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with six second and 20 thirds, finishing third in the Stanford Stakes, Christiana Stakes and Jersey Stakes with earnings of $54,572.
Lake Erie sired 155 Thoroughbred
foals with 114 starters and 91 winners. His Thoroughbred runners include Lakeside Trail, winner of the Juvenile Handicap
at Albuquerque and the Laddie Stakes at Centennial Race Track. The Lake Erie starters through the AQHA records indicate that he had 33 starters with 12 ROM and two stakes winners, in Bar Dearie and Cherry Lake, a Thoroughbred mare who is the dam of World Champion Cash Rate by Dash For Cash.
It is Lake Erie that takes us back to the Phillips Ranch and here is what Burt said about Lake Erie, “One of the things about the Phillips horses was that if you got Dash For Cash around Lake Erie, you better hold on and that is why I went over there to buy that horse, not the Tiny’s Gay. Yes, he was a World Champion, but it was the Lake Erie that I was interested in. Tiny’s Gay was a gift.”
The key to his interest in Dash For Cash and Lake Erie comes from the mare Cherry Lake, and she was the reason he was interested in breeding Sudden Fame to First Down Dash and, as he said, “That is where I started.”
Cherry Lake was one of those partner mares that Phillips entered into with Raymon Wood and his wife Minnie Rae. Raymon passed away and Minnie Rae continued
the partnership as a co-owner with Phillips.
This mare was a stakes winner in the 1970 Governor’s Speed Handicap, the Brigand Handicap and the Sunland Handicap.
She became a successful producer for
the partnership, producing 1985 World Champion Cash Rate and stakes winners Countin The Cash and Flow of Cash, all sired by Dash For Cash. These three runners alone earned over $1.2 million on the racetrack.
The success of Dash For Cash and Lake Erie mares is reinforced by Kid O Dash, a stakes winner by Dash For Cash, and the mare Kid O’War by Lake Erie, a multiple stakes finalist and winner of the 1991 Southern California Derby-G2. Another stakes horse out of a Lake Erie mare is War Star Wrangler, a 2-time stakes winner in the 1981 Juvenile Handicap and the Budweiser Derby-G1. This horse is by Rocket Wrangler.
The dam of Bar Dearie is Barred Girl by Mackay Boy by Top Deck TB. Barred Girl is out of Barred Hug by Barred and she is out of Hug Me Tight by Driftwood, and Hug Me Tight is out of Nugget Hug.
Dash Ta Fame became a sire that built his record into the unique form it has taken as a leading sire in both racing and barrel racing. He has sired 903 racing ROM with 90 stakes winners and 120 stakes placed runners. We see that 42 of his stakes winners are graded stakes winners. His leading winner is Gun Battle, whose stakes win came in the Zia Futurity-G1, and he was second in the All
American Futurity-G1. Ongoing Ta Fame
is his next leading money earner with wins
in races like the Shue Fly Stakes-G1 and
the Jess Burner Memorial Handicap-G1. Kendall Jackson is next on the list, winning such races as the New Mexico Championship Challenge-G1 in 2002 and 2003. Dash Ta Moon won the Lubbock Stakes-G2 and the Ruidoso Quarter Horse Sale Futurity. The fifth leading money earner is In Famous Caper, winner of the Mesilla Valley Speed Handicap-G2. These five runners represent the ability of Dash Ta Fame to cross with a variety broodmare sires, as each of these are out of a mare by a different stallion.
The phenomenal success of Dash Ta Fame to sire barrel racers makes for a curious situation. This stallion literally leads in every major category of production. He is the leading overall money earning sire with $23 million and the leading futurity and derby sire. His daughters have made him the all- time leading maternal grandsire, and it all started from such a modest beginning.
We will let Burt explain how it got started, “Terry and Nora Woods, a prominent barrel family here in Utah, bought a Dash
Ta Fame out of a Hempen TB mare off the track for their daughter. They started running barrels on her and they won something like $30,000, which was pretty good.”
Burt continued about his role in the next step to the making of Dash Ta Fame a barrel
Dash Ta Fame’s leading money earner on the track with $668,781 is Gun Battle, shown winning the Zia Futurity-G1 at Ruidoso Downs.
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