Stakes winner and stakes sire Too Tough To Catch will stand the 2024 breedng season at Snow Ranch, LLC is Gainesville, Texas.

© Don Shugart

GAINESVILLE, TX—OCTOBER 3, 2023–Too Tough To Catch SI 104, a stakes winning and stakes siring son of leading sire Corona Cartel, has been purchased by Snow Ranch, LLC and will stand for the 2024 breeding season at their ranch in Gainesville, Texas.

His fee has been set at $1,250, including first shipment and chute fee. If additional shipments are required it's $400 per shipment to cover collection and shipping charges.

From limited starers in 13 crops to reach racing age, Too Tough To Catch has sired 34 winners, 1 stakes winner, multiple stakes finalists, earnings of more than $1 million and average earnings per starter of $14,700.

Tf Corona N Passion winning the $45,000 Virgil Bond 870 Stakes at Delta Downs. © Coady Photography

His top race performers include Tf Corona N Passion SI 99 (6 wins to 7, $84,956 Virgil Bond 870 S., Marathon S., etc.), Bye Bye Corona SI 99 (4 wins to 6, $103,969, 4th Jaguar Rocket Stakes, finalist Miss Roxie Little Futurity), Mr Black Jet SI 103 (5 wins to 7, $75,738, finalist Gillespie County Fair Futurity-G3), Too Tough Adash SI 98 (5 wins to 7, $72,395), Tough Enuff SI 97 (5 wins to 5, $56,136, finalist Billy Montgomery LAD S.), Toast To Catch SI 95 (2 wins to 2, $49,025, 4th Mardi Gras Futurity-RG2), Good And Tough SI 95 (3 wins to 5, $45,443), Seemenowcatchmelater SI 91 (3 wins to 5, $43,866, finalist LQHBA Sale Invitational S.), One Tough Fox SI 97 (2 wins to 4, $41,615, finalist Mardi Gras Futuritiy-RG2), and One Tough Rio (3 wins to 4, $38,686, 4th Old South Derby), Hf Omaha Omaha SI 93 (2 wins to 4, $40,197, finalist Harley Green Derby), etc.

Too Tough To Catch won or placed in 10 of 15 career starts and earned $152,424. He won the Easy Jet Stakes at Remington Park, was second in the Speedhorse Gold & Silver Cup Futurity(RG1) and third in the Oklahoma Derby(G3). He was also a finalist in the Heritage Place Derby (G2).

His sire Corona Cartel SI ( $557,142) won the Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1. The #2 all-time leading sire, Corona Cartel has sired 194 stakes winners, 10 champions, earning more than $69 million including Blues Girl Too SI 104 (World Champion, $2,032,328, Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Teller Cartel SI 108 (champion, $1,212,471, All American Futurity-G1, etc.), Five Bar Cartel SI 91 (champion, $1,068,825, Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Kvn Corona SI 95 (champion twice, $868,077, Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, etc.), etc.

Too Tough To Catch's dam is the stakes-placed Easily Smashed mare Hotsie Tootsie SI 93 ($20,713), dam of 10 winners, 14 ROM, 3 black-type including Grade 2 winner Corona Fireball SI 101 ($181,112, Oklahoma Futurity-G2, etc.), stakes winner Too Tough To Catch SI 104 (see above), RG3-placed Snow Ridge SI 96 ($18,492), etc.

The second dam is the stakes-placed Sinn Fein mare Coleen Of Sinn SI 97, dam of 10 winners, 12 ROM, 6 black type including stakes winner Footprince SI 111 ($72,382), RG3 winner Trickie Lassie SI 97 ($43,029), stakes winner Roving Legacy SI 93, stakes-placed Harwell SI 107, Hotsie Tootsie SI93 and Tricky Fein SI 92, etc. She is also the granddam of stakes horses Trick On The Run SI 103 ($86,816), The Corona SI 101 ($51,607), Ira Runner SI 103 ($47,358), Brags Hero SI 108 ($42,658), etc.

For additional information or breeding contracts call Shane or Brooke Snow at (432) 638-1620.