Dream Rush

Dream Rush
Adam Coglianese/NYRA photo

2004, Wild Rush - Turbo Dream, by Unbridled

Breeder: James Petrey Jr. (Ky.)

Owner: West Point Stable, Lewis Lakin, and John Sikura Jr.

Trainer: Richard Violette Jr.

Regular Rider: Eibar Coa

Pedigree

Dream Rush
Wild Rush
Turbo Dream
Wild Again
Rose Park
Unbridled
Reve de Fee
Icecapade
Bushel-n-Peck
Plugged Nickle
Hardship
Fappiano
Gana Facil
Mr. Prospector
Reine des Iles

Purchase Info

Consigned to November 2007 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, agent. Purchased for $3,300,000 by Halsey Minor, D. Easter, agent.

Pedigree Highlights

Wild Rush, who stands in Japan, won the 1988 Metropolitan Handicap (G1) and Carter Handicap (G1) during a career in which he earned $1,386,302.

To date, he has sired 28 stakes winners, including three-time Canadian champion Judiths Wild Rush and notable Grade 1 winners Stellar Jayne and Hollywood Story who raced in a combined five Breeders' Cup races. Hollywood Story's best finish was a fourth in the 2003 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) while Stellar Jayne finished third and fourth respectively in the 2004-'05 Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1).

Dam Turbo Dream was unraced and Dream Rush is her first winner. Neeranjanie, her filly by Gentlemen (Arg), is stakes-placed.

Dream Rush is tail-female to the Meadow Stable stalwart Hasty Matelda. This is the family of 1984 E. P. Taylor Stakes (Can-G2) winner Reine Mathilde, who placed in the 1984 Prix de l'Opera (Fr-G2), and multiple stakes winner Shelter Half.

Race Record

AgeStarts1st2nd3rdEarnings 
22200$57,064
37420$570,800
42011$69,200

At 3: 1– Prioress S. (G1), Darley Test S. (G1), Nassau County Breeders' Cup S. (G2), Old Hat S. (G3), 2– Acorn S. (G1)

At 4: 2– Vagrancy H. (G2), 3– Princess Rooney H. (G1)

Last Start

Won Darley Test S. (G1) on Aug. 4 at Saratoga

Contender Status

The new Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint race was undoubtedly designed with horses like Dream Rush in mind.

Winner of six of her eight starts, she was second in her other two races, one of which was the one-mile Acorn Stakes (G1), her only start beyond seven furlongs.

Her only other loss came in a six furlong allowance race at Gulfstream Park at the beginning of the year when she was returning to action after nearly three months off.

"Right now, she has to be one of the top sprinting three-year-old fillies in the country," trainer Richard Violette Jr. said after Dream Rush won the July 7 Prioress Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park.

She affirmed Violette's assessment in her next and most recent start, winning the seven furlong Darley Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on August 4 by two lengths.

After the Test victory Violette tabbed the 6 1/2-furlong Gallant Bloom Handicap (G2) on September 22 at Belmont Park for Dream Rush's last hurdle before the Breeders' Cup.

But Dream Rush missed a mid-September workout due to a minor illness causing Violette to pass on the Gallant Bloom. Instead he will train her up to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

"We would like to stretch her out again, but that's something we'll look at down the road."

A week after the Breeders' Cup Dream Rush is scheduled to be one of nine Grade 1-winning broodmare prospects cataloged for the one-day Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November selected fall mixed sale to be hold in Lexington on November 4.

Recent Works

October 21- Four furlongs breezing in :47.96 at Aqueduct, track fast. Second best of 19 workouts at the distance.

October 14 - Five furlongs breezing in 1:01.19 at Aqueduct, track fast. Fourth best of 18 workouts at the distance.

October 8 - Five furlongs breezing in :58.40 at Aqueduct, track fast. Best of four workouts at the distance.

October 2 - Five furlongs breezing in 1:00.21 at Aqueduct, track fast. Best of five workouts at the distance.

September 26 - Four furlongs breezing in :49.61 at Aqueduct, track fast. Second best of three workouts at the distance.