a fort built near Larned, Kansas in 1859 to
protect travelers on the Santa Fe trail from
hostile Native Americans.
Hardly anyone in horse racing knew the
names Frank and Janis Whitham until Bay-
akoa (Arg) (Consultant's Bid) came around.
Before that, the Whithams had raced Quar-
ter Horses at small tracks in and around
Kansas and dabbled in some cheap thor-
oughbreds at Turf Paradise and Centennial
in Denver. But in the 1980s, they came up
with a good horse, a filly named Tuesday
Evening (Nodouble). She was the younger
full-sister to a colt Ron McAnally had named
M. Double M. (Nodouble), who had won
the 1985 Pretense Stakes at Hollywood
Park. They reached out to McAnally and he
agreed to train Tuesday Evening.
About a year after Tuesday Evening broke
her maiden for her only career victory,
McAnally was sent to South America to look
for racing prospects and he found Bayakoa
in Argentina and convinced the Whithams
to buy her for $300,000. She would go on
to win two Eclipse Awards, two GI Breeders'
Cup Distaffs and earn $2,861,701.
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