Page 24 - Speedhorse May 2019

Dash For Cash is by Rocket Wrangler
and out of Find A Buyer, a King Ranch Thoroughbred mare. Phillips found her
in the third group of mares he selected for
the partnership. Phillips told me what he
saw in this mare and why he bred her to Rocket Wrangler. “She had all the desired characteristics you’d want in a running horse. She was a big rangy, stretchy mare that was
not exceptional in her head. Rocket Wrangler was an awful nice, well balanced, small horse. He had an extremely nice head and I was just hoping they all fit together,” Phillips said of why he bred Find A Buyer to Rocket Wrangler.
Rocket Wrangler was not only a good- looking horse, but a fast racehorse with the credentials to prove it. He won 10 of 23 starts with three stakes wins, including the 1970 All American Futurity and 1970 Rainbow Futurity. His 1970 stakes places include seconds in the Goliad Futurity, All American Quarter Horse Congress Futurity, and a third in the Sunland Park Fall Futurity. He was named the 1970 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. Rocket Wrangler didn’t start in 1971, but he came back in 1972 to win the New Mexico State Fair Handicap. He also placed third in the 1972 C.L. Maddon’s Bright Eyes Handicap and was fifth in the 1972 Champion of Champions. He earned $252,167 in his career.
Rocket Wrangler is by Rocket Bar a Thoroughbred son of Three Bars. Rocket Bar was a noted sprinter who sustained a knee injury early in his career that never really
left him, but he was still able to run for six years with 35 starts, 16 wins, six seconds and four thirds, earning $22,904. His stakes wins include back-to-back wins in the 1956 and 1957 Phoenix Gold Cup Handicap.
The dam of Rocket Bar is Golden Rocket,
a stakes winning mare in the 1942 Washington Futurity. She made 24 starts with four firsts, two seconds and three thirds to earn $3,050. She was by Cartago by Atwell and out of Morshion by Morvich. Cartago won the 1929 Camden Stakes. Morshion was described in the July 14, 1987 Speedhorse as a mare that ran at distances of 3/4-mile to 5 1/2-furlongs who got first call and then held on for the win in a number of races. Her stakes wins came in the Consolation Claiming Stakes, Rosedale Stake and Montauk Claiming Stakes, all at the age of two. She won 16 of her 38 starts, earning $20,010.
The dam of Rocket Wrangler is Go
Galla Go by Go Man Go by Top Deck. Go Galla Go had 15 wins, including the 1964 South Texas Derby, 1964 Oklahoma QH Association Derby and La Grange Downs Derby. She is the dam of 14 foals with 11 ROM and two stakes winners. Her second stakes winner was Go Galla’s Man, winner of
Rocket Wrangler is the sire of 2-time World Champion Dash For Cash. Rocket Wrangler won the 1970 All American Futurity and 1970 Rainbow Futurity and was that year’s Champion 2-Year-Old Colt.
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win in New Mexico State Fair Handicap. His crowning achievement at three was the Champion of Champions, a race he won in track record time of :21.17. He made a total of 11 starts that year with nine wins and two seconds, earning $240,597. He was named the 1976 AQHA Racing World Champion, Champion Three Year Old and Champion Three-Year-Old Colt.
Dash For Cash went four-for-four in 1977. He won his trial for the Vessels Maturity, the Vessels Maturity, the Los Alamitos Championship, and a second consecutive victory in the Champion of Champions. He was the 1997 AQHA Racing World Champion, Champion Aged Horse and Champion Aged Stallion. He won $152,750 as a part of his total earnings of $507,687 for three years while winning 21 of his 25 starts.
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