes his calm demeanor belies the fire inside. “He acts like an old roping horse. He’ll scare you to death going to the track. His ol’ head’ll be down, and he’ll be moping along, but when he gets to the track, he gets down to business.”

Teller Cartel (2003, Corona Cartel-Jet Along Jamie by Easy Jet) is a champion earner of $1,212,471 and broke his maiden in the 2005 All American Futurity (G1) and compiled a record of 9-3-2-3. With 193 starters from three crops raced, Teller Cartel has sired six stakes winners, 84 other winners and the earners of more than $2.9 million. With progeny earnings of more than $1 million to date this year, Teller Cartel currently is the 14th-ranked sire of money earners in 2011.

Bred by Wootan Racing, Llano Teller is out of Annie Eye Over, a winner on the track and producer of nine winners from 11 starters. She has also produced stakes winner Eyesa Lil Cuervo (by Lil Bit Cuervo, $63,947) and stakes-placed runner Lil Annie Eye Over (by Shazoom, $33,222).