Tejano Run

Tejano Run
Sire	Tejano
Grandsire	Caro
Dam	Royal Run
Damsire	Wavering Monarch
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1992
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Runnymede Farm
Owner	Roy K. & Joyce Monroe
Trainer	Kenneth McPeek
Record	21: 8-4-6
Earnings	US$1,166,842[1]
Major wins
	Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes (1994); Breeders' Futurity Stakes (1994); Fort Harrod Stakes (1996); Pioneer Stakes (1996); Fall Championship Stakes (1997); Widener Handicap (1997) American Classic Race placing:; Kentucky Derby 2nd (1995)
Honours
	Tejano Run Stakes at Turfway Park

Tejano Run (May 5, 1992 – 2011) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background

Tejano Run was bred by Catesby W.Clay at his Runnymede Farm.[2] He was purchased and raced by Roy K. Monroe and his wife, Joyce. He was trained by Kenneth McPeek,

Racing career

As a two-year-old Tejano Run notably won the Breeders' Futurity Stakes and Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes. His best result at age three was a second to Thunder Gulch in the 1995 Kentucky Derby. He then ran ninth to winner Timber Country in the Preakness Stakes and did not run in the Belmont Stakes.

Raced at age four and five, Tejano Run earned victories on both dirt and turf. He set a new stakes record in winning the 1996 Fort Harrod Stakes on turf at Keenelan Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. At Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, he won the 1996 Pioneer Stakes and the 1997 Fall Championship Stakes. The Pioneer Stakes was renamed in his honor. Ridden by Pat Day in the 1997 Widener Handicap on dirt at Florida's Hialeah Park Race Track, Tejano Run earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 123.

Stud record

Retired to stud duty in Kentucky, since the 2006 breeding season Tejano Run has been standing at Michael and Chris Blake's Ascot Stud[3] at Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.[4] Among his progeny are:

One For Rose - three-time Canadian Champion; career earnings $1,291,303
Anglian Prince (b. 1999) - won Marine Stakes; career earnings $685,577
Shaws Creek (b. 1999) - won Clarendon Stakes, Plate Trial Stakes; career earnings $628,130
Dionisia (b. 2003) - Italian Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (2005), Italian Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (2006)[5]

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References

http://www.pedigreequery.com/tejano+run Tejano Run's pedigree and partial racing stats
http://www.runnymedefarmky.com/
Tejano Run at Ascot Stud
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/29871/tejano-run-to-ascot-stud-in-canada
http://www.canadianthoroughbred.com/cj904404.pdf%5B%5D Complete profile for Tejano Run, with offspring, at Canadian Thoroughbred Stallion Registry

External links

Video at YouTube of Tejano Run winning the 1997 Widener Handicap

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[1] ttp://www.pedigreequery.com/tejano+run Tejano Run's pedigree and partial racing stats

[2] ttp://www.runnymedefarmky.com/

[3] Tejano Run at Ascot Stud

[4] ttp://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/29871/tejano-run-to-ascot-stud-in-canada

[5] ttp://www.canadianthoroughbred.com/cj904404.pdf%5B%5D Complete profile for Tejano Run, with offspring, at Canadian Thoroughbred Stallion Registry