Fast Clip
Fast Clip | |
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![]() Fast Clip at Sportsmans Park July 1972 | |
Sire | Good Time |
Dam | Hoot Suite |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1969 |
Died | unknown |
Colour | Bay |
Owner |
Bru-Bil Farm Messenger Stables |
Trainer | Bruce Nickells |
Major wins | |
American National (1971) Geer Stakes (1972) Matron Stakes (1973) Single G Pace (1973) |
Fast Clip (foaled 1969) was a Standardbred champion harness racing horse. He is considered one of the outstanding horses trained and driven by 2016 Harness Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bruce Nickells.[1]
Fast Clip made his stakes race debut at the 1971 American National for two-year-old pacers at Sportsman's Park. He won the race by a nose[2] over Dancer George in a time of 2:04.3.[3]
In August 1972, Fast Clip won the Geer Stakes in Duquoin, Illinois with a time of 1:56.3. At the time that was one of dozen fastest winning miles in harness racing history.[4]
Fast Clip was entered to race in the 1972 Little Brown Jug in Delaware, Ohio, the second leg of Harness racing's Triple Crown.[5] In the 1972 Jug's second heat, Fast Clip finished second, one and one quarter lengths behind the winner Strike Out who broke the then record for a three-year-old pacer on a half mile track with a mark of 1:56.3.[6] Later in 1972, Fast Clip finished second to Silent Majority in the L.K. Shapiro Stakes held at Hollywood Park in California.[7]
As a four-year-old, Fast Clip finished fourth behind winner Keystone Pebble in the Realization Pace at Roosevelt Raceway.[8] One month later, he won the Matron Stakes at Wolverine Raceway in a time of 1:58.3 while pre-race favorite Keystone Pebble finished fourth.[9]
Fast Clip, who won purse money totaling $231,581,[10] was retired from racing in 1974.
References
- ↑ Bruce Nickells selected for Hall of Fame induction
- ↑ Sportsman's Results
- ↑ The Circleville Herald, July 27 1971, page 11
- ↑ Hoof Beats Magazine, September 1973
- ↑ 'Jay Time' is favorite
- ↑ Strike Out breaks record
- ↑ A roundup of the week Nov. 14-20
- ↑ Keystone Pebble early in Realization
- ↑ Fast Clip surprises in rich trot
- ↑ Fast Clip at allbreedpedigree.com