(October 13, 2006) - Pat and Walter Fletcher’s Ima Ramblin Girl, ridden by five-time AQHA champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr. and conditioned by Hall of Fame trainer Jack Brooks, zipped 440 yards in :21.670 Friday night at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas and was the fastest of 43 three-year-old Quarter Horses that competed for a berth in the Grade 1, $193,300 Dash For Cash Derby.

Five trial races were staged and the 10 fastest times qualified to the Oct. 28 final, which features a $77,320 first prize. The finalists are

In addition to Ima Ramblin Girl, the finalists are Adrians Jolla (:21.735), This Candys Red Hot (:21.791), Rebs Royal Dasher (:21.795), Bag It Up (:21.798), SM Country Cowboy (:21.804), La Bron (:21.835), Fly Corona Cat (:21.864), Sixarun Bug (:21.905) and Im Bionic (:21.908).

Brooks will attempt to win his fourth Dash For Cash Derby with 3-year-old filly Ima Ramblin Girl, a dual stakes winner who won her fifth race in 17 career starts. Brooks won the inaugural 1997 edition with champion Dashing Perfection, the 2002 running with champion First Regards and last year’s renewal with Mighty Invictus.

“She ran big here last year winning the Joe B. Turner Memorial,” Brooks said. “She left the gates good and ran a super race tonight. She’s not a big stout filly and going a quarter of a mile can take a lot out of her. We see what happens in 15 days.”

Friday the 13th was a tough night for the four of the five favorites: Jessified (eighth at odds of 4-5), PYC Paint Your Wagon (fourth at 2-5), El Zapatista (sixth at 5-2) and Going to the Hague (fourth at even-money). Fly Corona Cat, the runner-up to Le Bron in the third trial at 6-5, was the lone favorite to qualify.

Later on the card, Sizzling held off a late run from 6-5 choice Eye Caughtcha Peekin to win the $20,000 Rheudasil Handicap by a nose. Sheza Dashing Disco was another neck back in third.

Sizzling, ridden by Carter and carrying 123 pounds, covered 350 yards in :17.604 and paid $18.40, $9.20 and $4.40 at odds of 8-1 in the field of nine fillies and mares. Eye Caughtcha Peekin, who nearly overcame a sluggish start to win, returned $4.60 and $3. Sheza Dashing Disco paid $3.60. Crazy About Corona was a late gate scratch.

The win was the sixth in 13 lifetime starts for the Russell Harris-trained Sizzling and was worth $11,000, raising the career earnings for the 4-year-old Corona Cartel filly to $93,543 for owners Billy and Mary Eiland and Harris Racing Stables.

DOWN THE STRETCH – Friday’s third race honored the late Texas Quarter Horse trainer Jack Dube, who succumbed Sunday to a five-month battle with lung and liver cancer at age 64. Dube won more than 500 races in three decades as a trainer and campaigned Grade 1 stakes winners Dealin Easy, Flying Arky and 1985 champion 2-year-old Brigand Silk…

Attendance on Friday was 3,722…

SM Country Cowboy, winner of the final Dash For Cash Derby trial, is a half-brother to Refrigerator Handicap winner Country Chicks Man…

Owner Jim Helzer on Derby qualifier This Candys Red Hot: “He trained up to this race really nice. He has the tendency to get sore and that’s why he doesn’t always run back so good. I’m really proud he recovered from that bobble after the start.”…

Each race on Saturday’s 11-race program is a trial for the Grade 1 Dash For Cash Futurity, which will feature a purse of $426,375 – it’s highest since 2000. The 110 two-year-olds entered in the 400 yard trials include Grade 1 winners Snowy Alibi (TQHA Sale and Sam Houston futurities), Big Time Hero (Rainbow Futurity) and Hiclass La Jolla (Speedhorse Gold and Silver Cup Futurity)…

The winner’s share of the Futurity will be $170,550. The Oct. 28 Dash For Cash Juvenile, for the next fastest qualifiers after the Top 10, will have a purse of $47,375 with $11,843 going to the winner…

G.R. Carter Jr. will be off his mounts Saturday because he has the riding assignment aboard 2004 World Champion Be a Bono in the Grade 1, $200,000 Los Alamitos Invitational Championship in Cypress, Calif…

Saturday’s first live race is 6:35 p.m. CT and grandstand gates open at 5:30 p.m…During the races, Lone Star Park will host the 18th annual “Pony Up for The Cure” Silver Spurs Gala, benefiting The Cancer Research Foundation of North Texas…

Lone Star’s Post Time Pavilion opens Saturday at 10:25 a.m. for a bevy of simulcast action, including the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (Germance and Magnificent Song), First Lady (Gorella and WinStar Distaff champ Sweet Talker) and Thoroughbred Club of America (Behaving Badly) from Keeneland; the Champagne (Nobiz Like Shobiz and Scat Daddy), Frizette (Meadow Breeze and Awesome Ashley) and Jamaica Breeders’ Cup Handicap (Showing Up and Kip Deville) from Belmont Park; the Oak Tree Derby (A.P. Warrior); Hawthorne Derby (Brilliant); and Calder Derby. The latter helps comprise Calder’s $1.6 million Festival of the Sun. Other events include the Maryland Million from Laurel and Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame Night at Retama Park…

A $400,000 guaranteed NTRA Pick 4 linking the Frizette, First Lady, Champagne and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup kicks off at 3:13 p.m. CT. Those races will be televised live on ESPN from 3-5 p.m. CT.