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One Dashing Eagle flying across the finish line in the All American Futurity-G1 at Ruidoso Downs.
to the great Walk Thru Fire and that’s all we needed to know when we first started look- ing at her babies. She’s a great producer and we’ve loved racing her sons. We were crushed when we heard that Jerry Allred had passed away. They are all gone now, but we think of the Allred Brothers a lot because of the horses. We’ve been blessed to have been able to own some nice horses from their great breeding operation.”
One Dashing Eagle’s impressive win in the Ed Burke, accomplished despite lugging out badly through the stretch, prompted his con- nections to take him to the mountain for the All American Futurity. Once there, he won his trial to qualify, lining up against the monster filly
PJ Chick In Black in the finals. PJ Chick In Black, who had won her trial by a jaw-dropping 5 3/4 lengths, could not duplicate that effort on
One Dashing Eagle’s first stakes win came in the $1,001,000 Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity.
Labor Day. Instead, One Dashing Eagle went wire-to-wire to win the All American Futurity by three-quarters of a length.
“This pedigree—with One Sweet Dash, Walk Thru Fire, all that family—is a great, great pedigree,” said Jose De La Torre after the All American Futurity. “We have to thank (the late) Jerry Allred. He helped us a lot.” Gustavo De La Torre added, “We are grateful to the Allred Brothers. They have done so much for the horse industry. We bought both of these horses (One Sweet Jess and One Dashing Eagle) and have done real good with them. We are thrilled. There are no words.”
Retuning to their home base in California for the Golden State Million Futurity, One Dashing Eagle treated fans to a spectacular race on Nov. 4. With Ramon Sanchez in the irons, One Dashing Eagle dashed to a 2 1/4-length
One Dashing Eagle completed his million-dollar race hat trick in the Golden State Million Futurity-G1.
win, setting a new stakes record of :19.242 for the 400-yard Golden State Million.
“He’s such an amazing animal. He gives his best every time,” said Jose. “We don’t need to do anything major to him. He just gets out there and does his job. I don’t think we’ll ever see another horse of this caliber. I just think he’s got a gift. He’s something special.”
After receiving the title of World Champion, One Dashing Eagle’s connections announced that the colt has been retired and will go to stud in 2013. Shortly thereafter, Lazy E Ranch announced that they would be stand- ing the new champion for $12,750, including the farm fee.
“Now that he’s been voted World Champion he’s done everything that we could have hoped,” said Jose. “I think that’s it and he’s retired.”
One Dashing Eagle and his crew head to the paddock for the All American Futurity-G1.
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