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Fast First Prize Establishing Her Own Dynasty—the House of Fast
Broodmare Fast First Prize is quickly establishing her own dynasty.

Fast First Prize Establishing Her Own Dynasty—the House of Fast

DALLAS, TX—JUNE 20, 2016—The definition of "dynasty" is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a feudal or monarchical system but sometimes also appearing in elective republics.

The word "dynasty" is sometimes used informally for people who are not rulers, for example members of a family with influence and power in other areas, such as a series of successive owners of a major company. It is also extended to unrelated people such as various rosters of a single sports team.

First Down Dash is the all-time leading sire of everything.
Until the 19th century, it was taken for granted that a legitimate function of a monarch was to aggrandize his dynasty, that is, to increase the territory, wealth, and power of his family members.

Dynasties throughout the world have traditionally been reckoned patrilineally, however many, such as the house of Romanov and Habsburg, allowed descent matrilineally.

It's safe to say the all-time leading sire First Down Dash and his sister First Prize Dash, both by former all-time leading sire Dash For Cash, have each established dynasties in their own right.

First Down Dash
From 27 crops to race, First Down Dash has sired 1,366 winners, which includes 249 stakes winners and 251 stakes-placed. Through June 14 they have earned in excess of $85 million.

He is the sire of a record six All American Futurity (G1) winners – Royal Quick Dash, Dash Thru Traffic, A Classic Dash, Corona Cash, Falling In Loveagain and No Secrets Here – and a record six Champion of Champions (G1) winners – Wave Carver, Ocean Runaway, Cash For Kas, The Down Side, A Ransom and Dashing Folly.

First Prize Dash
Former Broodmare of the Year First Prize Dash, produced 28 winners, 6 stakes winners (4 Grade 1) and 4 stakes-placed with earnings of $2,446,443. One of her sons was the industry's leading sire of money earners in 2013 and several other son's are multiple stakes sires.

Many of the offspring from this great female line have either the word "First" or the word "Fast" as part of their name. Most offspring in her downline, with the word "First" as part of their name, descend directly from the matriarch First Prize Dash. Others from this family with the word "Fast" in their name come from Grade 1 Heritage Place Futurity winner, Fast First Prize, a daughter of First Prize Dash.

First Prize Dash is a former Broodmare of the Year.
It's safe to say that First Prize Dash's daughters are almost all stakes producers, including several that have produced multiple graded winners of some of the industry's most prestigious races.

However the one daughter, through her daughters, that has decided to establish her own dynasty—through the name "Fast" — is Fast First Prize.

Fast First Prize
The daughter of Heza Fast Man won three of eight career starts and earned $244,929. She comes with the credentials to be a great producer. The 16-year-old mare is a sister to Grade 2 winner and leading sire Heza Fast Dash and a half-sister to Grade 1 winners and Grade 1 producers First Prize Leesa ($488,270), First Carolina ($415,047), First Prize Robin ($295,147) and G1-placed First Prize Perry ($243,946), etc.

Fast First Prize winning the 2002 Grade 1 Heritage Place Futurity at Remington Park.
Fast First Prize is the dam of 24 foals to race, all ROM, 16 winners, five stakes horses including world record setting Grade 1 winner Fast Prize Zoom ($192,875), G2-placed Fast Prize Doll ($85,762), G3-placed Ms Fast First Prize ($77,738), and stakes-placed runners Fast Prize Country ($50,414) and Fast Prize Tracy ($40,960), etc.

This group of sisters, all out of Fast First Prize by a variety of sires, are looking to have quite a year in 2016. Twelve—either full or half sisters—have produced at least one winner in the first half of 2016, seven have had black type stakes horses this year and another two have produced stakes qualifiers.

Heza Fast Dash, a brother to Fast First Prize, was the #1 Leading Sire of Money Earners in 2013 with more than $23 million in sire earnings. © Amanda Glidden
These daughters have picked up the torch in a big way this season.

In the first six months of 2016 they produced the winner of the Grade 1 $1 million Ruidoso Futurity, runner-up in the RG3 $880,000 Remington Park OK-Bred Futurity, runner-up in the $217,904 Grade 2 West Texas Futurity, winner of the SLM Big Daddy Stakes at Remington Park, the winner of the Hipodromo Distaff Challenge and winner of the Miss Houston Stakes—just to name a few.

The common thread in all these current producing mares, besides their dam Fast First Prize, is almost all were bred by the partnership of Weetona Stanley and W.E. Smith. These two prolific breeders are currently #2 in the nation by money earned and Ms. Stanley is #20 in money earnings on her own.

Through June 15th they have bred 20 winners, 2 stakes winners and 6 stakes-placed with earnings of $992,773. Ms Stanley, alone, has bred another 16 winners, 3 stakes winners with earning of $226,464.

For the sake of this article, we are only going to discuss the daughters of Fast First Prize whose foals have made at least one start this season (2016). Lets begin with the daughter who has produced the biggest winner thus far.

Fast Prize Tracy ($40,960) is a stakes-placed daughter of leading broodmare sire Shazoom. The 9-year-old mare is the dam of 13 registered foals, 9 to race, 6 ROM including 2016 Ruidoso Futurity(G1) winner Apolltical Chad (g. by Apollitical Jess) who has won two of three starts and earned $425,346. After winning last week's million-dollar futurity at Ruidoso the gelding shot to #2 in the AQHA-Racing National Poll for 2-year-olds. His trainer told StallioneSearch.com after the race they might skip the Rainbow and point to the $3.6 million All American Futurity(G1) on Labor Day.

Apolltical Chad, under jockey Adrian Ramos, won the Grade 1 $1 million Ruidoso Futurity on June 12. © Gay Harris / Ruidoso Downs
Another 2016 starter for Fast Prize Tracy is 3-year-old gelding Challon (g. by Pyc Paint Your Wagon) who posted the 13th fastest time in the Grade 1 Ruidoso Derby trials in his last start. He would have easily been in the final but a wind change in the final trial pushed him into the $100,000 Mr Jess Perry Stakes. His connections opted to skip that race and wait for the rich Rainbow Derby(G1) trials next month.

The second daughter Ferarri Fast Prize, a 9-year-old daughter of leading sire Mr Jess Perry, is dam of 11 foals to race, 9 ROM including three stakes horses. Her 2016 two-year-old, V Power (by Valiant Hero), has won three of five starts and earned $240,073. He was second in the RG3 $888,000 Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Futurity and a finalist in the $1 million Heritage Place Futurity(G1).

Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Futurity(RG3) runner-up V Power has earned $240,073 this season. © Dustin Orona Photography
Ferarri Fast Prize is also the dam of Ferrari James (by Ivory James) who was third in the 2016 RG3 $307,000 Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Derby. He is the winner of three races and has earned $61,264. Another foal, 2015 Dash For Cash Futurity(G1) runner-up Ferarri Gt (by Pyc Paint Your Wagon) finished second in the Ruidoso Derby(G1) trials to the fastest qualifier.

The third daughter we discuss is Grade 1 winner Fast Prize Zoom ($192,875), a sister to the aforementioned Ruidoso Futurity(G1) producer Fast Prize Tracy. Also by Shazoom, Fast Prize Zoom set a 300 yard NTR at Sunland Park in the West Texas trials, then returned in the final to break that record while posting a new world record for the distance when she went :14.870 seconds.

This year her 2-year-old Jess Prize Me (by Mr Jess Perry) finished second in the Grade 2 West Texas Futurity, was a finalist in the Ruidoso Juvenile and has earned $50,514. She is also the dam of another 2-year-old winner, Tac My Prize (by Tac It Like a Man), who has earned $16,210.

Jess Prize Me, shown winning his Ruidoso Futurity trial, ran second in the G2 West Texas Futurity. © Gay Harris / Ruidoso Downs
G2-placed and multiple stakes producer Fast Prize Doll ($85,762), by Mr Jess Perry, is the fourth daughter to produce a stakes horse this season. Fast Prize Robyn (by Carters Cartel) won the Hipodromo Distaff Challenge and is eligible to compete in the Grade 1 $125,000 Merial Distaff Challenge Championship at Los Alamitos Race Course on October 29th.

Fast Prize Doll's other 2016 winners include Double Down (by Valiant Hero) and Double Dash (by One Dashing Eagle), both were winners at Remington Park this Spring.

The fifth daughter to get a stakes winner in 2016 is Fast Prize Angie, by Oak Tree Special. Placed once in two starts at 2, the 9-year-old daughter of Oak Tree Special is the dam of 5-year-old Dashin For A Prize (by Heza Fast Dash), the winner of six races and $275,770. A multiple stakes winner, Dashin For A Prize won Remington Park's Slm Big Daddy Stakes in March and was third in The Championship at Sunland Park(G1) on January 3.

Dashin For A Prize winning the 2016 SLM Big Daddy Stakes at Remington Park. © Dustin Orona Photography
Fast Prize Angie's unraced full sister Fast Prize Ginger is the sixth daughter to produce a stakes horse this season. Also a 9-year-old, she is the dam of two winners from three foals to race including recent Miss Houston Stakes winner Kitty Kat Galore B (by FDD Dynasty). The 4-year-old filly is a multiple stakes winner of $72,978.

The seventh stakes producing daughter of 2016 is Fast Prize Corona, a stakes finalist by leading sire Corona Cartel. Also a multiple stakes producer, her Grade 1 winning son Cr Tuckernuck (by Jet Black Patriot) finished third in the Pauls Valley Stakes(G3) at Remington Park in May. He has won seven races and earned $213,379.

Kitty Kat Galore B winning the 2016 Miss Houston Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park. © Coady Photography
Shazoom, who is the dam of the 2-year-old filly Coronas Prize Dolly (by Coronas Leaving You). A winner at 2 and finalist to the RG2 LQHBA Lassie Futurity, she has earned $29,861.

All American and Ruidoso Juvenile finalist Fast Red Rose, an 8-year-old mare by Mr Jess Perry, is the dam of the 3-year-old Rosas Coronas (by Corona Cartel) who qualified to the RG3 $307,00 Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby in April and has earned $33,027.

And finally daughters who have produced two winners in 2016 include Fast Prize Rose, by Mr Jess Perry, the dam of Bodacious Prize (by Bodacious Dash) 2 wins in 2 starts; and Fast Flyin Prize, by Strawflyin Buds, dam of winner Flyin Eagle (by One Famous Eagle). The final daughter who has gotten a winner this season is the Corona Cartel mare First Prize Ribbon, dam of Taylor Spit (by Spit Curl Jess), winner at 3, $12,182.

All of this has occurred in just the first half of 2016. It will be exciting to see what happens in the final of the racing the year!