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LADYBUG BRED COSINO TO STAND IN LOUISIANA
Cosino, with champion jockey G.R. Carter aboard, record at 101 speed index at Lone Star Park on Novembeer 29.
Photo courtesy: Lone Star ParkWELSH, LA—DECEMBER 10, 2008—Cosino, half-brother three grade 1 winners out of a former Broodmare of the Year, will kick-off his breeding career at Hebert Quarter Horses near Welsh, Louisiana in 2009. His fee has been set at $1,200.
Recently purchased by Chad Hart from his breeder Weetona Stanley, the 3-year-old son of leading sire Corona Cartel has won or placed in five of eight career starts. He is expected to continue racing until breeding season begins.
Cosino is out former Broodmare of the Year First Prize Dash, a full sister to All Time Leading Sire of Money Earners First Down Dash.
He is a half-brother to 14 ROM winners including three grade 1 winners, First Carolina ($415,047), winner of the Heritage Place Futurity(G1); First Prize Robin ($295,147), winner of the Remington Park Futurity(G1); Fast First Prize ($244,929) winner of the Heritage Place Futurity(G1); grade 2 winner Heza Fast Dash ($136,123) winner of the Blue Ribbon Futurity; grade 1 stakes-placed First Prize Perry ($243,946) runner-up in the Texas Classic Futurity(G1); stakes-placed and restricted grade 1 finalist First Prize Parris ($71,617 at 2, 2008) and stakes-placed and restricted grade 1 finalist First Prize Timber ($52,672 at 2, 2008).
Another half-brother, First Prize Stanley, topped the 2008 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale with a final bid of $675,000 paid by Hart.
Half-sister Fast First Prize is the dam of grade 1 winner Fast Prize Zoom who set a new world record in her first start at 2, 2008 then returned two weeks later to break the record again while winning the West Texas Futurity(G1). The filly covered the 300 yards in :14.678 seconds. An earner of nearly $200,000 she also finished fourth in the Rainbow Futurity(G1) in her only defeat.
His half-brother Heza Fast Dash, who currently has his third crop at the track, has consistently been among the top-three sires in the nation for his stallion crop. He sired last year AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Gelding nominee Senor Seabolt, an earner of nearly $400,000.
Hart also owns and stands First Prize Perry at Hart Farms near Kaplan, Louisiana.