Stakes-Winning Fashionably Fast Retired to Harris Farms

Fashionably Fast , a six-time stakes winner for breeder and co-owner Harris Farms, has been retired. Trainer Dean Pederson said the 7-year-old gelding was sent last week to Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., where he will reside.

"He'll have a great life there," Pederson said. "Mr. (John) Harris will take really good care of him."

By Lucky Pulpit  out of the Forestry  mare Fall Fashion , Fashionably Fast compiled a record of 10-8-7 in 33 starts over five seasons of racing with $807,143 in earnings. His final race was a fifth-place finish in the Oct. 8 Harris Farms Stakes at Fresno for owners Harris Farms, Per Antonsen, and John Nicoletti.

His six stakes wins included two editions of the Harris Farms Stakes at Fresno (2019, 2020), two runnings of the Tiznow Stakes for state-breds (2020, 2021), the 2020 California Cup Sprint Stakes, and the 2019 Cary Grant Stakes. In 2020, he also became graded placed when second to McKinzie   in the Triple Bend Stakes (G2) at Del Mar.

Fashionably Fast had been breezing toward a possible tilt in this year's Jan. 7 Cal Cup Sprint at Santa Anita Park, but last week the decision was made to call it a career. He retires as the highest-earning horse ever trained by Pederson.

"He was just very competitive, and the older he got, the more he enjoyed his work," Pederson noted.