Multiple Stakes Sire Sweet First Down to James Ranch

WAYNE, OK—OCTOBER 18, 2011—The grade 1 placed and multiple stakes sire Sweet First Down will stand the 2012 season at James Ranch near Wayne, Oklahoma. His fee will be $1,500.

The son of all-time leading sire First Down Dash has sired 90 winners, 10 stakes winners, 10 stakes-placed from five crops to race. With earnings of more than $2.4 million, his get included grade 1 Rainbow Futurity runner-up Possum Fust ($299,308); grade 2 winner Sweet Macho; grade 3 winners A Sweet Gamble, I Am That and Missourian; Remington Park Juvenile winner Smokin Bye You; Black Gold 350 Futurity winner That’s The Way I Roll, Alabama Futurity winner Sweet Home Alabama, etc.

Owned by the Sweet First Down Syndicate, the grade 1 placed stallion won or placed in nine of 16 career starts, earning $146,374. He was third in the Texas Classic Derby(G1) and a finalist in the Ruidoso Futurity(G1), Windy City Dash(G3), Two Rivers Stakes(G3), Eastex Handicap(G3), etc.

Sweet First Down's dam is the grade 2 winning Zevi (TB) mare Sweet Bye And Bye ($324,563), dam of four stakes winner including grade 1 winner Dashin Bye ($305,250), stakes winner and grade 1 placed Strong Hope ($209,395), stakes winner and grade 1 placed Sweet Adios ($66,023) and stakes winner Chick Happens ($39,747). His second dam is multiple stakes producing daughter of Oh Shiney who has 19 ROM and 15 winners from 20 starters.

For additional information or breeding contracts to Sweet First Down, call Milt Alderman, Farm Manger, at 405.449.3728.