Why Jungle Deuce Can Reach Stud Greatness

THERE was something abuzz in the Jack Smith kennel late in 2020.

Yes, Jack was already on a pedestal with the deeds of Group star Feral Franky.

But, back at home, Jack was fully aware he had a monster waiting to explode.

It was a black dog called Jungle Deuce. Mates Clay Mawson and Brian Jaggers had bought him as a pup before his older half brother Tommy Shelby emerged as a champion.

JUNGLE DEUCE AT STUD

Jungle Deuce is a son of Barcia Bale and much was expected of him. Jack, Clay and Brian didn't have to wait too long.

At just his fifth race start Jungle Deuce went 29.58 at Wentworth Park. He'd won his first five on the trot.

"It's the fairytale win!"

Jungle Deuce finally scores his Group 1 victory in the Paws Of Thunder Final. pic.twitter.com/3Rg9Y3ae6W

— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) January 22, 2022

A few runs later he smashed Group star Louis Rumble to win the G3 New Sensation in 29.31. That race name appears to have been brought to life just for Jungle Deuce.

Not long after, Jack and the boys headed to Albion Park and won the G2 Flying Amy Classic, by then a test of high class youngsters to honour one of the greatest.

Covid restricted Jungle Deuce to provincial racing for a time during 2021 but he kept on winning.

When he embarked on a Group campaign early in 2022, in just six weeks he won the G2 Golden Sands in a scorching 34.61 over 600m at Albion Park, dropped back to 520m to clean up a star studded field in the G1 Paws Of Thunder at Wenty, and two runs later won the G1 Gold Bullion back at Albion Park.

It augured superbly for what would be a 2022 to remember.

Then tragedy struck. He was hurt at The Meadows in a heat of the G1 Australian Cup and then fell when resuming after four months off and hurt a back muscle.

It would put paid to his racing career.

He won the race two years ago with #FeralFranky and while he "won't compare children" the comparisons are already being made after Jack Smith's Jungle Deuce took out the Group 3 1170 SEN New Sensation at @WPGrey in a stunning 29.31s…#thedogs #greyhoundracing #wentypark pic.twitter.com/SAwBpK09ji

— The Dogs (@Thedogs_com_au) April 10, 2021

In all, he started 44 times for 25 wins and 9 placings earning $655,000 in stakes.

He also won the Dubbo Cup Listed, Origin Match Listed and broke the track record at Dubbo.

He was a finalist in the G1 Topgun, G1 Rookie Rebel and The Phoenix.

His 29.54 around Albion Park is among the fastest there.

By champion sire Barcia Bale whose sons are already starting to prove themselves at stud (i.e. Aston Dee Bee), his dam Serena Fly High (20 wins, 24 placings, $96,000) was a Group finalist and is also the dam of champion Tommy Shelby (31 wins, $1.02 million, G1 Golden Easter Egg, G1 Aust Cup, G1 Hobart 1000 etc).

Serena Fly High is also dam of Withers Monelli (17 wins, $108,000), Steve Monelli (13 wins, $97,000) and Jumbo Jet (9 wins, $36,000) all high class gallopers.

Jungle Deuce comes from one of the strongest female families this country has seen.

When Jack finally called it a day recently on Jungle Deuce's race career, it signalled his stud career is the focus for the dog and what a focus it will be.

He is absolutely perfect for daughters of Fernando Bale, but also bitches with Collision and Brett Lee in their make-up.

The Fernando Bale factor is simply to recreate the mating with Deuce's mother Serena Fly High in a bid to replicate Tommy Shelby.

The Collision factor is entirely different.

There is a hidden aspect that involves the direct damline of Deuce and that of Collision.

Trace the direct damline of Jungle Deuce and you will come to a bitch called Velvet Fire. She is incestuously in-bred 2x2x2 to two crosses of Thunder Lane and his half sister Madam Lane.

Trace the direct damline of Collision and you will find he has a dog called Hot Rumble in his pedigree. He is a full brother to Velvet Fire.

Look at the pedigree of recent Qld GOTY Dam Slippery. She is by Dyna Double One and her dam Go Mini Mouse is by Collision and from the same direct female family as Jungle Deuce via Smokey Melody.

But, Fernando Bale and Collision are just two aspects of potential matings for Jungle Deuce.

He is suited to bitches with Cosmic Rumble up close because his dam Spiritual Rumble is a half sister to Collision. Daughters of West On Augie will be fabulous.

Deuce's second dam is Sky Fly High and she is bred on the Big Daddy Cool/Token Prince cross. Check out some of the very best progeny sired by Fabregas and you will see many have Big Daddy Cool/Token Prince in their dam.

This makes daughters of Fabregas ideal as well.

The champ is here! Jungle Deuce leaves the field in his wake to claim the Group 2 Golden Sands Final at @BrisGreys tonight! #QLDisRacing ? pic.twitter.com/EK3Lkuz7wm

— RaceQ (@RaceQLD) January 6, 2022

In fact, a bitch bred on the Fernando Bale/Fabregas cross (and there are many of them) would also be an ideal mate for Deuce.

Bit Chili is the damsire of Deuce and he will have a major impact upon whatever success Deuce has at stud.

That highly promising young staying bitch Tania Keeping (a daughter of Feral Franky) is hugely in-bred to Bit Chili and his sister Tifi.

Thus it also makes sense to undertake such an intensity of breeding via these full relations.

It makes daughters of Feral Frankly ideal as well for Deuce.

Barcia Bale, Deuce's sire, does spectacularly with US bloodlines. But, another important cross to suit Deuce could be with daughters of Aussie Infrared, Allen Deed, Magic Sprite and Bernardo, all of who have worked extremely well with Barcia Bale.

Jack Smith was always reluctant to compare Jungle Deuce and Feral Franky. But he admitted recently that Deuce would lead any match race between the pair and after that “would Franky be able to run him down?”

It is a question only Jack could answer. That fact he rates Deuce so highly, and that Franky is proving a boom young stud dog, means Jungle Deuce deserves every broodbitch owners attention.

He proven he is worth just that.