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Champion Tempting Dash Gets First Stakes Winner
Second crop stallion Tempting Dash sired his first stakes winner Saturday night when Kiss My Hocks won the Grade 2 $563,950 Sam Houston Futurity at Sam Houston Race Park.

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Champion Tempting Dash Gets First Stakes Winner

HOUSTON, TX—APRIL 19, 2014—AQHA Racing Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Tempting Dash sired his first stakes winner Saturday night when Kiss My Hocks won the $563,950 Grade 2 Sam Houston Futurity at Sam Houston Race Park.

Kiss My Hocks, who set a Sam Houston Race Park 330 yard track record in the trials, broke on top and pulled away from the field to pickup the winner's purse of $225,580 for owner Tyler Graham ad John Mayers. Graham and Conda Maze bred the undefeated colt in Texas from the Tres Seis mare Romancing Mary. Toby Keeton saddled with Luis Vivanco riding

Tempting Dash also got two stakes-placed runners over the weekend. On Saturday night Lovethewayoulie finished second in the $50,000 Sam Houston Juvenile Invitational Stakes and on Sunday A Dashing Valentine was third in the $100,000 Remington Park Juvenile Invitational.

From a limited number of starters in two crops to race, Tempting Dash has sired nine winners, 1 stakes winner, 2 stakes-placed with earnings of $362,350 and average earnings per starter of $12,495. The 7-year-old stallion moves to the top of the second crop leading sires of money earners list.

Owned by Simmons Racing, the undefeated son of all-time leading sire First Down Dash won four-of-four starts at 2 including the Texas Classic Futurity(G1) and Dash For Cash Futurity(G1). He earned $673,970.

Tempting Dash is out of former Broodmare of the Year stakes-placed A A Tempting Chick SI 99 ($36,953), by Chicks Beduino. She is the dam of 8 ROM including Grade 1 winner A Tempting Dash SI 104 ($541,959), G2 finalist Natalie Dash SI 91 ($52,681), etc.

Tempting Dash stood for a fee of $5,000 this year at Granada Farms near Wheelock, Texas. For additional information contact Jimmy Eller at 979-828-5167.

This article was updated on Sunday, April 20.