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Dash For Cash 
Dash For Cash statue at the AQHA Headquarters in Amarillo, TexasBreed Quarter Horse Discipline Racing Sire Rocket Wrangler Grandsire Rocket Bar (TB) Dam Find A Buyer (TB) Maternal grandsire To Market (TB) Sex Stallion Foaled 1973 Country United States Color Sorrel Breeder B. F. Phillips, Jr. Honors Racing record 25-21-3-0 Race earnings $507,687.00 Major racing wins Sun Country Futurity, Lubbock Downs Futurity, Los Alamitos Derby, Champion of Champions (twice) Racing awards 1976 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, 1977 World Champion Quarter Running Horse Honors American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame Last updated on: 11 January 2008. Dash For Cash was an American Quarter Horse racehorse and an influential sire in the Quarter Horse breed.
- Lived: 1973-04-17 - 1996-05-20
- Sex: stallion
- Color: Sorrel
- Breed: American Quarter Horse
- Breeding: by Rocket Wrangler (QH), out of Find A Buyer(TB) by To Market
- Place of Birth: Frisco, Texas
He won $507,688 during his career. He was elected Racing World Champion in 1976 and 1977. His victory races are the Champion of Champions (1976, 1977), Sun Country Futurity, Los Alamitos Invitational Champ, Los Alamitos Derby, Vessels Maturity, Lubbock Downs Futurity.
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As a sire
He is currently the number 2 all-time leading sire by earnings, and the sire of the number 1, First Down Dash. He sired 827 winners (145 stakes winners) from 1,155 starters and the earners of $39,990,245. He is currently number 5 all-time sire by winners. He is currently the all time leading broodmare sire by earnings at $56,104,925. He is currently number 2 all time broodmare sire by winners with 2027 winners (235 stakes winners) from 3154 starters. He is probably the most important modern sire in the Quarter Horse industry. He shows up in the first three generations in 9 of the 10 top earning horses for 2006 as an example.
He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[1]
Pedigree
Percentage (TB) Three Bars (TB) Myrtle Dee (TB) Rocket Bar (TB) Cartago (TB) Golden Rocket (TB) Morshion (TB) Rocket Wrangler Top Deck (TB) Go Man Go Lightfoot Sis Go Galla Go Direct Win (TB) La Galla Win La Gallina V Dash For Cash Brokers Tip (TB) Market Wise (TB) On Hand (TB) To Market (TB) Johnstown (TB) Pretty Does (TB) Creese (TB) Find a Buyer (TB) =Hyperion (TB) *Alibhai (TB) =Teresina (TB) Hide And Seek (TB) Whirlaway (TB) Scattered (TB) Imperatrice (TB) Notes
- ^ AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on November 10, 2010
References
- All Breed Pedigree Pedigree of Dash For Cash retrieved on 22 June 2007
- Pitzer, Andrea Laycock The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires Tacoma, WA:Premier Pedigrees 1987
Further reading
- Biasatti, Helena "Dash For Cash Wins 1977 Champion of Champions Invitational" Quarter Horse Journal February 1978
- Chamberlain, Richard "Inside the Syndicate" Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 49
- Chamberlain, Richard "The Big Red One: In Quarter Horse Racing, Dash For Cash was No. 1" Quarter Horse Journal July 1996 p. 76-79
- "Dash For Cash Syndicated for $2.5 Million" Quarter Horse Journal October 1977
- Owens, Amy "A Final Chapter: Dash For Cash's Last Crop Heads to the Track" Quarter Horse Journal April 1998
External links
Categories:- 1973 racehorse births
- 1996 racehorse deaths
- Quarterhorse racehorses
- American racehorses
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- Influential Quarter horse sires
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