{"id":631,"date":"2006-09-05T00:55:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=631"},"modified":"2006-09-05T00:55:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T17:55:14","slug":"cox-pursues-first-all-american-win-with-two-homebreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/cox-pursues-first-all-american-win-with-two-homebreds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cox Pursues First All American Win With Two Homebreds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amarillo, Texas, September 2, 2006<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bobby Cox, the AQHA Champion Owner in 2004, has been trying to win the All American Futurity (G1) since 1976.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win it if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not in it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Cox, who is in it in a big way this year.<\/p>\n

Cox, from Peaster, Texas, bred and owns two qualifiers to the $1.9 million race on Labor Day, Genuine Botticelli and Dont Let Down. The two horses are trained by John Buchanan, who won the All American in 1987 with Elans Special. Genuine Botticelli will be ridden by Elans Special\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jockey, Alex Baldillez Jr. Dont Let Down will be ridden by Juan Vazquez, who won the 2004 All American with DM Shicago.<\/p>\n

A colt by Special Task, Genuine Botticelli is the seventh foal out the First Down Dash mare Genuine Reward.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just thought she was one of the fastest horses that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ever had,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cox said about Genuine Reward. In two starts in 1995, Genuine Reward qualified to the Kansas Futurity (G1) at Bandera Downs, but was unplaced in the final. She then was retired to Cox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s broodmare band, but her early foals did not impress the horseman.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153None of them were much of a horse,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Cox, who said he sold Genuine Reward for $7,500 last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c before her Mr Jess Perry filly Jess Genuine captured the Retama Park Futurity (G1).<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think sometimes selling the mare helps to get a runner,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cox said.<\/p>\n

Cox has kept Babe On The Beach, a stakes-winning daughter of Invisible Injun who ran second in the 2001 Golden State Futurity (G1). Dont Let Down is her first foal.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We love that mare, and we raced her,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Cox about Babe On The Beach. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just one of my favorite mares.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Cox bred Babe On The Beach to Stoli because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just kinda thought she needed some of the breeding that was in the Stoli family. I really just thought it would work. So when she had the baby, some people came by and said that he was the prettiest, best-looking baby. He was just great-looking his entire life.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The other thing was he was pretty rambunctious so we wound up gelding him,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cox added. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have had a racehorse if we had not done that. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried proving those stallions have no run in them, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a difficult thing to do. So that never bothers me a lot when the trainer says we need to geld this horse. I usually say go for it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

If you are unable to be in Ruidoso Downs for the heart-pounding events this week, be sure to catch all the action live on TVG Network. TVG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s live coverage of the All American will begin on Monday, September 4, at 4 p.m. MDT. Coverage can also be seen on Fox New York, Turner South and FSN Prime Ticket from 4-5 p.m. MDT. Delayed coverage will air on ESPN2\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wire To Wire\u00e2\u20ac\u009d weekly highlight show on September 5 at 2 p.m. MDT.<\/p>\n

In addition, the \/American Quarter Horse Racing Journal\/ is providing daily updates of the contenders and their connections throughout All American week at \/aqharacing.com<\/a>. Complete coverage of the 2006 All American winner will be in the October issue. Subscribe online or call (800) 291-7323.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amarillo, Texas, September 2, 2006 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bobby Cox, the AQHA Champion Owner in 2004, has been trying to win the All American Futurity (G1) since 1976. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win it if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not in it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Cox, who is in it in a big way this year. Cox, from Peaster, Texas, bred and owns two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqha","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}