were Money Lender (1973), Mr. Paul (1974), Stained Glass (1975), Current Concept (1976), Misrepresentation (1977) and Jaklin Klugman (1979, the latter of whom ran third in the 1980 Kentucky Derby (grade I) during a season that garnered him California Champion Three-Year-Old Male and Horse of the Year honors. An Exciting Expansion This period coincided with the introduction of a Cal Breeders race just for fillies, and that inaugural edition worth $89,150 was won by Nell’s Briquette in 1980. Bred by Golden Meadow Farm and Rancho Mission Viejo, this daughter of Lanyon won five of her six two-year-old starts of that year, before her sophomore campaign included a win in the grade I, $138,800 Santa Susana Stakes. She also ran at four and after earning $346,735 from a 20-8-5-1 record, she produced the group II-winning sires Sanquirico and Love the Groom. Three of the next four winners of the fillies division also proved to be standouts. The 1981 victor A Kiss For Luck, Reflected Glory’s California Champion Two-Year-Old Female of that year, won the grade I, $200,000 Vanity Handicap as a four-year-old when she retired with eight wins, seven seconds, seven thirds and $588,896 in earnings from 37 starts. Bred by Rancho Jonata, her daughter Kiss for Six was the dam of the 2004 grade I-winning Cal-bred Alphabet Kisses. Fabulous Notion, the dam of 1997 grade I winner Fabulously Fast, was California’s champion female at both two and three when she also did the Cal Breeders/Santa Susana double in 1982 and 1983. Unbeaten in five starts as a juvenile, she was bred by Ray Stark and earned $702,002 from a record of 16-9-0-3 through her four-year-old season. After champion Boo La Boo’s win in 1983, Rascal Lass won the 1984 Cal Breeders. At three, this daughter of Ack Ack bred by Cardiff Stud Farm captured the grade I, $282,700 Fantasy Stakes and finished third in the $182,100 Kentucky Oaks won by Cal-bred Fran’s Valentine, before retiring as a fiveyear-old with a bankroll of $491,335 from a 40-8-9-4 record.
Golden State Series Cont’d. stakes victories were grade I wins in the 1974 Charles H. Strub Stakes, 1975 and 1976 California Stakes, 1975 Hollywood Gold Cup Invitational Handicap and 1977 San Antonio Stakes, all $100,000-plus events. His 57 trips to post also included 11 seconds and nine thirds. Flying Paster, a homebred for B. J. Ridder, posted a sixth win in a row in the Cal Breeders to close out a 10race California Horse of the Year campaign that comprised of seven victories and three runner-up finishes. In 1979, he won both the $192,400 Santa Anita Derby and $279,250 Hollywood Derby and made it three career grade I wins with a score in the 1981 San Antonio Stakes worth $159,200. After retiring with a record of 27-13-7-2 and $1,127,460 in earnings, he became California’s leading sire of two-year-olds in 1986 and 1993, as well the Golden State’s overall leading sire from 1987 to 1991. The other Cal-breds to win the Cal Breeders in the 1970s
Flying Paster—December 30, 1978
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Nell’s Briquette (#5)—December 31, 1980
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Fabulous Notion—December 30, 1982
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