Breeding


First Crop Stakes Sire First Down Illusion To New Mexico
First crop sire First Down Illusion will stand the 2016 breeding season at Sky Stone Ranch near Aztec, New Mexico.

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First Crop Stakes Sire First Down Illusion To New Mexico

AZTEC, NM—OCTOBER 2, 2015—Ed Burke Million Futurity(G1) winner and first crop stakes sire First Down Illusion SI 98 will stand the 2016 season at Sky Stone Ranch near Aztec, New Mexico. His fee has been set at $2,000.

From a limited number of starters in his first crop to race this year, First Down Illusion has sired four winners and 1 stakes winner. His top performers include stakes winner Rgr First To Fire (2 wins, $14,126, UQHRA Ed Giles Futurity), Msmfirstdownparty (Winner, $22,250), Connors Illusion ($6,420), Rgr Secret Illusion ($5,240, Beehive Futurity finalist), Beyondtheillusion ($5,010), Rgr Firstdown Blake ($2,025, South Valley Futurity finalist), etc.

Rgr First To Fire (outside), a daughter of first crop sire First Down Illusion, won the $34,251 UQHRA Ed Giles Futurity.
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Owned-and-raced by David and Ross Hinkins, First Down Illusion won or placed nine times to 3 and earned $500,547. He won the Ed Burke Million Futurity(G1), California Breeders' Freshman Stakes and was third in the PCQHRA Breeders' Futurity(G1).

The son of all-time leading sire First Down Dash is out of the multiple stakes producing For Really (TB) mare Fishers Fantasy, dam of 6 ROM, three stakes horses including full siblings the aforementioned G1 stakes winner First Down Illusion SI 98 ($500,540), stakes winner Catalina Fantasy SI 109 ($34,170), G1-placed Really A Fantasy SI 96 ($75,045), etc.

The second dam is the stakes winning *Beduino mare Fishers Favorite ($210,860), dam of 15 ROM including Golden State Futurity(G1) winner Check Her Twice ($215,361), Southern California Derby(G1) winner and stakes sire Dash To Chivato SI 96 ($150,549), stakes winners Spirit De Corps SI 108 ($34,272), First Femme SI 102 ($30,972) and stakes-placed multiple stakes sire Fishers Dash SI 93 ($123,495).

Fishers Favorite is the granddam of champions Old Habits SI 106 ($680,491), Hateful Hanna SI 105 ($139,487), and G1 winners Check Him Out SI 98 ($418,528), One More Habit SI 98 ($272,510), Sheza Bad Habit SI 116 ($164,545), etc.

For additional information or breeding contracts call Shawn Edwards at 505.859.0922.