PURCELL, OK—MAY 4, 2015—AQHA Racing Champion Brace For Bernal has moved for the remainder of the 2015 season to JEH Stallion Station's Oklahoma Division at Purcell, Oklahoma. His breeding fee is $1,500.

His first foals were born in 2015.

Bred by Joaquin Lopez and owned by Noel Lopez Prieto of Canadian, Texas, Brace For Bernal was named the 2014 AQHA Racing Champion 3-Year-Old Colt. He won nine of 15 career starts, with two seconds and earnings of $322,326. He earned a top speed index of 105.

Brace For Bernal won the Heritage Place Derby(G2), Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Derby, John Deere Will Rogers Juvenile Challenge and Bill Hedge Memorial Stakes. He was second in the John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship (G2), and Cherokee Nation Stakes.

As a 3-year-old he went undefeated in six starts at Remington Park and Ruidoso Downs.

Brace For Bernal is sired by the multiple stakes sire Furyofthewind, a son of leading living sire Corona Cartel out of champion and dam of distinction Dashing Phoebe. Furyofthewind has from four crops to race sired the earners of more than $4.8 million. He has sired 116 winners from 205 starters, including 12 stakes winners with average earnings per starter of $23,855.

Brace For Bernal is the only foal out of the Shazoom mare Zoom Bracer, who won or placed in 15 of 22 starts and earned $53,953. The fourth dam is a stakes winning and stakes producing thoroughbred mare Woodland Hills, by Woodland Pines.

For more information, call Shawn Lindsey, JEH Farm Manager, at 405-527-0727.