Lil Shorta Cash is Prompt Choice in South Florida Invitational Stakes

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Lil Shorta Cash is Prompt Choice in South Florida Invitational Stakes

Hialeah, FL – Feb. 18, 2012 - Rodney Layne Harmon's Lil Shorta Cash scored his first career stakes victory in Saturday's $20,000 South Florida Invitational Stakes for 3-year-olds at Hialeah Park.

Saddled by Jackie Kirby and ridden by Cody Smith, Lil Shorta Cash went 440 yards in :21.695 while defeating Eyema Little Ten by two lengths. The brown colt was sent to post as the 2-1 favorite and returned a $6.40 win mutuel.

Lil Shorta Cash was bred in Oklahoma by Guy Weimer, who also raced the colt's sire, Panther Mountain. A 13-year-old son of 1995 AQHA champion 3-year-old colt Meter Me Gone, Panther Mountain won the 2003 AQHA Challenge Championship (G1) at Los Alamitos and was that season's champion aged stallion.

Panther Mountains top earners include champion Gone To The Mountain and Grade 1 winner DMNV Mountable. He is owned by a syndicate and stands at LUB Breeding Reproduction Center in Brazil.

Lil Shorta Cash is the first starter produced by his dam, Shakem Ur Cash, a winning 8-year-old daughter of the Royal Quick Dash stallion Royal Shake Em. The colt has won three of 13 races and has earned $62,442, and his stakes resume includes a third-place finish in the December 26, $223,840 Hialeah Laddie Futurity.

El Cartel Del Oro ran third, two lengths behind the winner, and was followed by Dashin Shiner, Mo Zoomo, Gold N Boy, Upgraded, Oceans Potion, Askin Aint Gettin, and Okey Dokey Diamond.

Runner-up Eyema Little Ten is a gray gelding by the Streakin La Jolla stallion Ten Streaks campaigned by Reynaldo Guzman. Eyema Little Ten has won one of 10 starts and has banked $17,274.

A black gelding by Count Corona racing for Luis C. Aguirre, El Cartel Del Oro was coming off of a third-place finish in a South Florida Derby trial on February 4. He has raced exclusively at Hialeah Park and has earned $13,900 from five outs.

Hialeah Park's 2011-12 Quarter Horse meet ends with a 10-race program on Sunday, beginning at 2:05 p.m. (EST). Four stakes are on the schedule, including the 440-yard, $75,000 Hialeah Invitational Championship, and the 440-yard, $100,000-added South Florida Derby.