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SPEEDLINES
One Dashing Eagle Wins The 2012 All American Futurity (440 Yards)
When One Dashing Eagle moved
from Los Alamitos to Ruidoso in the mid- summer of 2012, he had already annexed the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1 at
Los Alamitos to his win list. He came to Ruidoso to win the All American Futurity for a second win in a million dollar race. His win was an interesting part of the year that again saw three different horses win the All American Triple Crown Races: the Ruidoso Futurity-G1 (PJ Chick In Black), the Rainbow Futurity-G1 (Carters Cookie) and the All American Futurity-G1 (One Dashing Eagle).
One Dashing Eagle was bred by the Allred Brothers—Harvey, Dale and Jerry, the breeders of the 2002 All American winner AB What A Runner. The Allreds had built a broodmare band with mares that they bred and owned, as well as adding mares from other breeders. One
of those mares was Sweet Beduino by Beduino TB. She was stakes placed with a second in races like the Santa Cruz County Futurity. They bred Sweet Beduino to First Down Dash to produce One Sweet Dash, a race winning mare. They bred her to Champion One Famous Eagle, winner of races like the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1 and Los Alamitos Derby-G1, to produce One Dashing Eagle. One Famous Eagle has sired three All American Futurity-G1 winners; in addition to One Famous Eagle, there was Imperial Eagle (2016) and Fly
Baby Fly (2017).
One Dashing Eagle winning the 2012 All American Futurity.
One Dashing Eagle was purchased
at the 2011 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale for $41,000 by Jose and Gustavo de La Torre and Jorge Carmona, of San Gregorio Stables. His trainer for most of his career was Jose de La Torre. He started his race career with a second in a maiden race, came back and won a trial to the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, and then added the Ed Burke Million finals with the winner’s purse being $420,420.
The 26 All American trials were held on August 15 with PJ Chick In Black setting the fastest qualifying time. She posted a time of :21.081, winning by 5 3/4-lengths in the 24th trial. To put this trial win in perspective, she had a speed index of 97 and the horse that finished second had a time of :21.954 with a speed index of 77. That tells us how easy this race was for PJ Chick In Black and still she won by 5 3/4-lengths. Jess A Zoomin won the 21st trial in a time of :21.246, with Krash Cartel second in a time of
:21.251 and both qualified for the finals. Just Wanna Corona qualified as
the fourth fastest qualifier in trial nine with a time of :21.286. Native Tea
Rose won trial seven with a time of :21.358. One Dashing Eagle ran in the 26th trial, winning with a time
of :21.369. Aha Moment and BP
Cartels Alibi finished in a dead heat in trial 25, qualifying with a time of :21.385. Mr Perry Cartel qualified with a win in trial 20 with a time of :21.400. The tenth qualifier was Sudden Thoughts, who was second
to One Dashing Eagle in their trial with a time of :21.404.
The buzz on the track between the trials and the finals was all about PJ Chick In Black and her astonishing trial win by 5 3/4-lengths. Could she do it again? Many thought that if she ran back to even a part of her form that gave her this trial win, she would be hard to beat. After all, she was unbeaten and had won the Ruidoso Futurity and skipped the Rainbow to
train for the All American so she would be rested. But it wasn’t to be. When the gates opened, the racing chart tell us she drifted in, bumped a foe and lost her path. She finished sixth.
The first call from race announcer
Ed Burgart was for One Dashing Eagle with Ramon Sanchez in the saddle, and they led all the way winning in a time
of :21.230, earning $1,200,000 to go with his Ed Burke Million Futurity win. Sudden Thoughts ran second to One Dashing Eagle again. They were followed by Aha Moment in third with Native
Tea Rose fourth and Just Wanna Corona fifth. The rest of the field that came across
Jorge Carmona of San Gregorio Stables, co-owner of
One Dashing Eagle.
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