Great Notion Filly Trounces The Boys In Hall of Fame Stakes at CT

12/06/2008- GREAT NOTION’s juvenile daughter GONNA DASH showed her heels to a field of boys in the Charles Town Races and Slots Hall of Fame Cup Stakes on Dec. 6, scoring by two lengths in a frontrunning effort. GONNA DASH is the first stakes winner for GREAT NOTION, the Mid-Atlantic region’s leading freshman sire!

Owned by James Lewis and bred in the name of his Lewisfield Farm, Maryland-bred GONNA DASH burst on the scene in November with a sensational, 12-plus-length maiden special weight victory at Charles Town over fillies. The Jeff Runco trainee has two wins and a second in three starts, for earnings of $67,400.

Grade 1-placed sprinter GREAT NOTION has four winners from eight starters in his first crop, and ranks among the nation’s top 40 freshman sires. GREAT NOTION’s 2-year-olds have won at Santa Anita, Churchill Downs, Del Mar and Laurel. What a great value for a sire of such precociousrunners— GREAT NOTION stands for $3,500 live foal.

GREAT NOTION 2000, Bay
Elusive Quality-Evening Primrose, by Dayjur
2009 Stud Fee: $3,500 Live Foal