ARMED DEPLOYMENT...2007 Dk Bay Colt by the lightning fast, accomplished and highly successful illustrious
sire "IS IT TRUE" out of U Got The Touch. This is a handsome, strongly built, solid looking individual with good
conformation. He has strong looking gaskins. He's an individual that has always brought above ordinary trainer
comments. He always seems to exceed expectations. He's fast and went a furlong in 10.1, a quarter in 21 and
change and seems very talented. He is a very fast individual, as well as very keen and eager on the bit...."A Push
Button type horse they say". This colt has a great temperament...no bad habits or vices. This individual should make
any purchaser proud and simply a creditable asset to any stable. Currently breezing and is the last crop, to his now
deceased sires credit.
sire "IS IT TRUE" out of U Got The Touch. This is a handsome, strongly built, solid looking individual with good
conformation. He has strong looking gaskins. He's an individual that has always brought above ordinary trainer
comments. He always seems to exceed expectations. He's fast and went a furlong in 10.1, a quarter in 21 and
change and seems very talented. He is a very fast individual, as well as very keen and eager on the bit...."A Push
Button type horse they say". This colt has a great temperament...no bad habits or vices. This individual should make
any purchaser proud and simply a creditable asset to any stable. Currently breezing and is the last crop, to his now
deceased sires credit.
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Successful Kentucky Stallion Is It True Dead
February 26, 2007
Posted: February 22, 2007
Is It True, the oldest Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner at stud in the U.S., died
Feb. 22 at Walmac Farm near Lexington. The 21-year-old son of Raja Baba out of
the Proudest Roman mare Roman Rockette, died from an apparent heart attack
while in his paddock, farm officials said.
Bred in Kentucky by Warner L. Jones Jr., Is It True was a $550,000 purchase from
the 1987 Keeneland July yearling sale. He reportedly received his name when Hall
of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas asked his pedigree while admiring his
conformation. When told the colt was by Raja Baba, Lukas replied “Is it true?”
Trained by Lukas for Eugene and Joyce Klein, Is It True most famously upset
subsequent champion 2-year-old male Easy Goer going gate to wire in the 1988
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs. He also won the following year's Jim
Dandy (gr. II) and Riva Ridge (gr. III) Stakes, and earned a total of $819,999.
At the end of his 3-year-old year, Is It True was sold for $1 million at the Klein
dispersal for stud duty in Australia. He stood five seasons exclusively Down Under,
then spent the next five seasons as a dual hemisphere stallion, shuttling from
Heytesbury Stud in West Australia to Walmac International in Kentucky. His second
U.S. crop produced millionaire and grade I winner Yes It’s True, one of the leading
young sires today. Is It True stood at Hartley / De Renzo, Walmac South near
Ocala, Fla., from 2000 to 2005, before returning to Walmac Kentucky in 2006.
From 14 crops to race, Is It True has sired 26 stakes winners, 35 stakes-
placed runners, and the earners of $19 million.
“Is It True was a grand horse, one of the last links to Bold Ruler through a
line other than Seattle Slew,” said Walmac managing partner John T.L.
Jones III. “Although he was also one of the first of the shuttle stallions, he
will always be remembered for his defeat of Easy Goer in the 1988
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, not to mention the upset he caused in the process.
He had a long and successful career which has included siring the
promising young sire Yes It’s True, and we are honored to have been
associated with him.”
February 26, 2007
Posted: February 22, 2007
Is It True, the oldest Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner at stud in the U.S., died
Feb. 22 at Walmac Farm near Lexington. The 21-year-old son of Raja Baba out of
the Proudest Roman mare Roman Rockette, died from an apparent heart attack
while in his paddock, farm officials said.
Bred in Kentucky by Warner L. Jones Jr., Is It True was a $550,000 purchase from
the 1987 Keeneland July yearling sale. He reportedly received his name when Hall
of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas asked his pedigree while admiring his
conformation. When told the colt was by Raja Baba, Lukas replied “Is it true?”
Trained by Lukas for Eugene and Joyce Klein, Is It True most famously upset
subsequent champion 2-year-old male Easy Goer going gate to wire in the 1988
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs. He also won the following year's Jim
Dandy (gr. II) and Riva Ridge (gr. III) Stakes, and earned a total of $819,999.
At the end of his 3-year-old year, Is It True was sold for $1 million at the Klein
dispersal for stud duty in Australia. He stood five seasons exclusively Down Under,
then spent the next five seasons as a dual hemisphere stallion, shuttling from
Heytesbury Stud in West Australia to Walmac International in Kentucky. His second
U.S. crop produced millionaire and grade I winner Yes It’s True, one of the leading
young sires today. Is It True stood at Hartley / De Renzo, Walmac South near
Ocala, Fla., from 2000 to 2005, before returning to Walmac Kentucky in 2006.
From 14 crops to race, Is It True has sired 26 stakes winners, 35 stakes-
placed runners, and the earners of $19 million.
“Is It True was a grand horse, one of the last links to Bold Ruler through a
line other than Seattle Slew,” said Walmac managing partner John T.L.
Jones III. “Although he was also one of the first of the shuttle stallions, he
will always be remembered for his defeat of Easy Goer in the 1988
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, not to mention the upset he caused in the process.
He had a long and successful career which has included siring the
promising young sire Yes It’s True, and we are honored to have been
associated with him.”
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