Wonder Wheel Could Provide Buyer The Ride of a Lifetime at Fasig-Tipton November

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00:00Wonder Wheel was actually named by my mom, and it was the last horse that she ever named

00:22for us.

00:23So when the horse won the grade ones and was subsequently named Eclipse winner, it was

00:29very emotional.

00:30It was emotional for all of us as a family.

00:32We got to celebrate that together, and it was really just an homage to my mom, the fact

00:38that the horse was as good as her name.

00:41Wonder Wheel, what an exciting broodmare prospect.

00:44To think that she's the only two-year-old champion that Indomitia has produced is really

00:48remarkable.

00:49She's only three years old.

00:51Imagine the possibilities that the buyer has in terms of the opportunity to breed her to

00:56the best alliance in the world.

00:59Right from the beginning, she just always did things a little better than everybody

01:04else.

01:05She broke her maiden very impressively at Churchill, first time out.

01:09And then she came back and won the debutante very easy.

01:12And she won the Alcibiades.

01:15I thought she ran well, but I knew she was going to have to come with a better game in

01:20the Breeders' Cup, and oh boy, she did.

01:23Her win in the Breeders' Cup was amazing, because she got away a little slow, got shuffled

01:28back.

01:29And the move she made from the half-mile pull to the wire is, you know, I've been doing

01:34this for 40-some years, was one of the more impressive victories that I've ever had.

01:39She takes command, and Wonder Wheel and Tyler Gafleon gets his first Breeders' Cup win!

01:47I haven't been training for DJ and the Greens very long, but I was very attached to Lois,

01:55and she was there.

01:57I told them early on that we were going to win the Breeders' Cup, so it was a little

02:02nerve-wracking.

02:03If I had to do it over again, I wouldn't have done it, but to have Lois there and to be

02:09part of it was very special, and we all miss her.

02:15The Green family, Leonard and Lois, have been doing business with the Taylor family

02:23for decades now.

02:25The family lost Lois this spring.

02:27I was fortunate enough to have dinner with Lynn and Lois the night before the Oaks, and

02:34I had no idea that her health had been kind of waning, but she was still so pepped up

02:40about the horse business and wanting to talk about the horses, and it was really just a

02:45great evening to have with them, and that means a lot to me.

02:50You can really summarize her potential very simply.

02:54She's by intermission, she's a two-year-old champion with good looks and a brilliant pedigree.

02:59It's a complete package.

03:01Quite frankly, in this situation, when you have a champion, we really can't afford to

03:06keep her.

03:07She basically is hopefully going to fund everything else that we do with our program, with our

03:12racing and our breeding program, and when you have a champion, you have to recognize

03:17that there are people in the industry that would love to have one of those.

03:22Watching Wonder Wheel go through the ring is going to be a completion of the circle.

03:27We bought her as a young horse, we trained her, we got her through our program, she excelled

03:32through the program and brought us countless memories.

03:37My mom named her, it was the last horse that she ever named, and it was also the last trip

03:41that my mom ever took when we ran Wonder Wheel in the Oaks, so it's going to be very bittersweet.

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