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Dash For Cash
Dash For Cash statue at the AQHA Headquarters in Amarillo, Texas
Breed Quarter Horse
Discipline Racing
Sire Rocket Wrangler
Grandsire Rocket Bar (TB)
Dam Find A Buyer (TB)
Maternal grandsire To Market (TB)
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1973
Country United States
Color Sorrel
Breeder B. F. Phillips, Jr.
Honors
Racing record
25–21–3–0
Race earnings
$507,687.00
Major racing wins
Sun Country Futurity, Lubbock Downs Futurity, Los Alamitos Derby, Champion of Champions (twice)
Racing awards
1976 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, 1977 World Champion Quarter Running Horse
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Last updated on: January 11, 2008.

Dash For Cash (April 17, 1973 – May 20, 1996) was an American Quarter Horse racehorse and an influential sire in the Quarter Horse breed.

Racing career

Dash For Cash won $507,688 during his career and was the Racing World Champion in 1976 and 1977.

Dash For Cash victories came in the Champion of Champions (1976, 1977), Sun Country Futurity, Los Alamitos Invitational Champ, Los Alamitos Derby, Vessels Maturity, and the Lubbock Downs Futurity.

In May 1996, Dash for Cash developed complications from equine protozoal myeloencephalitis and was euthanized.

Dash For Cash was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1997.

Pedigree

Percentage (TB)
Three Bars (TB)
Myrtle Dee (TB)
Rocket Bar (TB)
Cartago (TB)
Golden Rocket (TB)
Morshion (TB)
Rocket Wrangler
Top Deck (TB)
Go Man Go
Lightfoot Sis
Go Galla Go
Direct Win (TB)
La Galla Win
La Gallina V
Dash For Cash
Brokers Tip (TB)
Market Wise (TB)
On Hand (TB)
To Market (TB)
Johnstown (TB)
Pretty Does (TB)
Creese (TB)
Find a Buyer (TB)
=Hyperion (TB)
*Alibhai (TB)
=Teresina (TB)
Hide And Seek (TB)
Whirlaway (TB)
Scattered (TB)
Imperatrice (TB)
  • Pitzer, Andrea Laycock The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires Tacoma, WA:Premier Pedigrees 1987
  • Biasatti, Helena "Dash For Cash Wins 1977 Champion of Champions Invitational" Quarter Horse Journal February 1978
  • Chamberlain, Richard "Inside the Syndicate" Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 49
  • Chamberlain, Richard "The Big Red One: In Quarter Horse Racing, Dash For Cash was No. 1" Quarter Horse Journal July 1996 p. 76-79
  • "Dash For Cash Syndicated for $2.5 Million" Quarter Horse Journal October 1977
  • Owens, Amy "A Final Chapter: Dash For Cash's Last Crop Heads to the Track" Quarter Horse Journal April 1998
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