Point Break Dash - s.c. First Down Dash-Ms Pilot Point by Splash Bac
Watch Qualifying Race
Race Record: 9-4-1-0 $117,071
Breeder: Grant Farms LLC
Qualifying time: :21.170
Race record: Winning the eighth trial by a half length, Point Break Dash clocked :21.170 to record the third-fastest qualifying time.
“He had been acting up in the gate, so we took the blinkers off,” said trainer Paul Jones.
A son of First Down Dash purchased for $100,000 at the Ruidoso Super Select Sale, Point Break Dash came off a fourth-place run in the Rainbow Derby (G1).
Point Break Dash is one of 13 winners and the earners of more than $530,000 bred by Grant Farms LLC at Pineville, Louisiana. Grant Farms this year was represented as breeder and part owner of Big Dashing Perry ($144,587), who on July 4 scored in the $265,775 Firecracker Futurity (G2) at Delta Downs. Point Break Dash races in the name of Jon and Donna McPherson of Pineville, Louisiana, who are the managing partners of Grant Farms.
Point Break Dash is by all-time leading sire First Down Dash, who has sired the earners of more than $79.98 million, 36 champions, 205 other stakes winners and 1,024 other winners.
Point Break Dash is one of five winners from six starters out of the graded-stakes-winning Splash Bac mare Ms Pilot Point ($73,706), who has produced the earners of more than $1.15 million. Ms Pilot Point is the dam of the Mr Jess Perry stallion Mr Piloto ($1,002,240), winner of the 2010 All American Futurity (G1).
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