DASH FOR CASH FUTURITY TRIALS

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Heritage Place Futurity(G1) winner Southern Takes All will race in Saturday's second trial. Photo by Dustin Orona Photography



Four Grade 1 Winners Top 125 Entries For 13 Dash For Cash Trials



GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—OCTOBER 11, 2007—Grade 1 winners Check Cathy, Furrtreeous, Southern Takes All and Swingin Jess are among 125 two-year-old American Quarter Horses entered in Saturday night's Dash For Cash Futurity trials at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas.

The 10 fastest times in the 13 races - all at 400 yards - will advance to the Grade 1 final on Saturday, Oct. 27. The final is worth an estimated $450,000.

The top money earners entered are Heritage Place Futurity winner Southern Takes All (7-2-2-1-$358,513; entered in Race 2); Retama Park and Manor Downs Futurity winner Swingin Jess (7-5-1-0-$266,108; Race 7); Harrah's Entertainment Futurity winner Eyesa Jumpn (9-4-2-1-$264,529; Race 5); Speedhorse Gold and Silver Cup Futurity winner Furrtreeous (5-3-1-1-$220,896; Race 13); Rainbow Futurity runner-up Possum Fust (7-3-3-0-$165,479; Race 9); once beaten Sam Houston Futurity champ Check Cathy (5-4-1-0-$145,320; Race 10); All American Futurity third Captain Courage (4-1-0-2-$143,070; Race 9); and unbeaten Firecracker Futurity winner Coronas Leaving You (5-5-0-0-$118,280; Race 1).

Trainer Heath Taylor, who ranked second nationally in money-won with more than $2.3 million, holds a strong hand with five entrants, including Swingin Jess, Captain Courage, both by Mr Jess Perry, and Coronas Leaving You, by Corona Cartel. Swingin Jess and Coronas Leaving You will be ridden by Lone Star's 2000-01 leading rider Gilbert Ortiz, winner of the inaugural Dash For Cash Futurity in 1997 aboard My Love Wont Wait. Six-time AQHA Champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr., who guided Baby Doll Form to victory in the 2001 Dash For Cash Futurity, is named to ride Captain Courage.

Remington Park's training champ Eddie Willis has seven entrants, including Southern Takes All, by Southern Cartel, and Possum Fust, by Sweet First Down . Larry Payne has the mount on the two stakes winners.

Robert Touchet, the leading trainer at the Retama Park meeting, also has seven entries, led by Check Cathy, a filly by Check Him Out, who'll be ridden by Arturo Puga.

Two-time Dash For Cash Futurity winning trainer John Buchanan (Pivotal Decision in 2000 and Don't Let Down last year) will saddle seven horses, including All American Futurity seventh Coronas Fast Dash, by Corona Cartel, and Rainbow Futurity fourth Brighton Beach, by Strawfly Special.

Lone Star Park's first race Saturday is 6:35 p.m. CT and the final race is scheduled for 11:57 p.m. CT. Grandstand gates will open at 5:30 p.m.

These are gonna be some GOOD trials. I've never seen it this tough.

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Illegal Memories with Roy Baldillez aboard jumps the photo finish light beam at the wire. Photo Courtesy: Lone Star Park

Illegal Memories Jumps Into $432,090 Dash For Cash Futurity

Photo Courtesy: Lone Star Park GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—OCTOBER 13, 2007—Tim Lange and Charlie Forbes' Illegal Memories, ridden by Roy Baldillez and trained by Doug McMullen, clocked 400 yards in :19.889 Saturday night at Lone Star Park and was the fastest qualifier to the Grade 1 Dash For Cash Futurity, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 27.

Thirteen trial races were staged for 2-year-old American Quarter Horses and the 10 fastest of 125 recorded times earned berths in the $432,090 final two weeks later.

Illegal Memories, a Texas-bred gelded son of Illegal Runaway out of the Leaving Memories mare Good Ole Memories, will enter the final with two wins and $80,372 in six career starts.

In three of those starts, including Saturday's impressive trial victory, he's propped or jumped the photo finish light beam at the wire. He did the same while fourth in the Grade 1 Retama Park Futurity in June.

In the trial for the Retama Park Futurity, Illegal Memories nearly sent two-time reigning Lone Star Park riding champ "Diamond" Jim Brooks into retirement. The 56-year-old jockey was sidelined four months with an injured rotator cuff when the 2-year-old bobbled badly at the wire while finishing second.

"At the wire, he got stiff-legged and just propped and dug his two front feet into the ground," Brooks said Oct. 2. "He tossed me out of the stirrups and into the air with no reins in my hands; I came down hard. He's got some talent, though."

Bobby D. Cox's Coronas Fast Dash came off a seventh place finish in the $2,000,000 All American Futurity(G1) on Labor Day to win the seventh trial in :19.945 seconds for the second fastest qualifying time. He has won two of six starts this season while earning more than $62,000.

Trained by John Buchanan, the Corona Cartel colt is a full-brother to last year's Kindergarten Futurity(G1) winner Vachetta.

Ellen Kennedy's Adios My Amigos was the only other entry to break the :20.000 mark with a :19.984. The home-bred Make It Anywhere colt was winning for the third time in five starts when he took trial #12. He was a finalist in the Oklahoma Futurity on June 9. Luis Villafranco saddles with Roy Brooks aboard.

Race: DASH FOR CASH FUTURITY-G1

Track: LONE STAR PARK
Trials: OCTOBER 13, 2007
Final: OCTOBER 27, 2007
Purse: $432,090
Age: 2-YEAR-OLDS
Distance: 400 YARDS

Horse Sex Sire-Dam, Dam Sire Time Owner Breeder Trainer Jockey

Illegal Memories g. Illegal Runaway--Good Ole Memories, by Leaving Memories :19.889 Tim Lange & Charlie Forbes Fletcher Huskey (TX) Doug McMullen Roy Baldillez

Coronas Fast Dash c. Corona Cartel--Dash Fast Girl, by Heza Fast Man :19.945 Bobby D. Cox Bobby D. Cox (TX) John Buchanan Juan Vazquez

Adios My Amigos c. Make It Anywhere--Pure Oklahoma, by Takin On The Cash :19.984 Ellen Kennedy Ellen Kennedy (OK) Luis Villafranco Roy Brooks

Passion Raging On c. Mr Jess Perry--Texas Lady Passion, by Promised Passion :20.066 James Sills or Gerald Swindell James Sills or Gerald Swindell (OK) Eddie Willis Larry Payne

Presidential Request f. Johns Eye Opener--Party Request, by A Cash Request :20.087 Teresa & Virgil Weisinger Teresa and Virgil Weisinger (OK) Brian Muse G.R. Carter, Jr.

Furrtreeous c. Oak Tree Special--Beeline Feline, by Rare Form :20.096 Richard Joneson Vessels Stallion Farm LLC/Richard Joneson (OK) Luis Villafranco Roy Brooks

Illegal Te g. The Corona--Illegal Doll, by Illegal Runaway :20.104 George Temple, III & John McCall Joel Rod Pierce Judd Kearl Rodrigo Vallejo

Possum Fust g. Sweet First Down--High Fashion Lass, by Merganser :20.111 Abel Flores, Link Newcomb & Micah Leslie Abel Flores (OK) Eddie Willis Larry Payne

Rock Solid Jess c. Mr Jess Perry--Rockin The Tetons, by Tolltac :20.111 Jack Manning Henry E. Brown (OK) Mike Wakefield James Gonzales

Witchs Streak f. Streakin Sixes--Livomo, by Strawfly Special :20.112 Jose Medrano Bell/Lentschke (TX) Jose Ramos Santos Carrizales

Trial Notes: Illegal Memories won the fifth of 13 trials by one length over Passion Raging On to post the fastest qualifying time.

This is going to be an interesting race...there are some names I would have sworn would be in (trainers/horses/etc...)

I can't wait for the finals

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Dash For Cash winner Rock Solid Jess
Photos Courtesy of Lone Star Park

Rock Solid Jess, Jess A Lil Bit More Set DFC Stakes Records



GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—OCTOBER 27, 2007—Rock Solid Jess and Jess a Lil Bit More, both progeny of AQHA Champion and $687,184-earner Mr Jess Perry, blazed their way to record-breaking victories in the Grade 1 Dash For Cash Futurity and Derby, respectively, before a crowd of 7,282 on Saturday night at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Rock Solid Jess, ridden by J.J. Gonzales II, ran 400 yards in :19.51 while winning the $432,090 Futurity. Jess a Lil Bit More clocked 440 yards in :21.27 in the Derby, which was worth a record $214,500. Both times were stakes records - the fastest in 10 editions of each race - and were awarded Speed Indexes of 108.

Rock Solid Jess eclipsed Silvered Eyes' time of :19.54 in the 2002 Dash For Cash Futurity and was just three-hundredths of a second off Eyesa Special's :19.48 track record in the 2000 Texas Classic Futurity. Jess a Lil Bit More topped champion Significant Speed's :21.41 in 2000 for the Derby.

Rock Solid Jess, a two-year-old Oklahoma-bred colt owned by Jack Manning of Odessa, Texas and trained by Mike Wakefield, collected his first stakes win and improved his record to three wins from nine starts. The $172,839 winner's share of the purse jumped his bankroll to $196,607.

"He loves it here," said Wakefield, who has trained for Manning for nearly a decade. "I always thought he'd get better with the longer distances. He runs a lot like his full brother [Jess Rock On] who was a pretty nice horse (a winner of four races and $155,615 in 15 starts between 2003-04, including a third place finish in the 2003 Texas Classic Futurity). He'll come back for the Texas Classics in a couple of weeks."

Rock Solid Jess dueled gamely down the lane with Rainbow Futurity runner-up Possum Fust, a Sweet First Down gelding, surged past that rival and held off a late charge from fastest qualifier and 2-1 favorite Illegal Memories, by Illegal Runaway, to win by a half-length.

"I rode him here two weeks ago and he ran a big race," Gonzales said of the Oct. 13 trial in :22.164, which ranked eighth. "I was just asking for a clean break tonight and I got it. He broke sharp and he ran the race I thought he would."

Rock Solid Jess paid $36.40 to win. The complete order of finish was Rock Solid Jess (Gonzales, II, James); Illegal Memories (Baldillez, Roy); Possum Fust (Payne, Larry); Adios My Amigos (Freeman, Debbie); Witchs Streak (Carrizales, Santos); llegal Te (Vallejo, Rodrigo); Coronas Fast Dash (Vazquez, Juan); Passion Raging On (Ortiz, Gilbert); Presidential Request (Carter, Jr., G.) and; Furrtreeous (Brooks, Roy). Jess a Lil Bit More also scored an upset with AQHA champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr. in the saddle.



Photos Courtesy of Lone Star Park

Dash For Cash winner Jess A Lil Bit More.

The filly, owned by Stephen Williams of Weimar, Texas and trained by Heath Taylor, broke fastest of all in the field of 10 three-year-olds and never looked back. She paid $30 to win and beat stakes winner Mister Ww, a Dean Miracle gelding, by a half-length with Sassys Tuffy, an Okey Dokey Dale gelding, third. Diamond Tres Seis, another Taylor runner who was unbeaten in five starts this year, checked in seventh as the 8-5 favorite.

"Both horses were training super," Taylor said. "I hated to draw the rail with Diamond Tres Seis and he ran like he was slipping and sliding and couldn't get a hold of the racetrack. But Jess a Lil Bit More ran super. She left the gate like a rocket and she's running with a lot of confidence right now. When they've got the confidence, they can be hard to catch."

The $85,801 winner's share of the Derby purse jumped Jess a Lil Bit More's earnings to $141,306. It was the Arkansas-bred's sixth trip to the winner's circle in 12 outs.

"She felt good warming up before the race and she was really on her toes," said Carter, who performed his trademark back flip off Jess a Lil Bit More after the race. "I was looking for her to run big. She just fired out of there and ran a strong race."

The complete order of finish was Jess a Lil Bit More (Carter, Jr., G.); Mister Ww (Baldillez, Roy); Sassys Tuffy (Gonzales, II, James); Photo Smart (Bustamante, Ignacio); Folsfirstdown (Vallejo, Rodrigo); Feature for You (Martinez, Joe); Diamond Tres Seis (Ortiz, Gilbert); Hiclass La Jolla (Vazquez, Juan); Fishers Rocket (Aranda, Joel); and Aclassoffly (Torres, Abdel).


Photo Courtesy of Lone Star Park

Saturday's 11-race program also included the $48,010 Dash For Cash Juvenile Stakes, which was won by Eyesa Jumpn ($7.80). Santos Carrizales rode the Eyesa Special filly winner for owner Adrian Huitron and trainer Jose Ramos.

Late Friday night, Desirable Properties Inc.'s Ida Snow Man ($6.60), ridden by Jeff Jerman and trained by Michael Zingelmann, won the $20,000 6666 Ranch Handicap.