Indian Charlie -
Shahalo, by
Halo
2001
Bay
- Entered Stud: 2006 - Fee: $2,500 Stands and Nurses
Bwana Charlie
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Top Five Active FL 1st and 2nd Crop Sire
- The #3 active Sophomore Sire of 2010 in Florida.
- Top 5 active Freshman Sire of 2009 in Florida.
- 20 winners, over $800,000 from his first crop.
- First 2YO winner from his second 2nd by a neck in Grade 3 Debutante S. at Churchill on June 26: Tristanme, fast-closing runner-up for Steve Asmussen and Heiligbrodt Racing.
- 2010 juveniles have been purchased by Gary Contessa, Wesley Ward, etc.
- Multiple Graded stakes-winning speedster with sprint wins at Saratoga, Keeneland, and the Fair Grounds.
- Never off the board in 15 starts at two and three, including the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), where he came from near last and swung 8-wide going into the stretch, to miss the Grade 1-place finish by 3/4 of a length.
- Won or placed in six other stakes, including victories in the sire-making Amsterdam S. (G2) and Lafayette S. (G3).
- Won first three starts at three by a combined 16 lengths.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Bwana Babe charged to her third consecutive victory at a mile or more on July 5, winning a $76,500 allowance at Monmouth over older fillies and mares...
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Tristanme, a 2-year-old filly from the second crop of Bwana Charlie, rallied strongly in the stretch to fall a neck short when finishing second in the $108,800 Debutante S. (G3) on June 26th at Churchill Downs...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Journeyman Stud's Consolidator and Bwana Charlie second crop of runners have put both of the stallions in the Top 5 of the 2010 Florida sophomore sire lists...
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Journeyman stallion Bwana Charlie got off to a good start in April, with a pair of winning fillies during the first week of the month, giving the second-crop sire a total of 10 for the year...
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Promising young allowance winners were revealed on Dec. 3rd for Journeyman Stud freshman sires Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie, as Dances With Ashley and B’wanagoldmine gained impressive second wins against top company at Calder and Fair Grounds, respectively...
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Foreman became the latest maiden special weight winner from the first crop of Bwana Charlie, as the 2-year-old colt won a 10-horse heat at Mountaineer Park the night of Nov. 2nd...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Bwana Z, a 2-year-old filly from the first crop of Bwana Charlie, could not have been more impressive in becoming the fifth winner for her sire. On July 29th at Arlington, the speedy filly scored a leisurely six-length victory while finishing up well in hand at the wire...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s Top 5 Florida Freshman Sires Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie each added impressive maiden special weight winners on July 25th to their first crop of 2-year-old runners...
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Author: By Nick Fortuna
Wildcat Heir has to be feeling a bit like Nuke LaLoosh, the pitcher in the classic baseball movie “Bull Durham” who famously told his catcher that he wanted to “announce his presence with authority.” Since joining Journeyman Stud in Ocala in 2006, the stallion has certainly done just that...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s freshman sires Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie have gotten off to a lightning-fast start with their respective debut crops to hit the racetrack, ranking nationally as the Leading Freshman Sires through May 12th with an impressive six combined winners from nine starters...
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Bwana Charlie received his second 2-year-old winner in four starters from his debut crop when Bwana Express became a first-out winner in a $27,000 maiden special weight heat at Calder Race Course on May 11th. The win moved Bwana Charlie into second behind Wildcat Heir on the Leading Freshman Sires list...
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Malawi, a 2-year-old filly from the first crop of multiple graded stakes winner Bwana Charlie, became the first starter and first winner for her sire, impressively drawing off to win her debut by four lengths in a 4 ½-furlong maiden special weight heat April 10th at Keeneland...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Brent & Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud has set stud fees for its expanded 11-horse roster for 2009, it was announced Tuesday, Nov 11th...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The strength of family for Journeyman Stud’s Bwana Charlie continues to get better and better, as his most recent successful sibling, My Pal Charlie, claimed an impressive 4 1/4-length victory in the $515,000 Super Derby (G2) on Sept. 20 at Louisiana Downs...
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Friday, August 22, 2008
Two of Journeyman Stud's young guns enjoyed successful showings from their first yearlings offered at public auction, as racing prospects by Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie were well-received at the OBS August Select Sale on August 18...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Top 3-year-old My Pal Charlie is getting closer to Pyro. After finishing second by three lengths to highly-regarded Pyro in the Louisiana Derby (G2) in March, Journeyman Stud stallion Bwana Charlie's full brother whittled the margin between the two to less than two lengths in the Northern Dancer Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs on June 14...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
My Pal Charlie came into the $600,000 Louisiana Derby (G2) off two straight victories at Fair Grounds...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
After breaking his maiden at Fair Grounds on Jan. 26, My Pal Charlie came back in a $40,000 allowance race on Feb. 14 and made it two straight...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Bwana Charlie, a Grade 2 stakes winning son of top sire, Indian Charlie, is going to stand the 2008 breeding season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud...
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Bwana Charlie Generational Pedigree
Dosage Profile: DP = 6-2-10-0-0 (18) DI = 2.60 CD = 0.78
courtesy of Pedigree Query
Race Record:
| Year |
Age |
Starts |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
Earnings |
| 2005 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
$7,500 |
| 2004 |
3 |
10 |
4(2) |
2(2) |
2(1) |
$349,690 |
| 2003 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
$31,660 |
| Total |
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18 |
4(2) |
4(2) |
5(2) |
$388,850 |
Winning trainer Steve Asmussen said "the Amsterdam win puts Bwana Charlie among the top three-year-old sprinters in the country."
"The only stakes races we have won [at Saratoga] have been with special horses," Asmussen said. "Good horses don’t win stakes races here; it takes a great horse to win a stakes here." - Trainer, Steve Asmussen
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