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by Larry Thornton
When the words “dash” and/or “cash” come across our radar, whether it is in the race results, a pedigree, or some other print or electronic race media, it signifies an elite position in Quarter Horse racing. Dash For Cash, a two-time AQHA Racing World Champion and all-time leading sire, holds that elite position. His name runs deep in our runners today as a modern foundation sire
of the racing American Quarter Horse. Dash For Cash is like many of our racing stallions in that he has had an impact as a crossover into performance events.
Dash For Cash was foaled in 1973 on the ranch of B. F. Phillips Jr. of Frisco, Texas. The Phillips Ranch of the 1950’s and 60’s had a deep history in the show horse division of
the AQHA. It was at one time the home to horses like 1957 AQHA High Point Halter Stallion Steel Bars, 1964 AQHA High
Point Tie-Down Roping Horse Echo
Reed, 1958 AQHA High Point Halter
Horse Poco Lynn, 1957 and 1958
AQHA High Point Tie-Down Roping
Horse George Dun, 1959 AQHA
High Point Halter Stallion Aledo Bars,
and a number of AQHA Champions
like LH Quarter Moon.
By the mid 1960’s, the Phillips
Ranch stallion roster included Ed
Echols by Zantanon, Steel Bars by
Three Bars TB, Ben Bar by Steel Bars, Dividend by Depth Charge TB, Double
Bid by Double Feature TB, Eternal Sun by Eternal War TB, Top Money by Top Deck TB, and a Thoroughbred named Faquir by Beau Max. This stallion roster indicates a move to the racing American Quarter Horse - with Double Bid being an AQHA Racing Champion and Dividend being a AAAT runner and top money earner. Faquir was unraced, but bred in Kentucky by the King Ranch at their Kentucky Thoroughbred racing division. The Phillips Ranch even had a race track called Phillips Downs.
The Phillips Ranch dispersed the performance horses in 1966. The dispersal was a sign that the Phillips Ranch was going to focus on breeding racehorses. This dispersal also brings us to the agreement
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