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Dash For Cash would go to stud and
set the racing world on its ear by becoming the all-time leading sire of money winners. He sired horses that won $39,990,245 with 1,155 starters that earned 960 racing ROM from 1,360 foals. He sired 145 stakes winners and 123 stakes placed runners.
When we first looked at the million dollar sires in 2013, we found that Dash For Cash was the sire of 11 sons that were million dollar sires in the top 100 stallions. When we take a closer look, we find that five of these sons were in the top 50 million dollar sires. These five sons are First Down Dash (#1), Mr Eye Opener (#6), Takin On The Cash (#20), Dashing Val (#32), and On A High (#44). When we look at the 2015 million- dollar sire list, we find that only On A High has dropped out of the top 50.
The Dash For Cash sire line has some branches through his sons. They include Takin On The Cash, a top 50 sire and the sire of Shazoom, also a top 50 sire. Shazoom is the sire of Azoom, a top 100 sire. Victory Dash, by Dash For Cash, is a top 100 sire and is the sire of Toast To Dash, also a top 50 sire. First Down Dash, by Dash For Cash, is the sire of Royal Quick Dash who is the sire of Royal Shake Em and both Royal Quick Dash and Royal Shake Em are top 50 sires. The top 50 sires in this group are still in the top 50.
First Down Dash is a 1984 son of Dash For Cash who was bred by a partnership of B. F. Phillips, Jr. and A. F. Stanley, Jr. First Down Dash was purchased as a yearling by Millie Vessels of the Vessels Stallion Farm. First Down Dash would earn the 1987 AQHA Racing World Champion title, Champion Three Year Old and Champion Three-Year-Old Colt.
Dash For Cash would set the standard as
a leading sire of money winners, and his son First Down Dash would smash that standard when he became the all-time leading sire of money winners. A record he firmly holds with his foals having earned over $85,000,000. And, horses sired by First Down Dash are
still winning. He has thus far sired 478 stakes horses with 248 stakes winners.
The phenomenal success of First Down Dash as a sire has brought a new branch
of the Three Bars sire line into focus. In 2013, we saw that First Down Dash was the sire of 18 sons in the top 100 million dollar sires with 10 of them in the top 50. The 10 stallions were Corona Cartel (#3), Royal Quick Dash (#11), Dash Ta Fame (#16), Walk Thru Fire (#21), Okey Dokey Dale (#29), Stoli (#33), Fishers Dash (#36), Dashin Bye (#39), First To Shine (#41) and Hawkinson (#47). All of these stallions are still in the top 50.
He lowered this record in a later race to 57.6 seconds. Most people who wrote about these records note that the world record for that distance at that time was 57 seconds flat.
Rocket Bar retired and put together a great sire record. He sired 454 foals with 368 starters and 287 ROM, including 46 Superior Race Horses. He sired 80 stakes horses with 44 stakes winners and his foals would earn $4,214,921. He sired five AQHA Racing Champions: Mr Tinky Bar, Nug Rock, Top Rockette, Osage Rocket and Rocket Wrangler.
Rocket Wrangler becomes our next link in the Three Bars sire line. He was bred by Thayer Hobson of Comfort, Texas. This
son of Rocket Bar would become a noted racehorse with an All American Futurity-G1 win, and he was the first horse to win the All American and the Rainbow Futurity-G1. His success at two would earn him the title of 1970 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year- Old Colt. He would sit out his three year old year to stand at stud and would come back
at four and five with another stakes win in the New Mexico State Fair Handicap. When he retired, his race record from 23 starts was 10 wins, four seconds, three thirds and total earnings of $252,167.
Rocket Wrangler would stand in a
variety of places and put together a good
sire record. He sired 1,629 foals with 1,221 starters earning 835 racing ROM. This included 139 stakes horses with 56 stakes winners. His runners earned $9,407,809, including Rocket’s Magic, War Star Wrangler, Aamerican Speed, Double Dutch Bus, Rambling Sallye and Dash For Cash. Rocket’s Magic and Dash For Cash became million dollar sires.
Dash For Cash is the next link and the one that has had the greatest impact in the million dollar sires today. Dash For Cash was bred by the late B. F. Phillips Jr. of Frisco, Texas. He was bred through an agreement
by Phillips with the King Ranch to use
speed bred Thoroughbred mares to cross on Quarter Horse running stallions. The dam of Dash For Cash was the Thoroughbred mare Find A Buyer and she was in the third group of mares used by Phillips from the King Ranch.
Dash For Cash may have been the only racing Champion sired by Rocket Wrangler, but he won six championship titles. He was the 1976 AQHA Racing World Champion, Champion Three Year Old and Champion Three-Year-Old Colt, and in 1977 he was the AQHA Racing World Champion, Champion Aged Horse and the Champion Aged Stallion. He was a two-time Champion of Champions winner, running 25 races in three years with 21 wins and earning $507,689.
The Three Bars sire line holds three of the top five places on the top 50 million dollar sires list.
First Down Dash remains firmly at the top of the million dollar sires list at #1 with over $85 million in progeny earnings.
Corona Cartel holds the #2 spot of the million dollar sires list and is the all-time leading living sire of money earners with over $50 million in progeny earnings and appears to be starting his own branch of the Three Bars sire line.
Dash For Cash is the #4 all-time leading sire of money earners with nearly $40 million.
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