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  Decup, by
Champion
Rare Form, si 120, and out of Sixy Baby, by
Streakin Six, si 104, is a big, stretchy sorrel
mare with a lot behind her and a lot ahead.
Decup
("Baby") had three starts at two, and
was in the money each of the three times with one second and two thirds. She
earned $2,510 and a speed index of 80 before an injury in the gate on her fourth
start ended her racing career.
Decup was sired
by the magnificent Rare Form, by The Signature, si 107.
This big, plain mare has a very strong pedigree, nice conformation and an
incredibly kind disposition.
Her
dam is Sixy Baby, an unraced
Streakin Six mare, out of
Baby Hold On, si 109 (by
Dash For Cash).
She is a half-sister to How Special,
si 104, $119,995. Sixy Baby is dam of 11
foals, 9 starters, 5 winners, and 8 ROM, including Raise A Sixy, si 97,
$30,240, 2002 Racing Northwest Hi-Point Aged Mare, Sixy Too, si 90, winner (dam
of Sixy Bee, si 90, 5 wins, $37,672, Solano Derby, 2nd Wine Co., Derby, etc.,
); Pritzi Too, si 91, 6 wins to 4, $29,693, etc. Sixy Baby's offspring have
earnings of $82,826.
Her second dam is the
remarkable Baby Hold On, a 1978
multiple stakes winning mare whose track earnings totaled $418,373.
Baby
Hold On, si 109, is dam to 13 foals, 9 performers, 9 ROM, 2 - 100+ ROM, 7 winners, 1
stakes winner, 2 stakes placers, whose earnings were $178,191. Her offspring
include stakes winner How
Special, si 104 (by Special Effort), $119,995, 1st La Primera Del Ano Derby, 2nd Golden State Derby, etc.,
Corona Countess, si 96 (by Count Corona), a stakes placed winner of
$13,205, Dash Is Back, si 92 (by Late To Bed), stakes placed winner of
$9,116, and many other accomplished horses.
 Decup's 4th dam
is Country Mama,
si 93 (by St Bar, si 100), dam of 13 foals, 11
starters, 9 ROM, 8
winners, 1 stakes winner, with earnings of $564,279, including
Baby Hold On (above),
Dashin Saint, si 98 (by Dash For Cash), 3 wins, $76,793, finalist All American
Derby-G1.
Her 5th
dam, Midas Touch, si
85, by Chudejs Black Gold (by Depth Charge),
was dam to 19 foals, 14 starters, 7 winners, 8 ROM, with earnings of $23,644.
As a
broodmare, Decup (we call her "Baby") has had some disappointments. Her
first foal (2005), a colt by Rare News, was born premature and never survived.
Her second foal (2007), a filly by Rare News, died at birth from an aneurysm.
Baby went through a time of depression and poor health following the last foal
she lost. She is now strong and healthy again -- and back in foal to
Rare News for what we hope and pray will be a
healthy 2009 foal.
 
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Baby Hold On, Decup's second dam,
has an interesting story herself.
In 1977, B.F. Phillips, Dash For Cash's
breeder and owner, was considering syndicating his World Champion four-year-old
colt. He started the syndicate procedure by test breeding mares owned by
prospective syndicate members. At the end of the breeding season, Dash For Cash
went back to the track to earn his second World Championship.
In
1978, the Dash For Cash "test babies" hit the ground running -- including
a filly out of Country Mama, si 93, called Baby Hold On. This filly became a
racehorse to reckon with. Baby Hold On won $418,372 (another "test baby" born in
1978, Queen For Cash, earned $482,933), and proved that Dash For Cash could not
only run, but he could sire runners!
Below: Back cover from The
Quarter Racing Record, August 15, 1980.
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From
the family of Baby Hold On, si 109, 13 wins, 
