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Dash For Cash Futurity Trials Dominate Saturday Program at Lone Star Park
Speedhorse Futurity(G3) winner Rappid will be among 119 hopefuls competing in the Dash For Cash Derby(G2) trials Saturday night at Lone Star Park.

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Dash For Cash Futurity Trials Dominate Saturday Program at Lone Star Park

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—SEPTEMBER 21, 2018—Rappid, a graded stakes winning gelded son of Ivory James owned and trained by Matthew Eck, is one of 119 2-year-olds entered in Saturday’s 400-yard Dash For Cash Futurity (G2) trials at Lone Star Park.

Rappid will be making his first start since July 28, when he scored a half-length victory in the 350-yard, $222,000 Speedhorse Futurity (G3) at Fair Meadows at Tulsa. The gelding drew post 9 and will be ridden by Alfredo Triana Jr. in the 10th of 12 trials.

One Famous Stone, a two-time Grade 1 futurity finalists during the Ruidoso Downs meet, drew post 7 and will be ridden by Jorge Linares for owners Jose J. Espinoza and Pedro Aguado. A sorrel son of One Famous Eagle trained by Robert Meche, the gelding has earned $34,600 from five starts, all at Ruidoso, and he was a finalist in the 350-yard, $1-million Ruidoso Futurity (G1) in June, and the 400-yard, $1-million Rainbow Futurity (G1) in July..

Other prominent 2-year-olds entered in Saturday’s trials include J. Fabian Hernandez’s FM Im A Zatanaz Too, the winner of the April 28, $441,000 Sam Houston Futurity (G1); Larry J. Boudreaux’s Mpshinning, the winner of the August 26, $154,000 Gillespie County Fair Futurity at Fredericksburg, Texas, and Margarito Montalvo’s Invite A Favor, the winner of the June 16, 330-yard Rocky Mountain Futurity at Arapahoe Park near Denver.

The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the $400,000-est. Dash For Cash Futurity final on October 6.

The Dash For Cash Futurity trials, and all Lone Star Park races, can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.