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SPEEDLINES
Country Quick Dash made 42 starts with seven wins, ten seconds and twelve thirds earning $61,533. He is a stakes placed runner and a finalist in 14 stakes races with four seconds and five thirds. His seconds include the Creek Nation Handicap, APHA National Futurity and the Tulsa Derby Stakes.
His efforts on the track gave him several APHA championship titles including 1999 Champion 2 Year Old, 1999 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt, 2000 Champion 3-Year- Old Colt and 2001 Champion Aged Stallion.
The foals of Country Quick Dash have earned $4,024,184, making him the # 3 all- time leading sire of Paint runners. His runners include Champions Got Country Grip, a five-time World Champion; SM Country Snowman, a two-time World Champion; Knee High Country; Shawnee Wind; Tia Wanna, SM Country Bandit; and Mr Wrigley.
Country Quick Dash is by Royal Quick Dash by First Down Dash. Royal Quick Dash is out
of Harems Choice by Beduino TB and out of Flicka Your Bic by Tiny Charger. 1991 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Royal Quick Dash had 18 starts with seven wins, including the 1991 All American Futurity-G1. His foals have earned $20,610,986 with his leading money earner being All American Futurity-G1 winner AB What A Runner.
The dam of Country Quick Dash is Country Zevi, a race mare with 36 starts
and two wins. She had nine seconds and four thirds and was a multiple stakes finalist, including the 1990 Oklahoma Futurity-G2, Shebester Futurity-G2, Blue Ribbon Derby-G2, and her best finish in a stakes was a fourth in the 1991 Shebester Derby-G3.
Country Zevi is the dam of 10 foals with nine starters/ROM and four stakes winners, including Country Chicks Man, winner of 10 stakes including Sooner State Stakes-G1; Eyesa Country Miss, winner of eight stakes including the Speedhorse Gold & Silver Cup Derby-G3; SM Country Boy, winner of the Oklahoma Challenge Championship-G1; and Little Country Miss, winner of the Fair Meadows Belles Stakes. Country Chicks Man was the 2006 Champion Aged Stallion.
When we look at the pedigree of Valdarama, we see that she has a breeding pattern of 3x3 to Zevi TB, the broodmare sire of Country Quick Dash and the broodmare sire of Sheeza Lil Val. This is a “return the blood” breeding pattern where linebreeding to Zevi comes to the foal produced through the sire’s dam and the dam of the foal. This breeding pattern increases the influence of the sire’s dam in this case with the double breeding to Zevi on the foal being produced.
This is what Kelly said about Return The Blood, “I always like to do it, but not in a
Power Fade’s great grandsire is Country Quick Dash, who is the sire of multiple Champions...
World Champion Got Country Grip, shown winning the PSBA Derby
Knee High Country, shown winning the PSBA Derby
SM Country Bandit, shown winning his trial to the Speedhorse Graham Paint and Appaloosa Futurity
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