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HEZA FAST CLASSIC WINS BANK OF AMERICA EAST CHAMPIONSHIP
Heza Fast Classic earns an invite to the $300,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) on November 8.
Photo by Morgan Abshire/ Coady PhotographyVINTON, LA—MAY 17, 2008— Heza Fast Classic, a 4-year-old son of Heza Fast Dash overcame being pushed out at the start to win the $81,450 Bank of American East Challenge Champion(G2) for owner Tristan Rogelio.
Saddled by Erasmo Hernandez, Heza Fast Classic, bounced back from a seventh place effort in the Manor Downs Maturity on April 19, his last start. The $37,467 he earned for winning pushed his career bankroll to more than $264,000.
Ridden by Alfonso Lujan, the brown gelding covered the 440 yards in :21.878 seconds. Sixes On Time finished second with Favero placing third.
Heza Fast Classic also picked up an invite to the $300,000 Ford Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) on November 8, during the Bank of America® Racing Challenge Championships at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, Louisiana.
Heza Fast Classic's sire, Heza Fast Dash, was raced and bred by Lady Bug Stallion Station while winning the Blue Ribbon Futurity(G2) and finishing second in the Remington Futurity(G1).
A full brother to Lady Bug Stallion Station's grade 1 winning and producing mare Fast First Prize, Heza Fast Dash is currently the #3 third year sire in the nation.
Fast First Prize is the dam of 2008 two-year-old World Record holder Fast Prize Zoom winner of $152,120 and the West Texas Futurity(G1). The two-year-old filly bred by Weetona Stanley and owned by Stanley and William Smith, ran a world-record and track record time of 14.678 in her last start after breaking the previous world record in set in her first start.