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Stake Horses
LONE STAR PARK APRIL 25, 2009
HOTLANTIC
THE IRVING DISTAFF
HOTLANTIC wins the IRVING DISTAFF and runs a nationally ranked beyer of 103 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie for owners Ace Thoroughbreds, LLC and trainer Dallas Keen.
Watch HOTLANTIC win THE IRVING DISTAFF beating multiple stakes winners EVERLASTING BEAUTY and LOVE TO TELL.
Owning stake horses is the dream of everyone in the horse racing business. Dreams come true when hard work and dedication are top priorities. When a trainer and owners team up to make the best decisions for a special horse anything can happen.
In KING DAN's case he could have easily slipped through the cracks and never reached his full potential. He was diagnosed with OCD's in both stifles as a two year old but his dedicated owners decided on the surgery to help him have a quality of life he may not have had without it. KING DAN was sent to trainer Dallas Keen with the hopes of making a racehorse.
When he arrived at the Keen stable he was a fat little horse with a smart eye and a playful personality. He enjoyed training but was the 'class clown' on the racetrack. It didn't take long to see that if he held up he could be something special and he is.
Congratulations to owners Tom Clark and Jack Randall on their decision to give this horse a chance to be all he could be and to their special GRADED STAKES PLACED HORSE KING DAN.
THE GRADE III TEXAS MILE
KING DAN runs second to millionaire JONESBORO in the 2009 TEXAS MILE at Lone Star Park for owners Tom Clark and Jack Randall.
Look for KING DAN to run again in this years 2010 TEXAS MILE on April 24th at Lone Star Park.
KING DAN
KING DAN & co-owner Jack Randall
From hopeless to Graded stakes placed, KING DAN has come a long way in the Dallas Keen stable.
KING DAN, named after late bloodstock agent Dan Mallory, was diagnosed with OCD's in both stifles as a two year old. The veterinarians first thoughts were he would never be a successful racehorse but KING DAN's owners decided on surgery for the colt. After a lengthy lay off he was sent to Dallas Keen to condition for racing. KING DAN has now defeated horses like RECAPTURETHEGLORY and HALO NAJIB. The hard work definitely paid off and after running a tremendous second to JONESBORO in the TEXAS MILE. He has now earned more than $214,000 in his career. Look for him in this years 2010 Texas Mile at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie.
Elliecat Wins Chou Croute Handicap PAYS $159
James and Ywachetta Driver's Elliecat, dismissed at odds of 78-1, went wire to wire in the $60,000 Chou Croute Handicap for older fillies and mares Saturday at Fair Grounds.
In the Chou Croute Handicap Elliecat paid $159.40 to win – the second-highest win mutuel of the meet behind only the $233.80 win price posted on Monday by Joshua’s Cup. Lonnie Meche was aboard both longshots.
Since making the change to trainer Dallas Keen, Elliecat has 3 wins and 3 seconds in her last 8 starts, all with allowance and stake company.
ROGER SOFER'S MOODY JONES runs 3rd in the $200,000 SUNDAY SILENCE STAKES. MOODY JONES was purchased for ROGER SOFER by DALLAS KEEN for $18,000 in April. He now has earnings of more than twice what was paid for him and is number 3 on the Top 10 list of sire SENECA JONES 2007 money earners. MOODY JONES is pointed for the EL JOVEN STAKES at RETAMA PARK in October.
MOODY JONES
Allen's Oop
ALLEN'S OOP was purchased by Jim Jackson as an unnamed two year old in 1997. When Mr. Jackson and Dallas were discussing what to name the new colt Dallas suggested the name Allen's Opp because he thought Bill Allen had really 'ooped' when he sold the horse to Mr. Jackson for $25,000. Allen's Oop earned $622,461 during his racing career with Dallas Keen. He won 3 blacktype races, including the Grade III New Orleans Handicap, and the Houston Sprint Handicap and the Maxxim Gold Cup.
Arkansas Derby
Valhol
VALHOL, winner of several stake races for trainer Dallas Keen, was purchased by owner Jim Jackson as a 2 year old for $30,000. He was a shin bucked, unnamed stallion but Dallas and Mr. Jackson saw something special. During Valhol's racing carreer he not only won the Tenacious and the WhirlawayHandicaps, but also the Diplomat Way and the Maxxim Gold Cup. He finished his carreer with 6 wins, (4 blacktype), 3 seconds, and 3 thirds, earning $444,850. Valhol is now retired to Valhalla Farms in Rockdale, Texas with his owner Mr. Jackson.
My Misty Princess, Owned by Melva Lou Strehler
MY MISTY PRINCESS is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Strehler who bred and raised her. After an unsuccessful carreer with another trainer the Strehlers sent My Misty Princess to Dallas Keen in 2004. After analizing her character and making some changes to her training program, Dallas Keen turned My Misty Princess into a $100,000 stakeswinner from a minimal money earner.
My Misty Princess Gets Up in Closing Day Bluebonnet at Lone Star Park
(Sunday, October 31, 2004) - Four-year-old filly My Misty Princess rallied on the outside to defeat Queena Corrina by the smallest of noses in the $100,000 Bluebonnet Stakes on Sunday’s closing day program at Lone Star Park’s Fall Breeders’ Cup Meeting.
“She’s really coming around and I think she’s going to be a special 5-year-old,” winning trainer Dallas Keen said. “She’s just really doing good right now.”
Queena Corrina tracked the early pace in second behind Cat’s Cat and gained command into the stretch, but My Misty Princess rallied five-wide out of the turn to pass most of the field and initiate a rousing stretch duel.
“At the eighth pole when I was getting ready to head up with the horse on the lead, she kind of took a step in so I hit her left handed and she ran on with a little burst,” jockey Jamie Theriot said of My Misty Princess.
For Queena Corrina, a matter of about one inch made the difference between a $60,000 winner’s share and the $20,000 second prize.
“I don’t think I’ve lost a big one quite that close before,” trainer Donnie K. Von Hemel said. “That was painful.”
Social King, owned by the Jordan Brothers
Social King
After Dallas Keen claimed this gelding by King of Kings from Steve Assmusen for $30,000 he recognized that Social King not only was a good claim but a stake horse in the making. Social King, who captured the Donnie Wilhite Memorial Handicap at Louisiana Downs after being claimed by Keen, gained his fifth lifetime win, boosting his career earnings to $109,600 for Jordan Brothers.
Social King Trumps Field in Feature
NEW ORLEANS - Social King used a strong closing kick to prevail in the featured $34,000 allowance/optional claiming event Sunday at Fair Grounds Race Course.
Ridden by E. J. Perrodin, the 3-year-old Dallas Keen trainee settled on the inside toward the back of the pack early in the about 7 1/2-furlong turf event, before rallying to split horses late and overtake Fair Grounds veteran Gentlemen J J by 1 1/4 lengths on the line, stopping the clock in 1:31.90.
2004 Horse of the Year, Yessirgeneralsir
Yessirgeneralsir
Yessirgeneralsir, a homebred son of Patton who campaigns for Jim Jackson of Rockdale, Texas, has not missed the money since being turned over to Dallas Keen. Yessirgeneralsir came off a seven month lay off to win an allowance race by ten lengths at the Fair Grounds in March and the Grade III Lone Star Park Handicap on Memorial Day.
Local Yessirgeneralsir Wins Lone Star Park Handicap
(May 31, 2004)- It was only appropriate that a general stole the show and won the biggest race on Memorial Day in front of 15,648 fans at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. Yessirgeneralsir broke fast from the starting gate and never looked back, defeating Kentucky-based Sonic West by 2 ¼ lengths in the $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap (Gr. III). Spanish Empire was another length back in third, a neck in front of 6-5 favorite Kela, who was seeking a rare Texas Mile-Lone Star Park Handicap double.
Locals won each of the seven stakes events, despite challenges from California and Kentucky.
Yessirgeneralsir, owned and bred by Jim Jackson of Rockwall, Texas, took command from the outset, setting swift fractions of :22.85 for the first quarter-mile, :45.67 for the half and 1:08.54 for six furlongs. On the turn for home, jockey Omar Figueroa set the 4-year-old gelding down for a drive and he drew off by six lengths, passing the mile marker in 1:34.07.
Yessirgeneralsir, conditioned by Dallas Keen, completed the 1 1/16 miles on a fast main track in 1:41.29 - the third-fastest clocking in eight runnings of the race.
It was Yessirgeneralsir's first stakes win. He was the most lightly raced horse in the six-horse field with just two wins in seven starts before the race. His last start was a third behind Kela and Supah Blitz in the Texas Mile, his stakes debut.
Yessirgeneralsir, who paid $25.20 to win as the second longest price on the board at 11-1, earned $180,000 for the victory and improved his career earnings to $252,555.
Petionville Indeed, 22-1 shot wins $100K Walmac
Longshot Petionville Indeed Pulls Upset in Walmac Lone Star Oaks
(Friday, July 4, 2003)- Petionville Indeed, making a huge jump into stakes company off her maiden victory in May, drew off to an impressive four-length upset over Tiva’s Little Sis in Friday night’s $100,000 Walmac Lone Star Oaks in front of a season-high 26,318 fans at Lone Star Park.
Overlooked at 22-1 by bettors, Petionville Indeed and jockey Terry Stanton covered the 1 1/16 miles over a firm turf course in 1:43.88 for trainer Dallas Keen and owner Everest Stables of North Oaks, Minn.
The 3-year-old filly by Petionville relaxed well behind early leaders Sea Bloom and Heart of the Cat in a full field of 12. Around the far turn, Stanton asked Petionville Indeed for run and the filly responded with an effortless surge to the front of the pack. As Petionville Indeed widened her margin, the only question was whether Stanton would be able to hang on as his mount admired the facility in the final furlong.
Keen, the hot trainer of the moment with 11 wins from 22 starters the last three weeks, explained that Petionville Indeed has always been a curious horse.
In her last race, similar antics nearly cost Petionville Indeed her first win in a maiden special weight for 3- and 4-year-olds on the turf.
The lightly-raced filly paid $46 to the imaginative punters who foresaw her second career win. The $60,000 winner’s share of the purse raised Petionville Indeed’s career earnings to $79,950.
The Walmac was the second local stakes win for Keen, who led the Lone Star Park trainer standings in 1997 and 1998. It was the first local stakes win for Stanton, who grew up just minutes from the Grand Prairie racetrack.
