Fast Clip
Fast Clip at Sportsmans Park July 1972
Sire	Good Time
Dam	Hoot Suite
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1969
Died	unknown
Colour	Bay
Owner	Bru-Bil Farm and Messenger Stables[1]
Trainer	Bruce Nickells
Major wins
American National (1971) Geer Stakes (1972) Matron Stakes (1973) Single G Pace (1973)

Fast Clip (foaled 1969) was a Standardbred champion harness racing horse. He is considered one of the outstanding horses trained and driven by 2016 Harness Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bruce Nickells.^[2]

Fast Clip made his stakes race debut at the 1971 American National for two-year-old pacers at Sportsman's Park. He won the race by a nose^[3] over Dancer George in a time of 2:04.3.^[4]

In August 1972, Fast Clip won the Geer Stakes in Du Quoin, Illinois with a time of 1:56.3. At the time that was one of dozen fastest winning miles in harness racing history.^[5]

Fast Clip was entered to race in the 1972 Little Brown Jug in Delaware, Ohio, the second leg of Harness racing's Triple Crown.^[6] In the 1972 Jug's second heat, Fast Clip finished second, one and one quarter lengths behind the winner Strike Out who broke the then record for a three-year-old pacer on a half mile track with a mark of 1:56.3.^[7] Later in 1972, Fast Clip finished second to Silent Majority in the L.K. Shapiro Stakes held at Hollywood Park in California.^[8]

As a four-year-old, Fast Clip finished fourth behind winner Keystone Pebble in the Realization Pace at Roosevelt Raceway.^[9] One month later, he won the Matron Stakes at Wolverine Raceway in a time of 1:58.3 while pre-race favorite Keystone Pebble finished fourth.^[10]

Fast Clip, who won purse money totaling $231,581,^[11] was retired from racing in 1974.

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