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Multiple Grade 1 winner Dash Ta Fame earned over $290,000 on the track and is the sire of nearly $20 million on the track. He is also the broodmare sire of 2013 Champion Five Bar Cartel. Dash Ta Fame has been the All-Time Leading Barrel Sire for 18 years.
Top Right : Dash Ta Fame’s top money earner on the track is Gun Battle si 110 ($669,499)
Bottom Right: Dash Ta Fame’s top money earner at barrels is Famous Silk Panties ($273,484).
important as well: If he has reach in his hind end, his motor, then he’ll have reach in his front end as well. He must move low to the ground and when he changes direction, I like to see him drop his
hip toward the ground and reach up underneath himself behind. Those traits tell me whether a horse is going to succeed at what I want him to do, and Dash Ta Fame is well known to throw these traits. I think this, and the fact that his babies have trainable, willing minds plus heart, or try, is such a winning combination and what makes Dash Ta Fame the record-breaking sire he is.
“I’ve been on the Dash Ta Fame bandwagon since the git-go because I was exposed to these horses that were easy to train and can go out and do it naturally so you don’t have to ask them for their life every time you go out,” she adds. “So far, the Dash Ta Fames haven’t let me down.”
DASHING FOLLY
Around 1990, Bob bought the Hempen TB daughter Hempes Folly out of Easy Jet daugh- ter Jets Runway, and bred her to First Down Dash, producing Dashing Folly. The 1993 sor- rel mare raced only lightly her freshman year, but set the track on fire at age three, finishing 1996 as the World Champion, Champion 3 Year Old and Champion 3-Year-Old Filly. She was undefeated that year, winning the Town Policy Handicap-G3, the Florentine Stakes, the Independence Day Handicap, the Vandy’s Flash Handicap-G3, and the Grade 1 Mildred N. Vessels Memorial Handicap, Los Alamitos Derby and Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos after two wins at Manor Downs.
As a 4 year old, Dashing Folly won the Grade 1 Vessels Maturity and Mildred N.
Vessels Memorial Handicap; placed second in the Go Man Go Handicap-G1; and fourth in both the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Invitational Championship and Champion of Champions. In 1997, she earned the title of Champion Aged Mare. Dashing Folly ended her racing career in 1998 with $535,841 in earnings, and 12 wins out of 21 races with two seconds and one third.
A WINNING PARTNERSHIP
In 2001, Bob met Darian, a nurse who was born in Natick, Massachusetts, while riding on the eques- trian trails at Dimple Dell Regional Park in Sandy, Utah. Not long after, they made the relationship permanent and married in 2006. Since then, Darian has jumped into the operation feet first.
“Bob is a genius breeder,” Darian says. “He bred Dash Ta Fame and Dashing Folly with
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