CRM Livewire SI 103 World Champion Running Paint Horse Champion Running 3-Year-Old • Champion Running 3-Year-Old Colt • No.1 Honor Roll Racing Stallion
2009 Bay tobiano Stallion Cartel Success (QH) x elaina Go Go by texas Hero Owner: Dan & Kaye Jones Breeder: Dan & Kaye Jones Trainer: Mat Whitekiller Jockeys: larry payne, Jorge Roman, Cody Smith
late May foal, CRM Livewire has had to play catch- up for most of his life. In 2012, he not only caught up with his peers but surpassed them with such an impressive last half of the season that he was named World Cham- pion over a host of other talented runners in every age group. CRM Livewire also won the Champion 3-Year-Old and Champion 3-Year-Old Colt titles after having taken the 2-year-old counterparts in 2011. Owner-breeders Dan and Kaye Jones of Kemp, Texas, love CRM Livewire, not only because of his talent but because he is named for their 10-year-old granddaughter, Callie Rose Malsbury.
“He won the APHA Masterpiece Challenge on Cal-
lie’s birthday,” Kaye said. “She cried because she was so excited. It’s fun to name our horses for our grandchildren. They get really involved.” It’s easy to get involved with a horse as good as CRM Livewire. Matt Whitekiller, who trains the colt, advised the Joneses to buy his dam, Elaina Go Go. CRM Livewire is by the Quarter Horse stallion Cartel Success. “As a 3-year-old, he just blossomed,” Dan said. “They say he’s a monster now.”
Cartel Success (QH) CRM Livewire Elaina Go Go
texas Hero elaina Sweetness (QH)
20 MARCH 2013 PAINT HORSE RACING
For 2012, CRM Livewire went up against his own age group in derbies and tackled older horses. One of his most impressive races came in the Lewis Wartchow Memorial Stakes at Fair Meadows.
“The trainer said this colt needs a race, but he had run out of conditions,” Dan said. “The only thing was the Lewis Wartchow for older horses. He came out of the one hole and was just caught at the wire. He outran Barney Ofield, who had just set a world record.” That set up the colt perfectly for the trials and final of the Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Derby, which he aced. Second in the Lorelei Derby at Will Rogers Downs, CRM Livewire finished the year in spectacular fashion, taking the inaugural Masterpiece at Lone Star and then seven days later winning the Talimena Handicap at Will Rogers. “Matt said he was doing so well that we should try the Talimena,” Dan said.
That brought CRM Livewire’s total earnings to $90,190, and he is slated for a 4-year-old campaign in 2013. After that, the Joneses plan to stand him at stud in Oklahoma in 2014.