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Longshot Sir Seth Runs Big in Zia Park QH Championship

Hobbs, NM – Dec. 4, 2011 - Rodney Christiansen's Sir Seth scored an upset victory in Sunday's Grade 1, $150,000 Zia Park Quarter Horse Championship Stakes.

Saddled by John Stinebaugh and ridden by Salvador Martinez, Sir Seth led at every call en route to a neck victory over Celtic Classic. The homebred 4-year-old stallion by all-time leading sire First Down Dash returned a $61.40 win mutuel and paired with the runner-up, a 13-1 longshot, for a $667.60 ($2) exacta.

Sir Seth was bred in California. His sire, First Down Dash, was American Quarter Horse racing's world champion in 1987. His progeny earnings stand at more than $73.7 million, the highest of all time, and his runners include 35 AQHA champions. First Down Dash died at the age of 26 on November 25, 2010.

Sir Seth is also one of three starters produced by Quiet Courage, a winning 9-year-old daughter of 1994 AQHA champion sophomore colt Heza Fast Man. The colt's second dam, the Windy Ryon mare Windy Sensation, won a futurity at Trinity Meadows in Texas in '96.

Racing in four different states, Sir Seth has won nine of 18 outs, and the $89,100 winner's share of the Zia Park Championship purse pushed his earnings to $271,422. His stakes record includes a third-place finish in champion First Klas Fred's 2009 Ruidoso Futurity (G1) and a third-place run in last year's Ruidoso Derby (G1).

Double Chiseled, Jess A Runner, A Spring Snow, 4-5 favorite Noconi, and Strike It Quick completed the order of finish.

Runner-up Celtic Classic was coming off of a third-place finish in the November 6, $55,000 Lovington Stakes (G2) at Zia. The 5-year-old gelding by Check Him Out, who races for Romualdo Tarango, has won six of 32 starts and has banked $154,957, of which $116,916 has been earned this season.

Double Chiseled is a 5-year-old SC Chiseled In Stone gelding owned by Top Roustabouts and Backhoe Service. He has earned $246,164 from 23 races, and his six wins include the Lovington Stakes and the 350-yard, $55,360 James Isaac Hobbs Stakes (G2) at Zia.



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