Charlie India is a bright shooting star who won an outstanding level 1 award with a pace that took a toll on his physical health and prevented him from starting his career more than five times. However, the son of the In Thua line was equally outstanding, having had a significant influence on the Purebred breed, as evidenced by his presence in the stud lines or as the sire of 15 catchers. top of this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championship.
Aside from the depth of representation, the descendants of the Breeders’ Cup of Charlie India illustrate their range of abilities from the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) contenders. Flight route and Hot Rod Charlie for Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) participants Mo Stash and Curly Larry and Mo .
Classic’s 3-5 morning favorite, Flightline, is the highest record of the group. He is an undefeated 4-year-old son of Tapit 3rd class winner Charlie India Hairy . Flightline was bred by Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Farm and raced by partners Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, Summer Wind Equine, West Point Thoroughbreds and Woodford Racing with coach John Sadler.
Bret Jones with Airdrie Stud, who stood India Charlie from 2003 to 2011, said the resemblance between the two horses was undeniable.
“Every time I see a picture of Flightline, I see a lot of Indian Charlie in that pose with that long, stretchy horse, gorgeous body with that beautiful head and neck. It definitely makes me happy. reminds me of my grandfather,” he said.
Bret Jones
Indian Charlie is also featured in Classic by Hot Rod Charlie, by Oxbow out of the Miss India competition Charlie, Daughter of India. Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) Candidate Golden Pal the two-time Breeders’ Cup winner and favorite in this year’s race, is the son of the champion Uncle Mo , the man of Charlie India. In Longines Breeders ‘Cup Distaff (G1), we find Awakening in Midnyte daughter of 2016 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Nyquist , a son of Charlie India. Features of Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T) Bye Bye Melvin a son of Uncle Mo, while Big Ass Fans Breeders ‘Cup Dirt Mile (G1) has Slow down Andy , a son of Nyquist. Uncle Mo’s daughter, Family Road represented in Maker’s Mark Breeders ‘Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T) features, while Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) features Frank’s Rockette via Into Mischief by 3rd class winner Charlie Indian Rocket Twentyone.
Typhoon J son of Nyquist. The NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) trilogy was also introduced: American Rockette via American pharoah out of Rocket Twentyone; Leave no trace by level 1 winner Machining , a son of Uncle Mo; and You’re My Girl, by Overanalyze out of Charlie India’s daughter Queen of Peace . The Breeders ‘Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) has Xigera a daughter of Nyquist and Breeders’ Cup (G1T) Juvenile Grassland featuring Mo Stash and Curly Larry and Mo, both level 1 winners Mo town a son of Uncle Mo.
Charlie India single-handedly revived the Caro lineage that was an offshoot of Nasrullah through the classic British-placed stake winner Gray Sovereign. The path to this revival began with Soviet Sojourn, a daughter of Leo Castelli whom Earnhardt bought as a covenant for $14,000 at the Arizona Master Breeders Association in 1990 from Double D Thoroughbred Farms.
Earnhardt sent the file to Baffert after she finished third in her debut. Baffert won his first place with her at Hollywood Park, and two subsequent starts won Junior Miss Stakes (G3) and Sorrento Stakes (G3) at Del Mar. She went on to finish second in Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G2) and Oak Leaf Stakes (G2) and third in Hollywood Starlet Stakes (G1).
“I am just getting started and the Soviet Sojourn is probably my first good purebred,” says Baffert. “It had some problems and the Soviet Sojourn was originally sent to Kentucky to breed, but there was another very fast horse at the time that would stand in California named In Thua.”
In Over is a son of Siberian Express, who won four consecutive 1st place bets in 1991 – Woodward Handicap (G1), Whitney Handicap (G1), Suburban Handicap (G1) and Metropolitan Handicap (G1). ). The foal set a 10-horse long track record in Belmont Park of 1:58.33 in Suburban and retired with $1,736,733 in earnings.
Owner Mike Pegram, a friend and customer of Baffert’s, arranged for In Too to stand on the ranch of the late Frank “Scoop” Vessels III in Bonsall, California. Earnhardt twice bred the Soviet Sojourn to Kentucky stallions when Baffert urged him to keep mares. California and crossed her with In Thua in 1994, his sophomore year at university.
“We had Charlie India, the most coveted beauty, and In Too showed up,” Baffert said. “Everything we’ve bred can actually run and we’re cleaning up in the Cal-bred races.”
After Indian Charlie won the first three races for Earnhardt and John R. Gaines Racing with a total of 23 1/2, he won the 1998 Santa Anita Derby (G1) by 2 1/4 longer than the eventual winner Real Quiet of Kentucky. His 1:47 time was the fastest run in the race since Sham equalized this time in 1973. Indian Charlie started as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby and finished well in third place behind Real Quiet and Victory Gallop (who would decline Real Quiet the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes (G1) that year). Baffert has given Charlie India some time off and is aiming to return to the Haskell Invitational Handicap (G1), but a suspension injury forces the foal out of action.
Indian Fleet , who won five classified bets that year (two in grade 1) and was named the champion old mare. Next year, Blessing of the Indians (bred by Earnhardt and trained by Baffert) was named champion 2 years old and then in 2008 won the women’s sprint champion title. During his career, Charlie India has selected 83 black category winners (8% from race-age named horses), including 29 classification/group winners and eight champions . His stud fees will increase to $75,000 in 2009, and his sales average over $136,000.
As a sire, he is represented by 15 daughters who produce shares whose descendants have earned more than $31 million. From all of his daughters, he has been represented by 93 black winners, including 31 category/group winners and six champions. Hot Rod Charlie is, as of November 1, Charlie India’s top earner as a brood with $5,556,720 in lifetime earnings.
Charlie India will die too soon at the age of 16. He died on December 15, 2011, after losing his battle with cancer.
“When we lost ‘Charlie’ we collected as many Charlie Indian mares as we could,” Jones said. “From the parent stallion’s point of view, there’s a brilliantly brilliant history that holds that up. While some people look for a well-bred brood—and no one objected to that—I really enjoy seeing an excellent stallion stallion. I think Charlie India and The Song of the Unbridled fit that description, and years before that, the Secretariat had made a big impact through his daughters.
“Indian Charlie is a horse worth remembering and through his daughters and nieces, sons and nephews, he will be remembered for generations,” he said.
