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SPEEDLINES
Champion Royal Quick Dash is the sire of Royal Shake Em.
First Down Dash is the AQHA all-time leading sire of money earners with $89 million in earnings, 258 stakes winners and 36 Champions, including:
World Champion A Ransom
World Champion Dashing Folly
World Champion Wave Carver
World Champion Down With Debt
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26 starts with nine wins, eight seconds and four thirds to earn $257,009. He was a two-time graded stakes winner in the 1996 Sam Houston Futurity-G1 and Longhorn Futurity-G3,
and was second in the 1997 All American Derby-G1. He was bred by Walter Merrick.
The sire record for Royal Shake Em shows 933 starters, 606 ROM and 38 stakes winners. His leading money earner is
I Make Em Shake, with $338,287 winning the 2003 Dash For Cash Futurity-G1 and
the TQHA Sires’ Cup Futurity-G2. A second stakes
winner by Royal Shake Em
is KR Montana Shake Em,
a four-time stakes winner
of the 2005 Canadian Quarter Horse Cup Derby-G3, 2007 Northlands Park Classic, 2006 AQHRA Aged Series and 2006 Stampede Park Classic Stakes. KR Montana Shake Em, or Shakem as he is known in the rodeo arena, was the 2015 AQHA/PRCA Steer Wrestling Horse of the Year.
Royal Shake Em has Equi-Stat barrel racing sire earnings of $480,485.97. His leading money earners include: Janos Rascal, winner of $50,203; Shake Em Boon, winner of $42,615.82; Power Girls Shakem, winner of $42,586.73; Fiesta Royale, winner of $39,500.35; and Shake Em Red, winner
of $26,632. Janos Rascal and Fiesta Royale are full brothers out of two-time AQHA/ PRCA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year Fiesta Firewater. Fiesta Royale is a winning team roping horse as well, which is a part of his Equi-Stat earnings.
The sire of Royal Shake Em is Royal Quick Dash, the 1991 All American
Futurity-G1 winner. He had 18 starts in his racing career with seven wins, five seconds and two thirds, earning $1,046,980. He was a finalist in the Kansas Futurity-G1 and the Sun Country Futurity-G1. He was the 1991 AQHA Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. He was the first All American winner for his
sire, AQHA World Champion First Down Dash, who has sired six winners of this great race. First Down Dash is the AQHA all- time leading sire of money earners with $89 million in earnings, 258 stakes winners and 36 Champions, including World Champions A Ransom, Wave Carver, Dashing Folly, and Down With Debt. First Down Dash is sired by two-time World Champion Dash For Cash, and he is out of First Prize Rose by Gallant Jet.
Royal Quick Dash is the sire of horses that have won $20,611,604 with 879 ROM and 86 stakes winners. His stakes winners include AB What A Runner, a three-time