QUALIFYING HISTORY
TrackDateRaceNameFinish 
Sunland Park12/31/201110The Championship At Sunland Park S.2Chart

CONNECTIONS
 G Blane Wood
Trainer

Blane Wood has conditioned the earners of more than $14 million, including champions Leading Spirit ($811,413) and Haulin Pass ($178,855), and won last year’s Rainbow Futurity (G1) with Ms First Prize Rose ($543,595). Based in Lubbock, Texas, he and his son Trey have one of the most successful training operations in the industry. Last year, Trey in his own name sent out the earners of more than $2.4 million, and in his career since 2006 the earners of more than $8.43 million. With qualifiers Bodacious Eagle and Sam Crow in this year’s All American Futurity, Blane Wood is the son of Leo Wood, who in 1979 sent out champion Pie In The Sky to win the All American Futurity (G1).
 Ricky Ramirez
Jockey

Ricky Ramirez rode Bodacious Eagle on the second day of trials, after being the only rider other than champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr. to qualify a finalist on the first day. The sport’s third-leading rider in 2013, when he rode 104 winners and posted a career-best aboard the earners of $3,073,406, Ramirez since 2003 has ridden the earners of more than $18.37 million. He came into the trials with 33 winners from 281 mounts this year, with a career total of 44 stakes wins and 735 other wins from 4,721 starts. Riding first-call for the father-and-son training operation of Blane and Trey Wood, Ramirez won last year’s Rainbow Futurity (G1) aboard Ms First Prize Rose, the 2012 Heritage Place Futurity (G1) aboard BP Cartels Alibi and the 2010 Texas Classic Futurity (G1) aboard Bodacious Dash.
 Johnny Trotter
Owner

Johnny Trotter of Hereford, Texas, is the president of the American Quarter Horse Association. He raises commercial beef cattle on his ranches in Texas and New Mexico, and finishes cattle in his Bar G Feedyards at Hereford. Trotter in his own name since 2001 has bred champion One Famous Eagle (which he raced in partnership with Burnett Ranches), graded stakes winner Dash Back Perry ($226,642), one other stakes winner, 33 other winners and the earners of more than $2.5 million from 79 starters. Trotter also owns Texas Classic Futuriity (G1) winner Bodacious Dash, a $756,495 earner whose first foals will be yearlings in 2014.
PEDIGREE
Bodacious Dash - Bodacious Dash won the second Rainbow Derby trial by a half length over fifth-fastest qualifier DM Streakn Thru Fire. At 2 last year, the First Down Dash colt won the Texas Classic Futurity (G1) at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie, was third to champion American Runaway in the Ruidoso Futurity (G1), and also contested the finals of the Grade 1 Rainbow and Dash For Cash futurities.

Bred by Bob and Jerry Gaston of Seguin, Texas, Bodacious Dash is one of two stakes winners and six other winners from nine starters out of the stakes-winning Mr Jess Perry mare St Pats Tea ($95,791), who has produced the earners of $819,798, including the Grade 2-winning gelding St Pats First ($173,113), a full brother to Bodacious Dash.

The colt was purchased for $60,000 at the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale by AQHA Executive Committee member Johnny Trotter of Hereford, Texas, who also owns Rainbow Futurity (G1) fifth-fastest qualifier Hez Our Secret. Bodacious Dash is trained by Blane Wood, a two-time winner of the Ruidoso Futurity, and was ridden in the trials by Ricky Ramirez.

With a small group of broodmares, Bob and Jerry Gaston of Seguin, Texas, have bred the earners of more than $2.6 million. In 2010, horses they bred include champion Double Down Special and Grade 1 winner Bodacious Dash.

First Down Dash (1984, Dash For Cash-First Prize Rose by Gallant Jet) was the 1987 world champion and died last year. First Down Dash earned $857,256 and compiled a race record of 15-13-1-0. The all-time leading sire of racing American Quarter Horses with progeny earnings of more than $75.1 million, the stallion has sired 1,667 starters from 21 crops, including 35 champions, 193 other stakes winners and 964 other winners. With progeny earnings of $823,201 to date this year, First Down Dash currently is the 16th-ranked sire of money earners in 2011.

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