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HEZA FAST DASH MOVES TO TOP OF LEADING SIRES LIST
Heza Fast Dash moved to the top of the 2013 leading sires of money earners list off a big weekend of stakes performers.
Amanda Glidden / Plugged In Equine Marketing SolutionsBREAUX BRIDGE, LA—JULY 16, 2013—The $625,000 earned byHeza Fast Dash offspring on closing night at Delta Downs Saturday played a big part in this Louisiana based sire advancing from third to first on the national leading sires list this week.
Through July 15, Heza Fast Dash is represented by the earners of $1,956,921 in 2013. That total ranks him first among Leading Sires of Money Earned this year. The 15-year-old stallion stands for a fee of $5,000 at Robicheaux Ranch, Inc. near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
Saturday's closing night at Delta Downs saw him get six winners, including four stakes winners, three new stakes records and one track record on the 11 race card. Seven-year-old Zupers Quick Dash at $471,129 became his sire's all-time leading money earner after a track record performance in the $100,000 Louisiana Classic(RG1).
His 2-year-old Fjr Bread N Butter ($316,247) became the fourth leading money earning two-year-old in the nation with a solid win in the $564,895 Lee Berwick Futurity(RG1) at Delta Downs. It was the third offspring by Heza Fast Dash to win the prestigious Louisiana-bred race.
Fast Talkin Henry, a 3-year-old altered son of Heza Fast Dash, set a new stakes record in the $148,260 Delta Downs Derby, while La Mos Chingono won the $50,000 Flashy Hemp Stakes and Bipty Dash won the $40,000 Louisiana Starter in stakes record time.
If that was not enough, on Sunday afternoon Heza Fast Dash sired $82,450 Rocky Mountain Futurity winner Oh No U Didnt at Arapahoe Park.
Bred and raced by Weetona Stanley, Heza Fast Dash won the Grade 2 Blue Ribbon Futurity and was second in the Grade 1 Remington Park Futurity at 2. Coulon Jumonville purchased the stallion at the end of his race career, in 2002, and syndicated him. He has stood his entire stallion career at Robicheaux Ranch, Inc. and been among the leading sires every year since his first crop raced in 2006.
From eight crops to go to the track, the Grade 2 winning son of Heza Fast Man is the sire of 32 stakes winners, 25 stakes-placed earners of $14.3 million with average earnings per starter of $33,000. Among his other get are Lee Berwick Memorial(RG1) winner Senor Seabolt (7 wins, $418,999), RG1 winner Heza Jodys Toast (8 wins, $398,571), RG1 winner McM Dashmaster (6 wins, $377,772), G2 winner Heza Fast Classic (8 wins, $346,752), etc.
Heza Fast Dash hails from one of the industries most active female lines. His dam is the former Broodmare of the Year First Prize Dash, a multiple grade 1 producer and full-sister to All-Time Leading Sire First Down Dash. Among her offspring are Remington Park Futurity(G1) winner First Prize Leesa ($488,270), Heritage Place Futurity winner(G1) First Carolina ($415,047), Remington Park Futurity winner First Prize Robin ($295,147), Heritage Place Futurity(G1) winner Fast First Prize ($244,929, a full-sister to Heza Fast Dash), Texas Futurity(G1) runner-up First Prize Perry ($243,946Z), etc.
Active stakes runners in 2013 from this female line include Remington Park Futurity(G1) winner Coronado Cartel ($310,748); Rainbow Futurity(G1) finalist Ms First Prize Rose ; Firecracker Futurity third place finisher Itea ($56,881); Heritage Place Juvenile Invitational runner-up Spit Like Jagger ($34,382); Heritage Place Juvenile Invitational finalist Blue Gene Harley ($19,871); Oklahoma Futurity(G2) finalist Sassy Spit Curl ($39,351); Oklahoma Futurity(G2) and Rainbow Juvenile Invitational finalist Cr Tuckernuck ($10,250); Eastex Handicap (G2) winner Fast Prize Mike ($134,605); two-time RG3 Remington Park stakes winner Fast Prize Jordan ($191,469); TQHA Sale Futurity(RG1) finalist Virtuous Jess; Canterbury Park QH Derby third place finisher First Prize Wagon ($22,127); to name a few.