Multiple stakes sire Mr Apollitical Jess will stand the 2025 season at Spring Hill Farms in Kaplan, Louisiana.

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KAPLAN, LA–JANUARY 21, 2025—Grade 2 stakes winner and multiple stake sire Mr Apollitical Dash SI 94 has been purchased by AH Equine, LLC and will stand the 2025 season at Spring Hill Farms in Kaplan, Louisiana. His fee will remain $2,000, with consideration.

From a limited number of starters in three crops to race, the son of leading sire Mr Jess Perry is the sire of 17 winners, 4 black type (12%) with average earnings per starter of nearly $14,500.

His top performers include stakes winner The Singaporean SI 108 (6 wins to 3, $99,396 Sweetwater Downs Futurity, 2nd-Ron Moosman Utah Bred Futurity, etc.), stakes winner WB Dashing Brat SI 91 (2 wins to 4, $35,103 SD Bred Quarter Horse Derby, 2nd-Ft. Pierre South Dakota Bred Futurity, etc.), stakes-placed TW Trumps Secrets SI 92 Opener (winner at 2, $42,154 3rd-Miss Roxie Little Futurity-G3), stakes-placed Mad Tool SI 99 (3 wins to 3, $36,558 3rd-Gillespie County Fair Derby), G1-placed JS Apollitical Chick (3 wins to 3, $30,085 2nd-Speedhorse Paint and Appaloosa Futurity Championship-G1, etc.), etc.

The Singaporean, under jockey Jesus Canales, winning the $145,3050 Sweetwater Futurity at Sweetwater Downs.
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A California homebred for Rancho El Cabresto Inc., Mr Apollitical Dash won the Grade 2 Southern California Derby and was third in the Old Habits Handicap at Los Alamitos Race Course.

He won or placed in seven races, banked $216,811 and was also a finalist in the Los Alamitos 2 Million Futurity (G1), Downs at Albuquerque Fall Championship (G1), All American Gold Cup (G1), Higheasterjet Handicap (G3), Kaweah Bar Handicap (G3), Mr. Jet Moore Handicap, and Moonist Handicap.

Mr Apollitical Dash's sire, champion Mr Jess Perry SI 113 ($687,184), is the #4 all-time leading sire of money earners, with 167 stakes winners, 9 champions, and earnings of over $62 million.

Mr Apollitical Dash is out of the multiple stakes producing First Down Dash mare Apollitical Dash, the dam of only 2 foals before she died. Both are black-type winners, including Mr. Apollitical Dash SI 94 (G2-winner, see above) and Oneapolliticalflight SI 94 (2 wins at 2, $196,808, 2nd Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, finalist Golden State Million Futurity-G1).

Mr Apollitical Dash defeating Kissed By An Eagle and Lotta Blues Man in the Grade 1 Southern California Derby at Los Alamitos Race Course. © Scott Martinez

The second dam is the three-time AQHA Racing Champion and former Broodmare of the Year Apollitical Time SI 104 by Apollo (TB). A winner of 14 races and $904,242, her Grade 1 wins include the Los Alamitos Super Derby, Mildred N. Vessels Memorial Handicap, Los Alamitos Invitational Championship, and Governor's Cup Derby.

Apollitical Time is the dam of 9 ROM, 8 winners, 2 black type including world champion Apollitical Jess SI 107 ($1,399,831), stakes-placed G2-finalist Rocket And Roll SI 99 ($50,886), Apollitical Rally SI 98 ($24,935), etc.

Mr Apollitical Dash's third dam is the G3-placed First Down Dash mare Half Time Attraction SI 96 ($14,734), dam of 11 ROM, 8 winners, 3 black type. As well as champion Apollitical Time SI 104 (see above), she has also produced G3-placed In His Dreams $32,197) and stakes-placed Halftime Separator SI 97 ($29,276).

This is the immediate family of RG3-winner Political Option SI 109 ($286,180), Grade 2 stakes winner and multiple stakes sire Sizzlin Cartel SI 105 ($233,446), All American Juvenile winner Louisiana Blue Dream SI 103 ($102,332), and many other black type winners.

For additional information or breeding contracts to Mr Apollitical Dash, call David Dunn at (817) 807-3154.