Swissle Stick also has an uncommon number of starts and durability for a speedball. A horse that work 1/8 in 10.2 and 1/4 in 21 flat is awfully fast to stay sound for 6 years with 73 starts...Wayne has a good eye for conformation and he spent quite a bit on a horse with no real top pedigree at the time. He must have liked that horse a lot,and he is not a "fast work buyer" if that is the only thing he sees.

Swissle Stick brought a final bid of $600,000 from Bob and Beverly Lewis at the annual Barretts Sale in California, drawing rave reviews when he zipped a furlong in 10.2 then came back a week later to post the fastest quarter mile breeze in 21 flat!

"21 flat, what can you say?" Lewis' trainer D. Wayne Lucas said following the purchase.

A multiple stakes-placed winner of seven races and $132,656, Swissle Stick finished third in the Charles Town Dash Invitational Handicap and Anderson Fowler Stakes. He was also a finalist in the Gold Rush Derby(G3), Texas Glitter Handicap and Tyro Stakes. He consistently broke on top and set blazing early fractions, while running the ¼ in :21.28 and half in :43.05.

Fast,gorgeous,sound and family what else is needed for cross to a quarter mare?

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10/31/12 Name Reserve Saint Sylvie Approved - Reserved Until: 11/07/2013

You are probably as crazy as I am...I am blushing at my age...And still want to say this is not being a saint only giving back just a little of all the pleasure I got from the horses.Plus who knows?May be she will give the world a champion.Horse racing is made of hope...

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I'm happy that you are pleased Sylvie, it's a fitting and proper name in my book. Let's just hope it's a filly.

Jeff

Anybody very quarter horse pedigree wise: Confederate Leader for Keen on Kash.The dam of the stallion was bred to the sire of the mare a few times and produced a world champion racehorse and a few stakes horses that way,plus I really like Special Leader(a horseman stallion,throwing solid runners for a decent price)and sensible manageable horses,What do you think?
All 4 generations of the resulting foals are stakes horse/producers and most durables horses.

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Confederate Leader X Keen on Kash results One mare placed second in BFA barrel race in 2017 and 16.1 in juvenile and her full sister (got 2 embryos) won the Quebec Breeders Cup in 2018($16,000.)
Coming next are 2 colts one by FSTV and one by MP Jet to the Sun they both will be 3 yo in 2019 . Keen on Kash deceased.

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