Dallas Keen Consignments

Check out this fancy mover! RRP eligible, 5 years old, 16.2 hands tall and SOUND!
Donna is considering keeping him so someone please come get him quick🤣.
No, he's not free. No, he is definitely not cheap.

Look at this handsome 5 year old AQHA buckskin gelding here on consignment.
Roping, ranch work, or barrels, this guy could do anything. Sound and super smart. More info coming soon.

🦄New consignment🦄

This super flashy thoroughbred gelding will be available in January. He has been restarted and been through desensitization training.
RRP eligible.

We are thrilled to have 2 yearlings in this sale.

NEWS: Two-Hundred-Sixty-Four yearlings are cataloged in the 2023 Texas Summer Yearling Sale catalog, marking one of the largest yearling books in TTA Sales’ history.

https://texasthoroughbred.com/2023-texas-summer-yearling-sale-catalog-features-increase-in-entries/

We have 2 yearlings consigned in this sale.

NEWS: Two-Hundred-Sixty-Four yearlings are cataloged in the 2023 Texas Summer Yearling Sale catalog, marking one of the largest yearling books in TTA Sales’ history.

https://texasthoroughbred.com/2023-texas-summer-yearling-sale-catalog-features-increase-in-entries/

This 2 year old thoroughbred filly is now available. She is bred to race, but she could do anything. She is the perfect size for a polo pony and is made right to be a barrel prospect. Her JC name is Cheap Date. She is sound, correct and clean. She is the last foal we bred and has been here with us her entire life. Ready to start her new career.

Chief Brady

Barn pictures from the weekend.

Senna and Mr Valentino in company this morning.

Bloodlines of success run true for one of Re*****on Park’s new faces in the jockey colony – Jansen Melancon.

After all his dad is called “Gee Money,” a reflection Gerard Melancon is a multiple graded stakes winning jockey who has had 32,420 mounts that have won 5,075 races and earned $89,685,772, according to Equibase statistics. He had a Grade 1 winner in Bonapaw in 2002, a winner of the Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont Park on Sept. 21 that year. That bay gelding wound up in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint that year, finishing 10th at Arlington Park in Chicago.

“That was my favorite memory as a kid,” said Jansen, who was 14 years old, from Lafayette, La., and making his first trip to the nation’s second-largest city. “Me flying to Chicago and seeing a new place. We’d never seen anything like it. It was cold and windy but it was something to remember. It was so packed with people that day, we could barely get in.”

Now Jansen, 34, has moved his tack from Texas to Oklahoma and hopes his success here starts the same way it did when he first started riding the Lone Star State circuit. He won the $75,000 Jim’s Orbit Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park on Feb. 19 of this year for trainer Dallas Keen. For all those Re*****on Park history buffs, he is not related to the late jockey Larry Melancon, who made a name for himself in 1994 in Oklahoma City by riding 22-1 longshot Smilin Singin Sam to an upset win in the Re*****on Park Derby over Silver Goblin.

In comparison to his dad’s stats, Jansen has had 7,659 mounts with 788 wins and $15,483,870 in earnings. His best year came in 2011 when he won 133 times with $2,639,343 in earnings. Seven times his horses’ earnings surpassed $1 million in a year.

Jansen has been a winner right out of the gate.

“I knew I wanted to do this from the first time I breezed a horse when I was 17 years old,” he said. “That was for Steve Asmussen (all-time winningest trainer in horse racing history). I don’t remember the horse’s name but I do remember the feeling of being free it gave me being on the horse’s back.”

He started out riding Quarter Horses for two years and said he won the first race he ever rode. He also won in his first thoroughbred race on a horse named Hobnail, March 20, 2008. That was in a maiden claiming race at Delta Downs in Louisiana, and he was 2-1/2 lengths in front at the wire.

As far as favorite horses he has ridden, he has a few.

“Itsy Bitsy Walk, I think I won 10 of 12 on him,” he said. “That was Delta and Louisiana Downs. My Boanerges was a horse in New Mexico and was the fastest horse I ever sat on. I won five of six on him and won a stakes at virtually every New Mexico track where he ran.”

His favorite race of all time for him was the night he rode half of an entry at Evangeline Downs and his dad rode the other half.

“Me and my dad were the 1 and 1A and I nailed him at the wire in a $100,000 race,” said Jansen. “The winner’s name was Local. She got up in the last three jumps. I was bottled up…bottled up and finally got there. That’s been about 10 years ago. After the race, my dad and I fist-bumped after we crossed the finish line.”

Now he hopes he and agent Bubba Wood can branch out from their business in Texas and continue to climb up the ladder of success.

“Everything has led to Re*****on Park; Bubba has been here many years,” Jansen said. “There are a lot of opportunities coming out of this place. Jockeys have moved to Oaklawn from here. They go everywhere from here. It’s not like Louisiana where I was and nobody really goes anywhere.”

Melancon will ride his first races in Oklahoma City this season when action is underway at Re*****on Park on August 19.

📸: Dustin Orona Photography

More than 200 Horses Cataloged for the 2022 Texas Summer Yearling Sale at Lone Star Park on August 29th.

•Interactive📕: ttasales.com
•Equineline IPad App 📕 available for download
•Supplements to the catalog expected.

http://www.ttasales.com/yearling-sale/more-than-200-horses-cataloged-for-the-2022-texas-summer-yearling-sale/

Campbell Feature: The Stubborn Texas Question? Why the Lone Star State’s Racing Commission soldiers on | HorseRacing.net Campbell Feature The Stubborn Texas Question Why the Lone Star State’s Racing Commission soldiers on as HorseRacing.net discusses with Amy Cook the executive director of

For those wondering about the future of horse racing in Texas… says:

“The future is bright because we are working with our tracks, associations and horseman to enable and protect the industry.”

See the TXRC 2023-2027 Strategic Plan for more info:

https://www.txrc.texas.gov/home/publications

Thank you Congressman!

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