FDD Dynasty has done it again. He is now the sire of four horses that have won six AQHA Racing World Championships since 2016. They are Jessies First Down in 2016 & 2017, Danjer in 2021 & 2023, Asscher in 2024 and now FDD Dreams in 2025. This sets a record as a sire of World Champions with his foals earning six AQHA World Championships. This exceeds his grandsire Dash For Cash with five world champions including Dashingly, Dashs Dream, Cash Rate, First Down Dash and Dash For Speed and his sire First Down Dash with four including Down With Debt, Dashing Folly, A Ransom and Wave Carver.
FDD Dreams joins this record setting list of World Champions as the first runner since Dashs Dream to win the All American Derby-G1 and the Champion of Champions-G1 in the same year. He is a 2022 bay gelding bred, owned and raced by Javier Rodriguez’s La Feliz Montana Ranch, LLC of Hondo, New Mexico. He is trained by Xavier Rodriguez and ridden by Luis Martinez.
In addition to his World Championship, he is the 2025 AQHA Racing Champion Three Year Old and the AQHA Racing Champion Three-Year-Old Gelding. His breeder and owner La Feliz Montana Ranch, LLC is the AQHA Racing Champion Owner with earnings of over $2 million in 2025. Xavier Rodriguez is the Blane Schvaneveldt Champion Trainer with earnings of over $3.3 million including runners like FDD Dreams and Political Twist the 2025 AQHA Racing Champion Two Year Old and Champion Two-Year-Old Gelding. Political Twist is owned by La Feliz Montana Ranch, LLC and Ray Willis. Luis Martinez, the jockey for FDD Dreams and Political Twist, is the AQHA Champion Jockey with earnings of over $3.9 million. Political Twist was bred by MJ Farms, the 2025 AQHA Champion Breeder.
FDD Dreams started his race career in the trials of the 2024 West Texas Futurity-G2 at Sunland Park. He won the trial getting his maiden win. He came back in the finals of the West Texas Futurity-G2 to run last. He was bumped at the start but still finished with a 94 speed index. The winner was Train B Taka who was second to him in their trial. He moved to Ruidoso with a start in the trials of the Ruidoso Futurity-G1 where he won his trial but didn’t qualify for the finals. This set him up for the trials of the Rainbow Futurity-G1 where he won his trial by 3 1/2-lengths. His performance in the trial showed his speed that made him the fastest qualifier in a time of :19.356. He came back in the Rainbow Futurity-G1 with a second. He was bumped at the start and then chased the field. When the gate opened on his All American Futurity-G1 trial he broke out and then bore out to finish second qualifying for the finals as the fifth fastest qualifier and then he ran third in the All American Futurity-G1 finals. He made two more starts in the Texas Classic Futurity-G1 trials and finals. The trials again showed the public his speed as he set the fastest qualifying time in the fifth trial in a time of :19.196 earning a 108 speed index. This time broke the 400 yard track record that was set by Tempting Dash 15 years earlier. He came back in the finals where he was bumped and then went on with a driving finish in a time of :19.493 earning a 101 speed index. He finished with nine starts in 2024 with five wins, two seconds and one third earning $870.801.
FDD Dreams took the rest of 2024 off and came back to the track in the 2025 Ruidoso Derby-G1 trials and finals. He won his derby trial in a time of :19.839 to post the second fastest qualifying time. He won the Ruidoso Derby-G1 in a time of :19.605 by 1 1/2-lengths. His next start came in his trial for the Rainbow Futurity-G1. He won by 3 1/4-lengths in a time of :21.278 and was the second fastest qualifier for the Rainbow Derby-G1. However, catastrophic flooding at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack resulted in the cancellation of the 2025 Rainbow Derby-G1 and the purse was equally distributed among the qualifiers. He then went into the All American Derby-G1 trials where he was second to KJ Born To Be Wild in a time of :20.976 making him the fourth fastest qualifier. He lost the trial by a nose. Both horses got a 103 speed index. FDD Dreams and his stablemate Ariatt, the ninth fastest qualifier, caught KJ Born To Be Wild to finish one and two to win the All American Derby-G1. The time was :21.204. Both Ariatt and FDD Dreams are bred by La Feliz Montana Ranch, LLC.
The All American Derby-G1 win qualified him for the Champion of Champions-G1 at Los Alamitos. So, it was off to California and a start in the trials of the Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1 with a time of :19.577 losing by nose to Hott Temptation to qualify as the third fastest qualifier. When the gate opened for the Los Alamitos Super Derby-G1 finals the racing gremlins seemed to be in play as FDD Dreams coming out of gate seven lost all chance, as he nearly went to the ground when he lost his footing. He came back to finish sixth in the race.
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