Qualified by running fourth in the Z. Wayne Griffin Directors Trials

Lindas Dasher will be making her 14th appearance in a stakes race when she enters the gate in the Champion of Champions. Some may consider her appearance in this race a surprise, however, the Chicks Beduino filly has always been a consistent performer as her 17 in the money finishes show. Despite being winless this year, Lindas Dasher has finished second to track record holder Aladim Bryan SA in a trial to the Vessels Maturity, second to Blazin Fire in the Las Damas Handicap and third to Apollitical Time in the California Breeders Matron. Both Blazin Fire and Apollitical Time will be joining Lindas Dasher in the Champion of Champions. Lindas Dasher was the PCQHRA's top 2-year-old filly in California in 2004. Runner-up efforts in the Ed Burke Memorial, Governor's Cup and PCQHRA Breeders futurities were the highlights of her freshman year. Currently, two recipient mares are carrying seperate Mr Eye Opener embryos out of Lindas Dasher. "It was a nice surprise when we heard that they had flushed two embryos out of her," said Ru Anna Singletary. "They're due next year, so we have that to look forward to."

Donna has been the most successful trainer of fillies and mares in recent history of the Los Alamitos. Her list of outstanding distaffers includes World Champion Dashing Folly and champions Corona Cash, Corona Kool, IBA Dasher, Tiny First Effort and Deelish. Donna also conditioned Morning Snow to victories in the first two legs of the Los Alamitos Bonanza back in 2002. Donna is now hoping to see Lindas Dasher join the list of her major stakes winners when she runs in the Champion of Champions. In past years, Donna has won the Million with Corona Kool and This Snow Is Royal and finished second with Temerity Wrangler, Our Liquidator and Tiny First Effort. The personable trainer was the first to end Blane Schvaneveldt's stranglehold on the AQHA Champion Trainer Award, doing so in 1997, the year she won the All American Futurity with Corona Cash and the Los Alamitos Million with This Snow Is Royal. Early in 2001, Donna became only the 10th trainer to ever win 40 stakes races at Los Alamitos when she saddled Heza Motor Scooter to victory in the Cypress Sophomore Handicap. Donna grew up on her parents' farm near Hillsboro, New Mexico, where she barrel raced, roped steers, and showed horses.

Few owners have consistently enjoyed as much success with a modest band of runners as Christian and Ru Anna Singletary. Usually, however, the couple's horses enjoy their best success during their juvenile years. That is until Lindas Dasher made the field to the Champion of Champions this year. "We are really thrilled that she made the field," Ru Anna said. "We're just hoping that she has a fun time." Champion of Champions weekend will culminate a exciting week for the Singletaries. "This week we've celebrated Chris' birthday as well as my son-in-law's birthday. Lindas Dasher being in the Champion of Champions makes it for a big weekend." The Singletaries believe that Lindas Dasher will deliver one of her best performances of the year. "She had a rough start this year but she's running like her old self again. We're really happy that she is in." Chris Singletary is a real estate investor while Ru Anna spends a lot of her time managing the couple's horses. "I watch over the breeding end of all of this." The couple has three children ages, 26, 12 and 9. "We also have our son-in-law, so he's our fourth kid," Ru Anna said with smile. The Singletaries swept the top two spots in the Grade 1 Ed Burke Memorial Futurity with Heza Secret Diamond and Lindas Dasher in 2004. Last year, the couple's Love My Corona ran second in the Kindergarten Futurity and made it to the Los Alamitos Million while Chicks First Fantasy qualified to the Governor's Cup Futurity. This year, their Shazoom gelding Fast A Dream posted the seventh fastest time to the Grade 1 $325,900 Kindergarten Futurity. "This was our third straight year in the Kindergarten," Ru Anna said. "We only had one shot in the trials, so it was exciting when Fast As A Dream made the list. He has the speed, he just needs more maturity." The owners do as much homework at horse sales as anyone in the business. "We probably looked at 200 horses at the sale," Ru Anna added. "For Fast As A Dream we started looking at nine in the morning and we stopped until we couldn't look anymore. We look at confirmation, size, and a number of other things."