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World Champion & 36-Time Champion sire First Down Dash, sire of Half Time Attraction.
Okie Affair – the dam of Champion Treacherously, shown winning a race at Sunland Park in 1994.
Silvered Silk – the dam of Champion Silvered Eyes, shown winning the Rainbow Derby-G1.
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Native Affair is the dam of:
and The Louisiana Dream, winner of the Covered Bridge Stakes-G3.
The sire of Half Time Attraction is World Champion First Down Dash, a winner of the Champion of Champions-G1. He is the All- Time Leading Sire with earnings of over $90 million. His winners include World Champions A Ransom, Wave Carver and Dashing Folly, who were all Champion of Champions winners. First Down Dash was sired by Dash For Cash, a 2-time World Champion and 2-time Champion of Champions winner. The dam of First Down Dash is First Prize Rose by Gallant Jet.
The dam of Half Time Attraction is Favorite Attraction, who earned her ROM with one win in five starts. She is the dam of 11 starters with five ROM and one stakes placed runner in Half Time Attraction. Favorite Attraction was sired by Easy Jet and out of Native Noblesse.
Native Noblesse was a stakes placed runner in the 1986 Paul Travis Stakes and Boomer Sooner Spring Derby. She won two of 11 starts with earnings of $9,721. Native Noblesse
was the dam of 10 foals, eight starters, seven ROM and three stakes winners. Her big
stakes winner was Noblesse Six, the 1994 All American Futurity-G1 winner. This gelding made 52 starts as he developed into a distance specialist with four stakes wins - three at 870 and one at 550. He set a New Track Record
in an allowance race at Albuquerque in a time of :44.560 for the 870 yard race. The second stakes winner for Native Noblesse raced in Mexico and his name was Pure D Dash. He set his Track Record in Mexico going 440 yards in the 1995 Campeon De Campeones Classic in a time of :21.120. He won three stakes races in 1993 including the Campeon De Campones Classic-G3 and earned the title of Mexico Champion Three-Year-Old Colt. The third stakes winner from this mare was Noblesse Oblege, winner of the 1997 The Classics Derby. Native Noblesse was sired by Raise Your Glass TB and out of Native Empress.
Half Time Attraction, dam of Apollitical Time.
Noblesse Six, the 4th dam of Apollitical Jess, winning the All American Futurity-G1.
Breeders’ Champion Stakes and the Baffle Stakes. He made 23 starts with five wins, four seconds and four thirds earning $354,475. Apollo was sired by Falstaff and out of Tumble Along by Tumble Wind. Apollo was the sire of horses that won around $8 million, including Old Habits, the 1999 Champion Three Year Old and Champion Three-Year-Old Gelding. He won such stakes as the 1999 All American Derby-G1 and the Los Alamitos Derby-G1. He earned $680,966.
Half Time Attraction is the dam of Apollitical Time. She was stakes placed in the 1999 The Classics Futurity and third in the California Juvenile Challenge-G3 earning $14,734. She is the dam of 11 ROM including In His Dreams, a stakes placed runner in the Denim N Diamonds Handicap. In His Dreams is the dam of the stakes winners Political Option, winner of the Mr Jess Perry LAD Stakes-
RG3; Sizzlin Cartel, winner of the Firecracker Futurity-G2; Louisiana Blue Dream, winner
of the All American Juvenile Invitational; JM Apollo, winner of the West Texas Maturity-G2;
Native Empress was a phenomenal race mare with 95 starts, 28 wins and 11 of them in stakes races, 24 seconds with 15 of them in stakes races, and 10 thirds with seven in stakes races. Her stakes wins include the Vandy’s Flash Stakes, Miss Princess Invitational Handicap, Go Josie Go Stakes, Inaugural Handicap and the Las Damas Handicap. Native Empress has a modest produce record with 11 starters that earned 11 ROM and one stakes placed and that was Native Noblesse. Native Empress is the dam of Native Affair, who is the dam of Okie Affair and she is the dam of Treacherously, the 1993 Champion Two-Year-Old Gelding. Native Affair is also the dam of Silvered Silk and she is the dam
of Silvered Eye, the 2003 Champion Three- Year-Old Gelding and a Track Record setter in the 2003 Rainbow Derby-G1 going the 440 yards in a time of :20.916. The sire of Native Empress was Dancing Dervish TB and she was out of Empress Bars.
Empress Bars had two wins in 12 starts with five seconds and one third earning $1,381. She was the dam of 11 foals with six starters that earned four ROM. She was the dam of one stakes winner in Native Empress. A look at Empress Bars takes us back to the foundation of this line. She was bred by J. O. Hankins, one of the three Hankins Brothers
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