Mesa Racing, Inc.

Graded dogs and prices

Here is a list of graded dogs for sale. They sell with the expectation that they stay with their existing kennel.

Mesa Catherine, Lonesome Cry-Dress Up. In Grade B at SOKC. From an outstanding litter. This one is worth this money as a brood let alone a young active racer $800

Mesa Budget, Oneco Spirit-Mesa Meadow. In Grade A at NFM. Won another Grade A yesterday. Record for last 7 races is 4-1-1-1. Excellent brood prospect when she retires. Just turned 2 in August. $2200

Mesas Advantage, Lonesome Cry-Dress Up. In Grade C at VL, hits the paysheet often, will soon be in Grade B. Has only had about 8 lifetime starts  $2200

Mesas Inspector, litter brother to Advantage. In Grade C, always in the hunt and money, will be Grade B soon $2000. This dog would be excellent at the Gulf or Palm Beach

Mesa Alicia, Dodgem By Design-Mesa Cyndi. In Grade B at BM. Excellent bloodlines, great litter. Just 2 1/2 yrs old $800

Racing Updates

Mesa Billy, Dodgem By Design-Mesa Cyndi, won Grade B at NFM today. He had been a nice dog at Flagler before being sold by owner Joe Fusaro and moved to NFM. Now he's back in top grade
Mesa Budget, Oneco Spirit-Mesa Meadow, won another Grade A at NFM today. That win gives her a record of 4-1-1-1 in the last 7 races. I expected her to be selected for Night of Stars and am truly disappointed that she was unjustly passed over.
Mesa Alicia, litter sister to Mesa Billy, won Grade C at BM last week. I'm really pleased with her win in that I have sent reworks and previously injured racers to Cheryl King at BM. She has done an excellent job with them
Ugo Blue Belle, Trent Lee-Jr's Sable, a Mesa bred dog owned by Maria Colon, won her maiden at VL and came back the next race to finish 4th.

I've had several of you ask me about buying graded racers. I will post tomorrow the names and prices of the dogs I'd consider selling.
I ONLY discuss pricing and sales over the phone and not by email. Sorry for the inconvenience that might cause but I've had too many tire kickers waste too much of my time. My opinion is serious buyers want to talk about the prospective purchases.

Three of the Heart Ruble pups sold

Congrats to Al Borelli and Rob Cross on their purchases of Heart Rumble-Jnb Goodtime Gal pups.
The bloodline cross is interesting and Goodtime was one heckuva racer.

Don't forget to reserve your Trent Lee-Seco Ahmose pups. With his early foot and her Tampa Distance Classic win they should really produce something special

Mesa Catherine, Mesas Advantage

Mesa Catherine is one of the Lonesome Cry-Dress Up litter. She was one of the smaller females and a late bloomer.
Under trainer Tom Lawrimore of the Connell kennel she has blossomed.
Catherine recently won 2 races in a row. That got her up to Grade B. As all of you know that happens fairly often and then you immediately see the dog drop back down to a comfortable grade. In Catherine's case she won her two and then grabbed second in her first B race last night in Orlando.
That makes this old breeder happy. So if you are looking for an inexpensive graded racer that you can enjoy owning give me a call. I have two of her sisters and will be bredding them when they come off. I truly believe the bloodline is worth it.

Mesas Advantage, litter brother to Catherine, hit the paysheet agan today at VL. This guy has been VERY consistent in his first 6 starts. He has missed the paysheet only once and that was a 5th. The chartwriter called it "nice try rail" and he was only back from the winner by 3 1/2 lengths
He's running in the Hickman kennel and obviously likes it there. With their $60 a point guaranteed he will rack up a good profit as he continues to move up and improve.
This is another excellent graded dog for a reasonable price tag. Give me a call

from Mesa ville

So the three Odd Tiger pups did ok but not great in the first round. Not surprising since they'd only seen an Alldritt lure twice before Monday's race. That's ok, they're going to JAX with Rod Connell's kennel
Mesa Atlanta, Craigie Whistler-Dainty Wag, sored up after her schooling at AGP. That forced us to scratch her from the meet. She is headed to Palm Beach with Norm and Yong Rader.
Her two sisters will follow Atlanta to Palm Beach in a month or so.

Because I had nothing in the auction I decided not to attend the fall meet. I've got some other business committments and travel would have been extremely difficult to arrange

I'm going to price the Trent Lee-Seco Ahmose litter soon. I will be offering the buyers three different options: price at whelp, tattoo price and track ready price. Since the Robans will be raising and training the litter you might want to seriously consider the track ready price. You don't normally get a farm of that caliber raising your dogs every day
Please remember that is a huge risk in buying pups at whelp. The benefit to me is I don't have to pay board for 3 months but seriously consider the benefit to you before you take that plan.

JNB Goodtime Gal

I've had a couple of calls from some of you asking various questions. So I thought I'd answer them today before I head to Abilene on Wed.

1) who is JNB Goodtime Gal? I won't go into the pedigree with you because you can see all of that on Greyhound Data. But I will tell you that Goodtime made the semi-finals of three stakes races on the Jacksonville circuit in 2004.
Those stakes were the Clay County Classic, The Mayor's Cup and the Night of Stars. That was no small feat as she raced against the likes of Dustin the Way, Black Ice, Domingo Dodge and other top sprinters. (thanks to Kelly Clark for the info)

2) will I take payments for pups? The answer is yes. But I AM the bookkeeper so I try not to drag them out too long. And you have to pay board on your pups while you are making payments. I'll collect the board and pay it to the farmer for you. You are always welcome to keep your pup with the litter after you pay it off. You can move it if you want to but you don't have to

3) how do I price graded dogs? That's easy: depends on the track, the age of the dog and the dog's grade. And all of them are for sale. My idea is for both of us to make money. If you don't for whatever reason I always give discounts on future pups or graded. Having said that, it's your responsibility to let me know if something happens. I try but I can't keep track of all of them.

for those of you going to Abilene I'd really appreciate it if you walk up and say hello. I usually wear a white baseball cap that says Mesa on it in blue letters. Not hard to spot

Racing

Mesa Budget, Oneco Spirit-Mesa Meadow, won her third race in a row at NFM. After injury the youngster came back in Grade B. She won that contest and then popped off two Grade A wins to boot.
Thanks to the Robans for raising this nice one and to Bill Ross and gang for running her
Mesa Davenport, Flying Penske-Kelsos Pasadena, owned by Brett Brookman, has taken to the NFM oval. This good dog started his career at OP with the Rader team. When Norm pulled out of JAX circuit Davenport traveled to Palm Beach. For whatever reason the Royal Palm course didn't really suit him. Now he's finding a groove in Bonita Springs.
In the race Davenport won Mesa Freckles finished 4th. Freckles is a Craigie Whistler-Tnt Stardust(a litter sister to Star Wars). There were only 2 pups in the litter so I was given a return. The subsequent breeding resulted in Seabrook stakes racers Mesa Bethann and Mesa Stardust.

Mesa updates, some racing, some not

Congrats to Skip Potter on Taylor Swift's Grade C victory at St Pete. Taylor is Lonesome Cry-Mesa Cyndi and a Mesa bred dog
Mesas Advantage continues to improve at VL. In 6 starts the Lonesome Cry-Dress Up pup has only missed the paysheet once.
Mesas Inspector, litter brother to Advantage, has started to get stronger also. This brother is fast but a little short and he nearly hung on to win Grade C this weekend. He is getting better.
Mesa Catherine, also a littermate to Advantage and Inspector won 2 in a row at Penn SOKC.
Mesa Bethann, Craigie Whistler-Tnt Stardust, won today for owners Kent, Gary and Scott.
Mesa Budget recently won Grade A at NFM and has started to mature into a nice top grade racer. She is Oneco Spirit-Mesa Meadow(Statesman)

Mesa Atlanta, Craigie Whistler-Dainty Wag, had to be scratched from the fall nationals. Nothing serious but she came off limping the other day and we didn't want to push her. She will be fine.
The three Odd Tiger-Mesa Jessie pups continue to improve. The May competition is DEEEEEP this meet so I'm hoping for clean round and them hitting the paysheet. Any of them not sold in the auction are committed to Rodney Cooley and Charter kennel.

Racing Updates

Two new youngsters schooled well today at NFM.
Mesa Freedom, Lonesome Cry-Mesa Cyndi, just rocketed thru the turn and won her 2nd schooling race by 10 lengths.
Her sister, Mesa Businessgal, came right back in the next race and claimed victory by 5 lengths.

Mesas Inspector, Lonesome Cry-Dress Up, won his first ever race. This is one of the pups that got caught up in that bad farm situation in Kansas so he started as an overage maiden.
The spotted dog has come up short in his first races but he managed to take the win tonight at Victoryland.

Rcing and Business Updates

Mesa Budget, Oneco Spirit-Mesa Meadow, not only went box to wire today to win B at NFM she did it by 9 lengths! You gooooo, girl!
She loves the outside and it appears she is sound again. Works for me

Many thanks to Dennis Hart for leasing me Seco Ahmose the 2005 Tampa Distance Classic winner.
Seco just came in season and will be bred to Trent Lee for her first litter
The pups are for sale and will be located at the reknowned Roban farm in Florida.
For those of you who have asked about their dogs you can just look up Red Dirt Road. 'nuff said!

Looks like Mesa Discovery will be moving into the Charter organization if she can't get her box break down pat. She has enough speed overall but it takes more early for LI and I'm not sure she has that.
In any event she is in the very capable hands of trainer Mike Cimini and we'll find out soon enough