Promising Perth sprinter-miler Dash For Home returned to racing with a brilliant first-up victory at Ascot on Wednesday.

The Colin Webster trained three year-old made a lightning move from midfield to round up the field at the top of the straight in the Westspeed 3yo Hcp (1200m).  Let down by Troy Turner, he raced away to win by more than four lengths.

Dash For Home (3g Dash For Cash – Arabian Lass by Al Mufti) had won on debut at Belmont in September before going out for a 16 week spell.  “There’s plenty of improvement left in him,” Webster claimed.  “He’s a lovely, laid-back horse and will mature into a strong miler.”

Swettenham sire Dash For Cash got him from South African G1 winning mare Arabian Lass.  He is raced by Paz and Michelle Princi, Joe Sherington, Trevor Holgate, Wayne Brooks, Brian Laurence, Bob Page and Ron Sayers after making $31,000 at the 2010 Yarradale Stud yearling sale.

Arabian Lass has a 2yo filly by Swettenham sire Soldier’s Tale named Soldier’s Lass and she was covered by Yarradale shuttler War Chant in September.

Dash For Cash is off to a flyer in February after siring 10 winners during January.