News - Breeding March  28, 2024

Grade 3 Winner RC Me Leaving You Retired to Delta Equine Center


Rc Me Leaving You, under jockey Rodrigo Vallejo, winning the Grade 3 B.F. Phillips, Jr. Stakes at Lone Star Park.

© Dustin Orona Photography

VINTON, LA—NOVEMBER 21, 2018—Grade 3 winner RC Me Leaving You SI 105 has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2019 at Delta Equine Center near Vinton, Louisiana. The bay stallion's fee has been set at $1,500.

"RC Me Leaving You is a hard knocking horse that retired sound after a five-year career and more than 30 starts," Delta Equine Farm Manager Caleb Findley said Wednesday. "For the breeder looking to breed soundness back into their program he is worth a look."

Campaigned by Bennie and Teri Jeter, the 6-year-old son of champion sire Coronas Leaving You won or placed in 22 races while earning $209,748. He won the Grade 3 B F Phillips Jr Handicap(G3)-twice, Nevill Document Solutions Stakes-twice, was second in the Sam Houston Championship Challenge(G2), Miami-Dade County Stakes, Live Oak Handicap and third in the Texas Classic Derby(G1), Sam Houston Classic Stakes(G2), TQHA Classic Stakes(G3), Hialeah Maturity and Texas Classic Juvenile Invitational.

Rc Me Leaving You, under jockey Jose Alvarez, winning the first of back-to-back stakes wins in the Nevell Stakes at Lone Star Park. © Dustin Orona Photography
RC Me Leaving You was also a finalist to the Sam Houston Championship Challenge(G2), Sam Houston Classic Stakes(G2), TQHA Classic Stakes(G2), Develop a Plan Stakes(G3) and Retama Park Derby.

His sire is the Grade 2 winning son of leading sire Corona Cartel, Coronas Leaving You SI 103 ($278,358). In seven crops to race, he has sired 17 stakes winners, 1 champion, 213 winners with earnings of nearly $9 million.

Coronas Leaving You's top performers include AQHA Racing Champion Open Me a Corona SI 106 ($929,150, LQHBA Breeders Futurity [R]-G1, etc.), Scoopies Leaving You SI 109 (to 7, 2018, $329,383, Mr Jess Perry Louisiana Downs S. [R]-G3, etc.), First Prize Bourban SI 103 ($295,617, The Treme S. [R]-G3, etc.), Dash For Coronas SI 106 ($268,737, Oklahoma Futurity-G2, etc.), Jrs Coronas Shadow SI 105 ($227,643, Delta Downs Louisiana Bred Derby [R]-G3, etc.), Rc Me Leaving You SI 105 (see above).

RC Me Leaving You is out of the Streakin Six mare Sixy Bottom SI 90, dam of 5 ROM winners including Grade 3 winner RC Me Leaving You SI 105 (see above), Grade 3 finalist Sixy Straw SI 103 ($47,036), Texas Zoomer SI 104 ($38,919), Rc Tiny Secret SI 97 ($17,250), etc.

The second dam is the stakes-placed Real Easy Jet mare Bottoms Up Jet SI 93 ($34,801), a half-sister to AQHA Hall of Fame sire Streakin La Jolla SI 99 ($56,227, sire of the #3 all-time leading sire Mr Jess Perry), and G3-placed Toast To Thinkrich SI 93 ($10,163). She is the dam of 9 ROM, 8 winners and granddam or great-grandam of stakes horses Look For Wranglers SI 102 ($134,270), Redalo SI 109 ($146,894), Toast With The Most SI 95 ($70,900), etc.

For additional information or breeding contracts contact Caleb Findley at 337-589-3078 or 447-304-4680.


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