JEH Stallion Sons Run Fastest Qualifying Times In The Dash For Cash Futurity and Derby Trials
JEH stallions sire three finals qualifiers into the Derby and one in the Futurity
JEH Stallions will be well represented with four qualifiers in the upcoming Dash For Cash Derby (G1) and Dash For Cash Futurity (G1), both set for October 27 at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie.
In the Dash For Cash Futurity trials, Illegal Memories, son of JEH Stallion ILLEGAL RUNAWAY, was the fastest qualifier of 125 recorded times with his blazing :19.889 in the 400. Thirteen trial races were staged for 2-year-old American Quarter Horses, with the top 10 fastest times earning berths into the upcoming $432,090 final.
Illegal Memories, a Texas-bred son of ILLEGAL RUNAWAY out of the LEAVING MEMORIES mare Good Ole memories, will enter the Futurity final with two wins and $80,373 in six career starts. He is owned by Tim Lange and Charlie Forbes and trained by Doug McMullen. Roy Baldillez rode Illegal Memories in last Saturday's trail victory at Lone Star Park.
Three of the Dash For Cash Derby qualifiers are by JEH Stallions, TRES SEIS, DEAN MIRACLE and FEATURE MR JESS. Diamond Tres Seis, ridden by Gilbert Ortiz and trained by Heath Taylor, ran 440 yards in :21.791 and was the fastest qualifier to the Dash For Cash Derby.
Diamond Tres Seis, a Texas-bred TRES SEIS gelding out of the Dash For Cash mare Meddlin Mischief, has seven wins in 10 starts and earnings of $66,353. In 2007, he's perfect in five starts.
Finishing 3/4 of a length behind Diamond Tres Seis was Mister Ww, a DEAN MIRACLE gelding owned and bred by Gerald Rush Neff. The New Mexico bred grade 1 stakes winner of more than $325,000 ran the second fastest qualifying time of the night at :21.943.
Bay filly Fear This Feature, by FEATURE MR JESS has also qualified into the $214,500 Derby finals with her six place finish in the recent All American Derby (G1) at Ruidoso Downs. Fear This Feature is out of Truly Yours, by Tolltac, is owned by Jacque J. Tanton.
