Monday, October 18, 2010
Ken Tohill rode 3-10 choice Fastation to a half-length win in the $55,000 Permian Basin Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Zia Park on Sunday.
Prepped by Steve Asmussen for Heiligbrodt Racing Stable of Houston, Texas, Fastation covered 6 furlongs in 1:11.67 and extended her winning streak to four. The winner’s share of the purse pushed the filly’s earnings to $223,768.
Fastation was bred in Texas by L.T. Smith Enterprises, and she is one of 35 stakes winners from 10 crops sired by Valid Expectations, a 17-year-old Valid Appeal stallion who won two Grade 3 stakes in 1996, including the $118,500 Derby Trial Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs. A Florida-bred stallion, Valid Expectations has sired 430 starters and the earners of more than $27.06 million. He stands for a $10,000 fee at Lane’s End Farm in Hempstead, Texas.
Fastation is also one of nine winners from as many starters foaled by her dam, the stakes-winning Nepal mare Fast Fingers. Now 21, Fast Fingers has produced a total of three stakes winners, including Spanish Guitar, a filly by Birdonthewire who won two stakes at Sam Houston Race Park and The Woodlands from 2000-01, and Cumby Texas, a Lit de Justice colt who won the ’04 Thomas Edison Stakes at The Meadowlands in New Jersey.
Fastation’s second dam, the winning and stakes-placed Fichte mare Speedy Hands, produced nine winners from 12 starters, including Hand Me A Star, a stakes-placed full sister to Fast Fingers.
Fastation traces back to her fourth dam, the unraced Pappa Fourway mare Finishing Touch. A 1960 Kentucky-bred foal, Finishing Touch foaled Ocala Noir, a colt by Fool’s Paint who won the 1979 Woodstock Stakes at Greenwood Racecourse in Canada.
Campaigned in three states, Fastation has won four of seven races, all of which are stakes. The filly’s record includes victories in the 5 ½-furlong, $100,000 Texas Stallion Stakes (R) at Lone Star Park on June 10, the listed 6-furlong, $85,000 Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies Stakes at Mountaineer Park in West Virginia on August 7, and the 6-furlong, $100,000 Darby’s Daughter Texas Stallion Stakes (R) at Retama Park on September 25.
Fastation was a $42,000 buy at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Texas Two-Year-Old Sale.
Angel At Home ran second, 2 ¼ lengths in front of New Mexico-bred Squall Wilbud. Squallena, Tellittomestraight, and I Lift My Eyes completed the order of finish.
A homebred chestnut filly by Seeking A Home, Angel At Home was coming off of a 5 ½-furlong maiden victory at Zia Park in her career debut on September 14. Angel At Home has earned $26,320 from two outs for her owners, Larry and Bonnie Spraberry and Carol Chappell.
Squall Wilbud is a homebred bay daughter of Squall racing for W.T. Stradley and Tom Williams. The winner of the fillies division of the 4 ½-furlong Copper Top Futurity (R) for New Mexico-breds at Sunland Park on April 17, the filly has banked $11,608 from eight starts.