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“We strongly believed in the bloodlines that were combined in our Tip and wanted to breed her to the best. In our minds and hearts, Jet Deck was the best.”-Dr. Lindsey Burbank
trials with a second place finish and she qualified to the finals. She ran second in the finals of the Texas Futurity. It was discovered that she had knee chips, but she still went to Florida for the Central Florida Speed Horse Association Futurity. She entered the trials, and Burbank reported that the instructions to the jockey were to run her fast enough to qualify. But the filly had other plans and he stated it this way. “Elan and Miss
Ooo Wee came down the track together, lengths ahead of the field. Elan dove past the other filly at the wire to win.” But
the damage was done, and she couldn’t run back in the finals. This brought her two-year-old year season to an end. She earned $14,945 for the year for her win and two second places in three races. Miss Ooo Wee ran fifth in the finals of the Central Florida Speed Horse Association Futurity, but she also ran second in that year’s All American Futurity.
After surgery to remove the chips,
Elan Again returned to the races in 1973 to make 12 starts with two wins, five seconds and three thirds earning $12,239. Her stakes highlights started with the Ruidoso Derby where she finished third to Truckle Feature. Her next stakes appearance came in the Los Alamitos Derby, and she finished sixth in that
race. She ran in the Sunland Park Derby, where she finished second behind Truckle Feature, who set a New Track Record of :21.38 for the 440-yard race. She was invited to the Champion of Champions but finished sixth in this race.
The race career for Elan Again shows that she raced under several trainers and
jockeys but in her four-year-old year, she went to the barn of Charles Bloomquist with jockey Steven Walker and groom Donna Steed, and she moved to a new level. She spent her four-year-old year mostly in California under the new team. She made 12 starts with four wins, four seconds and two thirds earning $76,260. Her stakes wins were in the Vessels Maturity, the Miss Princess Invitational Handicap 1st Division, and the Pomona Invitational Championship. She ran third in the Los Alamitos Championship.
Elan Again stayed in California for 1975. She made 14 starts with 4 wins and 3 thirds earning $96,100. All 14 starts were in stakes races. She won the Las Damas Handicap, the HQHRA Championship, the Bart Express and the Go Man Go Invitational Handicap. She was named the 1975 Champion Aged Mare.
But her racing career came to an end as she had fought hard and won and continued to race on her fragile forelegs. It was the chips that halted her race career. Her total record shows 41 starts with 11 wins, 11 seconds and 8 thirds and her earnings were $199,544.25.
Elan Again was retired to the broodmare band to start a career that took Sparkling Tip to blue hen mare status as a producer. Ironically, Elan Again produced only three foals as
she died in 1980. The first was Greene Again by the Thoroughbred Shecky Greene. He was winner of the 1981 Master Salls Handicap with a second in the 1980 Governor’s Speed Handicap
and thirds in the 1980 Brigand Handicap, 1980 Three Bars Handicap and the 1981 Flying Charm Handicap. All these races were run at 870 yards, a distance you will see this family relishes. Elan Again then foaled Elans Home by Noholme II in 1978. This mare was a stakes finalist in the 1980 Golden State Futurity and the 1981 Gato Derby.
The third and final foal of Elan Again was Dash Again by Dash For Cash. This mare made seven starts and earned $254,068 with the biggest share of this money won in the 1981 Kindergarten Futurity. This gives Elan Again three foals/three starters with two stakes winner and foal earnings of $304,626.
Dash Again was the mare in this line
to give Sparkling Tip blue hen status. Dash Again produced 15 foals with 13 starters and three stakes winners. These foals earned $1,566,172. Leading the list of runners from Dash Again starts with Elans Special by Special Effort. She started 22 times with 11 wins, four seconds and three thirds earning $1,186,540. She won the 1987 All American Futurity-G1 and was a qualifier to the Kansas Futurity-G1 and was third in the Rainbow Futurity-G1. Her second stakes win came in the Miss Princess Handicap-G2. Elans Special produced 14 foals, 12 to race with 10 ROM and one stakes winner and two stakes placed runners. Gotothemountain was the stakes winner in the California Sires’ Cup Futurity-RG2; Brubeck was a second place finisher in the Jens L. List
Jr. Memorial California Breeders Stakes; and Coded was second in the PCQHRA Breeders’ Derby-G2.
Dash Again, by Dash For Cash and out of Elan
Again, winning the 1981 Kindergarten Futurity at Elans Special, out of Dash Again, winning the 1987 Gotothemountain, out of Elans Special, after
Los Alamitos. All American Futurity-G1 at Ruidoso Downs. winning the 1998 California Sires’ Cup Futurity-G2
at Los Alamitos.
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