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SPEEDLINES
First Down Dash is by Dash For Cash and out of First Prize Rose, by Gallant Jet
Dash For Cash won an impressive 21 races from 25 starts, and was named World Champion in 1976
& 1977. Beside First Down Dash, Dash For Cash is also the sire of World Champions Dashingly, Dashs Dream, Cash Rate, and Dash For Speed,
as well as 14 other Champions.
First Prize Rose, by Gallant Jet by Jet Deck,
is the dam of First Down Dash. First Prize
Rose won six races with earnings of $22,754. She produced four winners from five starters, including additional Champion First Prize Dash by Dash For Cash.
was a lot of them, but they were $30,000- $40,000 and we didn’t have that kind of money, so we started looking at horses and we found one that was a nice looking horse, but he kind of looked like a Thoroughbred. I told my partner, ‘We better take a look
at this horse. This is a nice horse.’ Well, he wasn’t comfortable with my choice. So, we got some other notable horsemen to take
a look at him and they said he was kind of narrow. But, I said, ‘He moves like a cat and his conformation is flawless.’ Well, they said, ‘I don’t think that I would buy that horse.’
I remember vividly that horse went through the sale for $5,700. I thought we could have bought that one.”
Burt continues, “Another one came
into the warmup arena and he looked similar to the other one. He was sired by a Thoroughbred. So, he gets the same fella and he says that horse sires on a hit and miss basis. I said, ‘Yeah, but look at that mama. He has a good mama.’”
“My partner and I passed on that one. So, I go home and look these horses up after they start running. The first one was Real Moody that ran out over $400,000 and the other one is Jettin Jim, winner of $100,000. I thought maybe I better move on, so I went into the Heritage Place Sale catalog and B. F. Phillips had several broodmares in the book and I studied it and I picked out three mares and Sudden Fame was the first one that went through and I bought her. Bubba Cascio was right there and he had By Yawl and I bred her to him. I got a filly out of that and I sold her to prove the mare. The next one out of her was the big boy Dash Ta
Fame. I bred Champion Dashing Folly, the granddam of PYC Paint Your Wagon. Then, I bred Jesscuzican, the 2014 Champion Aged Stallion.” Added Note: Dashing Folly is out of Hemps Folly and Jesscuzican is out of Covenant Confirmer, a daughter of Hemps Folly who was a broodmare for Burt.
Bob recalled how he got the breeding to First Down Dash and his story indicates how luck was with him. “I called them up and said, ‘I would like to get a breeding contract for First Down Dash,’ and they said, ‘He
is full. You can’t get one, but you can get
on a waiting list if you want.’ I said, ‘How many are on list?’ And it was like 50 or 60.
I thought, I’ll never get there, but I said put me on the list. I kept reading and I saw a contract from a guy that was available. I went down to the bank and got a money order
for the $1,000 booking fee and sent it in.
Put what I wanted on the check and I never got it back. Come September, I get a big ole envelope with the contract for the breeding to First Down Dash.”
He then added this about his continued success breeding to First Down Dash. “I bred the undefeated World Champion Dashing Folly. The same year I bred Dashing Folly,
I bred Dash For A Win, who is out of Will Fame, a daughter of Sudden Fame. She sold for more money than Dashing Folly and turned out to be a pretty good runner. She set four track records, all at 250 yards. Then I sent Dash Ta Fame down the track the first time out of a starting gate and he shattered the track record. All by First Down Dash.”
When the time came, Dash Ta Fame was scheduled to start in several futurities when
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SPEEDHORSE May 2020
FIRST DOWN
DASH, AQHA’s all-time leading sire of $89 million and the sire of leading
r ra ac ce e & & b ba ar rr re el l s s i i r re e
D DA A S S H H T TA A
FAME,
w wo o n n s s i i x x G G r r a a d d e e 1 1 s s t t a a k ke e s s a a n n d d w wa a s s n na am me ed d 1 19 98 87 7 World Champion.