EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH Earns 103 Beyer: Top North America Figure For The Weekend

Eighttofasttocatch lived up to his name with a dominating 9 3/4-length

score in the one-mile feature at Laurel Park on Feb. 16. The chestnut son

of Not For Love out of Too Fast to Catch, by Nice Catch, muscled his way

to the front after three-quarters of a mile and ³quickly widened in

midstretch² to gain his fifth career victory and increase his earnings to

$144,940.

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Two in a row for EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH and now a stakes winner! The son of Not For Love capped off Laurel Park’s winter meet with a score in the $75,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial S. on March 26. The chestnut, owned by Sylvia Heft and trained by Tim Keefe, was always prominent in the mile and an eighth feature, struck the front near the three-eighths pole and proved tough to the wire to win by a half length. Among those in the beaten field were recent stakes winners No Advantage, Alma d’Oro and Royal Clash. He earned a 103 Beyer for the effort, the weekend's best for any North American stakes winner.

Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and Herringswell Stable out of the Nice Catch mare Too Fast to Catch, Eighttofasttocatch had swept to a dominating 9 3/4-length victory in Laurel Park’s one-mile feature on Feb. 16 in his previous start.

A half-brother stakes winner and Gr.1-placed Storm Punch, Eighttofasttocatch was sold as part of the Dark Hollow consignment at the 2007 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale for $47,000 to Arnold Heft. He now has six wins, three seconds and four thirds from 23 starts, for earnings of $189,940.