“Walk Thru Fire” syndicated for $10 million
Previously owned by a partnership that included trainer Jaime Gomez, Walk Thru Fire has been one of the most talked about stallions in Quarter Horse racing, thanks to a first crop featuring Kindergarten Futurity winner Gold Nugget Rd and Ed Burke Million winner Higher Fire. Prior to the purchase and syndicated for $10 million.
while Walk Thru Fire, who was syndicated for $10 million a couple of years ago, won the Three Bars Award for Outstanding Stallion.
“My good friend Spencer Childers had never bought a share on a stallion in his life,” Allred added. “When he was 95-years-old he paid the money to be in this syndicate. I could have bought Walk Thru Fire, once for a couple of $100,000 dollars. Mike Abraham and I eventually ended up paying $8 million for him, but we are glad that we did.”
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Dexter Morgan, a Walk Thru Fire colt for $157,000
High-seller at the Los Alamitos Equine Sale was Hip 328, Dexter Morgan, a Walk Thru Fire colt for $157,000.
Ramiro Villarreal Guajardo purchased Dexter Morgan (Hip #328) for the sale-topping price. The sorrel colt is out of the outstanding broodmare Fames Easy, who over the years has produced the multiple Grade 1 stakes placed filly Miss Kittys Bar Bet ($264,188), Kindergarten Futurity runner-up and All American Derby qualifier Dont Dink With Me ($164,153), and Ynot Bar, runner-up in the Governor’s Cup Futurity, finalist in the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, and a winner of $136,480.
Ramiro Villarreal Guajardo was leading buyer at the 2009 Los Alamitos Equine Sale. Los Alamitos Equine Sale
“This horse will probably go to Texas,” said Villarreal Guajardo, who finished as the sale’s leading buyer after purchasing 11 horses for $331,800.
Dexter Morgan is named after the main character of the popular Showtime TV series “Dexter”.