An American quarter horse is about to race at the age of 16 - an age at which most racing horses have long hung up their horseshoes.
Silent Cash Dasher, a 16-year-old gelding by Dash Easy, is entered in the 11th race on Sunday at Remington Park, Oklahoma. The race will take place late this morning, New Zealand time.
The race is a $US24,000 allowance for three-year-olds and up, over 250 yards.
When Silent Cash Dasher - who has raced every year since 1997 - won last year as a 15-year-old at Oklahoma's Blue Ribbon Downs, he became the oldest quarter horse to win a race in the United States.
Owned and trained by Gary Norton Earp, 65, of Jay, Oklahoma, Silent Cash Dasher last year scored in three of seven races and was second once and third once. He finished third in the Rocky Heinzig Memorial Stakes (G3), and last raced on October 13 at Blue Ribbon Downs, where he finished seventh. Denise Lambeth has the mount on Sunday.
In 2007 at Fair Meadows at Tulsa, Oklahoma, the gelding finished second in the Rocky Heinzig Memorial Stakes. Silent Cash Dasher in his career has won 18 of 81 starts, with 10 seconds and 11 thirds, for earnings of $155,133.
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