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First Crop Sire First Down Illusion Gets First Stakes Winner
First crop sire First Down Illusion sired his first stakes winner on Saturday.

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First Crop Sire First Down Illusion Gets First Stakes Winner

BREAUX BRIDGE, LA—JUNE 7, 2015—Ed Burke Million Futurity(G1) winner First Down Illusion SI 98, a first crop sire of 2015, got his first stakes winner Saturday when Rgr First To Fire won the $34,251 UQHRA Ed Giles Futurity at Laurel Brown Track in South Jordan, Utah.

A home bred for David and Ross Hinkins, Rgr First To Fire completed the 350 yards in :17.765 seconds to pick up the winner's purse of $11,988. It was the second straight win for the Utah-bred filly out of Heart Fire by Lanes Leinster. Alvaro Torres trains Rgr First To Fire who also a finalist in the $22,833 South Valley Futurity last month. Abel Ramirez had the riding assignment.

Rgr First To Fire (outside), a daughter of first crop sire First Down Illusion, won the $34,251 UQHRA Ed Giles Futurity.
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From a limited number of starters in his first crop to race, First Down Illusion has sired Rgr First To Fire (winner, $13,706, UQHRA Ed Giles Futurity), Msmfirstdownparty (Winner, $17,260), Rgr Secret Illusion ($5,240, Beehive Futurity finalist), Connors Illusion ($2,790), Rgr Firstdown Blake ($2,006, South Valley Futurity finalist), etc.

Owned by David and Ross Hinkins, First Down Illusion won or placed nine times to 3 and earned $500,547. He won the Ed Burke Million Futurity(G1), California Breeders' Freshman Stakes and was third in the PCQHRA Breeders' Futurity(G1).

The son of all-time leading sire First Down Dash is out of the multiple stakes producing For Really (TB) mare Fishers Fantasy, dam of 6 ROM, three stakes horses including full siblings the aforementioned G1 stakes winner First Down Illusion SI 98 ($500,540), stakes winner Catalina Fantasy SI 109 ($34,170), G1-placed Really A Fantasy SI 96 ($75,045), etc.

The second dam is the stakes winning *Beduino mare Fishers Favorite ($210,860), dam of 15 ROM including Golden State Futurity(G1) winner Check Her Twice ($215,361), Southern California Derby(G1) winner and stakes sire Dash To Chivato SI 96 ($150,549), stakes winners Spirit De Corps SI 108 ($34,272), First Femme SI 102 ($30,972) and stakes-placed multiple stakes sire Fishers Dash SI 93 ($123,495).

Fishers Favorite is the granddam of champions Old Habits SI 106 ($680,491), Hateful Hanna SI 105 ($139,487), and G1 winners Check Him Out SI 98 ($418,528), One More Habit SI 98 ($272,510), Sheza Bad Habit SI 116 ($164,545), etc.

First Down Illusion stands for a 2105 fee of $2,500 at Robicheaux Ranch, Inc. near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. For additional information or breeding contracts call Ryan Robicheaux at 337.845.5130.