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Staunch Avenger, foaled in 1968 in Kentucky, won 15
of 42 starts and earned $294,486 in four seasons of
racing. The bay son of Staunchness won four stakes
races in his career, including the Sapling Stakes
and Arch Ward Stakes as a juvenile and the
Washington Park Handicap and the Olympia Handicap as
a four-year-old. He lowered the five-furlong
Arlington Park track record to :57.20 in 1970.
Bred by Charles Heekin, Staunch Avenger was retired
to stud in 1975 and became a perennial leading sire
in Texas while standing most of his career at Dr.
Dick Shepher's Classic Manor Ranch near Aubrey. He
sired 18 stakes winners from 19 crops and had total
progeny earnings of $8,782,581. Staunch Avenger died
in 1992. |
