VILLE PLATTE, LA—MARCH 2, 2010—Multiple grade 3 winner Hez Fast As Cash has been retired from racing will stand the 2010 season at Blanchet Farms near Ville Platte, Louisiana. His fee has been set at $1,500.

The of 6-year-old, owned by Noe and Starla Martinez, Jr., won or placed in 14 of 29 starts from two to five while earning $79,359. He was the West/Southwest Hi-Point Three-Year-Old Colt and won the AQHRA Turf Paradise Open QH Derby(G3), Desert Classic Derby(G1), and the Corona Cartel Stakes.

Bred by Henry E. Brown, Hez Fast As Cash was a finalist in the New Mexico Championships Challenge(G1), West Texas Derby(G2), Higheasterjet Handicap(G3), Yavapai Downs Derby(G3) Robert Heubeck Memorial Stakes and Corona Cartel Stakes (twice).

His sire Heza Fast Man was the AQHA Racing Champion 3-Year-Old Colt and has sired earners of more than $12.7 million including 1 champion and 52 stakes winners. As a "Sire of Sires", Heza Fast Man is the sire of last year's #8 Leading Sire of Two-Year-Old Money Earners Heza Fast Dash.

Hez Fast As Cash is the out of the four-time AQHA racing champion Corona Cash by First Down Dash. Corona Cash won 19 races to earn $1,542,880 with wins that included the All American Futurity(G1) and Los Alamitos Derby(G1), etc. She is dam of 15 ROM, 1 stakes winner (Heza Fast As Cash), and four stakes-placed runners: One Corona ($85,381), Corona Three ($35,938), Pot Ocash and Trick Or Cash.

His second dam is former AQHA Racing Broodmare of the Year and three-time champion Corona Chick, by Chick Beduino. She has produced 11 other ROM including grade 1 winners Valiant Hero ($668,633), grade 1 winner and leading sire Corona Cartel ($557,142), grade 2 winner and multiple stakes sire Corona Czech ($125,759) and grade 1 stakes-placed Mighty Corona ($309,216), Captain Courage ($214,251), etc.

For additional information about special considerations or breeding contracts to Hez Fast As Cash contact Chris or Kim Blanchet at 337-885-2019.