Flash’s Top
Money-Earning Get (as of April 26, 2013) 1. Flashthechicks $303,273 2. Flash N B Gone $170,824 3. Flash Of Silk $132,986 4. Lajollas Mr Big Stuff $127,804 5. Royal Quick Treasure $121,274 6. Runaway Argus $113,682 7. Quick N Special $103,344 8. The Cock Of The Walk $94,228 9. Angel Easter Flash $92,732 10. Royal Woman $87,280
Flash’s accolades include four Champion titles and being named 1998 APHA Running World Champion.
won that allowance race and got him the points he needed.” Flash finished the year as 1998’s
World Champion Running Paint Horse, Champion 2-Year-Old and Champion 2-Year-Old Colt. He returned to the track the following year, running third in the Lorelei Paint Derby and capturing the 1999 Champion 3-Year-Old and Champion 3-Year-Old Colt honors. Having proven he could run and
run well, all that was left was for Flash to prove he could make an equally impressive mark as a sire.
The Mark of Success After seeing how well Flash ran as
a 2-year-old, Larry says he received numerous inquiries about breeding to the rising star. Larry says his decision to postpone breeding Flash until after his 3-year-old campaign proved to be a wise one. “We had lots of people calling us,
trying to get us to breed their mares after his 2-year-old season,” he said. “It was a good thing we didn’t try nothing like that because after we bred him as a 3-year-old, there was no way he was going back to the racetrack.” First bred in 2000, Flash’s first
foal crop—numbering 25—hit the ground the following year, and all but one of those foals ended up on the
track. Making their 2-year-old debut in 2003, Flash’s get quickly proved they were serious runners. Kiss This Goodbye—a 2001 red roan solid mare out of Wheel Six Fortune (QH), bred and owned by Shari Burger of Jay, Oklahoma—became her sire’s first stakes winner, taking home top honors in the OHA Paint & Appaloosa Futu- rity at Fair Meadows in May 2003. On a roll, Larry’s own Hez Real Flashy, a 2001 bay solid gelding out of Betty Bullion, immediately logged a second stakes victory for Flash, winning the PSBA American Paint Classic Futurity in August at Remington Park. “They just started right off winning and that made his popularity sky- rocket,” Larry said. Since commencing his breeding
career, Flash has sired 13 crops—with 382 foals registered to date, 264 of them have started on the track. Among his credits are 29 stakes winners, 22 Champions and two World Champion racehorses. A versatile sire, Flash consistently
sires foals with soundness, heart and a bit of spunk. “They’re just like he was when he
was a yearling—they’re a handful. That’s common knowledge,” Larry said. “Every one of them is quite a handful to get going, but when you do, they try all they can try. We hardly ever have one that doesn’t win a race or at least break their maiden. He
was a real sound horse, and he puts soundness in these colts too. You can drive them pretty hard through this Remington meet and through the rest of the year, and they seem to hold up really well. He puts soundness and a lot of heart in them.” And despite the pedigree or perfor- mance ability of the mares to which he’s bred, Flash has proven he can sire runners. “There’s no certain nick of blood- lines with him—I attribute that back to his Hempen breeding. He crosses well on all kinds of different-bred mares,” Larry said. “When you find a mare that clicks with him and gets a big runner, you can just keep breed- ing her back to him and she’ll keep producing babies that do good at the track.”
Thanks to the success of his foals,
Flash has continued to climb APHA’s leading sires ranks. He reached APHA’s Million Dollar Sire club in 2006—that was followed by reaching $2 Million Sire status in 2008 and $3 Million Sire level in 2010. Last year, Flash became only the second horse to reach $4 mil- lion in progeny earnings, joining Judys Lineage in this prestigious club. In just over 2,700 starts, Flash’s foals have accumulated more than $4,850,000 in earnings to date.
“Every year, his colts have been run- ning at $500,000 or $600,000—close to $700,000 last year,” Larry said.
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