29-10-8-2, $78,169.
raced 1978-1979
Trippy Dip is the very definition of a blue hen mare.
“Trippy Dip was a lady,” says Abigail K. Kawananakoa, who was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2018.
A classy sprinter who in 1978-79 won 10 of 29 Thoroughbred races, with eight seconds and two thirds at distances from 4 to 6 furlongs, Trippy Dip earned $78,169 in two seasons at tracks in New Mexico, Arizona and California. Trippy Dip ended her racing career at Santa Anita in December 1979, where she came to the attention of American Quarter Horse Hall of Famer Ginger Hyland. “She had a bowed tendon, her feet had overgrown her shoes. And she was still winning races."
Trippy Dip produced 16 foals, 15 of which went to the track. Eleven returned as winners, seven in stakes races and three of those as champions. Her first foal was her first champion, a brown son of Dash For Cash foaled in 1982. Named Calyx, he was the champion distance horse in 1987 and went on to sire 37 stakes winners and the earners of more than $7 million.