Multiple stakes winner Fashionably Fast retired

ARCADIA, Calif. – Fashionably Fast has run his last race.

A six-time stakes winner against California-breds, Fashionably Fast was sent to co-owner and breeder John Harris’s farm in Coalinga, Calif., last week to begin his retirement, trainer Dean Pederson said Monday.

Fashionably Fast won 10 of 33 starts and earned $807,143 in a five-year career from 2018-22.

An 8-year-old gelding, Fashionably Fast won his first stakes in the 2019 Harris Farms Stakes at the Big Fresno Fair as a 5-year-old, the third victory in a six-race winning streak. Fashionably Fast won three other stakes after the 2019 Harris Farms Stakes – the Cary Grant Stakes at Del Mar, and California Cup Sprint and Tiznow Stakes at Santa Anita in early 2020.

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The streak ended with a second-place finish to McKinzie in the Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita in June 2020.

“At the end of the day, we couldn’t have campaigned him any better than we did,” Pederson said. “He was very competitive.”

Fashionably Fast won the Tiznow Stakes and Harris Farms Stakes in 2021. He was fifth in the Harris Farms Stakes in October in what turned out be his final start.

“He got a little older and more mature and developed into the horse he was,” Pederson said. “Even when he tailed off, he was still competitive.”

During his racing career, Fashionably Fast was co-owned by Harris, Per Antonsen, and John Nicoletti. Fashionably Fast was under consideration for Saturday’s $150,000 California Cup Sprint prior to his retirement.

The California Cup Sprint is one of five stakes for statebreds on Saturday’s program.

There are three $200,000 races – the California Cup Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf, the Unusual Heat Turf Classic at 1 1/8 miles on turf for older horses, and the California Cup Derby at 1 1/16 miles on dirt – and the $150,000 Sunshine Million Filly and Mare Turf Sprint on the hillside turf course.

Pederson plans to starts Carmelita’s Man in the Unusual Heat Turf Classic. In the spring and summer of 2022, Carmelita’s Man won consecutive stakes for statebreds on turf – the Crystal Water Stakes at Santa Anita in May and the California Dreamin’ Stakes at Del Mar in August.

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