Posted by Don Gerstner
on 4/6/2018, 1:06 pm, in reply to "Re: AA future"
To cold outside and I've got outside work to do.
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: "Commander and Flaming Star blood
: worked well out here in KS."
:
: I bought a son of Flaming Star from Ed Niles
: out of old pie McIntyre's Blue Heather. I
: raised him in the house and I loved that
: little dog. He was killed by a truck while
: chasing a deer. One of the saddest days of
: my life. I got a letter from his trainer in
: the middle of the month and my first thought
: was "Somethings wrong!" It was,
: the first three words were "Bandit is
: dead." (I had registered him as
: Heather's Star Bandit because he had a black
: mask, his only markings.) I worked him from
: foot as a puppy, then sent him to a trainer
: in the spring before his derby year. He was
: breaking himself, placed as a derby that
: spring.
:
: Shortly thereafter, Gene Uhlman turned pro
: and I bought Counterdrive and Countercharge,
: then George Tracy offered to let me have
: Foxfire's Rhea and the rest is history.
:
: I sometimes think about what might have
: been....
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