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VILLE PLATTE, LA—JULY 6, 2015—Blanchet Farms announced today that Mercy Hinklin Horse Farm's multiple stakes winner and track record holder FDD Going Grand SI 112 and multiple stakes sire Jess Elie will stand the 2016 season at their farm near Ville Platte, Louisiana.
A homebred for Hinklin, FDD Going Grand has won or placed 15 of 27 career starts and earned $197,510. He set a new track record while winning the Evangeline Downs Dash last fall.
FDD Going Grand is by the two-time champion son of all-time leading sire First Down Dash, FDD Dynasty. Winner of the Ed Burke Million Futurity(G1) and earner of more than $1.1 million, FDD Dynasty is currently a top 10 leading sire of money earners for 2015. From five crops to race he has sired 213 winners, 1 champion, 38 stakes winners with earnings in excess of $9.1 million.
FDD Going Grand is out of the multiple stakes producing Corona Cartel mare Cash Cartel, dam of 6 ROM winners from 6 starters including TQHA Sale Futurity(RG2) winner Cash Flow Cartel SI 104 ($191,744), G3 finalist Cash N Fdd Dynasty SI 98 ($55,128), Wave Carvers Cartel SI 103 ($31,278), Firstdowndash Cartel SI 93 ($18,034) and Cartel Runway SI 93.
The second dam is the stakes winning and stakes producing Dash For Cash mare Maid For Cash SI 96 ($26,442), dam of 8 ROM winners from 8 starters including G3 winner La Jolla Maid SI 95 ($73,817), stakes-placed Foldin Cash SI 102 ($17,115), etc. The third dam is the stakes winner Holme Maid SI 102, winner of 8 races, $231,019. She won the 1979 Three Bars Handicap at Ruidoso was second in the Rainbow Derby and a finalist in the All American Derby.
FDD Going Grand's first crop will arrive in 2016.
From four crops to race (only seven starters), Jess Elie has sired four winners, one stakes winner, three stakes placed (43% stakes horses), with average earnings per starter of nearly $25,000.
The son of #2 leading living sire of money earners Mr Jess Perry won or placed in six of seven career starts.
Jess Elieis out of the Reb's Policy (TB) mare Miss Moon Policy, dam of 10 ROM, five stakes horses including G3 winner Mr Moon Policy SI 101 ($231,375), RG3 winner BCR Pale Moon ($77,376), stakes winner Smart Policy SI 103 (64,161), stakes winner BCR Misty Moon SI 103 ($28,309) and G3 placed Rigid Policy SI 128 ($96,280), etc. She is the granddam of AQHA Racing Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding Little Bit Of Baja SI 107 ($877,524), etc.
The second dam is the Lady Bug's Moon mare Myriah, a half-sister to AQHA Racing Champion Heza Charger SI 109 ($301,289), etc.
For additional information or breeding contracts to FDD Going Grand and/or Jess Elie, Chris or Kim Blanchet at 337-885-2019.