WAYNE, OK—JUNE 3, 2015—James Ranch announced today that Grade 3 winner and champion sire Coronas Prospect SI 105 will stand the 2016 season at their facility near Wayne, Oklahoma.

Coronas Prospect is the sire of the fastest qualifier to the 2015 $750,000 Ruidoso Futurity, Fine Oak Corona. The 2-year-old posted the fastest time for Sunday (June 7) final after competing in 32 time trials run May 22-23 at Ruidoso Downs. Owned by Jose Sanchez and trained by Paul Jones, Fine Oak Corona has won two of three starts this season and was fourth in the Grade 2 $198,924 West Texas Futurity at Sunland Park in April.

From nine crops to race, the leading son of Corona Cartel has sired 76 winners, 10 stakes horses, 1 champion and earners of $2.8 million with average earnings per starter of $21,268.

Coronas Prospect's top performers include three-time AQHA Racing Champion Prospect To The Top SI 106 (12 wins to 5, $992,670 The Championship at Sunland Park S.-G1, etc.), Kiss A Corona SI 108 (6 wins to 4, $128,077 Oklahoma Horsemen's Association Futurity –G3, etc.), Srd Bobwirebob SI 96 (4 wins to 6, $96,602 Oklahoma Hi-Point Distance Horse Will Rogers Distance Challenge, etc.), Uncommom Episode SI 90 (2 wins to 5, $91,069 Jaguar Rocket S., etc.) Rk Lady Prospect SI 101 (6 wins to 4, $83,042 2nd Heartland Futurity, etc.), Corona Princess SI 103 (5 wins to 7, $53,220 3rd-Walter Merrick Memorial S., etc.), etc.

Owned by the partnership of Brandon Edwards, Connie Young and John Herrick, Coronas Prospect stood his entire career at Maui Ranch near Purcell before making the move to James Ranch. Vicki Coldiron managed the stallion's breeding career.

Trained as a two-year-old by Janet Van Bebber-James, Coronas Prospect set a new track record at Delta Downs when he won the Cajun Kindergarten Futurity-G3 in 2002 while covering 350 yards in :17.556 seconds to earn a career high speed index of 105.

Also trained by Paul Jones, the stallion won or placed 15 of 20 career starts and earned $164,559. He also won the East Derby Challenge(G3) and was second in the AQHA Derby Challenge Championship(G1), Southern California Derby(G1) and Holiday Handicap. He was third in the All American Juvenile and a finalist in the Z Wayne Griffin Director's Stakes(G3), First Down Dash Handicap, Firecracker Derby and Cerritos Handicap.

Bred in Oklahoma by Larry Brittain, Coronas Prospect is out of the multiple stakes producing Fantastic Native mare Fantastic Polly SI 94, dam of 13 ROM including stakes winners Ready To Rumble SI 104 ($44,673), A Triple Circle SI 98 ($18,879) and stakes-placed Fantastic Janie SI 104 ($10,348, the dam of stakes winner and track record holder A Noble Jess SI 106 ($81,175), etc.

The second dam is the stakes producing Pistol Bar mare Miss Polly Pistol SI 92, half-sister to stakes winner Bar Bob's Wonder SI 95 and stakes-placed Bold Ricky SI 95. She is the dam of stakes winner and track record holder Platinum Plated SI 100.

James Ranch will announce Corona Prospect's 2016 fee later this year. For additional information contact David or Janet James at 405.449.3728.