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Grade 3 Winner Rex Hill to Stand at Sky Stone Ranch in 2019
Grade 3 winner Rex Hill will stand the 2019 season at Sky Stone Ranch near Aztec, New Mexico.

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Grade 3 Winner Rex Hill to Stand at Sky Stone Ranch in 2019

AZTEC, NM—NOVEMBER 8, 2018—Ross Hinkins' restricted Grade 3 winner Rex Hill SI 108 will take up stallion duties at Sky Stone Ranch near Aztec, New Mexico in 2019. His fee has been set at $1,500. Cooled semen is available.

The multiple stakes winning son of leading New Mexico sire Jesse James Jr won or placed in 18 of 27 career starts and banked $226,151. He was named New Mexico's Hi-Point Aged Stallion.

Rex Hill won the New Mexico Breeders' Futurity(G3) and New Mexican Spring Fling and was second in the New Mexico State Fair QH Breeders Derby(G3), Jimmy Drake S., Zoom Zoom Zoom Stakes and third in the Zia Handicap(G2).

Rex Hill, under champion jockey Ricky Ramirez, defeating Tombstone and Jess Ruben in the $167,700 New Mexico Breeders' Futurity(RG3) at SunRay Park.
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He was also a finalist in Zia Futurity(G1), Mesilla Valley Speed H.(G2), New Mexico HBA S.(G2), New Mexico Breeders' S.(G2), New Mexico State Fair Senor Futurity(G3), Lineage Championship S.(G3), Jess Burner Memorial H.(G1), and Jess Burner Memorial H.(G1).

Rex Hill had a limited number of starters in his first crop to race in 2019.

His sire Jesse James Jr, by leading sire Mr Jess Perry, is the sire of 30 stakes winners, 1 champion, 329 winners with earnings of more than $16.4 million.

Jesse James Jr's top performers include champion Astica SI 110 (ch$411,623, New Mexico Fillies and Mares Championship S. [R]-G1, etc.), Major Bites SI 104 (to 5, 2018, $551,012, Namehimastreaker New Mexico Cup Quarter Horse Championship [R]-G1, etc.), Osbaldo SI 109 ($456,878, Jess Burner Memorial H. [R]-G1, etc.), Pistolpacking Pepsi SI 103 ($451,703, Miss Roxie Little Futurity [R], etc.), Princess Jesse SI 97 ($395,665, Lou Wooten and Sydney Valentini H. [R]-G2, etc.), etc.

In only his second career start Rex Hill winning the $50,500 New Mexican Spring Fling at Sunland Park.
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Rex Hill's dam is the multiple stakes-producing Dash Ta Fame mare Tangled Vines, dam of 15 ROM winners, five black type. including Grade 2 winner Rex Hill SI 108 (see above), 2018 New Mexico State Fair Breeders Futurity winner Legend Of The Vine SI 86 ($169,232), full sibling RG2-placed Untangled Vines SI 103 ($143,477), full sibling RG1-placed Jameson Jr SI 103 ($92,944), RG1-placed Merryvale SI 96, etc.

The second dam is the stakes winning Streakin Dash mare Dashin Sandy SI 107 ($103,171), dam of 10 winners, 16 ROM, 4 black type including RG1 winner Champagne Lane SI 106 ($147,125), RG2-placed Sandys Fame SI 97 ($68,653), Sandys Fame SI 97 ($32,012), RG1 Famous Sandy SI 97 ($15,225), etc.

This is the immediate family of Champion Astica SI 110 ($411,623), Champion Alice K White SI 99 ($276,839), G1 winner Kendall Jackson SI 114 ($409,244), stakes winner and All American Futurity-G1 runner-up Bigg Daddy SI 96 ($749,418 to 3, 2018), G1 winner Time For Wine SI 98 ($206,953), RG3 winner Junior June Bug SI 99 ($289,078), RG3 winner Daddys Blushing SI 97 ($235,372 to 3, 2018), RG2 winner Jesse Lane SI 98 ($297,496), RG2 winner Sandys Jesse SI 93 ($250,529), to name only a few.

Offspring from Rex Hill's 2019 breeding season will be eligible to participate in Speedhorse Races, Turquoise Circuit Stallion Incentives, The Lineage, New Mexico Bred, Iowa-Double Gold, North Dakota-Northern Plains Futurity, Utah-Beehive Futurity, Southwest Desert Classic Breeders Incentive and Fortune Fortunes.

For additional information for breeding contracts call Shawn Edwards at (505) 859-0922 or Linda Edwards at (505) 859-0923.