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Shake The Bank, by Bully Bullion, is the top earner out of Shake Em Six.
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Broodmare of the Year Shake Em Six (above) is the dam of Stakes winner SF Royal Bank, by Royal Quick Dash, Royal Shake Em. is out of Shake The Bank.
was on his way to becoming a team roping horse when his life changed. Cash Rate was foaled in 1980 and didn’t race until 1985 and now here is his story. Ramon Wood was the horseman who bought Cherry Lake and he bred her to Quarter Horse sires. When Mr. Wood died, his widow Minnie Rae Wood formed a partnership with B. F. Phillips Jr.
to continue breeding her husband’s great mare. When Minnie Rae quizzed Mr.
Phillips about why she was paying her share of the feed bill for an unraced four-year-old racehorse, Cash Rate, Mr. Phillips responded that he was going to make him a team roping horse. “Well,” she said. “Why don’t we run him?” So, Cash Rate went to the track and became the 1985 AQHA World Champion and the 1985 and 1986 AQHA Aged Champion and Champion Aged Gelding. He
This brings us to back to SF Royal Bank, the stakes winner sired by Royal Quick Dash. This horse is a 3/4-brother to Royal Shake Em as he is sired by Royal Quick Dash and out of Shake The Bank, who is by Bully Bullion and out of Shake Em Six.
The sire of Shake Em Six is Streakin
Six, who earned $473,937 while winning the 1978 Rainbow Futurity-G1 and 1979 New Mexico State Fair Handicap. He
was also second in the 1978 All American Futurity-G1. He went on to sire the winners of $17,249,896, including 75 stakes winners and 663 ROM from 859 starters. His leading winners include Champions Sixy Chick, Six Fortunes, Sir Alibi, Sterling Sport and Dean Miracle.
Shake It To Em, the dam of Shake Em Six, is a stakes finalist in the Golden State Futurity, Skoal Dash For Cash Futurity
and the Kindergarten Futurity. She had nine starts with four wins and two seconds earning $69,200. She won her trials for the three futurities to which she qualified. The produce record for Shake It To Em shows 12 foals with 11 starters, 10 ROM and two stakes winners. Her leading money earners are Special Shake, winner of 1987 Dash For Cash Futurity-G1; and Shake Six, winner of the 1991 Calyx Invitational Handicap.
The sire of Shake It To Em is the great Dash For Cash, a leading sire of money winners to the tune of $39,990,251. The sire of Dash For Cash is Rocket Wrangler and his dam is Find A Buyer by To Market.
The dam of Shake It To Em is Rain Onya, a race mare that had nine starts with three wins and two second earning $38,268. She is a stakes finalist in the 1975 Kansas Futurity and the West Texas Futurity. This mare had
a modest produce record with eight foals,
six starters and four ROM. Her best runner
is Shake It To Em. The sire of Rain Onya is
3-time World Champion Go Man Go.
The dam of Rain Onya is Cherry Lake, a
Thoroughbred mare that is a stakes winner of Sunland Park Handicap and Governor’s Speed Handicap. Her total record for racing against Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds was 42 starts with 19 wins, five seconds
and five thirds. She earned $34,382.
The American Quarter Horse foals of Cherry Lake made her an AQHA Dam of Distinction. She is the dam of 11 foals with nine starters earning seven ROM and five stakes winners. They won $1,853,951. Her stakes winners include the Grade 1 winners Six Popper, Cash Rate, Flow of Cash and Countin the Cash. Her fifth stakes winner is Cherokee Lake.
Cash Rate has an interesting story on the crossover effect on racing. Cash Rate
Shake It To Em is the dam of Shake Em Six, the dam of Royal Shake Em.
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