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SPEEDLINES
Dash Ta Fame is the sire or grandsire of 24 Barrel Futurities of America Champions in a variety of events, including
BF Shenanigan, aka Skinny, the 2004 BFA World Futurity Champion, 2005 BFA World Derby Year End Point Champion, and 2007 Oklahoma City Shootout 1D Champion.
Famous Silk Panties, the winningest futurity mare with $240,000 + LTE and a proven producer of over $120,000 in progeny earnings.
DTF Time Traveler, by Dash Ta Fame, shown with Lawson Merritt, Bill McKesson, Karen Gilhousen,
Brian Anderson, Anita McKesson, Bob & Darian Burt (the breeder of Dash Ta Fame) and Kenzie Farr. DTF Time Traveler sold for a record $170,000 at the 2018 Copper Spring Ranch Performance Horse Sale.
racing sire, “But as you know, everybody says that was just one horse and I had never seen a barrel horse in my life. I wasn’t interested in them at all. I was a racehorse guy. So, then I bred a horse named Fames Fox Kirk and he got hurt. Got his foot over a gate and injured himself. It was mostly cosmetic, so I put
him back together and sold him. He became famous and as far as I am concerned, he is the greatest horse Dash Ta Fame ever bred. He won $197,000 and went three years when winning $10,000 was a big deal. He was a gun.”
Burt added about some of the next
horses to contribute to Dash Ta Fame at the beginning, “Then there was another horse I bred named Smooth Movin Dash right after that and he won about $85,000. Then there was BF Shenanigan that Birrell Farms bred, and he was a BFA Futurity Champion. All of these big guns each won in the neighborhood of $100,000 and they were Utah bred. That is what started it. That is what got it going.
It just didn’t take off. It took a long time to make a great barrel sire.”
The interesting part of this early record
is the ties of the family of Fames Fox Kirk and the Bob Burt breeding program. Famous Fox Kirk won the BOAH/BFA Barrel Derby Champion. Famous Fox Kirk is out of Mamma Soul Kirk by Dr Kirk and she is out of Miss Filly of Soul by Truly Truckle.
When Mamma Soul Kirk was bred to Murrtheblurr TB, she produced Misty Blurr, who became the dam of Dash Ta Fame barrel horses Sir Patrick Blurr ($129,158), Misty Blurr
Ta Fame ($48,500), Soul Fame ($43,408) and Dashing Mistafier ($36,140). Sir Patrick Blurr was the 2005 BFA Super Stakes Champion.
Mistys Dash Of Fame is a daughter of Dash Ta Fame and out of Misty
Blurr. Mistys Dash Of Fame is the dam of KN Fabs Gift Of Fame ($647,203), KN Fabs Mist Of Fame ($170,518), RR Mistakelly ($295,072) and Jets Heart N Soul ($191,533). KN Fabs Gift Of Fame and KN Fabs Mist Of Fame were both qualifiers to the 2019 National Finals Rodeo. RR Mistakelly was the 2017 BFA Juvenile World Champion.
Let us take a look at some totals that will show the significance of Dash Ta Fame and
his influence on barrel racing. He is the sire or grandsire of 24 Barrel Futurities of America Champions in a variety of events featured through this association. His BFA money earners have earned $3,219,242, and he is the sire of 11 horses that were barrel runners for nine of the top 15 barrel racers at the 2019 National Finals Rodeo. He is the sire of 11 AQHA World Champions and Reserve World Champions that earned 14 titles in the Open and Amateur Select World Shows, and his world show qualifiers have earned $107,199.59.
Dash Ta Fame died in the summer of 2018, leaving our world physically. But
he lives on through modern science with his frozen semen and Bob Burt’s mare egg program. The story of this stallion is a phenomenal one and one that is still being written for this great crossover stallion.
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