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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.