Rockin Disco holds off Rock You at Remington Park.

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Q-RACING JOURNAL—May 11, 2015—Well, rock on.

Top qualifier Rockin Disco outnodded Rock You in the $108,360 Bank of America Remington Championship Challenge (G2) on Sunday. The Rock Solid Jess gelding punched his ticked for the Bank of America Challenge Championships, to be held only 210 miles south at Lone Star Park.

Rockin Disco was bred by Victor W. Pryor Jr.’s VWP Jr. Inc. of Holdenville, Oklahoma, and is out of the Check Him Out mare Check This Disco. Rockin Disco has earned $197,354 in his career.

Rock Solid Jess is a 10-year-old son of leading sire Mr Jess Perry out of the Tolltac mare Rockin The Tetons. He is a full brother to Grade 1-placed Jess Rock On ($155,615) and from the immediate mare family that produced Queen Of Appeals (dam of champion Good Reason SA, etc).

Owned by Jack Manning’s Manning Interest Ltd. at Gatesville, Texas, Rock Solid Jess in his racing career won or placed in 12 of 19 starts and earned $253,210. His biggest career win was the 2007 Dash For Cash Futurity (G1), in which he outran the likes of Illegal Memories ($717,182), Possum Fust ($299,308), Adios My Amigos ($232,080) and Furrtreeous ($424,651). He qualified to four additional Grade 1 races, and retired to stand his first season at stud in 2009.

From limited foals, Rock Solid Jess has sired 18 winners from 40 starters, with progeny earnings averaging $20,400 per starter. Rockin Disco is his leading earner, but Rock Solid Jess is also the sire of Canadian champion Corderoy Road. It is notable that, with only 27 runners active on the track so far this year, Rock Solid Jess also sired the second and third-place finishers in the Zoetis Remington Distance Challenge (G3) and the second-place horse in the Merial Remington Distaff Challenge (G3) on the same card as Rockin Disco’s victory.

Rockin Disco’s dam, Check This Disco, is a 10-year-old daughter of Check Him Out out of the Disco Jerry (TB) mare Do Ya Disco, bred by John Andreini.

An unsuccessful racehorse, Check This Disco produced Rockin Disco as her very first foal. Her second, Carters Disco (by Carters Cartel), is a three-time Grade 1 finalist with earnings of $165,344, and she has two winners from four starters to date. She has a yearling by Pyc Paint Your Wagon named Pyc Disco.

Check This Disco’s sire, Check Him Out, brought fresh blood into the sport by way of his sire, Hennessy (TB), a son of the famed Storm Cat. A multiple Grade 1-winning son of Grade 1 winner Check Her Twice, Check Him Out sired the earners of more than $8.4 million. He is also the sire of notable broodmares like Dr. Ed Allred’s Look Her Over (dam of He Looks Hot ($890,970), Once Over ($166,029), etc.), and the P.K. Thomas-bred Lethal Heart (dam of stakes winner Volcoms Heart ($75,133)).

Do Ya Disco was herself a recipient of some fresh blood, as she is sired by the Never Bend (TB) grandson Disco Jerry out of the Dash For Cash mare Do Yathinkimsexy. Do Ya Disco was a flat runner, with 19 wins or placings in 33 career starts and earnings of $141,773. She won the Trinity Meadows Futurity (G3), was second in the Texas Classic Derby (G1), and contested the 1995 Champion of Champions (G1).

She is also the dam of the stakes-placed Bromfield Road (by First Down Dash, $10,360), and a half-sister to Cash From Texas (by Texigo Star, $122,054).

From this immediate family comes the likes of stakes winners Smith And West ($111,555), East Wing ($103,521) and One And Onea ($77,946); and Superior Race Horses A Blazin Dash ($69,125), Ah Mister ($58,110), Little Dont Ya Know ($44,375) and Leading Pardner ($35,779).

Entering the summer of his 5-year-old year with a record of being third or better in two-thirds of his 30 career starts, Rockin Disco has a big end-of-year goal to look forward to – and the pedigree to back him up.

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