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<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Moneys A Maker<br />
New Mexican Spring Futurity<br />
On ˜ e Low Down TB<br />
Copper Top Futurity<br />
WDC Woody B Fast<br />
New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity<br />
Comics Cashway TB<br />
C.O. “Ken” Kendrick Memorial Stakes
ARTFUL RUN, $42,081<br />
(Artie Schiller-Daintree, Regal Affair)<br />
Winning Son of $36 Million Sire ARTIE SCHILLER ($2,088,853).<br />
Out of DAINTREE ($73,665), half-sister to 10-Time Winner<br />
BALART ($292,759).<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Fee: $1,500<br />
FINALE, $320,353<br />
(Scat Daddy-Twinkle, Lively One)<br />
Multiple Stakes Winner by Champion Sire of Nearly<br />
$44 Million SCAT DADDY ($1,334,300).<br />
Out of a Winning & Stakes Producing daughter of<br />
LIVELY ONE ($1,544,100).<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Fee: $2,500<br />
RIGHT RIGGER<br />
(Unbridled’s Song-Stormy Pick, Storm Creek)<br />
Multiple Stakes Sire of Over $760,000!<br />
Out of STORMY PICK ($441,900), a $700,000 Broodmare<br />
sold at the Fasig Tipton Sale.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Introductory Fee: $3,500 • Limited Book<br />
SEEKING THE CAT, $37,075<br />
(Seeking The Gold-Chile Chatte, Storm Cat)<br />
Winner & Multiple Stakes Sire of Over $650,000!<br />
Out of Multiple Graded Stakes Placed Chile Chatte ($317,315).<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Fee: $2,500 • Limited Book<br />
SILVER WAGON, $1, 162, 193<br />
(Wagon Limit-So Ritzy, Darn That Alarm)<br />
Grade 1 Winner & Millionaire!<br />
3-Time Leading Sire of Over $2.1 Million!<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Fee: $2,500<br />
“The Premier New Mexico Mare & Foal Care Facilit y ”<br />
• Live Video & Surveillance<br />
• 24-Hour Veterinarian<br />
• Year-Round Care<br />
• Foaling Facility with 24-Hour Monitoring<br />
• Pre & Post Partum Care<br />
• Large Pasture Turn-Outs<br />
• Lay Ups • Sales Prepping<br />
• Pre-Race Training<br />
First Time Sire to<br />
the Sales Arena!<br />
First Time Sire to<br />
the Sales Arena!<br />
Susan Hunter • (575) 626-3721 • 3724 East 2nd • Roswell, NM 88201<br />
Email: HunterCreekFarm@usa.net • Web: www.HunterCreekFarms.com
Hunter Cre ek Farms Proudly P<strong>res</strong>ents<br />
16 New Mexico Bred Sale Consignments<br />
Highlighting Several F<strong>res</strong>h New Mexico Pedigrees from<br />
Our Very Own Leading Si<strong>res</strong> & Dams<br />
Hip #5<br />
ROCKY PROS PECT<br />
(Right Rigger-Tea Rona, Dry Gulch)<br />
Full brother to TEA LIGHT ($220,617),<br />
etc. Out of a Stakes Producer of<br />
Nearly $300,000 full sister to ROCKY<br />
GULCH ($1,151,725, Ntr), etc.<br />
Hip #7 • SALT CRYSTAL<br />
(Finale-Salty Wonder, Outofthebox)<br />
Out of 2-Time Winner SALTY<br />
WONDER ($52,078). 2nd dam is<br />
Miss Salt Lick ($81,485).<br />
Hip #43<br />
NAME PEN DING<br />
(Abstraction-Panache, Golden Ransom)<br />
Out of an unraced daughter of<br />
$1.2 Million Sire GOLDEN RANSOM.<br />
Hip #57<br />
NAME PEN DING<br />
(Finale-Time For Deception, Desert God)<br />
Out of 9-Time Winner TIME FOR<br />
DECEPTION ($154,837). 2nd dam<br />
is 4-Time Winner TIMELY SECRET<br />
($43,660).<br />
Hip #64 • TSURUOKA<br />
(Finale-Mauk Place, Out Of Place)<br />
Out of 6-Time Winner MAUK PLACE<br />
($72,415), half-sister to Monoply<br />
Pricing ($238,758), etc.<br />
Hip #69<br />
NAME PEN DING<br />
(Finale-Chiming Music, General Meeting)<br />
Out of a 100% Winner Producer. 2nd<br />
dam is a W inning full sister to<br />
CHIMES BAND ($416,961), etc.<br />
Hip #75<br />
CREEKWATER PUNCH<br />
(Right Rigger-Punchette, Two Punch)<br />
Full sister to PINK POWER (<strong>2017</strong>,<br />
$42,669), etc. Out of a Winner<br />
Producer of Nearly $75,000.<br />
Hip #79 • SHIN DY<br />
(Abstraction-Hysteria,<br />
Golden Ransom)<br />
Out of 2-Time Winner HYSTERIA<br />
($54,357), daughter of $1.2 Million<br />
Sire GOLDEN RANSOM.<br />
Hip #95<br />
NAME PEN DING<br />
(Atilla’s Storm-Stormtown,<br />
Black Minnaloushe)<br />
Half-sister to Stormtown Heat<br />
($37,124), etc. Out of half-sister to<br />
BEAU’S TOWN ($697,850, Ntr), etc.<br />
Hip #96<br />
POSTLU DE<br />
(Finale-Katlin’s Beauty, Latin America)<br />
Out of a Winner Producer of Nearly<br />
$200,000. 2nd dam is a Stakes<br />
Placed half-sister to Champion<br />
DEARLY PRECIOUS ($370,465), etc.<br />
Hip #100<br />
JAZZ BEAR<br />
(Finale-Sharla’sjazzdancer,<br />
Dance Brightly)<br />
Half-brother to Mos Dancer ($29,147),<br />
etc. Out of a half-sister to<br />
Ricky N Chip ($64,194), etc.<br />
Hip #103<br />
FROSTED GLASS<br />
(Right Rigger-Blame The Wine,<br />
Decarchy)<br />
Half-sister to TIPSY TEA (<strong>2017</strong>,<br />
$174,727), etc. Out of 11-Time Winner<br />
BLAME THE WINE ($200,696).<br />
Hip #109 • AVOCATION<br />
(Finale-Sammy’s Hobby,<br />
Yourplaceormine)<br />
Out of 4-Time Winner SAMMY’S<br />
HOBBY ($29,301). 2nd dam is a<br />
half-sister to Champion<br />
JUST A GAME ($416,265), etc.<br />
Hip #171<br />
SWEET SWEET GIRL QH<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Our Sweet Sixteen,<br />
Calligrapher)<br />
2nd dam is BLUSHING SIXTEEN si 99<br />
($61,166), full sister to BLUSHIN BUGS<br />
si 114 ($507,422, NWR), etc.<br />
Hip #184 • FINALE<br />
REGAR DS QH<br />
(Chicks Regard-First Dawn Dash,<br />
First Down Dash)<br />
Out of a Winning Producer of Nearly<br />
$90,000. 2nd dam is BABE ON THE<br />
BEACH si 92 ($193,302), Multiple<br />
Stakes Producer of Over $1 Million.<br />
Hip #313<br />
NAME PEN DING<br />
(Gonamakeyoureyesblue-Time To<br />
Divorce, Halo’s Image)<br />
Out of 4-Time Winner TIME TO<br />
DIVORCE ($97,838), half-sister to<br />
FALSE PROMISES ($289,048), etc.<br />
Susan Hunter • (575) 626-3721 • 3724 East 2nd • Roswell, NM 88201<br />
Email: HunterCreekFarm@usa.net • Web: www.HunterCreekFarms.com<br />
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to the Spirit of the Horse...<br />
Home of LOVELY RAFAELA, CATBABY, CHANNEL OF GOLD, SPRING AFFAIR, WHISTLING BULLET, SCOOTINIT, UNBRIDLED ASSAY,<br />
BAYONA, DIVA LAS VEGAS, HOT AND DANGEROUS, THE BONNIE SAMURAI, ROLANDA, STORMIN BRIGADE, MALIBU BULLET,<br />
BE MY DESERT ANGEL, FINE ASSAY, CACHE ME, MYSTIC MAY, MIXED INTENT, CHRISTMAS CHOIR….<br />
2 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Consigned with A & A Ranch<br />
RUIDOSO NM BRED SALE<br />
COLT by Quinton’s Gold / Four Sixteen by Cactus Ridge<br />
FILLY by Le Grande Danseur / Call Me Queen by Bay Head King<br />
FILLY by Quinton’s Gold / Along Came The Cat by Elegant Cat<br />
FILLY by Indies / Superior Deputy by The Deputy<br />
COLT by The Way Home / Reaping Reward by Olmodavor<br />
FILLY by Silver Wagon / Arctic Storm Cloud by Stormy Cloud<br />
COLT by Southwestern Heat / Tail The Bull by Tailfromthecrypt<br />
COLT by Bob Black Jack / Glory Command by Monashee Mountain<br />
FILLY by Everyday Heroes / Southern Angel by Dixieland Band<br />
COLT by Everyday Heroes / Russian Olive by Siberian Summer<br />
COLT by Quinton’s Gold / Bay Queen by Bay Head King<br />
COLT by Attila’s Storm / Ghostly Saboteur by Ghostly Moves<br />
FILLY by Quinton’s Gold / Oh So Clever by Macho Uno<br />
FILLY by Le Grande Danseur / Telequeen by Bay Head King<br />
COLT by Le Grande Danseur / TeleLaunch by Phone Trick<br />
COLT by Everyday Heroes / Atomic Abbie by Uncle Abbie<br />
FILLY by Everyday Heroes / Crypto Ali by Cryptoclearance<br />
FILLY by Le Grande Danseur / Bonus Moves by High Octane<br />
COLT by Majesticperfection / Christmas Choir by Songandaprayer<br />
COLT by Girolamo / Bayona by Tiznow<br />
FILLY by Bellamy Road / Scootinit by Tapit<br />
FILLY by First Samurai / Mixed Intent by City Zip SOLD<br />
COLT by Tizdejavu / Cache Me by Congrats<br />
FILLY by Discreet Cat / Unbridled Assay by Unbridled’s Song SOLD<br />
FILLY by Overanalyze / Malibu Bullet by Malibu Moon<br />
COLT by First Samurai / Mystic May by Mineshaft<br />
FILLY by Regal Ransom / Channel Of Gold by Bernardini<br />
COLT by Get Stormy / Night Wings by Marias Mon<br />
COLT by The Factor / Catbaby by A.P. Indy<br />
FILLY by Union Rags / Lovely Rafaela by A.P. Indy SOLD<br />
FILLY by Hold Me Back / Whistling Bullet by Silver Deputy SOLD<br />
FILLY by Tale Of The Cat / Diva Las Vegas by Tiznow SOLD<br />
Hagerman, New Mexico<br />
575-752-3377 / 575-446-9649<br />
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6/20/17 9:38 AM<br />
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ <strong>2017</strong> Officers<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Ralph W. Vincent ....................................................... Albuquerque<br />
1ST VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Jay L. Taylor .............................................................. Albuquerque<br />
2ND VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Norma Alvarez ................................................................. La Union<br />
TRUSTEES<br />
Pierre J. Amestoy, Jr. .................................................. Albuquerque<br />
Kevin J. Blach .................................................................... Roswell<br />
Miguel L. Gallegos .................................................... Albuquerque<br />
Jill B. Giles ............................................................................. Vado<br />
Tom Goncharoff ............................................................... Tularosa<br />
Brad E. King .................................................................... Lubbock<br />
Debra J. Laney ............................................................... Las Cruces<br />
Bobby J. McQueen ........................................................... Lubbock<br />
Mac Murray ........................................................................ Veguita<br />
STAFF<br />
Anna Fay Davis ................................................... Executive Director<br />
Mary M. Barber ................................................................ Registrar<br />
Leslie Mikkelson .................................................................. Clerical<br />
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Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association.<br />
Racing Cor<strong>res</strong>pondent: Michael Cusortelli<br />
Contributing Writers: Pete Herrera, Heather Smith Thomas,<br />
Diane Ciarloni<br />
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ON THE <strong>COVER</strong>:<br />
Moneys A Maker,<br />
On The Low Down,<br />
WDC Woody B Fast,<br />
& Comics Cashway<br />
photos courtesy of Coady Photography<br />
Moneys A Maker<br />
New Mexican Spring Futurity<br />
WDC Woody B Fast<br />
New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity<br />
On ˜ e Low Down TB<br />
Copper Top Futurity<br />
Comics Cashway TB<br />
C.O. “Ken” Kendrick Memorial Stakes<br />
LETTER FROM THE 2ND VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Norma Alvarez ................................................................................................ 6<br />
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<br />
Anna Fay Davis ................................................................................................. 8<br />
RACE & EVENT DATES<br />
Upcoming Events & Deadlines ......................................................................... 7<br />
<strong>2017</strong> New Mexico Bred Stakes Races .............................................................. 14<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
New Mexico’s Licensed Horse Rescues ............................................................. 7<br />
Welcome New Members ................................................................................... 7<br />
Race A Day Report: Sunland Park ................................................................... 8<br />
The News ....................................................................................................... 10<br />
Congratulations NMHA Banquet ................................................................... 19<br />
Important Reminders ...................................................................................... 71<br />
Out in the Pasture .......................................................................................... 72<br />
Meeting Time ................................................................................................ 74<br />
In Memoriam ................................................................................................. 79<br />
FEATURE ARTICLES<br />
The Frozen Semen Clock is Ticking ................................................................ 20<br />
Equine Influenza ............................................................................................ 30<br />
Personality Profile: Ismael “Izzy” Trejo .......................................................... 36<br />
<strong>NMHBA</strong> Stallion Service Auction .................................................................. 40<br />
Eulogy: My LaRae ......................................................................................... 44<br />
A Moment In Time: Walt Harris .................................................................... 48<br />
New Mexico Day at SunRay Park ................................................................... 52<br />
Is The Tax Court Biased In Favor Of IRS ....................................................... 54<br />
CLASSIFIEDS ............................................................................................. 80<br />
ADVERTISER’S INDEX ......................................................................... 80<br />
New Mexico<br />
Breeders’ Oaks<br />
New Mexico<br />
Breeders’ Futurity<br />
Sam Houston<br />
Juvenile Stakes<br />
SUNLAND PARK<br />
La Coneja Stakes ............................................................. 58<br />
New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks ............................................. 59<br />
New Mexico Breeders’ Derby .......................................... 60<br />
New Mexican Spring Futurity .......................................... 61<br />
Copper Top Futurity ....................................................... 62<br />
Mesilla Valley Speed Handicap ......................................... 63<br />
New Mexico State University Handicap ........................... 63<br />
Sunburst Stakes ............................................................... 64<br />
Sunland Park Meet Recap ................................................ 64<br />
SUNRAY PARK<br />
New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity ........................................ 66<br />
Russell & Helen Foutz Distaff Handicap .......................... 67<br />
Jack Cole Stakes .............................................................. 67<br />
C.O. “Ken” Kendrick Memorial Stakes ............................ 68<br />
Jimmy Drake Stakes ......................................................... 68<br />
Dine Stakes ..................................................................... 69<br />
Totah Stakes .................................................................... 69<br />
SAM HOUSTON RACE PARK<br />
Sam Houston Juvenile Stakes ........................................... 70<br />
4 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Thank You to The Mare Owners Who Bred to<br />
Our Stallions in <strong>2017</strong>!<br />
We appreciate all our<br />
clients and are looking<br />
forward to seeing<br />
your beautiful babies<br />
in the winner’s circle!<br />
($86,945)<br />
(Pulpit-Andujar, Quiet American)<br />
*First Foals Race in 2018<br />
($225,314)<br />
(Peace Rules-Chispiski, Appealing Star)<br />
*First Foals Race in 2018<br />
($339,242)<br />
(Indian Charlie-Touched, Touch Gold)<br />
2016 New Mexico F<strong>res</strong>hman<br />
Sire of the Year<br />
<strong>2017</strong> New Mexico Leading<br />
Second Year Sire<br />
($234,202)<br />
(Carson City-Relasure, Relaunch)<br />
A Top 5 Leading<br />
New Mexico Sire<br />
(Giant’s Causeway-Homewrecker,<br />
Buckaroo)<br />
A Top 5 Leading<br />
New Mexico Sire of Winners<br />
Susie Prather • 5238 S. Running Horse Lane • Hobbs, New Mexico 88240<br />
(575) 631-4714 • www.doubletreenm.com<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 5
LETTER FROM THE<br />
2ND VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Dear Members,<br />
As the year sale season approaches and the breeding season<br />
is being wrapped up, many of you are busy polishing up your<br />
yearlings for the upcoming sales. This is my favorite time of<br />
year because I love to see the yearlings transition from a cactus<br />
to a rose, and it is so good to get to the sales to see friends<br />
we haven’t seen since the previous year. I wish everyone a<br />
successful sale.<br />
Please be aware that there has been a format change on this<br />
year’s New Mexico Bred Sale. Thoroughbred Yearlings will<br />
sell fi rst on Friday, August 18th, fol<strong>low</strong>ed by the fi rst 50 hips<br />
of Quarter Horse Yearlings. Saturday night will offer Quarter<br />
Horse Yearlings along with a Select Foal In-Utero sale. Both<br />
nights will offer a Stallion Service Auction, which benefits<br />
the New Mexico Horse Breeders Association. There will be<br />
three Thoroughbred Stallions and Six Quarter Horse Stallions<br />
offered. The New Mexico Horse Breeders wish to exp<strong>res</strong>s their<br />
gratitude to the owners of these stallions.<br />
On July 29, <strong>2017</strong>, there will be a regularly scheduled New<br />
Mexico Horse Breeders Association Board meeting to be<br />
held at the Ruidoso Sales Pavilion at 9:00 a.m., fol<strong>low</strong>ed by<br />
an Industry Panel discussion at 10:00 am. Panel participants<br />
include Izzy Trejo, Director, New Mexico Racing Commission;<br />
Lowell Neumayer, General Manager, Ruidoso Horse Sales<br />
Company; and a partner from the prospective new ownership<br />
group which is in the process of buying Ruidoso Downs<br />
Racetrack and Casino. This format is a great opportunity for<br />
our members to meet these leaders and gain knowledge about<br />
different areas of the racing industry in New Mexico.<br />
Trustee Debra Laney and I attended an AQHA Affi liate<br />
meeting in Amarillo, Texas, on May 22 and 23, <strong>2017</strong>. This was<br />
a very informational meeting for our members because New<br />
Mexico Horse Breeders Association is an Affi liate member<br />
of the AQHA. All of our members are extended the same<br />
discounts that an AQHA member is afforded. Some of these<br />
companies which have some really nice discounts are Ford, John<br />
Deere, Smartpak, Montana Silversmiths, Office Depot, and<br />
Sherwin Williams. Even if you are not a member of the AQHA,<br />
but are a member of <strong>NMHBA</strong>, you qualify for these benefits. As<br />
an example, a <strong>NMHBA</strong> member who only has Thoroughbreds<br />
can participate. You can call Steven Driskill, Member Plus<br />
Program, AQHA, at (866) 678-4288/office or (918) 830-1906<br />
and he will be able to assist you. The AQHA rep<strong>res</strong>entative will<br />
contact our office to confi rm membership in the <strong>NMHBA</strong>.<br />
One of our Association’s biggest goals is to work together<br />
with all horse racing entities in New Mexico for a long-term<br />
plan which would ensure stable and mutually beneficial<br />
opportunities to all participants in our industry. We continue<br />
to see prog<strong>res</strong>s working towards this goal. We welcome your<br />
valuable input as we move forward.<br />
Hope to see at our Summer Meeting.<br />
Yours,<br />
Norma Alvarez<br />
Quarter Horse Trustee, Second Vice P<strong>res</strong>ident<br />
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UPCOMING EVENTS & DEADLINES:<br />
July 13, <strong>2017</strong><br />
July 21, <strong>2017</strong><br />
July 29, <strong>2017</strong><br />
July 30, <strong>2017</strong><br />
New Mexico Racing<br />
Commission Meeting<br />
10:30 a.m.<br />
Ruidoso Downs<br />
Contact (505) 222-0700<br />
Stall Applications due at Zia Park<br />
Contact (575) 492-7000<br />
10:00 a.m. Industry Panel Discussion<br />
Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion<br />
Contact (505) 262-0224<br />
Zia Festival, Ruidoso Downs Racetrack<br />
Contact (575) 378-4431<br />
September 1, New Broodma<strong>res</strong> in foal<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Registration Deadline<br />
Contact (505) 262-0224<br />
September Ruidoso Select Quarter<br />
1, 2 & 3, <strong>2017</strong> Horse Yearling Sale<br />
Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion<br />
Contact (575) 378-4474<br />
September NM State Fair Fall Meet<br />
3 - 24, <strong>2017</strong> Contact (505) 266-5555<br />
September 9 – Zia Park & Black Gold Casino<br />
December 12, Racing Saturday–Tuesday<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Contact (575) 492-7000<br />
August 17, <strong>2017</strong> New Mexico Racing<br />
Commission Meeting<br />
8:30 a.m. in the Conference Room<br />
4900 Alameda Blvd, Albuquerque<br />
Contact (505) 222-0700<br />
August<br />
NM Bred Thoroughbred &<br />
18 & 19, <strong>2017</strong> Quarter Horse Yearling Sale<br />
Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion<br />
Contact (505) 262-0224<br />
September 14, New Mexico Racing<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Commission Meeting<br />
8:30 a.m. in the Conference Room<br />
4900 Alameda Blvd, Albuquerque<br />
Contact (505) 222-0700<br />
Dates and locations are subject to change.<br />
For more information, contact <strong>NMHBA</strong> at<br />
(505) 262-0224 or www.nmhorsebreeders.com<br />
WELCOME<br />
NEW MEMBERS<br />
˜ rough June 12, <strong>2017</strong><br />
A and A Equine, Inc. (Justin R. Evans)<br />
Brooks, Marty<br />
Catano, Manuel H.<br />
Hinojos, Isidro A.<br />
Marquez, Jairo & Castillo, Juana<br />
Martinez, Jose A.<br />
Perez, Martin N.<br />
Perez, Rosa A.<br />
Smith, Sherry L.<br />
Spartan Racing (Donn Start)<br />
Vardeman, Alfred<br />
NEW MEXICO’S Licensed Horse Rescues<br />
Four Corners Equine Rescue<br />
AZTEC<br />
(505) 334-7220<br />
contact@fourcornersequine<strong>res</strong>cue.com<br />
The Horse Shelter<br />
CERRILLOS<br />
(505) 471-6179, Jennifer Rios<br />
info@thehorseshelter.org<br />
Perfect Harmony<br />
Animal Rescue & Sanctuary<br />
CHAPARRAL<br />
(575) 824-2130, Marianne Bailey<br />
Perfectharmony1@aol.com<br />
Walkin N Circles Ranch<br />
EDGEWOOD<br />
(505) 286-0779, Mary Ann Shinnick<br />
saveahorse@wncr.org<br />
Help to Support the Unwanted Horse<br />
McKinley County Humane<br />
Society Equine Aid<br />
GALLUP<br />
(505) 863-2616<br />
sfitz@wildblue.net<br />
Equine Spirit Sanctuary<br />
RANCHOS DE TAOS<br />
(575) 758-1212, Ruth Bourgeois<br />
info@equinespiritsanctuary.org<br />
Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary<br />
TESUQUE<br />
(505) 500-2676, Karen Herman<br />
Karen@skymountainwild.org<br />
End of the Road Ranch<br />
SILVER CITY<br />
(575) 313-5714, Carol Johnson<br />
sanctuary@endoftheroadranchnm.com<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 7
LETTER FROM THE<br />
EXECUTIVE<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
On Thursday, June 15, <strong>2017</strong> the fol<strong>low</strong>ing <strong>2017</strong>/2018 New<br />
Mexico Race Dates were approved by the New Mexico Racing<br />
Commission:<br />
Sunland Park 12/15/17 – 04/17/18 72 Days<br />
SunRay Park 04/21/18 – 06/18/18 33 Days<br />
(3 days the first & last two weeks)<br />
Ruidoso Downs 05/25/18 – 09/03/18 47 Days<br />
(4 days the first & last weeks)<br />
Downs At Albuquerque 06/29/18 – 09/01/18 38 Days<br />
NM State Fair 09/02/18 – 09/23/18 17 Days<br />
Zia Park 09/08/18 – 12/11/18 56 Days<br />
Total Days are 263 & Mixed Meets.<br />
Please take the time to stop by the Association booth during<br />
the sales at the Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion. Please note the<br />
Thoroughbred yearlings will be selling on Friday after the races<br />
on August 18, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
Be<strong>low</strong> are the final reports for the conclusion of the Sunland<br />
Park meet.<br />
Good Luck To All!<br />
Anna Fay Davis, <strong>NMHBA</strong> Executive Director<br />
RACE A DAY REPORT FOR SUNLAND PARK<br />
Sunland Park has run 309 New Mexico Bred races in 72 days through Tuesday, April 18, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
<strong>2017</strong> – 72 DAYS 2016 COMPARISON – 61 DAYS<br />
225 TB OVERNIGHT 193 TB OVERNIGHT<br />
45 QH OVERNIGHT 41 QH OVERNIGHT<br />
3 TB TRIALS 2 TB TRIAL<br />
14 QH TRIALS 11 QH TRIALS<br />
14 TB STAKES 14 TB STAKES<br />
8 QH STAKES 8 QH STAKES<br />
309 TOTAL 269 TOTAL<br />
4.29 AVERAGE PER DAY<br />
242 TB + 67 QH = 309<br />
+ 93 FOR THREE A DAY<br />
4.41 AVERAGE PER DAY<br />
209 TB + 60 QH = 269<br />
+ 86 FOR THREE A DAY<br />
In 72 days, Sunland Park has run 270 New Mexico Bred overnight races. There were 2,595 New Mexico Breds that<br />
were scheduled to participate in these races. This is an average field size of 9.61 New Mexico Breds per race.<br />
THE FOLLOWING SHOWS THE NUMBER OF NEW MEXICO BREDS IN OPEN OVERNIGHT RACES AT SUNLAND PARK:<br />
Year<br />
# of<br />
Horses<br />
Came in 1st,<br />
2nd or 3rd<br />
% TB QH Amount Paid<br />
<strong>2017</strong> 450 120 27 91 29 $88,625.90<br />
2016 348 95 27 28 67 $96,593.00<br />
8 New Mexico Horse Breeder
NEW MEXICO’S LEADING SIRE BY A RUNNER INDEX<br />
ATTILA’S STORM<br />
FOREST WILDCAT-SWEET SYMMETRY, BY MAGESTERIAL<br />
23 Winners in <strong>2017</strong>, including:<br />
Multiple Stakes Winner GO FOR A STROLL, winner of the New Mexico Breeders’<br />
Derby and Dine Stakes in last 2 starts<br />
Plus Maiden Special Weight Winners STORMING BACK by 6 3/4, CAN’T STOP<br />
SAMOKEN by 5, WRAPPED by 3, TINYS STORM and IZE ON TICKLE<br />
and 2-Year-Old two time winner STORM THE BEACH, 3rd Copper Top Futurity<br />
Look for yearlings selling<br />
Ruidoso Select NM Bred Yearling Sale<br />
August 18 - 19<br />
Inqui<strong>res</strong> to Fred Alexander (915) 539-2176<br />
Office: (915) 539-0040 Fax: (575) 882-1235 • Email: aahorseranch1@aol.com<br />
1713 W. Washington, Anthony, NM 88021 • www.aaranch.org
Trainer Reaches 4-Figure Win Milestone<br />
story courtesy AQHA<br />
Trainer Wes Giles has reached the<br />
milestone of 1,000 winners. Giles reached<br />
the mark with the help of his Grade 1<br />
winner Apolltical Chad, who on May 28<br />
won his trial to the Ruidoso Derby (G1).<br />
The horse won the Ruidoso Futurity (G1)<br />
last year, and finished fourth in the All<br />
American Futurity (G1).<br />
Giles began training in 1981, and since<br />
then has saddled 6,356 horses that have<br />
brought home more than $18.8 million.<br />
That includes 116 stakes victories.<br />
He is the 37th trainer to reach the 1,000-<br />
win record.<br />
In addition to Apolltical Chad, he has<br />
saddled Too Flash For You, Trendi, Wild Six,<br />
Fast Prize Zoom and champion Gone To<br />
The Mountain to victories in Grade 1 stakes.<br />
He has also saddled the likes of<br />
champions Astica and Jesscuzican.<br />
R.D. Hubbard Signs Agreement To Sell Ruidoso Downs<br />
story courtesy Track Magazine<br />
A group of five businessmen, four from<br />
Texas and one from California, and R.D.<br />
Hubbard have signed a letter of intent<br />
for Hubbard to sell Ruidoso Downs<br />
Racetrack and the Ruidoso Horse Sale<br />
Co. to the group.<br />
In its Monday Report dated April 24,<br />
TRACK Magazine reported that the five<br />
individuals in the group are Stan Sigman,<br />
Gary McKinney, Narciso Flo<strong>res</strong>, and<br />
Johnny Trotter from Texas, and John<br />
Andreini from California. All five men are<br />
heavily vested in the breeding and racing of<br />
American Quarter Horses.<br />
“We are about to start our due<br />
diligence, and in due time we will start the<br />
process of gaining regulatory approval,”<br />
said Sigman, who was elected chairman of<br />
the group. “It’s our goal to close the deal<br />
in the fourth quarter of <strong>2017</strong>.”<br />
Hubbard has been a leading Quarter<br />
Horse and Thoroughbred owner<br />
for several decades, and he has had<br />
ownership inte<strong>res</strong>ts in other tracks,<br />
including Hollywood Park, Zia Park<br />
Los Alamitos and Turf Paradise. He also<br />
currently owns Crystal Springs Farm in<br />
Tularosa, New Mexico.<br />
“I’m not about to quit racing,”<br />
Hubbard told Ben Hudson of TRACK<br />
Magazine. “I still need to win the All<br />
American Futurity. We’re still breeding<br />
ma<strong>res</strong> and making babies. I’ll be at the<br />
sales this year buying horses.<br />
“Nothing will change at Crystal Springs,<br />
except maybe putting an All American<br />
Futurity winner in one of the paddocks,”<br />
he added.<br />
Ruidoso Downs will open its <strong>2017</strong><br />
meet on May 26. Since 1959, the track<br />
has hosted the 440-yard, $3-million All<br />
American Futurity (G1), Quarter Horse<br />
racing’s richest and most p<strong>res</strong>tigious race.<br />
“These men know Ruidoso Downs, and<br />
they are committed to keeping it as the<br />
best place in the nation for Quarter Horse<br />
racing,” said Ruidoso Downs p<strong>res</strong>ident and<br />
general manager Shaun Hubbard.<br />
The Hotel at Sunland Park is Now Open<br />
The Hotel at Sunland Park Racetrack<br />
opened April 21st of this year.<br />
The 78-room hotel is part of the Ascend<br />
Hotel Collection, a boutique-hotel brand of<br />
Maryland-based Choice Hotels International.<br />
The hotel is located at 1202 Futurity<br />
Drive, just outside the Sunland Park<br />
Racetrack and Casino complex in Sunland<br />
Park, N.M., on the edge of El Paso’s<br />
Upper Valley.<br />
The hotel franchise is owned by<br />
Linderbaugh LLC, a New Mexico<br />
development company led by Ruidoso<br />
native Sumer Linder, who has more than<br />
15 years of casino experience, the company<br />
reported.<br />
Ascend has more than 170 hotels<br />
worldwide, according to Choice Hotels.<br />
For <strong>res</strong>ervation information visit www.<br />
sunland-park.com or call 575-332-9200<br />
10 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Property of<br />
Hubaldo Solis & Astorga Racing, LLC.<br />
Standing His First Year in <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
Contact Us For Breeding Information & Fee.<br />
(Corona Cartel-Jess Genuine, Mr Jess Perry)<br />
si 95, $72,673<br />
2-Time Winner<br />
3-Time Stakes<br />
Placed!<br />
2nd - Valley Junction<br />
Futurity<br />
3rd - Rainbow<br />
Juvenile Invit.<br />
3rd - Corona Cartel<br />
Invit.<br />
Fnl - West Texas<br />
Derby-G3<br />
Fnl - Conquistador<br />
Stakes<br />
Full brother to 3-Time<br />
G1 Stakes Placed The August<br />
Heat si 93 ($424,996),<br />
G1 Stakes Placed Oceanik<br />
si 93 ($151,143), G2 Stakes<br />
Placed Bogart si 98<br />
( $110,373), etc.<br />
By ˜ e #1 All-Time Leading<br />
Living Sire CORONA<br />
CARTEL si 97 ($557,142),<br />
sire of nearly $54 Million.<br />
Out of G1 Winner<br />
JESS GENUINE si 102<br />
($195,175).<br />
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Inquiries to: Terry & Nan Lane • (505) 864-6680 • Fax (505) 861-7012<br />
Nan’s Cell (505) 507-1072 • Terry’s Cell (505) 859-1165<br />
www.tnlfarminc.com • email: asmoothbug@msn.com<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 11
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Inquiries to: W. L. Mooring • (505) 864-2485<br />
website: www.doublellfarms.com • Email: llfarm@q.com<br />
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12 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Champion Race Sire of $9 Million!<br />
42 Blacktype Runners with $30,200+ Average<br />
Earnings Per Starter from Only 4 Full Crops to Race!<br />
2-Time Champion, High Money Earner<br />
HANDSOME JACK FLASH<br />
si 104 (2016, $1,517,491)<br />
Champion<br />
FOXY MOONFLASH<br />
si 102 ($283,978)<br />
Millionaire<br />
TOO FLASH FOR YOU<br />
si 102 (<strong>2017</strong> , $1,061,502)<br />
New Track Record Setter<br />
MAD ABOUT THE MOON<br />
si 107 (2016, $766,053)<br />
Thank you to all the Mare Owners & Breeders who chose<br />
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Inquiries to: W. L. Mooring • (505) 864-2485<br />
website: www.doublellfarms.com • Email: llfarm@q.com<br />
And<strong>res</strong> Estrada, DVM<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 13
<strong>2017</strong> New Mexico Bred Stakes Races<br />
Downs At Albuquerque/<br />
New Mexico State Fair<br />
Quarter Horse<br />
First Moonflash QH Maturity · $75,000 Added<br />
NM State Fair QH Futurity · $100,000 Added<br />
NM State Fair QH Derby · $100,000 Added<br />
Thoroughbred<br />
O.D. McDonald Handicap · $70,000 Guaranteed<br />
Carlos Salazar · $70,000 Guaranteed<br />
Casino At The Downs TB Derby · $75,000 Added<br />
Casey Darnell Handicap · $70,000 Guaranteed<br />
NM State Fair TB Futurity · $100,000 Added<br />
Zia Park<br />
Quarter Horse<br />
NM Classic Derby R-G2 · $140,000 Added<br />
NM Classic Futurity R-G2 · $140,000 Added<br />
NM Classic Cup 870 Championship · $140,000 Guaranteed<br />
Namehimastreaker NM Classic QH Championship R-G1 · $170,000<br />
Guaranteed<br />
NM QH Fillies & Ma<strong>res</strong> Championship R-G1· $140,000 Guaranteed<br />
Thoroughbred<br />
NM Classic Cup Lassie Championship · $140,000 Guaranteed<br />
NM Classic Cup Juvenile Championship · $140,000 Guaranteed<br />
NM Classic Cup Distaff Fillies & Ma<strong>res</strong> Sprint Championship · $140,000<br />
Guaranteed<br />
NM Classic Cup Sprint Championship · $170,000 Guaranteed<br />
NM Classic Cup Oaks Championship · $140,000 Guaranteed<br />
NM Classic Cup Derby Championship · $140,000 Guaranteed<br />
Peppers Pride NM Classic Championship Fillies & Ma<strong>res</strong> · $170,000<br />
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Rocky Gulch NM Classic Cup Championship · $180,000 Guaranteed<br />
Eddy County Stakes · $140,000 Guaranteed<br />
If you have<br />
any questions<br />
please call:<br />
Sunland Park<br />
(575) 874-5200<br />
www.sunland-park.com<br />
SunRay Park & Casino<br />
(505) 566-1200<br />
www.sunraygaming.com<br />
Ruidoso Downs<br />
(575) 378-4431<br />
www.raceruidoso.com<br />
The Downs at Albuquerque<br />
(505) 266-5555<br />
www.abqdowns.com<br />
Zia Park<br />
(575) 492-7000<br />
www.ziaparkcasino.com<br />
New Mexico Racing Commission<br />
(505) 222-0700<br />
www.nmrc.state.nm.us<br />
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See you at the <strong>2017</strong> sales:<br />
Ruidoso New Mexico Bred QH Yearling Sale: August 18-19<br />
Select Foal in Utero Sale: August 19<br />
Ruidoso Select QH Yearling Sale: September 1-3<br />
Be sure to stop by and see us!<br />
Kim Saunders • PO Box 602 • Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346<br />
Attending Veterinarian: Warren Franklin, DVM<br />
Farm: 575-378-0043 • Cell: 575-430-7084 • Email: ksaunders2009@gmail.com<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 15
NAME PENDING TB 2016 c.<br />
(Abstraction-Returned To Sender, Slew City Slew)<br />
Out of RETURNED TO SENDER ($46,904), half-sister to<br />
BELLA DIAMANTE ($268,834), 8-Time Winner ZELNA J<br />
($168,175), etc. 2nd dam is SHARONS SONG ($60,368).<br />
NAME PENDING TB 2016 c.<br />
(Abstraction-Pyote, Indian Charlie)<br />
Out of 5-Time Winner PYOTE ($92,561), full sister to<br />
3-Time Winner THUNDERPRINCE ($90,814), etc. 2nd<br />
dam is winning half-sister to MY FIRST FLING ($54,353)<br />
etc.<br />
REXELLENT TB 2016 c.<br />
(Everday Heroes-Mountain Annie, Hit A Jackpot)<br />
Out of a winning half-sister to C. G’S DOLLAR<br />
($306,601), 6-Time Winner Iron Cloud ($51,652),<br />
and the dam of BUGSY MARRONE ($94,098), etc.<br />
K W KLIFFHANGER TB 2016 c.<br />
(Lookinforthesecret-Dashkova, Attila’s Storm)<br />
Out of 2-Time Stakes Winner DASHKOVA ($170,516),<br />
half-sister to 8-Time Winner ONEFUNSONOFAGUN<br />
($210,920, dam of I Came To Party, <strong>2017</strong>, $173,745),<br />
etc.<br />
SECRET DREAMER TB 2016 f.<br />
(Lookinforthesecret-Shez Our Dream, Source)<br />
Out of SHEZ OUR DREAM ($19,315), full sister to<br />
13-Time Winner CHASING OUR DREAMS ($168,017),<br />
6-Time Winner MAYBE TO FAST ($104,543), etc.<br />
DANCE THE TIDE TB 2016 c.<br />
(Atilla’s Storm-Tide Runner, Yes It’s True)<br />
Out of 12-Time Winner TIDE RUNNER ($268,019), halfsister<br />
to 6-Time Winner BOBCAT BRODY ($126,575), etc.<br />
2nd dam is a half-sister to Manor Queen ($320,145), etc.<br />
NAME PENDING TB 2016 c.<br />
(Abstraction-Katy’s Kitten, D’wildcat)<br />
Out of 5-Time Winner KATY’S KITTEN ($67,248).<br />
2nd dam is HADIF RUNNER ($21,850).<br />
SANDIA’S BEAT TB 2016 c.<br />
(Monterey Jazz-Sandia’s Flicka, Sandia Slew)<br />
Half-brother to 5-Time Winner ATILLA’S HURRICANE<br />
($139,331), 4-Time Winner Vernissage ($71,251), etc.<br />
Out of 5-Time Winner SANDIA’S FLICKA ($178,293).<br />
DYE NASTY 2016 c.<br />
(Moon Dynasty-Dye Version, Latest Version)<br />
By Moon Dynasty si 103 ($80,169), 3/4 brother to<br />
Champion FIRST MOONFLASH si 122 ($969,828,<br />
4-NWR’s, 5-Ntr’s). Out of a money earning full sister to<br />
G2 Finalist UNSEEN VERSION si 90 ($32,369), etc.<br />
VENENO MORENO 2016 c.<br />
(T<strong>res</strong> Seis Nueve-Serena Morena, Panther Mountain)<br />
Half-brother to G3 Finalist SERENA JAMES si 82 (<strong>2017</strong>,<br />
$23,180), etc. Out of Serena Morena si 91 ($10,896),<br />
half-sister to SIX TEE DASH si 99 ($74,112), Six Tees<br />
Payday si 103 ($88,854), etc.<br />
SLEW BY MOON 2016 c.<br />
(Moon Dynasty-Slew By You, Dash Ta Fame)<br />
Out of SLEW BY YOU si 92 ($147,640), full sister to<br />
SLEWACIDAL si 98 ($41,394), Slew Ta Fame<br />
si 101 ($90,540), 9-Time Winner VEQUITA SLEW si 96<br />
($109,591), etc.<br />
IGOTMYBIGGIRLJEANSON 2016 f.<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Prada N Jeans, Stoli)<br />
Half-sister to 3-Time Winner PRADICT A STORM si<br />
101 (<strong>2017</strong>, $27,116), etc. 3 rd dam is 3-Time Champion<br />
DENIM N DIAMONDS si 105 ($731,118).<br />
Kim Saunders • PO Box 602 • Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346<br />
Attending Veterinarian: Warren Franklin, DVM<br />
Farm: 575-378-0043 • Cell: 575-430-7084 • Email: ksaunders2009@gmail.com<br />
16 New Mexico Horse Breeder
WILD ABOUT HARRY O 2016 c.<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Wild Wonder Child, Dash Ta Fame)<br />
Half-brother to Multiple Graded Stakes Finalist<br />
QUEEN ARABELLA si 98 (<strong>2017</strong>, $90,030), etc. Out of<br />
Wild Wonder Child si 97 ($43,823). 2nd dam is JUST A<br />
WILDONE si 108 ($53,284).<br />
VGC LILLIE 2016 f.<br />
(T<strong>res</strong> Seis Nueve-Tiny Tiger Lily, Corona Cartel)<br />
Out of a winning half-sister to FIRST N FINAL si 97<br />
(<strong>2017</strong>, $68,395), etc. 2nd dam is TINY FIRST DOWN<br />
si 105 ($317,881). From the family of<br />
EXQUISITE STRIDE si 100 ($257,978).<br />
NAME PENDING 2016 f.<br />
(Winners Version-Ms Kokopelli, Chicks A Blazin)<br />
Half-sister to Kokopellis Babycakes si 97 ($211,140),<br />
Sheza Bold Kokopelli si 106 ($48,902), etc. Out of a<br />
half-sister to Majorly Cranky si 98 ($42,622), to the dam<br />
of DOING MAGIC si 95 ($321,231), etc.<br />
FIRST OVER THE MOON, 2016 f.<br />
(First Moonflash-Running Corona, Corona Cartel)<br />
Out of a winning half-sister to Hes A Runnning Perry<br />
si 87 ($16,536), etc. 2nd dam is 2-Time Champion<br />
RUNNNING BROOK GAL si 102 ($1,359,989).<br />
NAME PENDING 2016 f.<br />
(Jesse James Jr-Jewel Of The Night, Azoom)<br />
Out of a winning half-sister to LOUISIANA JEWELS si 95<br />
($312,305), CARTELS FORTUNE si 103 ($128,750), etc.<br />
2nd dam is JEWELS FORTUNE si 107 ($218,276, Ntr).<br />
GROOVY CHICK 2016 f.<br />
(Chicks Regard-Fishers Fib, Fishers Dash)<br />
Half-sister to 5-Time Winner FURYOFTHENILE si 95<br />
($23,318), etc. Out of a full sister to FISHERS TALE si 99<br />
($363,312), FISHIN FOR DOUGH si 95 ($158,104), etc.<br />
SCOOT BOOTNBOOGIE 2016 c.<br />
(Heza Motor Scooter-Brooks N Dawn, Brookstone Bay)<br />
Out of a half-sister to Heza Motor Cruiser si 94<br />
($69,817), etc. 2nd-4th dams are Stakes Winners of<br />
Over $100,000 each, including 2-Time Champion<br />
& Dam of Distinction DASHING PHOEBE si 104<br />
($609,553).<br />
BIG DADDY TEN, 2016 c.<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Diez Tambien, Brimmerton)<br />
Half-brother to Jesse Jrs Tambien si 91 (<strong>2017</strong>, $41,197),<br />
etc. Out of a winning half-sister to FIRST DOWN AND<br />
TEN si 103 ($329,384), to the dam of CRATER LAKE si<br />
95 ($171,216), etc.<br />
MUSIC FOR YOUR EARS, 2016 f.<br />
(Winners Version-Jesses Music, Jesse James Jr)<br />
Full sister to Music For Winners si 103 ($9,234), etc.<br />
Out of 2-Time Winner JESSES MUSIC si 89 ($27,314),<br />
half-sister to CORONA MUSIC si 104 ($311,727), etc.<br />
KING OF THE CARTEL, 2016 c.<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Queenofreigndeers, Rare King)<br />
Half-brother to G3 Finalist Hurricane Kate si 80 ($8,269),<br />
etc. 2nd dam is 2-Time Winner BB ROYALTY REIGNS<br />
si 92 ($8,033), daughter of Champion ROYAL QUICK<br />
DASH si 101 ($1,046,980).<br />
VGC CATRINA, 2016 f.<br />
(T<strong>res</strong> Seis Nueve-Zoom Girl Zoom, Shazoom)<br />
Out of a full sister to MR QUEENS MYSTERY si 101<br />
($599,381), Wonderboy si 104 ($224,732), etc.<br />
2nd dam is FIRST PLACE QUEEN si 110 ($880,869, Ntr).<br />
Kim Saunders • PO Box 602 • Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346<br />
Attending Veterinarian: Warren Franklin, DVM<br />
Farm: 575-378-0043 • Cell: 575-430-7084 • Email: a@gmail.com<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 17
ASI ASI AJA AJA, 2016 c.<br />
(T<strong>res</strong> Seis-Ya Ya Sisterhood, Chicks Beduino)<br />
Full brother to TRES SEIS NUEVE si 100 ($170,755), etc.<br />
Out of a Multiple Stakes Producer of $315,000,<br />
half-sister to Champion PRANKSTER CF si 109<br />
($230,013), etc. 3rd dam is STAR OF SIERRA LEONE si 98<br />
($186,365), half-sister to the dam of WINNERS VERSION<br />
si 103 ($399,046), etc. 4th dam is Multiple Champion<br />
DENIM N DIAMONDS si 105 ($731,118).<br />
VGC FREDO, 2016 c.<br />
(Apollitical Jess-Fredona, Corona Cartel)<br />
Out of Fredona si 103 ($59,178), half-sister to<br />
Champion FREDRICKSBURG si 109 ($369,304),<br />
Champion FREDAVILLE si 112 ($324,696), etc. 2nd dam<br />
is FEARLESS FREDA si 113 ($262,121, granddam of<br />
Champion HEZA DASHA FIRE si 102, $962,956), halfsister<br />
to 2-Time Champion DEELISH si 102 ($603,673), etc.<br />
LANNISTER, 2016 c.<br />
(Tempting Dash-Lady Bellaqua, Mr Jess Perry)<br />
Half-brother to G2 Finalist LORD FA si 81 (<strong>2017</strong>, $16,508),<br />
etc. Out of an unraced full sister to Champion MISS RACY<br />
JESS si 91 ($485,113), half-sister to MISS RACY EYES<br />
si 98 ($133,195), etc. 2nd dam is MISS RACY VIKE si 105<br />
($263,661), full sister to RACIN VIKE si 107 ($219,851),<br />
etc. From the family of VOLCOM si 97 ($430,433), etc.<br />
REVENANT, 2016 c.<br />
(Separatist-Militia Mia, First Down Dash)<br />
Half-brother to GI GENES si 90 ($35,155), etc. Out of a<br />
full sister to MILITANTE si 100 ($218,790), DASHNLITIA<br />
si 93 ($96,812), etc. 2nd dam is a Winning half-sister to<br />
WINNING RHYTHM si 102 ($142,923), etc. 3rd dam is<br />
SOMPINLIKAGLASS si 99 ($383,041).<br />
SEDUCTRICE, 2016 f.<br />
(Tempting Dash-Dashi Robin, Mr Jess Perry)<br />
Out of a half-sister to Chalockee si 106 ($54,059), etc.<br />
2nd dam is a half-sister to Broodmare of The Year Run<br />
The Dash si 97 ($50,013, dam of World Champion<br />
BLUES GIRL TOO si 104, $2,032,328), etc.<br />
3rd dam is a half-sister to First Prize Rose si 98<br />
($22,754, dam of World Champion FIRST DOWN<br />
DASH si 105, $857,256), etc.<br />
PINHEAD EXPRESS, 2016 c.<br />
(Hez Our Secret-Averys Little Bit, Streakin La Jolla)<br />
Half-brother to LITTLE BIT SOUTHERN si 118 ($322,330),<br />
etc. Out of a full sister to STREAKING PRETTY si 94<br />
($44,387), half-sister to DECCAMAGIC si 90 ($71,974),<br />
etc. From the family of SV BLACK EYED SUSAN si 110<br />
($146,591, Ntr).<br />
EAGLE FEATHER, 2016 c.<br />
(One Famous Eagle-Helens First Choice, First Down Dash)<br />
Full brother to ONE HANDSOME MAN si 97 ($188,777),<br />
THIS DUDE CAN FLY si 101 ($186,603), etc. Out of a<br />
Winning full sister to Champion ROYAL QUICK DASH si<br />
101 ($1,046,980), Champion FIRST SOVEREIGN si 106<br />
($278,829), A REGAL CHOICE si 101 ($735,507), etc.<br />
PERRYS FIRST CHOICE, 2016 c.<br />
(Mr Jess Perry-Helens First Choice, First Down Dash)<br />
Half-brother to ONE HANDSOME MAN si 97 ($188,777),<br />
THIS DUDE CAN FLY si 101 ($186,603), etc.<br />
Out of a Winning full sister to Champion ROYAL<br />
QUICK DASH si 101 ($1,046,980), Champion FIRST<br />
SOVEREIGN si 106 ($278,829), A REGAL CHOICE<br />
si 101 ($735,507), etc.<br />
Kim Saunders • PO Box 602 • Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346<br />
Attending Veterinarian: Warren Franklin, DVM<br />
Farm: 575-378-0043 • Cell: 575-430-7084 • Email: ksaunders2009@gmail.com<br />
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To All The New Mexico Bred<br />
Thoroughbreds & Quarter Horses<br />
Who Were Honored At The<br />
New Mexico Horsemen’s Association<br />
Awards Banquet May 10, <strong>2017</strong> At SunRay Park<br />
2015 THOROUGHBRED AWARDS<br />
Indian Tiva - 2 Yr. Old Filly<br />
Stormin The Jewels - 2 Yr. Old Colt/Gelding<br />
Diabolical Dame - 3 Yr. Old Filly<br />
My Bikini Fell Off - Aged Mare<br />
My Bikini Fell Off - Thoroughbred Horse Of The Year<br />
2015 QUARTER HORSE AWARDS<br />
Chickaloni - 2 Yr. Old Filly<br />
RG Miracle - 2 Yr. Old Colt/Gelding<br />
Astica - 3 Yr. Old Filly<br />
Major Moonflash - 3 Yr. Old Colt/Gelding<br />
2016 THOROUGHBRED AWARDS<br />
Sippin - 2 Yr. Old Filly<br />
Ignored - 2 Yr. Old Colt/Gelding<br />
Bryn’s Fancy Pants - 3 Yr. Old Filly<br />
Ten Penny Cents - 3 Yr. Old Colt/Gelding<br />
Diabolical Dame - Aged Mare<br />
DE Lover - Aged Horse<br />
Zasha - Aged TB Route<br />
DE Lover - Thoroughbred Horse Of The Year<br />
2016 QUARTER HORSE AWARDS<br />
Running Dragon - 2 Yr. Old Filly<br />
Princess Jesse - 3 Yr. Old Filly<br />
Astica - Aged Mare<br />
Coronas Boy - Aged QH/TB - Distance 870 – 1000 yds.<br />
We would also like to congratulate Judge Lanier Racing for receiving the Leading<br />
Owner of the Year Award for 2015 & 2016, Justin Evans for receiving the George Cosper<br />
Memorial Award for 2015 & 2016 and Lonnie & Doris Barber for 2015 & Steve Prather for<br />
2016 for receiving the Jim Curry Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award.<br />
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y Diane M. Ciarloni<br />
The wheels of change turn s<strong>low</strong>ly<br />
at the American Quarter Horse<br />
Association (AQHA). Very. S<strong>low</strong>ly.<br />
Remember what we fondly referred<br />
to as the “high white” rule? It stated a<br />
horse with too much white (X-number<br />
of inches) could not be accepted for<br />
AQHA registration. Some of those same<br />
horses pursued a Paint Horse Association<br />
registration, only to be told they didn’t<br />
have enough white. As a <strong>res</strong>ult, a handful<br />
wandered in a strange, no-man’s land of<br />
identity crisis. The “reason” for the rule?<br />
Something about p<strong>res</strong>erving the integrity<br />
of the breed. One string of words thrown<br />
out by AQHA went something like: “How<br />
would you like it if a horse with white<br />
going way above his knees won the All<br />
American Futurity?”<br />
Huh?<br />
One past AQHA p<strong>res</strong>ident <strong>res</strong>ponded,<br />
“Very happy if that horse’s papers carried<br />
my name as the owner.”<br />
The rule finally became less <strong>res</strong>trictive,<br />
with no diminishment of breed integrity.<br />
And what about the cryptorchid<br />
nonsense? That was the rule that said all<br />
stud horses must have two descended<br />
testicles. Talk about getting personal, all<br />
in the name of breed integrity. This issue<br />
bounced round and round and back and<br />
forth for years. Then, during a meeting at<br />
one of the AQHA conventions, the iconic<br />
trainer Bubba “Charles” Cascio sprang<br />
from his chair, unrecognized, and cut<br />
quickly to the chase.<br />
“Look,” he said, “if somebody brings a<br />
good-looking, well bred colt to my barn and<br />
asks me to train him, I won’t get down on<br />
the ground and check how many nuts he<br />
has. I’m just gonna’ start training on him.”<br />
That perspective simplified the issue<br />
and, before too much time passed, the<br />
rule was altered and, once again, the<br />
integrity of the breed suffered no negative<br />
repercussions.<br />
Things became a bit more radical in<br />
1997 when the association approved<br />
shipped semen. A wave of widespread<br />
mumbling and grumbling washed across<br />
the Quarter Horse industry. Many<br />
farms, especially the larger ones, fretted<br />
over losing the often high-dollar board<br />
and vet bills for ma<strong>res</strong> booked to their<br />
stallions. Others contended the extra labor<br />
required for shipping would cancel out the<br />
potential profits. Most of the concerns,<br />
when brought to their <strong>low</strong>est common<br />
denominator, could be simmered down<br />
to just three one-syllable words – Fear of<br />
Change.<br />
The passage of time proved most<br />
of the reluctance to embrace the new<br />
technological breeding liberty was, indeed,<br />
unfounded. If anything, al<strong>low</strong>ing shipped<br />
semen expanded significantly the mare<br />
owners’ options. The 20-year-old stakes<br />
winning/producing mare who was a risky<br />
traveler, could remain comfortably bedded<br />
down in her familiar Texas stall, while<br />
waiting for First Down Dash semen to<br />
arrive from California.<br />
Stallion owners quickly learned whether or<br />
not their studs’ semen stood up to the rigors<br />
of shipping. If it arrived at its destination with<br />
a <strong>low</strong>, living sperm count, chances were very<br />
good that particular stallion would not be<br />
a member of the shipped semen club. They<br />
could, however, be back in the long-distance<br />
business in 2001 when the AQHA approved<br />
frozen semen.<br />
It’s readily apparent that both shipped<br />
and frozen semen could very easily mess<br />
with the breed integrity issue that is one<br />
of the AQHA’s constant concerns. There<br />
was, however, some serious hanky-panky<br />
stinking up the breeding industry before<br />
the advent of shipped/frozen semen.<br />
Just how serious was that hanky-panky?<br />
Serious enough for AQHA to take the<br />
ol’ bull by the horns and implement new<br />
rules and requirements that didn’t set very<br />
well with many industry members.<br />
The problem <strong>res</strong>ted in a number of<br />
horses who were not who their papers said<br />
they were. There were instances of ma<strong>res</strong><br />
being booked to Stalllion A, sent to the<br />
farm where that stallion stood, only to be<br />
bred with semen from Stallion B instead<br />
of Stallion A. It was Stallion A’s name,<br />
however, that appeared on the <strong>res</strong>ulting<br />
offspring’s registration papers.<br />
Was the “mis-breeding” an honest<br />
mistake?<br />
Sometimes.<br />
Was the “mis-breeding” intentional?<br />
Sometimes.<br />
The ramifications of these “mis-<br />
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eedings” were truly far-reaching. Think<br />
about the people who were trying to<br />
build a breeding program on horses who<br />
weren’t who they were supposed to be.<br />
Or think about the folks who attended<br />
a sale, looking to purchase a colt or filly<br />
with specific bloodlines. They were happy<br />
as a lark and pleased as punch when they<br />
loaded up their newest barn addition and<br />
headed home. More often than not, a good<br />
chunk of time passed before alarm bells<br />
started ringing. One long-time horseman<br />
issued a clarion call that demanded the<br />
industry stand up and take notice. He<br />
was convinced the ma<strong>res</strong> he booked to a<br />
specific farm were not bred to the stallion<br />
he’d selected. He based his accusations on<br />
the offspring produced by those ma<strong>res</strong>,<br />
contending they had no characteristic or<br />
similarities to their alleged sire.<br />
Enter blood-typing, which proved the<br />
horseman’s accusations to be correct.<br />
Then came DNA testing. The party was<br />
over for the handful of charlatans, but the<br />
<strong>res</strong>t of the industry moaned and groaned<br />
about the cost of the required testing. It<br />
was, they said, another financial burden<br />
piled on already-breaking backs. In truth,<br />
the cost of the DNA testing was out-ofline.<br />
Eventually, things settled down and<br />
tempers cooled. The test costs backed up<br />
significantly and thoughtful heads began<br />
prevailing.<br />
One of the most difficult tasks facing<br />
the AQHA was to determine how to<br />
implement the testing. What was the<br />
best and most significant starting point?<br />
Just how far back should the testing<br />
requirement extend?<br />
After a great deal of head-scratching<br />
and discussion, it was decided ma<strong>res</strong> foaled<br />
in 1989 forward would go through DNA<br />
testing. The exceptions would be ma<strong>res</strong><br />
bred AI on the premises and/or pasture<br />
bred with exposure to just one stallion.<br />
There is some lingering confusion when<br />
it comes to strictly defining the difference<br />
between DNA testing and parentage<br />
verification. It’s easy to understand the<br />
confusion since there aren’t a great deal<br />
of differences between the two. Simply<br />
put, DNA identifies an individual horse’s<br />
genetic marker…..comparable to an<br />
individual human’s fingerprint. No two are<br />
alike. Stallions that are actively breeding<br />
must be DNA tested, as well as ma<strong>res</strong> born<br />
in 1989 or later and who are being bred.<br />
Genetic testing is a one-time expense<br />
in a horse’s lifetime. A horse’s sire and<br />
dam must both be DNA typed before<br />
parentage verification can take place.<br />
AQHA automatically parentage verifies<br />
most horses.<br />
Parentage verification also identifies a<br />
horse’s genetic marker. That information<br />
is then taken a step farther, comparing the<br />
genetic marker to the horse’s recorded sire<br />
and dam. If everything matches correctly,<br />
there can be no doubt that the names of<br />
the sire and dam listed on the registration<br />
papers are the names that should be there.<br />
There are certain extenuating<br />
circumstances that make parentage<br />
verification mandatory. Two of them are 1)<br />
if the horse was the <strong>res</strong>ult of an embryo/<br />
oocyte transfer and 2) if the horse was<br />
conceived through the use of transported<br />
frozen or cooled semen. Which brings us<br />
back to the issue of frozen semen.<br />
It didn’t take long for transported<br />
frozen semen to become an ordinary,<br />
everyday happening. As a matter of fact,<br />
it became the way to do things. Why<br />
risk shipping a mare and her still-wobbly<br />
baby hundreds of miles? Why subject<br />
an older, possibly crippled, mare to the<br />
same rigors? Why go through any of that<br />
when the alternative was so quick and so<br />
easy….just pick up the phone and order<br />
the semen. Your personal vet can tell<br />
you when your mare is ready, providing<br />
accurate information as to when the semen<br />
should be available for optimal breeding<br />
conditions.<br />
Picking up the phone became the<br />
prevalent method of choice.<br />
The uses for frozen semen expanded.<br />
One of the most critical avenues was<br />
establishing frozen semen banks, especially<br />
for the most popular and most successful<br />
stallions. Would people really want a<br />
breeding world without the likes of Chicks<br />
Beduino or First Down Dash, to name<br />
just two? It’s accepted that these, and all<br />
other stallions, would die someday. How<br />
many generations would it take before their<br />
influence began fading from the gene pool?<br />
Did we really want that to happen?<br />
Many people answered in the negative.<br />
Once again the remedy was easy. Simply<br />
collect the stallion during the off-season.<br />
Divide the collections to fill as many straws<br />
as possible, freeze them and store them<br />
in liquid nitrogen. Stored, frozen semen<br />
became an insurance policy that would<br />
al<strong>low</strong> these stallions to speak from the<br />
grave. (The same thing would soon happen<br />
with ma<strong>res</strong> through a flushing technique<br />
that al<strong>low</strong>ed multiple embryos/oocytes<br />
to be collected. Some would be placed in<br />
recipient ma<strong>res</strong>, who would carry the baby<br />
to full term. Others could be frozen for<br />
later use, even after the mare was dead.<br />
A 2015 study found that, since 2000,<br />
414 foals were born after their mamas<br />
were dead. The litany of the reproductive<br />
technologies affecting the distaff side of the<br />
equation, however, must wait for another<br />
story time.)<br />
Okay. We’re collecting semen and<br />
freezing it – sort of like a rainy day fund.<br />
We’re keeping alive the lines of the great<br />
performers. The more frozen semen we<br />
have, the longer we can keep deceased<br />
stallions relevant within the active,<br />
contemporary gene pool.<br />
Was that a good thing or a bad thing?<br />
What would be a mare owner’s choice<br />
if a deceased, but highly successful,<br />
stallion’s semen were available as opposed<br />
to a young, unproven son of that stallion?<br />
Obviously, the decision would be<br />
influenced by the thickness of the mare<br />
owner’s wallet but, all things being equal,<br />
who would he choose?<br />
What if the majority of the mare owners<br />
choose the semen of the deceased stallion?<br />
In 2015 a new rule was approved by AQHA that affects ONLY those horses born in 2015 or later that states<br />
sperm from foals born in 2015 or after can only be used for two calendar years fol<strong>low</strong>ing that horses death<br />
or sterilization.<br />
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And what if that same choice is made over<br />
and over? Is there a subsequent effect on<br />
the breed’s gene pool? Does it expand or<br />
does it shrink? Do we wind up painting<br />
ourselves into a breeding corner? And, even<br />
if we find a stallion who is a blank slate<br />
outcross, would he get enough ma<strong>res</strong> to<br />
pay his bills?<br />
There are very few situations that<br />
do not carry at least the possibility of<br />
unintended consequences. Now, 16<br />
years after the AQHA authorized the<br />
use of frozen semen, those unintended<br />
consequences are emerging.<br />
First, we need to interject a little sidebar<br />
to this story. Originally, the frozen semen<br />
rule stated that said semen could be used<br />
to breed ma<strong>res</strong> only until the end of the<br />
year in which the stallion died. So, a<br />
stallion who died October 7, 2004, could<br />
continue breeding until December 31,<br />
2004. As things have turned out, the rule<br />
should have retained that time <strong>res</strong>triction.<br />
But, in 2010, with almost no fanfare, it<br />
was changed to al<strong>low</strong> frozen semen from a<br />
deceased stallion to be used indefinitely –<br />
right down to the last 829th straw.<br />
The early Quarter Horse was similar to<br />
the country doctor, who made his rounds<br />
from cabin to cabin, treating everything<br />
from a sore throat to amputating a<br />
gangrenous leg. Those progenitors of<br />
the Quarter Horse breed were jacks of all<br />
trades and masters of many. They could put<br />
their rider in the perfect spot to rope a cow<br />
and then return to drive a bel<strong>low</strong>ing group<br />
of cattle along a barely visible trail. Later in<br />
the day, they could line up with one or two<br />
other horses and blister across a 300-yard<br />
“track” in the middle of nearly-nowhere.<br />
The performance diversity of these<br />
early horses was a by-product of their<br />
genetic diversity. Their veins bulged with<br />
the inherited blood of Thoroughbreds;<br />
of the tough, compact Indian ponies that<br />
left their homelands with their owners to<br />
re-settle in Oklahoma; and the Spanish<br />
horses that carried explorers into the New<br />
World. It was an undeniable genetic wealth<br />
that was massaged and manipulated and<br />
molded for the next 200 years.<br />
A lot of things happened during those<br />
two centuries, with one of the more<br />
notable transitions being specialization.<br />
The country doctor turned into a physician<br />
who treated only feet and another into<br />
an expert on digestion. One-room school<br />
houses grew into sprawling campuses with<br />
teachers specializing in English or math or<br />
biology.<br />
Horses fol<strong>low</strong>ed suit and, over time,<br />
Quarter Horses found themselves listed<br />
in one of six subgroups. They are: racing,<br />
A genetic study was conducted with rigorous<br />
culling to create as much diversity as possible,<br />
the findings of which show that unlimited use of<br />
frozen semen <strong>res</strong>tricts and shrinks the gene pool,<br />
increases chances of in-breeding, and can lead<br />
to over-population.<br />
reining, cutting, halter, working cow and<br />
western pleasure. It was found that specific<br />
groups of individuals were (are) used<br />
to produce the highest level performers<br />
in these six groups. On face value, this<br />
would seem to indicate a shrinkage in<br />
genetic options. Fortunately a genetic<br />
study, paid for in part by the AQHA, was<br />
commissioned in 2012 - 2013. The <strong>res</strong>earch<br />
team hired for the project came from the<br />
University of Minnesota. One of the leading<br />
team members was Dr. Molly McCue, a<br />
veterinarian and geneticist at the University.<br />
Dr. McCue grew up with ranch-bred<br />
Quarter Horses and remains a breed fan.<br />
The first step was to lay out those six<br />
subgroups named in the above paragraph.<br />
Dr. McCue started the <strong>res</strong>earch with her<br />
own opinion, saying we were probably<br />
doing several things that were limiting<br />
genetic diversity within the six subpopulations.<br />
Furthermore, she felt this<br />
was especially true in the last 25 or 30<br />
years. One of the <strong>res</strong>earch markers was to<br />
determine the extent of the in-breeding in<br />
these six groups and, further, forecast what<br />
could happen if we continued with the<br />
industry’s current breeding practices.<br />
The team isolated the top 200<br />
performers from each of the six groups.<br />
They used a money-earned in 2009 and<br />
2010 as the criteria for selecting the top<br />
200 in reining, working cow, cutting and<br />
racing. AQHA points earned were the<br />
criteria for halter and western pleasure.<br />
Half and full siblings were eliminated from<br />
each group. The goal of this rigorous<br />
culling was to create as much genetic<br />
diversity as possible. Next, 24 random<br />
individuals were selected from each group<br />
for a total of 144 horses.<br />
Both genetic and pedigree analyses were<br />
gathered on all 144. The team focused on<br />
65,000 genetic markers and five-generation<br />
pedigrees.<br />
The test findings paint an inte<strong>res</strong>ting<br />
and detailed summary of the breeding<br />
segment of the industry.<br />
According to Dr. McCue, the six<br />
performance groups clustered into three<br />
genetic groups. The racing sub-population<br />
stood out on its own genetic platform.<br />
The pleasure and halter horses clustered<br />
together; the working cow, reining and<br />
cutting individuals stood together to form<br />
the third group. Groups such as halter<br />
and racing shared no common si<strong>res</strong>, while<br />
reining and working cow did. The most<br />
common 15 si<strong>res</strong> across all the groups were<br />
all tail-male descendants of Three Bars TB.<br />
And, several of those 15 stallions’ pedigrees<br />
showed more than one Three Bars crossing<br />
in the first four generations.<br />
It’s important to understand that the<br />
word “diversity” is equal to the level of<br />
genetic variation in a population. Using<br />
both pedigree and genetic analysis yields<br />
a more detailed picture. In this particular<br />
study, the <strong>low</strong>est genetic diversity was in<br />
the cutting and racing subgroups.<br />
So, what are we really doing in terms of<br />
the genetic pool?<br />
In essence, the indefinite, unlimited<br />
use of frozen semen (and especially when<br />
combined with multiple embryo transfer)<br />
can be compared to the mass production<br />
of a variety of products. The more popular<br />
the product, the more they’re produced.<br />
HD televisions enjoyed sky-high popularity<br />
when they first hit the marketplace.<br />
They were very expensive, compared to<br />
pre-HD models. Today? How about a<br />
60-inch HD, ready for all those wonderful<br />
trappings such as Netflix and Hulu, for a<br />
mere $500? Basically, we Quarter Horse<br />
folks have been mass producing certain<br />
bloodlines for several years, thereby<br />
severely <strong>res</strong>tricting and shrinking the gene<br />
pool while simultaneously increasing our<br />
chances of in-breeding. Additionally, we’re<br />
creating (again, especially when we include<br />
multiple embryos in the equation) a serious<br />
over-population problem. A sad reflection<br />
of said over-population is one report that<br />
states 70-percent of the horses in kill pens<br />
are Quarter Horses.<br />
Dr. McQue summed up the situation<br />
perfectly when she said, “We are changing<br />
the genetic landscape in the Quarter Horse<br />
within the top level performance groups…<br />
Any time we take a single individual and<br />
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increase its ability to generate offspring,<br />
that is going to decrease the genetic pool<br />
that is reproducing. Additionally, when you<br />
increase inbreeding and reduce diversity,<br />
you increase the incidence of undesirable<br />
genes making an appearance.”<br />
The breeding industry has been<br />
denying Mother Nature her natural course<br />
of events for a very long time. Nature says<br />
foals shouldn’t be born until winter is<br />
gone and the sun shines most of the day.<br />
Well, we figured out that the length of the<br />
time of light in the day influences a mare’s<br />
breeding cycle. But we didn’t want babies<br />
born in June, so we decided to preempt<br />
nature by bringing ma<strong>res</strong> into the barn<br />
and turning on as many lights as possible.<br />
Soaring electricity bills? Who ca<strong>res</strong>! Those<br />
ma<strong>res</strong> thought they’d found an endless<br />
summer.<br />
We certainly disrupted nature with<br />
multiple embryos. Some ma<strong>res</strong> produce 20<br />
or more foals by the time they’re 15. And<br />
what’s the natural course of a stallion’s life?<br />
He’s born. He competes. He breeds. He<br />
dies. After that, it’s up to his offspring to<br />
continue his genetic influence; with each<br />
succeeding generation increasing the level<br />
of genetic diversity. Instead, we’ve opted<br />
to continue putting that deceased stallion’s<br />
lines back into the gene pool ad infinitum.<br />
Dr. McQue also said something that’s<br />
impossible for many, if not most, to<br />
swal<strong>low</strong>. “Breeders should consider stepping<br />
back,” she said, “from popular si<strong>res</strong> and<br />
‘top’ bloodlines…and add diversity back<br />
into their breeding programs by choosing<br />
individuals that have complementary traits<br />
that can serve as an outcross.<br />
“It’s important to have this scientific<br />
evidence that demonstrates inbreeding<br />
is happening and we can see it in the<br />
genomes. And it is increasing over time.<br />
I hope it (the scientific information) gets<br />
some people to think harder about the<br />
breeding choices they make.”<br />
As a <strong>res</strong>ult of the study’s input, as well as<br />
feedback from the membership, the AQHA<br />
stepped back into the arena of frozen semen<br />
during the March, 2015, convention. A<br />
new rule was approved that affects ONLY<br />
those horses born in 2015 or later. The rule<br />
states that sperm, embryos, and oocytes<br />
from foals born in 2015 or after can only be<br />
used for two calendar years fol<strong>low</strong>ing that<br />
horse’s death or sterilization.<br />
The rule obviously cuts into the profits<br />
derived from the unlimited use of frozen<br />
semen, embryos or oocytes but, on the<br />
long-reaching positive side, it should<br />
promote more <strong>res</strong>ponsible breeding<br />
practices. In turn, those more <strong>res</strong>ponsible<br />
practices should serve to broaden the<br />
Quarter Horse gene pool. As with<br />
everything else, <strong>res</strong>earch and the passage of<br />
time will bring in the final verdict.<br />
Remember: The new rule, which is now<br />
in its second year, has no effect on horses<br />
born prior to 2015.<br />
As expected, some breeders, mare<br />
owners and stallion owners feel the rule<br />
change creates an uneven playing field;<br />
giving the pre-2015 horses a decided<br />
advantage over those that fall into the<br />
2015 or later category. But, like parentage<br />
verification and DNA testing, a beginning<br />
point had to be determined. The playing<br />
field will become level again after a very<br />
few years.<br />
In the meantime, we can accept the<br />
challenge to reach out for greater diversity<br />
and, in the process, create new families and<br />
new lines that will shape the future of the<br />
Quarter Horse industry.<br />
“Any time we take a single individual and increase<br />
its ability to generate offspring, that is going to<br />
decrease the genetic pool that is reproducing.”<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 23
ABLAZIN VERSION 2016 Sorrel Colt<br />
(Winners Version-La Pistolera, Brookstone Bay)<br />
Out of a half-sister to Xylac si 104 ($113,054), etc. 2nd dam is a half-sister to<br />
GREAT FORM si 101 ($46,022), Streakin Mirage si 110 ($6,022, Ntr), etc.<br />
From the family of LIGHTNING CASANOVA si 102 ($141,574), etc.<br />
SUGAR MOMMA BLUE 2016 Gray Filly<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Ms Payment Deferred, Gonna Ro Sham Bo)<br />
Out of a Winning half-sister to FAMOUS BROOKSTONE si 93 ($47,021), etc.<br />
2nd dam is a half-sister to LUCK N OFIVE si 117 ($370,874), ES Dove si 95 ($115,146),<br />
to the dam of SURE SHOT B si 104 ($573,548), etc.<br />
RALLYDOWNTHEALLEY 2016 Bay Colt<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Lucky Ladyaces, Lucky Aces N Eights)<br />
Out of Lucky Ladyaces si 93 ($36,398), full sister to LUCK N OFIVE si 117 ($370,874),<br />
half-sister to ES Dove si 95 ($115,146), to the dam of SURE SHOT B si 104 ($573,548), etc.<br />
2nd dam is SMART ALIBI LADY si 103 ($41,060).<br />
JESS VERSIONTINO 2016 Sorrel Colt<br />
(Winners Version-Cmon Jesses Girl, Jesse James Jr)<br />
Out of Cmon Jesses Girl si 88 ($84,003), half-sister to HOT INDY CHICK<br />
si 84 ($173,131), etc. 3rd dam is a half-sister to the dam of INDY BUD BOB si 101<br />
($305,775), XS NITRO si 106 ($259,712, Ntr), etc.<br />
VIVA LA VIOLET 2016 Brown Filly<br />
(Sign To Be A Runaway-Viva La Moon, Furyofthewind)<br />
Out of Multiple Graded Stakes Finalist VIVA LA MOON si 94 ($26,394),<br />
half-sister to Champion FIRST MOONFLASH si 122 ($969,828, 4-NWR’s, 5-Ntr’s),<br />
DASH TA MOON si 108 ($351,680), MOONIFISANT si 99 ($201,484), etc.<br />
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24 New Mexico Horse Breeder
The Ever-Loved Horse Racing Industry<br />
Needs Your Help!<br />
A Letter from the New Mexico Horsemen’s Association<br />
The business of horse racing Nationwide<br />
and in New Mexico is at a crossroads. As<br />
you may know, money from slot machines<br />
located in casinos at each of the 5 New<br />
Mexico racetracks has <strong>res</strong>ulted in dramatic<br />
increases to purses. However, for the past<br />
20 years there has been a steady reduction<br />
of both new owners and participants, as well<br />
as a declining fan base attending live racing.<br />
There are several reasons for<br />
this, including recession in certain<br />
entrepreneurial industries and the<br />
numerous other competing forms of<br />
entertainment reducing available fans.<br />
These competing forms of entertainment<br />
include the massive proliferation of gaming<br />
at Native American casinos, sports betting,<br />
new sports evolving, and the ever-p<strong>res</strong>ent<br />
use of video games and social media by the<br />
younger generations.<br />
We here at the New Mexico Horsemen’s<br />
Association acknowledge that competition<br />
for fans has made growth of the sport and<br />
business of horseracing more difficult. The<br />
Downs at Albuquerque and Sunland Park<br />
Racetrack have made improvements that<br />
will al<strong>low</strong> fans to bet on live races using<br />
their smart phones & tablets. Adapting<br />
to modern day trends as such, is critical<br />
in keeping the participation of our fan<br />
base up. We as horsemen applaud these<br />
efforts, but we also realize more must<br />
be done to save the industry.<br />
In addition to attracting new<br />
fans, we must attract new owners to our<br />
sport. Now more than ever, the increase in<br />
emerging technologies and social media has<br />
our industry under the constant scrutiny<br />
of the public eye. As current participants,<br />
we must use the highest ethics while racing<br />
our horses to keep a positive perspective on<br />
the sport itself. It is no longer status quo<br />
or ethical to use medications to get our<br />
horses to perform. We all need to act as<br />
ambassadors for the sport and endeavor to<br />
introduce and educate the public, as well as<br />
newcomers, about the sport of horse racing<br />
and ownership of horses.<br />
While traditional marketing and<br />
advertising may continue to have a positive<br />
effect<br />
on improving<br />
participation<br />
in our sport, we<br />
need to embrace<br />
the newly emerging<br />
technologies that permit access to the<br />
sport remotely and find ways to develop an<br />
increasing fan and ownership base.<br />
Our sport’s very existence depends on<br />
us coming together as an industry and<br />
taking this challenge seriously. That’s<br />
why we need your help, we want to hear<br />
from you!<br />
Send us your ideas on how<br />
the sport of horse racing<br />
and participation in the<br />
sport as owner or fan can<br />
be made more attractive.<br />
Don’t worry about whether<br />
an approach will work,<br />
just p<strong>res</strong>ent your ideas no<br />
matter how outside the<br />
box they may be.<br />
New Mexico Horsemen’s Association<br />
217 Palomas, NE • Albuquerque, NM 87108 • (505) 266-7056<br />
www.newmexicohorsemen.com • email: nmhastate1@aol.com<br />
Briefly, about us:<br />
The New Mexico Horsemen’s Association is made up of 5000 licensed owners and race horse<br />
trainers. The Association was formed in 1966 to rep<strong>res</strong>ent horsemen in their dealings with the<br />
racetracks, the New Mexico Racing Commission, the New Mexico State Legislature, and to further<br />
the inte<strong>res</strong>t of folks in the sport and the business of horseracing. The forward-thinking horsemen<br />
who created the Association wanted all facets of the industry, including the breeding of horses,<br />
to grow and flourish. It has done so, especially with the advent of slot gaming which is permitted<br />
at each of the state’s 5 racetracks. We are a 503 c 4 not for profit entity.<br />
For more information please contact New Mexico Horsemen’s Association, 217 Palomas,<br />
NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108, Phone: 505.266.7056 Larry Strain, P<strong>res</strong>ident, of the<br />
NMHA, Pat Bingham, Executive Director, or visit our website at www.newmexicohorsemen.com.<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 25
The 2016 #1 Leading Breeder<br />
COX RANCH<br />
is Proud to P<strong>res</strong>ent Two Foals In Utero<br />
at the <strong>2017</strong><br />
Color profile: Disabled<br />
Composite<br />
Selling August 19th at Ruidoso Downs, NM<br />
Half-sibling to 6-Time Winner RATIFYS<br />
EGYPTIANKING SI 96 (<strong>2017</strong>, $87,880), 3-Time<br />
18003 <br />
Winner CAMANA BAY SI 101 ($44,314), <strong>2017</strong><br />
Es ti mated due date: March 9, 2018<br />
G1 Ruidoso Futurity Finalist LUMINATRE<br />
<br />
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SI 82 ($32,400). Dam is G2 Winner & All<br />
<br />
American Futurity-G1 Runner Up SHESA FIRST<br />
<br />
<br />
RATIFY SI 102 ($448,321). From the immediate<br />
female family of New Track Record Setter &<br />
Remington Derby-G1 Winner UP NEXT SI<br />
109 ($121,106) and New Track Record Setter<br />
LEGACYS A STREAKIN SI 111 ($117,527).<br />
<br />
Color profile: <br />
Disabled<br />
Composite<br />
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Mr Jess Perry<br />
18004 <br />
1st dam Es ti mated due date: Feb ru ary 9, 2018<br />
Placed SPLENDIFFEROUS SI 104 ($73,231),<br />
SHESA FIRST RAT IFY SI 102, by First Down Dash. 5 wins to 3, $448,321,<br />
<br />
<br />
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Lub bock S. [G2], 2nd All Amer i can Fu tu rity [G1], finalist <br />
in the All Amer i can a full sister to Multiple Stakes Winner ETHICS<br />
<br />
Derby [G1], South west Ju ve nile Champ. [G1]. Dam <br />
of 5 liv ing foals of rac ASIDE - SI 106 ($99,644). This embryo’s 2nd dam<br />
ing age, 4 to race, 3 win ners–<br />
<br />
is Heritage Place Futurity-G1 Winner DARING<br />
Ratifys Egyptianking SI 96 (f. by<br />
<br />
T<strong>res</strong> Seis). 5 wins to <br />
4, <strong>2017</strong>, $78,940.<br />
Camana <br />
<br />
Bay SI 101 (g. by Foose). 3 wins to 5, $44,314. <br />
DIFFERENCE SI 102 ($329,000), half-sister to<br />
<br />
Luminatre SI 82 (g. by First<br />
Moonflash). Win ner in <br />
2 starts at 2, <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
MR EYE OPENER SI 106 ($202,906, NTR)<br />
$32,400, fi nal ist in the Ruidoso Fu tu rity [G1]. and to the dam of World Champion SPECIAL<br />
2nd dam<br />
LEADER SI 103 ($292,605).<br />
RAT IFY SI 101, by Chicks Beduino. 2 wins at 3, $32,338, fi nal ist in the Her i tage<br />
Place Derby [G1], Red Earth H. [G3], qual i fied to Remington Park Fu tu rity<br />
[G1]. Dam of 8 foals to race, 6 ROM, in clud ing–<br />
Val iant Hero<br />
Half-sibling to Stakes Winners TALLULAH<br />
MOON SI 95 ($87,622) and DARING AND<br />
DASHING SI 103 (<strong>2017</strong>, $59,174). Dam is G3<br />
SHESA FIRST RAT IFY SI 102 (f. by First Down Dash). Stakes win ner, above.<br />
JJs Rat ify SI 102 (f. by Jj Shot Glass). 4 wins to 5, $51,092, fi nal ist in the New<br />
1st dam Mex i can Spring Fling [R] [G3].<br />
Splendifferous A Rad i cal Shot SI 102 104, (g. by by Mr JJ Shot Jess Glass). Perry. 32 wins to at 7, 2, $34,076, $73,231, fi nal 2nd ist in Los the<br />
Alamitos Cen tral Champ. Dis taff Chal Chal lenge [G3], [G2] Deb 3 times. u tante S., fi nal ist in the Golden State<br />
3rd Mil dam lion Fu tu rity [G1], Mil dred N. Ves sels Me mo rial H. [G1], AQHA Dis taff<br />
DASH Chal BABY lenge SI Champ. 99, by [G1]. Dash Sis For ter Cash. to ETHICS 2 wins ASIDE to 4, $9,655. SI 106, Sis SWEET ter to UP OBLIV NEXT -<br />
ION SI 109, SI 110, IM NEXT D i ff e SI re n 109. t ly SI Dam 97. of Dam 9 foals of 6 to foals race, of 7 rac ROM, ing age, in clud in ing– clud ing a<br />
Chicksdashn 2-year-old cur SI rently 84 (Chicks rac ing, Beduino). 5 to race, Win 3 ROM, ner to inc 3, lu $6,024. di n g – Dam of–<br />
TALLULAH Jess Wil son MOON SI 113. SI 95 8 wins (f. by to Co 8, rona <strong>2017</strong>, Car $77,639, tel). 5 wins 3rd to Pig 4, $87,622, gin String Retama S.<br />
Fea<br />
Ju ve<br />
ture<br />
nile<br />
Jessncash<br />
Chal lenge, 2nd<br />
SI 98.<br />
Los<br />
7<br />
Alamitos<br />
wins to<br />
Ju<br />
6,<br />
ve<br />
$42,996<br />
nile Inv.<br />
in<br />
S.<br />
U.S.<br />
[R], 3rd<br />
& Mex<br />
Stanton<br />
ico, 2nd<br />
S.,<br />
fi nal<br />
Premio<br />
ist in the<br />
Merced<br />
Los Alamitos<br />
Gomez<br />
Super<br />
Orozco<br />
Derby<br />
S.<br />
[G1], Charger Bar H. [G1].<br />
DARING<br />
Babydashn<br />
AND<br />
SI 91<br />
DASHING<br />
(Chicks Beduino).<br />
SI 103 (g.<br />
Win<br />
by<br />
ner<br />
First<br />
at 2,<br />
Down<br />
$37,686,<br />
Dash).<br />
finalist<br />
5 wins<br />
[G1].<br />
to<br />
Dam<br />
6, <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
of–<br />
$59,174, The Tricky Dust S., 2nd Har ris County 550 S., 3rd Remington<br />
Classy<br />
Dis tance<br />
Nicole<br />
Chal<br />
SI<br />
lenge<br />
96.<br />
[G3].<br />
2 wins to 3, $62,095, 3rd Cal i for nia Breeders’ Deb u -<br />
tante S. [R], fi nal ist in the Rain bow Fu tu rity [G1].<br />
2nd<br />
Babydoll<br />
dam<br />
La Jolla SI Bill 102. Melson, 2 wins to General 5, $33,784. Manager Dam of– Peaster, Texas • (817) 594-8317<br />
DARING<br />
A FANCY<br />
DIF FER Mike LA<br />
ENCE<br />
JOLLA Turner, SI 102,<br />
SI 96. Assistant by<br />
3<br />
Vic<br />
wins<br />
tory<br />
to<br />
Dash.<br />
3, Manager <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
3 wins<br />
$87,005,<br />
in • Leslie 6 starts<br />
Four<br />
at Turner, Cor<br />
2, $329,000,<br />
ners DVM, Fut. Resident Veterinarian<br />
Her i tage Place Fut. [G1], 2nd Remington Fut. [G1], finalist All Amer i can Fut.<br />
4th [G1]. dam Sis ter to In trin sic Value SI 93; half sis ter to MR EYE OPENER SI 106<br />
26 Miss ($202,978 Denton New Mexico [G1]-NTR), TB, Horse by Mito Breeder Miss Paint. Eye 4 wins Opener at 3, SI $21,135, 98 ($88,468 2nd [G1]; That’s dam Julie of S., SPE 3rd -<br />
CIAL Las Donitas LEADER S., SI Pan 103, Zareta World H. Champion, Half sis ter to $292,605; Sin gle Spot granddam ($59,685). of SCRUTI- Dam of<br />
NIZER 9 foals, SI all 113, ROM, $343,197), in clud ing– etc. Dam of 15 start ers, 12 win ners, in clud ing–<br />
ETHICS UP NEXT ASIDE 109 SI (Dash 106 For (c. by Cash). Mr Jess 9 wins Perry). to 3, 6 $121,106, wins to 6, Remington $99,644, Prairie Derby
2 Foals in Utero Packed Full of Blacktype!<br />
Selling in The 1st Annual<br />
Select Foal In Utero Sale<br />
August 19, <strong>2017</strong> • Ruidoso Downs, NM<br />
FOAL IN UTERO (Valiant Hero-First Class Lacy B, Mr Jess Perry)<br />
Out of a Stakes Placed Daughter of Champion MR JESS PERRY!<br />
By Champion Sire VALIANT HERO si 105 ($668,633)!<br />
Half-sibling to 2-Time G1 Finalist<br />
MCCLINTOCK B si 93 ($116,178), etc.<br />
Out of G1 Placed First Class Lacy B<br />
si 102 ($91,149), half-sister to 3-Time<br />
Stakes Winner EAGLES SPAN si 95<br />
(<strong>2017</strong>, $182,639), etc. 2nd dam is<br />
Champion TINY FIRST EFFORT si 105<br />
($445,393), full sister to G1 Winner TINY<br />
FIRST DOWN si 105 ($317,881, grandam<br />
of G3 Winner EXQUISITE STRIDE si 100,<br />
$257,978), half-sister to G1 Placed Tiny<br />
Dash Of Cash si 105 ($209,452, dam of<br />
SIZZLING si 102, $147,912, Dash Of<br />
Perry si 103, $382,390, Red Storm Cat<br />
si 104, $226,439) etc. 3rd dam is G1<br />
Placed Tinys Effort si 101 ($61,615),<br />
half-sister to STRAWFLYIN BUDS si 99<br />
($315,974), etc. 4th dam is 2-Time Stakes<br />
Placed Tinys Rose Bud si 107 ($238,430).<br />
FOAL IN UTERO (Jess Good Candy-Revv It Up, First Down Dash)<br />
Graded Stakes Sibling out of a Graded Stakes Winner!<br />
By Undefeated, 2-Time Champion JESS GOOD CANDY si 96 ($2,014,703)!<br />
Half-sibling to G3 Winner REVV ME UP<br />
si 92 ($183,599), etc. Out of G1 Winner<br />
REVV IT UP si 98 ($277,703), full sister<br />
to Multiple Graded Stakes Winner THE<br />
DOWN SIDE si 107 ($361,792), etc. 2nd<br />
dam is 2-Time Graded Stakes Winner RR<br />
LE MISTRAL si 105 ($90,233). 3rd dam is<br />
REBS MISTRIAL si 102 ($28,526), halfsister<br />
to G2 Winner CABALLETTA si 104<br />
($100,935). 4th dam is Stakes Placed True<br />
Mistrial si 86, Multiple Stakes Producer.<br />
Paragon Farms<br />
Tommy & Melany Lipar<br />
(281) 705-1002 • Conroe, TX<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 27
5 Foals in Utero By Champions &<br />
Out Of Champion Maternal Families<br />
Consigned to the Select Foal In Utero Sale on August 19, <strong>2017</strong><br />
FOAL IN UTERO - EDD January 20, 2018<br />
(First Moonflash-Lady Jessie Dee, Mr Jess Perry)<br />
Out of an unraced full sister to 2-Time Champion NOCONI si 105 ($1,356,400), half-sister to<br />
2-Time Graded Stakes Winner BRENDA BEAUTIFUL si 110 ($336,624, Ntr), etc. 2nd dam is<br />
AQHA Broodmare of the Year & Dam of Distinction MY DASHING LADY si 97 ($169,512),<br />
half-sister to 3-Time Stakes Winner SIXY LADY si 102 ($146,318, dam of 3-Time Champion<br />
KETEL WON si 107, $651,740).<br />
FOAL IN UTERO - EDD February 05, 2018<br />
(One Famous Eagle-My Dashing Lady, Dash For Cash)<br />
Half sibling to 2-Time Champion NOCONI si 105 ($1,356,400), 2-Time Graded Stakes Winner<br />
BRENDA BEAUTIFUL si 110 ($336,624) , Ntr, etc. Out of AQHA Broodmare of the Year & Dam of Distinction<br />
MY DASHING LADY si 97 ($169,512), half-sister to 3-Time Stakes Winner SIXY LADY si 102 ($146,318, dam of<br />
3-Time Champion KETEL WON si 107, $651,740). 3rd dam is LADY JUNO si 104 ($270,313).<br />
FOAL IN UTERO - EDD February 18, 2018<br />
(One Famous Eagle-Natalie Dash, First Down Dash)<br />
Half-sibling to WHATA CORONA si 91 ($29,775), etc. Out of Multiple Graded Stakes Finalist<br />
NATALIE DASH si 91 ($52,681), full sister to Champion TEMPTING DASH si 111 ($673,970, 2-Ntr’s),<br />
Multiple G1 Winner A TEMPTING DASH si 104 ($541,959), etc. 2nd dam is 2-Time Stakes Place<br />
A Tempting Chick si 99 ($36,953, Champion Producer of $1.4 Million).<br />
FOAL IN UTERO - EDD February 07, 2018<br />
(One Famous Eagle-Royally Sandra, Royal Quick Dash)<br />
Half-sibling to 3-Time Winner QUICK DASHIN PERRY si 94 ($27,487). Out of Multiple Graded<br />
Stakes Finalist Royally Sandra si 96 ($137,856). 2nd dam is an unraced full sister to Champion<br />
LEADING SPIRIT si 103 ($811,413), G3 Winner LEADING DIVA si 103 ($138,174), etc.<br />
FOAL IN UTERO - EDD March 31, 2018<br />
(One Famous Eagle-Significant Runner, Foose)<br />
First foal out of Multiple Graded Stakes Finalist SIGNIFICANT RUNNER si 93 ($84,895),<br />
half-sister to Champion SIGNIFICANT HEART si 98 ($257,292), CATCH BILLY THE KID si 91 ($52,713), etc.<br />
2nd dam is G1 Winner JESS SIGNIFICANT si 103 ($419,589). 3rd dam is 2-Time Champion<br />
SIGNIFICANT SPEED si 106 ($517,605).<br />
(859) 983-2545 - Ruidoso, NM<br />
R.D. Hubbard<br />
August 19, <strong>2017</strong><br />
28 New Mexico Horse Breeder
PROVEN RESULTS<br />
FROM SALE RING TO RACE TRACK<br />
Winner of the Mountain Top Futurity RG3<br />
DADDYS BLUSHING was a $14,000 sale purchase!<br />
CALL<br />
TODAY FOR<br />
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All 10 Finalists in the $392,554 Mountain Top Futurity RG3<br />
Were Sold as Yearlings at Ruidoso!<br />
NEW MEXICO-BRED YEARLING SALE<br />
August 18th & 19th, <strong>2017</strong><br />
SELECT FOALS IN UTERO SALE<br />
August 19th, <strong>2017</strong><br />
The Results Speak for Themselves…<br />
Lowell Neumayer • General Manager<br />
100 N. Joe Welch • P.O. Box 909 • Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346 • (575) 378-4474 • Fax (575) 378-4788<br />
www.ruidososelectyearlingsale.com • Email: dreed@raceruidoso.com • wwiggins@raceruidoso.com<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 29
y Heather Smith Thomas<br />
Equine influenza is caused by a virus<br />
and is one of the most common<br />
infectious diseases of the <strong>res</strong>piratory<br />
tract of horses. It is endemic in the<br />
equine population of the United<br />
States and throughout much of the world,<br />
where young horses aged one to five are<br />
generally the most susceptible. Older<br />
horses may have some immunity if they<br />
have previously encountered the virus.<br />
Equine Influenza is one of the diseases a<br />
horse might be exposed to when leaving<br />
the farm and going to the racetrack.<br />
Mark Crisman DVM, who is the Senior<br />
Veterinarian at Equine Technical Services,<br />
Zoetis in Blacksburg, Virginia, works for<br />
Zoetis and also teaches at the University.<br />
He says equine influenza has been around<br />
for centuries—with outbreaks recorded<br />
throughout North America and Europe.<br />
“One incident that really got our attention<br />
was the outbreak in Australia in 2007.<br />
Australia had been influenza-free, so horse<br />
owners there did not vaccinate for this<br />
disease. It came in to that continent with<br />
an imported horse and the native equine<br />
population was completely susceptible,”<br />
he says.<br />
“More than 10,000 premises (and<br />
all the horses on those premises) were<br />
affected. Australia spent more than a billion<br />
dollars getting that outbreak <strong>res</strong>olved,” says<br />
Crisman.<br />
“The incubation period for this<br />
<strong>res</strong>piratory disease is very short—just a<br />
couple of days. We’ve seen outbreaks that<br />
literally swept through a stable or barn,<br />
and in a teaching hospital, where within<br />
48 hours every horse in the barn was<br />
coughing,” he says.<br />
The clinical signs include fever, cough<br />
and nasal discharge. “I’ve seen fevers up<br />
to 104 degrees and 105 and higher with<br />
influenza. The horse also has a harsh, dry<br />
cough. During that phase, the virus is<br />
being aerosolized and can be spread quite<br />
a distance just from the coughing and<br />
sneezing.” If another horse is downwind<br />
from the horse that is coughing, it may<br />
inhale some of those virus-bearing droplets.<br />
“The viral infection usually runs its<br />
course quickly,” says Crisman. It attacks<br />
the epithelium in the upper airways and<br />
damages this lining (and the cilia), but this<br />
damage will heal within one to three weeks<br />
if there are no secondary complications.<br />
Exercising a horse too soon after infection can<br />
cause secondary issues. The deep breathing in of<br />
dust and debris draws it into the airways and can<br />
create a <strong>res</strong>piratory infection.<br />
Ty Wyant<br />
“The length/duration of viremia (virus<br />
in the blood), which is the period of time<br />
the virus is being shed and can be spread<br />
to another horse, depends on existing<br />
immunity of that particular horse. For<br />
instance, in Australia, where there were<br />
many naïve horses, the disease basically ran<br />
amok. Here in the U.S., it’s a bit different<br />
because many horses have had some<br />
exposure and have some immunity because<br />
they are generally vaccinated, which gives<br />
some protection,” he says.<br />
“The severity of clinical signs can vary<br />
a great deal. Horses with some level of<br />
immunity, such as recent vaccinations,<br />
won’t be as sick and won’t shed the virus<br />
as long. We tell horse owners that they<br />
should <strong>res</strong>t the horse one week for every<br />
day of fever.” In other words, if the horse<br />
had a fever for only one day, a week of <strong>res</strong>t<br />
might be adequate, whereas if the horse<br />
had a fever for three days, you should <strong>res</strong>t<br />
him for at least three weeks before working<br />
him again, even if he feels good before that<br />
time is up.<br />
“The virus attacks the epithelium<br />
in the upper airway. The upper airway<br />
is designed to be a major defense<br />
component of the horse’s immune<br />
system,” he says. This is the first line of<br />
defense to ensure that pathogens don’t get<br />
down into the lungs.<br />
Bacteria and other pathogens exist in<br />
the upper airway, inhaled by the horse. The<br />
tiny cilia (hair-like “fingers” that line the<br />
epithelium) constantly move in wavelike<br />
motion to move dust or any other inhaled<br />
debris—including pathogens—up out of<br />
the airway so they can be coughed out or<br />
swal<strong>low</strong>ed, keeping them out of the lungs.<br />
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“We typically<br />
see outbreaks<br />
of flu in young<br />
horses two to<br />
five years old,<br />
in training or<br />
congregated<br />
for racing,<br />
showing, etc.”<br />
The influenza virus denudes the<br />
epithelium, destroying the cilia and<br />
removing that defense mechanism. “The<br />
serious cases of influenza are the ones that<br />
develop secondary bacterial infection in the<br />
lungs (pneumonia),” explains Crisman.<br />
You don’t want the horse exercising,<br />
breathing deeply, drawing dust or debris<br />
down into airways that cannot fully protect<br />
against these particles getting down into<br />
the lungs. If you exercise him too soon,<br />
you may set him up for a more serious<br />
<strong>res</strong>piratory infection. Many riders, especially<br />
those with competition schedules, don’t<br />
give the horse enough time.<br />
“We typically see outbreaks of flu<br />
in young horses two to five years old,<br />
in training or congregated for racing,<br />
showing, etc. Their job is to perform/make<br />
money, and it’s hard to convince people<br />
they need to <strong>res</strong>t a horse this long because<br />
the horse feels better after just a week or<br />
so and looks normal. But he’s not,” says<br />
Crisman.<br />
Prevention<br />
There are two ways to protect your<br />
horse—with vaccination and with attention<br />
to biosecurity. “Vaccination is helpful, but<br />
it simply puts a protective barrier around<br />
the horse for a short period of time. It is<br />
not the greatest limiting step for disease<br />
prevention,” he says.<br />
“I can’t emphasize enough the<br />
importance of biosecurity, but this is<br />
the hardest thing to get people to do.”<br />
Keeping new arrivals separate from your<br />
other horse for two weeks, quarantine of<br />
sick horses, etc., is a good technique to<br />
use for biosecurity. “New horses need to<br />
be isolated, checked closely and monitored<br />
to make sure they are staying healthy,<br />
with temperature taken twice daily. Also<br />
important is submitting nasal swab samples<br />
if a horse does get a fever so that we know<br />
what it is. There are many diagnostic labs<br />
that can help us identify it. Our strategy for<br />
treatment and care will be different if it’s<br />
herpes or influenza,” he says.<br />
Disinfection is equally important when<br />
there is a sick horse, as it ensu<strong>res</strong> the virus<br />
is not spread to other horses on shared<br />
equipment. Some people just use bleach<br />
solutions, but organic matter, such as straw<br />
and manure, makes bleach ineffective.<br />
“Fortunately, the influenza virus is not<br />
very hardy in the environment and, if it is<br />
sitting on a surface somewhere, it won’t<br />
last a long time. Equine Influenza is<br />
primarily spread by nasal secretions from<br />
one horse to the mucus membrane of the<br />
second horse. It’s not like strangles, which<br />
can survive in the environment or in water<br />
buckets a lot longer,” says Crisman.<br />
Vaccination can be helpful. For instance,<br />
vaccination of ma<strong>res</strong> can help protect their<br />
foals. “If a mare is vaccinated during her<br />
last trimester, she passes immunity to her<br />
foal via colostrum. In this situation, foals<br />
will have immunity up to about five or six<br />
months of age. If there are other horses on<br />
the farm traveling in and out, this could<br />
put foals at a higher risk. Depending on<br />
exposure risk, some people start vaccinating<br />
their foals at five or six months of age, or<br />
may wait until they are eight months of<br />
age,” he says.<br />
Influenza is a risk-based vaccine. The<br />
horses most at risk should be vaccinated<br />
three or four times a year. For a backyard<br />
horse that never goes anywhere and might<br />
only be exposed unintentionally by an<br />
unfo<strong>res</strong>een encounter with other horses,<br />
annual vaccination might or might not be<br />
adequate.<br />
“Decisions regarding influenza<br />
vaccination should be made by the owner<br />
in consultation with his/her veterinarian<br />
as to how they will handle vaccination.<br />
Influenza is a risk-based vaccine<br />
(rather than one of the core vaccines<br />
recommended by the AAEP for every<br />
horse), and not very immunogenic,” says<br />
Crisman.<br />
“Some of the other vaccines, like<br />
tetanus, EEE, WEE and rabies, are highly<br />
immunogenic; the body mounts a good<br />
The equine influenza vaccine is a cheap insurance<br />
policy and can prevent a large medical bill should the<br />
horse become ill.<br />
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There are three different types of equine influenza<br />
vaccine available: 1) an inactive or killed vaccine,<br />
given intramuscular, 2) a modified live virus (MLV),<br />
administered intra-nasally, and 3) an inactive/killed<br />
canary pox vaccine, a slightly different category that runs<br />
in concert with the flu virus antigen.<br />
“These are<br />
the goals of<br />
vaccination—to<br />
reduce severity of<br />
illness, to reduce<br />
recovery time,<br />
and to reduce<br />
the horse’s ability<br />
to spread the<br />
disease.”<br />
<strong>res</strong>ponse and creates strong immunity. We<br />
know that those vaccines work very well.<br />
There are several other vaccines that are<br />
moderately immunogenic, such as the<br />
West Nile vaccine. Herpes and influenza<br />
are not, and this why we tell people who<br />
have horses in high risk categories that<br />
they need to vaccinate a minimum of<br />
twice a year, and many will need to be<br />
vaccinated three or four times per year if<br />
you really want to protect that horse. For<br />
these horses, both the influenza and herpes<br />
vaccinations need to be administered at<br />
regular intervals,” he says.<br />
There are three different types of<br />
influenza vaccine available. “One is<br />
inactivated or a killed vaccine, given as<br />
an intramuscular injection. Every vaccine<br />
company offers one of these. There are<br />
also modified live virus (MLV) vaccines,<br />
and currently just one on the market for<br />
horses. It was developed in the early 1990’s<br />
and there are good challenge studies to<br />
show that it gives protection for up to six<br />
months. This one is administered intranasally,<br />
and is the only one approved for<br />
intranasal use. The third type is a canary<br />
pox vaccine, with a different carrier—<br />
that runs in concert with the flu virus<br />
antigen and helps the immune system<br />
mount a <strong>res</strong>ponse. This one is in a slightly<br />
different category, but is basically still an<br />
inactivated/killed vaccine,” Crisman says.<br />
“One thing that is crucial for any horse<br />
that has never been vaccinated before, is to<br />
start with a two-dose series. If you don’t<br />
give the booster shots, there will be no<br />
immunity. We have a lot of data showing<br />
this. You need to give the priming dose,<br />
and then a few weeks later the booster—<br />
which will stimulate the immune protection<br />
for whatever period of time it lasts. After<br />
the initial booster series, how often you<br />
vaccinate (once, twice, or 3 to 4 times<br />
annually) would depend on the risk and<br />
general environment of the horse,” he says.<br />
No vaccine is 100% effective. “Some<br />
are better than others, but the risk-based<br />
vaccines, like equine influenza and equine<br />
herpes, are not the greatest. If your horse<br />
was vaccinated a couple months prior to<br />
exposure, he may still get sick but have<br />
less severe clinical signs. An unprotected<br />
horse may have three days of fever and<br />
your vaccinated horse may only have<br />
one. Vaccination can certainly reduce the<br />
severity of clinical signs and shorten the<br />
convalescent period (maybe one week<br />
instead of three weeks). The other big<br />
thing that vaccination does is reduce the<br />
shedding.” Even if the horse does get sick,<br />
he won’t shed as much virus and won’t<br />
shed it for as long, and might not be as big<br />
a risk to other horses.<br />
“These are the goals of vaccination—<br />
to reduce severity of illness, to reduce<br />
recovery time, and to reduce the horse’s<br />
ability to spread the disease. It’s like an<br />
insurance policy. Some people may not<br />
want to vaccinate, but after working in a<br />
veterinary hospital for decades, I’ve seen<br />
many instances where a $20 vaccine would<br />
have prevented a $2,000 medical expense.”<br />
With this small investment, the horse<br />
wouldn’t have suffered through the illness.<br />
“Ideally we would like to provide<br />
long-term immunity with vaccination,<br />
but influenza doesn’t lend itself to a<br />
vaccine that’s as dependable as the ones<br />
for diseases like tetanus, rabies, or EEE.<br />
Those pathogens lend themselves to good,<br />
solid protection, in comparison. We see<br />
a lot of cases where horses die from EEE<br />
or from West Nile, especially when people<br />
don’t vaccinate. The virus is still out there.<br />
The protection varies between vaccines for<br />
different diseases, but it will still help your<br />
horse,” says Crisman.<br />
Vaccine Strains<br />
Some people ask why the CDC designs<br />
a new influenza vaccine for humans every<br />
year, but not for horses. “This is because<br />
of what is known as antigenic shift and<br />
antigenic drift. These are different in horses<br />
versus humans,” he says.<br />
“All influenza viruses originate from<br />
birds. They are the source of all influenza,<br />
and migratory birds may carry the virus,<br />
spreading it over large areas. The virus<br />
mutates in the birds and may cause<br />
problems when it jumps from birds to<br />
mammals. This is how we got swine flu and<br />
other types of flu—especially in mammals<br />
that are living in close proximity to birds.<br />
The real worry begins when it jumps from<br />
mammals to humans. This is where it<br />
becomes very challenging,” says Crisman.<br />
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“In horses,<br />
however, we are<br />
dealing with<br />
antigenic drift,<br />
instead, which<br />
is fortunate. The<br />
equine flu viruses<br />
have minimal<br />
changes in their<br />
coating.”<br />
“The antigens, which are the surface<br />
proteins on the virus, can shift. This is their<br />
way of eluding the immune system and<br />
surviving/perpetuating. Every virus has its<br />
own method,” he explains. Herpes viruses<br />
hide in the body where the immune system<br />
can’t recognize them; these viruses become<br />
latent, and then come out of hiding later<br />
to cause recurring disease, like shingles in<br />
humans, or IBR in cattle.<br />
“Influenza is different. It doesn’t stay in<br />
the body at all. The trick it developed is the<br />
ability to shift its outer coating. Every time<br />
these viruses circulate around the world,<br />
they mutate and change their coat so the<br />
immune system doesn’t recognize them.”<br />
The virus has a new disguise to escape the<br />
body’s immune defenses.<br />
“In humans, the influenza virus does a<br />
frequent antigenic shift, with a new coat or<br />
disguise. This is why every year the CDC<br />
designs a new vaccine that contains what<br />
they think will be the virus strain that will<br />
hit the U.S. They acquire data about viruses<br />
circulating in the Middle East, Far East, Asia<br />
and Europe, and try to determine which<br />
one will come to the U.S. Some years they<br />
don’t do a very good job of guessing which<br />
strain to incorporate in the vaccine. Another<br />
strain comes in and affects a lot of people.<br />
It’s always a bit of a gamble. They do the<br />
best they can, but there’s no guarantee. The<br />
ever-changing coat on the human flu virus is<br />
called antigenic shift,” he explains.<br />
“In horses, however, we are dealing<br />
with antigenic drift, instead, which is<br />
fortunate. The equine flu viruses have<br />
minimal changes in their coating. The two<br />
that you hear of are HA (hemagglutinin)<br />
and NA (neuraminidase). Those are the<br />
two surface proteins we find in equine<br />
influenza, and there are minimal drifts. We<br />
don’t have to change the vaccine (change<br />
the antigens that are p<strong>res</strong>ent in those<br />
vaccines) every year. But, it is important<br />
to track them. There are several groups,<br />
and we want to see if there are any major<br />
changes in those populations,” he says.<br />
“About 15 years ago, there was a shift<br />
between European and American strains.<br />
These all originated from what we call<br />
the Florida strain and they broke into two<br />
separate groups that are termed Clade 1<br />
and Clade 2. There is evidence that the<br />
Clade 2 strain predominately circulates in<br />
Europe, and the Clade 1 predominately<br />
circulates in the U.S. We’ve had no<br />
outbreaks of Clade 2 in the U.S., but there<br />
were one or two cases found in imported<br />
horses that were picked up in quarantine<br />
stations. There are no reports of a Clade 2<br />
outbreak in the U.S.” says Crisman.<br />
“A <strong>res</strong>earch group at the Gluck Center<br />
looked at the Clade 1 strains that we<br />
have here, in our vaccines, to see if they<br />
would protect against the European<br />
strains, and they do. The OIE, which is<br />
the World Health Organization for horses,<br />
is recommending that horses traveling<br />
internationally should be vaccinated with<br />
both the Clade 1 and Clade 2 strain.<br />
But our data here shows that if there is<br />
an outbreak of Clade 2 in the U.S., our<br />
vaccines should help,” he says.<br />
“Influenza is a pesky virus, but we see<br />
more problems with herpes than with<br />
influenza. It’s not<br />
the influenza<br />
virus itself<br />
that is a big<br />
problem; it’s<br />
mainly the<br />
secondary<br />
complications<br />
that can<br />
occur that can<br />
be tragic. This<br />
sequel can happen<br />
if people don’t fol<strong>low</strong><br />
biosecurity guidelines,<br />
<strong>res</strong>t guidelines, etc. If<br />
you take care of the horse,<br />
the virus will run its course<br />
and the horse will recover,”<br />
says Crisman.<br />
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Be Sure To Not Miss These 22 Outstanding<br />
A HOT LEPRECHAUN, 2016, c.<br />
(Winners Version-A Hot Valentine, Corona Caliente)<br />
Half-brother to 2-Time Winner A RED HOT PATRIOT<br />
si 104 (<strong>2017</strong>, $8,225). Out of A HOT VALENTINE<br />
si 107 ($32,505), half-sister to G1 Placed<br />
Krash Cartel si 98 ($208,797).<br />
CARTELEPROMPTER, 2016, f.<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel-Dashing All Alibis, First Down Dash)<br />
Half-sister to G3 Placed Six Royal Alibis si 112<br />
($81,483), etc. Out of a half-sister to NO MAS<br />
PESCADO si 95 ($6,066, dam of G1 Finalist DUN<br />
AVATAR, si 96, $80,312), etc.<br />
CS SUPERMOON, 2016, f.<br />
(First Moonflash-Quick Dashin Cowgirl,<br />
Country Quick Dash)<br />
Half-sister to 2-Time Winner QUIK DRAW YOUR<br />
WAGON si 94 (<strong>2017</strong>, $10,769), etc. Out of a half-sister<br />
to 2-Time Winner Back By Fact si 95 ($17,784), etc.<br />
EASY MOVING CAT, 2016, f.<br />
(Man On The Move-Devons Wish, Devon Lane TB)<br />
Full sister to G1 Winner GIRLONTHEGO si 96<br />
($174,146), half-sister to 3-Time Graded Stakes<br />
Placed Wish You Had One To si 101 ($118,394), etc.<br />
Out of a winning half-sister to G3 Winner KIPTYS<br />
FIRST DASH si 102 ($72,258), etc.<br />
GET DOWN AND MOVE, 2016, f.<br />
(Man On The Move-Jess Hi Maintenance,<br />
Mr Jess Perry)<br />
Out of a half-sister to Winner Special E Valiant si 87<br />
($5,528), etc. 2nd dam is a half-sister to G1 Winner<br />
FAST DEBONAIR si 102 ($455,658), G1 Winner<br />
LADY MARA si 101 ($83,212), etc.<br />
HANDSOM LANE, 2016, c.<br />
(One Handsome Man-Never The Same, Strawfly Special)<br />
Half-brother to 2-Time Winner DONT EVER SLOW<br />
DOWN si 93 (<strong>2017</strong>, $40,193), etc. Out of a halfsister<br />
to G2 Placed Dance Baby si 98 ($58,215),<br />
Winner Justa Cartel si 88 ($33,703), Winner<br />
Tellmeiwasdreaming si 95 ($12,816), etc.<br />
HS PAUL WALKER, 2016 c.<br />
(Osbaldo-Strawberryberryfast, Strawflyin Buds)<br />
Half-brother to G3 Winner A SUPER SONIC<br />
BOOM si 87 (<strong>2017</strong>, $61,206), G3 Placed Vicente<br />
Y Su Corona si 104 (<strong>2017</strong>, $148,196), G2 Finalist<br />
THUNDER STRIC AGAIN si 109 ($102,424), etc.<br />
MOVE IT RYON, 2016, c.<br />
(Man On The Move-Hopeful Ryon, Bills Ryon)<br />
Out of Hopeful Ryon ($4,089), half-sister to G3<br />
Finalist IM A CORONA DUDE si 99 ($14,325), etc.<br />
2nd dam is a winning half-sister to G3 Placed Hopeful<br />
Eye si 94 ($30,346), Takin On Kas si 82 ($4,057), etc.<br />
MOVE OVER ROVER, 2016, c.<br />
(Man On The Move-Hennessey’s House TB, Roll<br />
Hennessy Roll)<br />
Out of 2-Time Winner HENNESSEY’S HOUSE<br />
($19,434), half-sister to 2-Time Winner CARSON<br />
HOUSE ($56,363), 3-Time Winner NET FORCE<br />
($49,926), 4-Time Winner LENNON ($78,145).<br />
OSBALDO GRAY, 2016, f.<br />
(Osbaldo-Yawl Coming, Rabbits Rainbow)<br />
Out of G3 Placed YAWL COMING si 95 ($51,946),<br />
half-sister to 8-Time Winner SUNNY SITUATION si 96<br />
($72,980), REALLY FOR REAL si 101 ($30,064), etc.<br />
QUICK SUN QUEEN, 2016, f.<br />
(Quick Action TB-Sunbria Queen, Right Down To It)<br />
Out of an unraced granddaughter of the #1 All-Time<br />
Leading Sire FIRST DOWN DASH si 105 ($857,256).<br />
3rd dam is Multiple Stakes Placed & Graded Stakes<br />
Finalist SUNBRIA si 106 ($95,919).<br />
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Consignments at the New Mexico Bred Sale!<br />
UR DADDYS LADY, 2016, f.<br />
(Big Daddy Cartel- U R A Fury Lady, Furyofthewind)<br />
Out of G3 Winner U R A FURY LADY si 97 ($76,640).<br />
From the family of Champion LIBERTY COIN si 101<br />
($291,798).<br />
WOODETTES J J J, 2016, f.<br />
(Jesse James Jr-Posies Woodette, Woodbridge)<br />
Half-sister to G2 Finalist JESS BEER MONEY<br />
si 86 ($32,041), etc. Out of POSIES WOODETTE<br />
si 118 ($47,273, Ntr), half-sister to POSIES DESIRIA<br />
si 90 ($65,420) and the dam of NATIVE POSIES si 103<br />
($141,619), etc.<br />
MOVIN MUCHACHA, 2016, f.<br />
(Man On The Move-T<strong>res</strong> Diamond Dash, T<strong>res</strong> Seis)<br />
Out of a half-sister to G3 Placed Obamano si 95<br />
($111,098), 3-Time Winner COYAME SPLASH si 96<br />
($52,479), 3-Time Winner ZHAINA si 99 ($30,976), etc.<br />
ROMACITAS BONITA, 2016, f.<br />
(One Handsome Man-Red Tomacita,<br />
First On The Red)<br />
Half-sister to G3 Placed Obamano si 95 ($111,098),<br />
3-Time Winner COYAME SPLASH si 96 ($52,479),<br />
3-Time Winner ZHAINA si 99 ($30,976), etc.<br />
MP JADE, 2016, f.<br />
(One Handsome Man-Carsoncityprospect TB, Carson City)<br />
Out of Carsoncityprospect ($120,023), half-sister<br />
to 8-Time Winner Rock Me Amadeus ($132,530),<br />
5-Time Winner Proper Prospect ($96,213), etc.<br />
2nd dam is 2-Time Stakes Winner ANNETTAS<br />
PROSPECT ($74,998).<br />
Agent,<br />
BLASTOISE, 2016, c.<br />
(Quick Action TB-Ms Beautiful Diamond,<br />
San Bar Diamonds)<br />
Out of an unraced granddaughter of the #1 All-Time<br />
Leading Sire FIRST DOWN DASH si 105 ($857,256),<br />
from the family of 3-Time Champion DENIM N<br />
DIAMONDS si 105 ($731,118).<br />
LADY ZUZ TB, 2016, f.<br />
(Quick Action-Bounzuz, Elk’s Uz)<br />
Full sister to Placed Smooth Talkin Red (<strong>2017</strong>, $5,496).<br />
Out of 4-Time Winner BOUNZUZ ($81,737), full sister<br />
to ZTAG UZAURUZ ($17,839), etc.<br />
ITSY BITSY ACTION, 2016, f.<br />
(Quick Action TB-Itsy Bitsy Raggedy, This Snow Is Royal)<br />
Out of a Money Earning daughter of Champion THIS<br />
SNOW IS ROYAL si 101 ($554,748), half-sister to<br />
G3 Finalist KATIES DASH si 88 ($7,991), etc. Great<br />
granddaughter of FLORENTINE si 108 ($1,123,102).<br />
QUICK LASSY DASHER, 2016, f.<br />
(Quick Action TB-Red Lassy Dasher, Right Down To It)<br />
Out of an unraced granddaughter of the #1 All-Time<br />
Leading Sire FIRST DOWN DASH si 105 ($857,256).<br />
2nd dam is Multiple Graded Stakes Finalist RED<br />
RIME si 104 ($73,117).<br />
THE ACTION QUEEN, 2016, f.<br />
(Quick Action TB-Billie Dean Queen, Dean Miracle)<br />
Out of an unraced daughter of DEAN MIRACLE si<br />
104 ($199,601). 2nd dam is Multiple Stakes Placed &<br />
Graded Stakes Finalist SUNBRIA si 106 ($95,919).<br />
VOICE OF ACTION, 2016, c.<br />
(Quick Action TB-First Down Voice, Voice Of Reason)<br />
Out of an unraced granddaughter of All-Time Leading<br />
Sire MR JESS PERRY si 113 ($687,184) and FIRST<br />
DOWN DASH si 105 ($857,256). 2nd dam is G2<br />
Finalist MISS BEAUTIFUL DASH si 88 ($10,325), etc.<br />
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Izzy Trejo<br />
“A 99-To-1 Shot” Lands a Tough Job<br />
by Pete Herrera<br />
“Izzy’’ Trejo was living the easy life.<br />
A st<strong>res</strong>s-free, pay-as-you go, can it get any<br />
better than this sort of gig.<br />
It was the spring of 1995 and Trejo<br />
had a job parking cars at social events and<br />
other happenings at upscale locations in<br />
the Phoenix area. He was making $600 a<br />
week—all cash money he points out—and<br />
only had to work four days a week to earn it.<br />
The only glitch was that Trejo had a<br />
couple of months earlier earned a degree<br />
from the University of Arizona’s racetrack<br />
program and the diploma was figuratively<br />
sitting in his back pocket.<br />
So when the racing secretary at<br />
Delaware Park offered him a job, Izzy’s<br />
conscience came into the picture.<br />
“I thought, my parents spent all this<br />
money on college and here I am parking<br />
cars,’’ says Trejo. “I figured I better take<br />
this opportunity.’’<br />
And that’s how Ismael “Izzy’’ Trejo’s<br />
career in horse racing management got<br />
started. A career that 15 months ago<br />
brought him to New Mexico as the current<br />
executive director of the New Mexico<br />
Racing Commission.<br />
Trejo’s time in New Mexico remains a<br />
work in prog<strong>res</strong>s. His is a job that brings<br />
a daily diet of challenges and changes,<br />
optimism one day, setbacks the next. Part<br />
of his mission is to chase “cheaters’’ out<br />
of the state and make New Mexico horse<br />
racing a product bettors in other states are<br />
willing to gamble on.<br />
In no way, says Trejo, did he know the<br />
scope of what he was getting into when he<br />
arrived in New Mexico in March of 2016.<br />
But more on that later.<br />
Career decisions can be influenced by<br />
a lot of things, not the least of which are<br />
family and familiar territory—the sense of<br />
having been there, done that.<br />
So it was with Izzy Trejo.<br />
By the time he was five years old, he and<br />
his older sister Adela were spending a lot<br />
of time on the backside alongside their dad<br />
Milo Trejo. There’s no unde<strong>res</strong>timating the<br />
influence his dad had on Izzy.<br />
“I owe a lot of my success to the work<br />
ethic that my father instilled in me working<br />
in his barn,’’ says Trejo.<br />
Milo Trejo trained racehorses for more<br />
than 40 years at tracks in New Mexico,<br />
Arizona, the Midwest and Canada. For<br />
him, the road to the races started with a<br />
trip from his home in Mexico to South<br />
Texas to help his dad pick strawberries.<br />
Milo Trejo was a young boy (12 or<br />
13) at the time. His family had a ranch<br />
and land in the mountains around their<br />
hometown of Zimapan-Hidalgo. It was an<br />
agriculture-based, self-reliant existence that<br />
included cows, pigs, goats, corn crops and<br />
farm horses.<br />
Because Milo Trejo could read and<br />
write, his father brought him along on one<br />
of his annual trips to pick strawberries in<br />
Texas.<br />
“Being around South Texas eventually<br />
led to his being around horses and<br />
ranches,’’ says Izzy.<br />
Izzy at 5 years of age in his cowboy suit.<br />
In time it led to a job grooming horses<br />
for match races in West Texas. His ability<br />
to both groom horses and break babies<br />
eventually got him to Sunland Park and<br />
Turf Paradise in Phoenix, where he worked<br />
with trainer Richard Hazelton, a virtual<br />
icon in the business.<br />
Hazelton - often referred to as “King<br />
Richard’’ - did the Chicago to Phoenix<br />
circuit and by the time he retired in 2011,<br />
had won 4,745 races.<br />
Among the horses that Milo Trejo<br />
groomed and exercised during his<br />
time with Hazelton was Zip Pocket, a<br />
sensational sprinter who at one time held<br />
multiple world records.<br />
“They would train all winter in Phoenix<br />
and have f<strong>res</strong>h horses when they got to<br />
Chicago,’’ says Izzy. “Arlington Park was<br />
the upper echelon of tracks in the Midwest<br />
back then but the horses from Phoenix<br />
held their own.’’<br />
Milo Trejo began training<br />
Thoroughbreds soon after The Downs<br />
at Santa Fe opened in the early ‘70s and<br />
scored immediate success.<br />
Izzy says although he doesn’t have the<br />
stats to back it up, his father told him he<br />
won 11 races from the first 15 horses he<br />
ran at Santa Fe.<br />
“All of a sudden people started bringing<br />
him horses and he built his stable up,’’ says<br />
Izzy. “From there it was a lot of hard work<br />
and a pretty successful career.’’<br />
Many of Milo’s victories came in<br />
partnership with the late jockey Walter<br />
Ramos. The two became a formidable<br />
duo at Santa Fe, the State Fair meet in<br />
Albuquerque, and at Canterbury Downs<br />
outside Minneapolis.<br />
Izzy was born in 1971 and a winner’s<br />
circle picture taken at Santa Fe shows<br />
Ramos aboard the winning horse with the<br />
then infant Izzy in his arms.<br />
Milo Trejo, who will be 76 this month<br />
(July), retired from training last September.<br />
Izzy’s exposure to horse racing began<br />
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at an early age. He recalls that about the<br />
time he was five, he and Adela—three years<br />
older—would take care of his dad’s pony<br />
horses at Canada’s Assiniboia Downs.<br />
“We had converted some old rail cars<br />
into stalls and that’s where the ponies<br />
would stay,’’ says Trejo. “Back then, I<br />
guess kids were a lot more independent<br />
because now you wouldn’t let a five-yearold<br />
go and take care of horses. But that<br />
was my sister’s and my <strong>res</strong>ponsibility. We’d<br />
clean the stalls, feed them and give them a<br />
bath. In return, we got to ride the ponies<br />
around the barn area. That was our pay.’’<br />
Inevitably, Izzy got more and more<br />
involved on the backside. He was a groom<br />
during high school and his college years at<br />
the University of Arizona. He graduated<br />
in December 1995 with a degree in animal<br />
sciences with an emphasis in racetrack<br />
management.<br />
At that point, Izzy was in no hurry to<br />
start looking at serious employment. And<br />
who could blame him. He was making<br />
good money parking cars four days a week,<br />
which meant he had plenty of spare time to<br />
spend with a fishing rod.<br />
“I’d been out of school for six or seven<br />
months and hadn’t applied anywhere,’’ says<br />
Izzy. “I didn’t even think of getting a job.<br />
I was happy parking cars. I had a life of<br />
luxury for a guy out of college. I thought I<br />
was doing okay.’’<br />
The life of luxury took a permanent hit<br />
when Izzy’s dad called him and said Chris<br />
Warren, the racing secretary at Delaware<br />
Park, wanted to talk to him.<br />
Warren was a friend of the family<br />
who had worked at Turf Paradise and<br />
Canterbury Downs when Mile Trejo ran<br />
horses there.<br />
Warren had an opening at Delaware<br />
Park for an entry clerk and offered Izzy the<br />
job. The schedule called for him to work<br />
six days a week for $100 a day. The $600 a<br />
week he’d be earning was the same amount<br />
he was making parking cars in just four<br />
days back in Phoenix.<br />
“I was actually getting paid less,’’ says<br />
Izzy.<br />
But, it was an opportunity Trejo figured<br />
he couldn’t pass up.<br />
He bought a one-way ticket to<br />
Philadelphia and had $1,000 in his pocket<br />
when he left Phoenix. He started work at<br />
Delaware Park the next day.<br />
“They put me up in a little tack room<br />
to live in until I could get my feet on the<br />
ground,’’ he says. “I was taking entries and<br />
working in the racing office. I thought I<br />
was the worst racing official in America.<br />
I would make mistakes and had to go<br />
through all the growing pains of learning<br />
a brand new world in an office. I came out<br />
of the barn and here I am working in an<br />
office and having to really get polished.’’<br />
Polished and proficient at something<br />
Izzy hadn’t been very good at growing up.<br />
“I have always been a very quiet person<br />
and this job forced me to have to speak<br />
to people. I’d never had said much to say<br />
in my life and now you can’t shut me up.<br />
That job broke me out of my shell. It got<br />
me to communicate.’’<br />
Still, Izzy wasn’t sure he’d be hired<br />
back for a second season at Delaware Park.<br />
He went home to Phoenix after the meet<br />
ended and when Delaware Park’s next<br />
season was about to open, he called to<br />
inquire about his job status.<br />
Sure, they told him, he’d be welcomed<br />
back.<br />
“I improved significantly,’’ says Izzy.<br />
“So much so they promoted me to stakes<br />
coordinator.’’<br />
The promotion meant Trejo was in<br />
charge of all the big races at the track,<br />
including the Grade 1 Delaware Handicap,<br />
with an eventual purse of $1 million.<br />
Among the horses who ran in the<br />
Delaware Handicap during Trejo’s time<br />
there was Bob Baffert’s outstanding mare<br />
Silver Bullet Day.<br />
Trejo also worked as the stakes<br />
coordinator at Turf Paradise between<br />
Delaware seasons. He did that until 2002.<br />
That year, he applied for and was<br />
hired as a steward at Charlestown in West<br />
Virginia. A case of a 99-to-1 long shot<br />
coming in, says Izzy.<br />
“I had no experience as a steward,’’<br />
he says. “I sent my <strong>res</strong>ume to the West<br />
Virginia Racing Commission and they gave<br />
me an interview date in November.’’<br />
Just before Christmas of 2002, Trejo<br />
got a call from the West Virginia Racing<br />
Commission. They wanted to know how<br />
soon he could go to work at Charlestown.<br />
He quit his job at Delaware Park and<br />
started as a steward at Charlestown on Jan.<br />
1, 2003.<br />
Trejo says throughout his career he has<br />
been blessed with good mentors. Danny<br />
Wright and Robert Lotts, stewards he<br />
worked alongside at Charlestown, are<br />
prime examples.<br />
“There have always been people in<br />
places that brought me along and helped<br />
me be who I am today,’’ he says. “To this<br />
day, I have phone conversations with them<br />
(Wright and Lotts).’’<br />
Trejo was a steward at Charlestown<br />
until 2007, then returned to Delaware Park<br />
as their racing secretary.<br />
“I really didn’t want to leave West<br />
Virginia because I loved working there, but<br />
I felt this was a great opportunity to spread<br />
my wings a little more,’’ says Izzy.<br />
It was a difficult two-year stay for Trejo<br />
at the track that had offered him his first<br />
job 12 years earlier. Races didn’t fill and<br />
eventually the track had to cut back on<br />
racing days.<br />
“We were battling with Monmouth,<br />
Philadelphia Park and Laurel for the same<br />
horses,’’ says Izzy. “They were competing<br />
for the same horses and killing each other.<br />
It was a s<strong>low</strong> death. I wanted out.’’<br />
Turf Paradise to the <strong>res</strong>cue. The<br />
Phoenix track needed a steward and Izzy<br />
had a chance to come home. He was there<br />
for four years. In 2011, he returned to his<br />
old job as a steward at Charlestown.<br />
A blizzard in the winter of 2015-16 in<br />
West Virginia and his desire to be closer<br />
to Phoenix where his dad and 67-year-old<br />
mom Mary make their home were factors<br />
in Izzy’s decision to apply for the job of<br />
executive director of the New Mexico<br />
Racing Commission.<br />
“Again, I was thinking 99-to-1,’’ says<br />
Izzy.<br />
Trejo was one of the two finalists. He<br />
came to Albuquerque for an interview with<br />
interim executive director Dan Fick, the<br />
Racing Commission members, and two<br />
staff members, and was offered the job.<br />
When he came to New Mexico, his<br />
longtime girlfriend Beth Witherspoon came<br />
with him. They met when Trejo was the<br />
stakes coordinator at Delaware Park and<br />
she was working with Equibase.<br />
“We met over the phone,’’ says Izzy.<br />
“When I was the stakes coordinator at<br />
Delaware Park, I’d have to verify a lot of<br />
breeding and ownership information (with<br />
Equibase). It always seemed like she would<br />
pick up the phone. She was very helpful<br />
and nice.’’<br />
Every year before leaving for Arizona,<br />
Izzy would take to lunch some of the<br />
individuals he worked with at Equibase in<br />
Lexington. Beth just happened to be in<br />
one of those groups and, “we continued to<br />
talk.’’<br />
They’ve been together now for nearly<br />
14 years.<br />
Izzy at his first steward job in 2003 at Charlestown<br />
Race Track, here with jockey Pat Day, Chief Steward<br />
Danny Wright and Steward L. Robert Lotts.<br />
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But, he’s optimistic the<br />
problems can be solved, that<br />
the state’s racing industry can<br />
regain credibility outside its<br />
borders, and those trainers<br />
and owners who continue<br />
to break the rules can be<br />
punished and weeded out.<br />
His current job has been a learning<br />
experience from day one.<br />
He was shocked at the high number of<br />
drug positives-especially among Quarter<br />
Horses—they have plagued racing in New<br />
Mexico. He is troubled by the perception<br />
among bettors outside the state that racing<br />
in the state is “dirty.’’<br />
But, he’s optimistic the problems can be<br />
solved, that the state’s racing industry can<br />
regain credibility outside its borders, and<br />
those trainers and owners who continue<br />
to break the rules can be punished and<br />
weeded out.<br />
“Every day I’m excited to come to<br />
work,’’ says Trejo.<br />
New Mexico horses tested positive for<br />
illegal drugs 169 times in 2016, a number<br />
Trejo says floored him.<br />
“The drug positives (in New Mexico)<br />
is something I never thought would<br />
happen in the United States,’’ he says. “At<br />
Charlestown, we’d maybe have 12 a year<br />
with year-round racing. This is a major<br />
problem.’’<br />
Bettors in other states who wager<br />
through simulcasting take notice and aren’t<br />
willing to gamble on New Mexico tracks.<br />
“I went through the handicappers of<br />
North America website and saw a lot of the<br />
New Mexico tracks are ranked down <strong>low</strong><br />
with handicappers,’’ said Trejo. “I called a<br />
friend of mine, who is somewhat involved<br />
with them, and was told: `It’s a no-brainer.<br />
People don’t trust your product around the<br />
<strong>res</strong>t of the country. It’s why you don’t get<br />
action from other places.’”<br />
The amount of money bet on New<br />
Mexico races within the state and through<br />
simulcasting to other tracks has remained<br />
right around $170 million to $171 million<br />
a year in the period from 2011 to 2015.<br />
In 2010, the total was $186.3 million, but<br />
Trejo notes that year the state ran eight<br />
more racing days. There was an upward<br />
spike to $176 million in 2014.<br />
Trejo said the amount of money bet on<br />
New Mexico races is crucial to the Racing<br />
Commission because mutual handles help<br />
Izzy and longtime girlfriend Beth Witherspoon<br />
provide funding for drug testing.<br />
“If we start seeing decreases, then our<br />
testing fund will diminish,’’ he said. “We’ve<br />
got to gain the confidence of horse players<br />
around the country.’’<br />
“The tough pill for us to swal<strong>low</strong> as<br />
an agency is the drug positives create a<br />
burden on this agency,’’ says Trejo. “They<br />
absorb the majority of our <strong>res</strong>ources and<br />
time. We’re basically just a drug positive<br />
processing agency right now. I hate to see<br />
us in that light, but the truth is that’s what<br />
we deal with mostly.’’<br />
“It would be nice if we could work<br />
on other things and try marketing horse<br />
racing, but the unfortunate truth is we’re<br />
focused on drug positives and trying to<br />
stop them.’’<br />
Trejo says commission investigators,<br />
along with consultant Dr. Scot Waterman,<br />
have done a lot of “brain-storming’’ and<br />
have either implemented new rules or are<br />
working on others.<br />
Among them:<br />
“We are one of the first jurisdictions in<br />
the country to implement a 60-day steward’s<br />
list rule,’’ he says. “What it does is, if your<br />
horse tests positive for any one of five certain<br />
types of drugs, including clenbuterol, cobalt<br />
or drug hormones, your horse automatically<br />
goes onto the steward’s list and can’t race for<br />
60 days, no matter what. So now an owner<br />
is sitting with a commodity that he can’t<br />
make money with.’’<br />
Trejo says owners, not just their trainers,<br />
should be held more accountable. To that<br />
end, the commission staff is looking at a<br />
possible policy that would al<strong>low</strong> individual<br />
tracks to put all horses that come from<br />
a stable that has used so-called program<br />
trainers and has had positive drug tests on<br />
a do-not-enter list.<br />
“This may get us to where we need<br />
to be faster than any other mechanism,’’<br />
says Trejo. “At the current time, if you<br />
get a drug positive and your trainer gets<br />
suspended, you can just go find another<br />
trainer. But with this policy, all (of an<br />
owner’s) horses are going to be put on a<br />
do not enter list. So as an owner, he won’t<br />
be able to enter at any track in the state.<br />
They’ll have to go out of state to run and<br />
that’s exactly what we want, to get the<br />
cheaters out of New Mexico.’’<br />
Trejo says a rule change that went into<br />
affect last December is shortening the<br />
amount of time it takes to suspend a trainer<br />
once a positive has been confirmed through<br />
testing of split samples.<br />
Another rule change that went in late<br />
last year al<strong>low</strong>s the commission to impose<br />
tougher sanctions on trainers and owners<br />
who are repeat offenders and have a history<br />
of drugging their horses.<br />
“In our perspective, these people are<br />
killing the New Mexico horse racing<br />
industry,’’ said Trejo. “The drug violators<br />
kill the game in a couple of ways. One,<br />
they take away all the credibility and people<br />
don’t trust horse racing. Two, the people<br />
that are playing fair can’t win a race. So<br />
attrition starts taking place. A guy who had<br />
20 horses, now has 10 or five because his<br />
owners can’t afford to finish fifth and sixth<br />
all the time. So you lose owners and you<br />
lose trainers.’’<br />
“This commission is trying its best<br />
to catch these people. We probably did<br />
more testing than any other state in 2016<br />
between out-of-competition and post-race<br />
testing. And it could be to our detriment<br />
because we catch a lot of people and it<br />
makes our numbers look high.’’<br />
Trejo says catching the cheaters remains<br />
a “cat and mouse game.’’<br />
“It’s something that probably<br />
continues,’’ he says. “You have a lot of very<br />
intelligent people that unfortunately don’t<br />
have a lot of integrity.’’<br />
Looking ahead, Trejo says the testing<br />
of a horse’s hair could become a significant<br />
tool in drug testing New Mexico horses.<br />
He says it’s an expensive process, but one<br />
that the Racing Commission’s medication<br />
committee supports and could be adopted<br />
as a rule this summer.<br />
“A lot of drugs can be detected in hair<br />
up to six months after use,’’ said Trejo.<br />
“For example, if you gave your horse<br />
Zilpaterol in January, we should be able to<br />
detect it in May. Even if it doesn’t show up<br />
in the urine.’’<br />
Trejo said California does hair testing<br />
and Oklahoma has done some informal<br />
testing.<br />
All of which, says Trejo, provides plenty<br />
of reason for optimism.<br />
“I’m more pumped up now because<br />
we are finally starting to see <strong>res</strong>ults,’’ he<br />
says. A lot of dots are being connected.<br />
People may disagree, but I think we’re at a<br />
crossroads and we are headed in the right<br />
direction.’’<br />
38 New Mexico Horse Breeder
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August 18th – 19th, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Ruidoso Downs, NM<br />
3 Thoroughbred Breedings To Be Auctioned<br />
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6 Quarter Horse Breedings To Be Auctioned<br />
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40 New Mexico Horse Breeder
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ZULU DRAGON<br />
si 102 ($181,009)<br />
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Bar Y Equine, LLC<br />
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1713 W. Washington • Anthony, NM 88021<br />
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A & A Ranch<br />
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<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 43
y Pete Herrera<br />
“Perhaps,” says Gary Sumpter now,<br />
“LaRae could sense what was coming.”<br />
Two weeks before LaRae Sumpter<br />
passed away, the two were in the midst of<br />
a normal day at their Cross5 Ranch in a<br />
remote section of western New Mexico.<br />
Normal, that is, until LaRae called out<br />
to Gary in a tone strong enough to ensure<br />
it got Gary’s attention.<br />
Gary’s initial reaction was to think,<br />
“What the hell did I do now?”<br />
What fol<strong>low</strong>ed instead was one of the<br />
most touching moments in their long and<br />
loving relationship.<br />
“She grabbed me,” says Gary. “She<br />
looked at me and said, ‘There’s only two<br />
people in my life that I’ve ever loved. And<br />
that was my dad and that is you. Gary<br />
Sumpter, I love you.’ I said, honey, I love<br />
you, too.’ And we hugged.”<br />
“She never talked to me like that,” says<br />
Gary. “I think she might have known what<br />
was going to happen.”<br />
In the movie “A River Runs Through It,”<br />
Norman Maclean and his younger brother<br />
Paul share an ecstatic moment with their father<br />
after Paul lands a trophy trout he catches flyfishing<br />
on the Blackfoot River in Montana.<br />
But in the same moment, Norman<br />
tempers their happiness with the realization<br />
that life is so unstable, so fragile, so<br />
fleeting, that good times can’t last forever.<br />
As the narrator of the movie, Norman<br />
proclaims: “And I knew just as surely, just<br />
as clearly, that life is not a work of art, and<br />
that the moment could not last.”<br />
Not long after that scene on the river,<br />
Paul Maclean is murdered.<br />
So on that Sunday evening in early April<br />
when Gary and LaRae accepted a dinner<br />
invitation from their neighbors, Brett and<br />
Vera Gastineau, the magic that created the<br />
special moment they had shared just two<br />
weeks earlier was about to vanish.<br />
Gary, through tears, recalls how LaRae<br />
had d<strong>res</strong>sed up and ‘prettied up’ for the<br />
occasion. How she had marinated the steaks<br />
they would share with the their friends.<br />
How LaRae had danced before dinner with<br />
Brett’s dad and with Vera. How she made<br />
sure Gary got a good portion of his favorite<br />
side dish—pinto beans.<br />
Gary sipped on a beer as he sat back and<br />
watched LaRae light up the room as she<br />
always did.<br />
They had just about finished eating<br />
when it happened.<br />
“She just looked at me and just…,” said<br />
Gary, unable to finish the words. “She didn’t<br />
say nothing. She didn’t grab her chest or<br />
fight. She was sitting there and it was like she<br />
went to sleep. We thought she was choking<br />
on her food. There was no <strong>res</strong>ponse.”<br />
Gary and Brett did all they could to<br />
make sure LaRae wasn’t choking and Vera<br />
called 911. The Sumpters’ ranch is in such<br />
a remote area, that the nea<strong>res</strong>t ambulance is<br />
at least an hour away. They transported her<br />
to a volunteer fire station a couple of miles<br />
away, but it was too late.<br />
“She never suffered, she never fought,”<br />
says Gary. “I think she died almost instantly.”<br />
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LaRae had had health issues in recent<br />
years. She spent three days in the intensive<br />
care unit of an Albuquerque hospital after<br />
suffering a stroke about a year and a half<br />
ago. She had fainted a couple of times<br />
at home and was on high blood p<strong>res</strong>sure<br />
medication.<br />
But her feistiness, her sense of humor,<br />
her devil-may-care, tell-it-like-it-is attitude<br />
never wavered. She loved to drink Crown<br />
Royal whiskey and she chain-smoked.<br />
She was country-tough, it seemed, from<br />
the moment she was born on Claude and<br />
Myrtle Davis’ cattle ranch in the sandhills<br />
of Nebraska.<br />
“Her dad had three boys and then he<br />
had a cowboy,” says Gary. “His cowboy<br />
was LaRae. She was a daddy’s girl.”<br />
A daddy’s girl who became one of the<br />
boys during her successful 45-year career of<br />
training racehorses. A woman who earned<br />
a college degree in dental hygiene, but<br />
quickly realized that a dental chair was no<br />
match for the racetrack and all the thrills<br />
that went with it.<br />
LaRae Sumpter was always too<br />
high-strung, too full of adventure and<br />
imagination, to lead a vanilla-colored life.<br />
In her 70-plus years on this earth,<br />
LaRae took full swings at everything she<br />
did. And she did it with vim and vigor,<br />
regardless of the consequences. Political<br />
correctness was never in her genes.<br />
“If you don’t like her apples, don’t<br />
shake her tree,” said her longtime friend<br />
W.L. Mooring a few years ago. “She<br />
don’t care if you’re the p<strong>res</strong>ident or the<br />
governor. She’s going to say what she<br />
wants to say.”<br />
“A lot of people liked her and I’m sure<br />
a lot didn’t because of how she was,” says<br />
Gary. “There was nothing phony about<br />
her. She trained horses when most women<br />
weren’t al<strong>low</strong>ed on the backside.”<br />
But there was so much more to LaRae<br />
Sumpter, and if you spent enough time<br />
around her, you got to sample the tender,<br />
caring side of her.<br />
This was a woman who would open up<br />
the Sumpter home to Native American kids<br />
at Christmas and made sure they didn’t go<br />
away without a gift.<br />
A woman who twice a year placed<br />
f<strong>low</strong>ers on the gravesite of a little girl who<br />
got lost in a snowstorm and froze to death<br />
on the north side of the Cross5 Ranch<br />
nearly 90 years ago.<br />
A trainer who promised jockey Don Lewis<br />
when he was dying of leukemia that she<br />
would look after his teenage daughter. LaRae<br />
gave Lewis’ daughter, Donna, a job in her<br />
stable and the two became lifelong friends.<br />
A wife who spent 10 days and nights<br />
sitting at Gary’s bedside when he was<br />
hurt so badly in a starting accident at<br />
Sunland Park that the doctors considered<br />
amputating his right foot.<br />
“She helped a lot of people. She was<br />
always giving advice, whether you wanted<br />
to hear it or not,” says Gary.<br />
A great believer in celebrating holidays<br />
and special occasions, every Christmas<br />
she’d insist that Gary decorate all the<br />
trees around their home with lights, even<br />
though given the remoteness of where they<br />
lived, they were likely to be the only ones<br />
to see the lights.<br />
Every Thanksgiving she’d prepare a big<br />
meal for just the two of them.<br />
“I’d tell her, ‘LaRae, it’s just the two<br />
us,’ and she’d say, ‘We have to celebrate<br />
with the spirits.’”<br />
A woman so loved by her neighbors<br />
on the Acoma Reservation that many of<br />
them attended her graveside services at the<br />
ranch. They said prayers and wept openly.<br />
LaRae’s grandfather was a full-blooded<br />
Lakota Sioux and perhaps that’s why<br />
she shared such a bond with the Native<br />
Americans and their love for the land and<br />
the spirits.<br />
“She believed in the way the Native<br />
Americans live and the way we lived up<br />
here,” says Gary. “There are a lot of spirits<br />
up here and she could feel ‘em. She said<br />
she wanted to be buried on this ranch. She<br />
felt at home.”<br />
Gary and LaRae met at La Mesa Park in<br />
the summer of 1973. She was training and<br />
getting a 2-year-old colt ready for the Land<br />
of Enchantment Futurity. Gary had arrived<br />
from Oklahoma and had gotten his jock’s<br />
license a year earlier.<br />
He and LaRae lost touch for several<br />
years, but reconnected at Sunland Park<br />
in 1979. Gary had won the All American<br />
Futurity three years earlier with Real Wind<br />
and his career after the futurity was on the<br />
rise. But his personal life was a mess.<br />
He was drinking and had become<br />
dependent on diet pills to make weight.<br />
“I was drinking and going crazy,” he<br />
says. “She straightened me out. She got me<br />
off the alcohol and off the pills. Without<br />
her, I’d have been dead by now.”<br />
Gary says they never left each other’s<br />
side after they reunited in 1979. And three<br />
years later, they were married at Circus<br />
Circus in Las Vegas.<br />
Though total opposites in many ways,<br />
Gary and LaRae became a perfect match.<br />
“She was my rock, she guided me,”<br />
says Gary.<br />
Gary says LaRae constantly boosted<br />
his confidence, whether he was riding<br />
racehorses or running their cattle ranch.<br />
“She gave me a lot of confidence,” he says.<br />
“She bragged on me. She encouraged me. I<br />
was a very weak person and needed someone<br />
like that. We’d fuss and argue, but by night<br />
it was all over. I guess that was the best part<br />
about fussing and fighting—making up.”<br />
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“We went through it all together. There<br />
were times we had millions and times<br />
we were broke, but it never changed our<br />
feelings about each other.”<br />
And when Gary decided to quit riding<br />
at the end of the summer of ‘92, no one<br />
was happier than LaRae. All the accidents<br />
Gary had on the racetrack had finally<br />
caught up to him.<br />
“I came in with big old tears in my eyes,”<br />
says Gary. “She said, ‘What’s the matter<br />
honey?’ I told her I had quit, had hung it<br />
up. She came to me crying and hugged me.<br />
She was so happy because she was scared I<br />
was going to get killed out there.”<br />
That day and the day they were married<br />
were moments that endured.<br />
LaRae wore a non-traditional d<strong>res</strong>s<br />
for their wedding. A photo taken at a Las<br />
Vegas casino that day shows LaRae in a tan<br />
and brown print d<strong>res</strong>s with blue accents.<br />
Gary is in a matching tan suit jacket, white<br />
shirt and brown tie.<br />
LaRae apparently loved that d<strong>res</strong>s so<br />
much that she kept it in her closet through<br />
the years and long ago told Gary she<br />
wanted to be buried in it—a wish that Gary<br />
made sure was fulfilled. Because LaRae<br />
did not like being cold, Gary also had her<br />
clothed in a multi-colored Pendleton coat<br />
that was among LaRae’s favorite pieces.<br />
The service included the song “Amazing<br />
Grace” performed in the Chickasaw<br />
language by Gary’s daughter Stacy, who<br />
is a member of the tribe in Oklahoma.<br />
Members of the Acoma tribe and Navajos<br />
offered prayers and there was a final<br />
goodbye from Gary.<br />
“At the end, I put her wedding ring<br />
back on her finger, then I took off the<br />
turquoise wedding ring she bought me<br />
and put it on her little finger,” said Gary.<br />
“Then I took her favorite Navajo blanket<br />
and wrapped it around her real good so<br />
she’d be warm. I kissed her goodbye and<br />
said, ‘I love you baby.”’<br />
The day LaRae was buried was drenched<br />
in sunshine and blue skies. But just as<br />
the service was ending and the casket was<br />
about to be closed, a powerful windstorm<br />
blew in from the East.<br />
“It was a weird thing that happened,”<br />
says Gary. “It blew over some of the tables<br />
we had set up for the people to eat. I<br />
thought to myself, LaRae just left.”<br />
LaRae’s gravesite is on a small slope<br />
about 100 yards from their ranch home. It<br />
faces east—in keeping with another spiritual<br />
belief—and overlooks her home, her horses<br />
and a canyon where the sun’s first rays break<br />
over the nearby hills every morning.<br />
Every evening just before sundown Gary<br />
visits her grave. LaRae’s black Schnauzer,<br />
Gypsy, goes with him. The heart-broken<br />
dog lays atop the grave and sleeps while<br />
Gary reflects and remembers. His ongoing<br />
struggle sometimes triggers a sense of guilt.<br />
“I wish I had hugged her more,” he says.<br />
“I wish I had gotten up and danced with her.<br />
So many things you wish you had done.”<br />
But in the same breath, he remembers<br />
what they had.<br />
“Every hug, every kiss meant<br />
something.”<br />
LaRae, says Gary, left her mark on just<br />
about everything that went on inside their<br />
home and on the ranch. She did most of the<br />
cattle buying at auctions and kept the books.<br />
Inside their home, signs of LaRae<br />
remain everywhere, from her massive red<br />
cast iron stove to her cone-shaped straw<br />
bonnet. Framed and prominently displayed<br />
is this so-Larae message: “Everyone Is<br />
Entitled To My Opinion.”<br />
Getting used to a new normal isn’t<br />
easy, but Gary knows that’s what he’ll have<br />
to do. When you’re running a ranch like<br />
the Cross5, there’s cattle to round up and<br />
brand, fences to fix, and wood to cut.<br />
And old habits give way grudgingly.<br />
One of their daily rituals was for Gary<br />
to get the morning coffee ready and serve<br />
LaRae her first cup in bed. “For the first two<br />
weeks (after her passing), I caught myself<br />
thinking about fixing her coffee,” said Gary.<br />
The loss of LaRae has also been tough<br />
on her dog Gypsy.<br />
“He lays on her shoes and sleeps on her<br />
pil<strong>low</strong>,” says Gary. “Any noise and he runs<br />
to the window thinking she’s coming home<br />
in her white pickup.”<br />
Death is part of the journey, but it<br />
cannot define who we were in life.<br />
So when Gary chose the words for LaRae’s<br />
headstone, he tapped into his heart.<br />
My LaRae, My Best Friend, My Soul<br />
Mate, My Star In My Blue Heaven.<br />
“She was the girl of my dreams,” says<br />
Gary. “Someday I’ll lay beside her.”<br />
46 New Mexico Horse Breeder
WALT HARRIS<br />
The Good Ones Need To Be Remembered<br />
From the February, 1983 New Mexico Horse Breeder Magazine • by Debbie Fletcher<br />
I was ten years old when I discovered<br />
an issue of the Quarter Horse Journal<br />
and horseracing. Inside, there were<br />
marvelous articles about Bart B.S., Hard<br />
Twist, Monita, Pelican, and Black Easter<br />
Bunny. They were the very best running<br />
horses alive, and all the horse magazines<br />
that had anything to say about Quarter<br />
Horses were full of their photos and<br />
accounts of their race records. Being ten,<br />
the only thing I was inte<strong>res</strong>ted in was<br />
the horses and I thought at the time that<br />
surely no earthly mortal was al<strong>low</strong>ed to<br />
actually TOUCH one of them. Of course<br />
I was wrong, because there was one man<br />
who touched them all.<br />
He came to New Mexico with his<br />
parents in a covered wagon. All the way<br />
from Hamilton County, Texas, to Hope,<br />
New Mexico, and he came to work. His<br />
father instilled in his children a deep sense<br />
of <strong>res</strong>ponsibility and a strong desire to<br />
succeed. Told to mind the stock as a young<br />
boy, he knew his father meant that literally.<br />
He was totally <strong>res</strong>ponsible for the stock all<br />
the time, and in every way. If one animal<br />
got itself lost, the boy didn’t return without<br />
it even if it meant sleeping out in the hills<br />
alone until the stray was located. But, stock<br />
farming just wasn’t what he wanted to<br />
do. Every chance he got he was either on<br />
top of, or underneath a horse. Horses he<br />
loved with a passion, and racing became<br />
his life. In 1946, Marvin Ake bought<br />
himself a gangling looking sorrel colt, and<br />
he turned him over to a boy from Hope,<br />
New Mexico. Mr. Ake didn’t know it at the<br />
time, but he was placing one legend into<br />
the hands of another. Because the longheaded<br />
colt was Pelican, and the hands<br />
belonged to Walt Harris. Pelican was the<br />
first horse Walt ever ran at a pari-mutuel<br />
racetrack, and the race they came to run in<br />
was the New Mexico State Fair Futurity.<br />
It would inte<strong>res</strong>t most of us to realize<br />
that Quarter Horse racing was in its<br />
formative years in 1946. The American<br />
Quarter Horse Association vied with the<br />
rival National Quarter Horse Association<br />
for prospective clients. When Pelican was<br />
a two year old, he had no registration<br />
papers. Most Quarter Horses didn’t,<br />
and they were being accepted into the<br />
Associations by inspectors. Marvin Ake<br />
told his trainer to get his colt inspected<br />
before he ran at the Fair.<br />
Walt Harris, 2nd from left, with Monita after winning the<br />
Champion Handicap at Bay Meadows on May 2, 1951.<br />
Pelican was one of those horses that<br />
got better looking as he got older. But<br />
when he was a yearling, he was small<br />
and stringy. One day when Marvin<br />
Ake had checked on him out in the<br />
pasture, he had come across the colt<br />
standing next to the watertrough eyeing<br />
a balefuly a full grown pelican. The<br />
horse and the bird both craned their<br />
necks the same way, and that was what<br />
Ake remembered...how much this long<br />
headed, stringy hided horse reminded<br />
him of a bird. And so he was officially<br />
named, but not without a little trouble.<br />
Both Walt Harris and Pelican were<br />
coming to the New Mexico State<br />
Fair prepared. They had toured the<br />
unrecognized race meets in Texas and<br />
New Mexico, and had already run six<br />
times to win six races. Pelican was fast<br />
proving himself a capable racehorse, but<br />
he was short on good looks. When the<br />
inspector for the A.Q.H.A. saw Pelican,<br />
he turned him down. He wasn’t a pretty<br />
horse, and Walt couldn’t persuade<br />
the inspector to change his mind.<br />
No matter...Walt paid the five dollar<br />
entrance fee, and Pelican went to the<br />
post for the Futurity anyway.<br />
It was another easy victory for<br />
Pelican, as the wide angled photo finish<br />
showed him very much alone at the<br />
wire. It was also an easy victory for the<br />
National Quarter Horse Association<br />
when Mr. Ake turned the American<br />
branch down. All this fuss was lost on<br />
Pelican. All he wanted to do was run,<br />
and run he did. In his next six outs,<br />
he tromped the opposition every trip<br />
including the then p<strong>res</strong>tigious Arizona<br />
Derby at Rillito. Arizona was the center<br />
of Quarter Horse racing in the forties,<br />
and winning the Derby helped capture<br />
the 1947 Champion Running Colt<br />
crown for Pelican. Walt was on his way<br />
to the top.<br />
The real break for Walt came in the<br />
early 1950s when Quarter Horse racing<br />
opened up in California. Bay Meadows<br />
ran one short horse race a day in 1949,<br />
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1947 Champion Stallion Pelican, shown here under<br />
jockey Tony Licano, was the first horse Walt ever ran<br />
at a pari-mutuel racetrack.<br />
and came back the next year with a<br />
combined harness and Quarter Horse<br />
meet. Bay Meadow’s Bill Kyne helped<br />
Frank Vessels to open the doors of Los<br />
Alamitos in 1951, and Quarter Horse<br />
racing began to prosper.<br />
In the summer of 1950, Walt and his<br />
wife Dorothy went to work for Lewis<br />
Blackwell on his ranch property near<br />
Tucumcari, New Mexico. He did all types<br />
of ranch work for Blackwell, including<br />
the care of his racing stock. But when<br />
Blackwell held a dispersal and sold all but<br />
two racehorses, Walt decided to quit.<br />
Still, Lewis had other plans for Walt. He<br />
gave him a new pick-up truck and a twohorse<br />
Miley trailer, and packed him off to<br />
Bay Meadows for the Fall meet.<br />
Lewis Blackwell may have only kept<br />
two, but what a two! These two with lots<br />
of ability between them were Hard Twist<br />
and his lightning fast daughter, Legal<br />
Tender B. Hard Twist had devastated his<br />
opponents as a young horse, and ended<br />
up being named Champion Running<br />
Horse of 1946-47. He was retired from<br />
racing, and Blackwell bought him to<br />
stand at stud. The year Walt took Hard<br />
Twist to Bay Meadows he had been<br />
bred to thirty ma<strong>res</strong>, and even had colts<br />
running at the track. The horse was<br />
nine years old when Walt put him back<br />
into racing condition, and Hard Twist’s<br />
first out at Bay Meadows left a lot to be<br />
desired. Then old Hard Twist turned it<br />
around in the Barbara B Handicap when<br />
he set a new track record for 400 yards in<br />
:20.3. Legal Tender B took more time,<br />
and Walt didn’t start her until her threeyear-old<br />
season at Denver. She won her<br />
first out there, and would later do well<br />
at Los Alamitos. She was the first big<br />
name filly Walt ran in California, but she<br />
was only the beginning. During this time<br />
Walt’s stable was growing, and 1951 also<br />
brought the year that J.C. Skirvins and his<br />
partner V.F. Yorba brought their horse<br />
to him. After making a trip to Tucson to<br />
run Hard Twist, Walt took the Skirvins/<br />
Yorba grey and bugboy Tommy Chavez<br />
back with him to California. So two more<br />
champions made the return journey to<br />
the sunny clime with the Harris stable:<br />
Tommy and Bart B.S., The Grey Ghost.<br />
Of the many good horses Walt<br />
trained, Bart B.S. keeps a special place<br />
in his trainer’s heart. Bart knew he was<br />
a racehorse, and he was a big mischiefmaker,<br />
too. He was a horse of<br />
tremendous strength and a rogue’s<br />
manner which required some special<br />
handling. Bart was ridden around the<br />
barn area instead of walked because of<br />
his free spirit, and he ran in a Citation<br />
overcheck bit every race. He was a<br />
very popular campaigner with betting<br />
crowds in California, and they would<br />
clap for him as he paraded to post.<br />
Tommy Chavez was bugboy that<br />
year, but Walt knew talent when he<br />
saw it. The only problem was the other<br />
jockeys at Bay Meadows saw it too, and<br />
contrived to get Tommy days so that<br />
he was unable to ride Bart B.S. in the<br />
Shue Fly Purse. So, Walt made a trip<br />
to Santa Anita to get well known Las<br />
Cruces born rider Jimmy Nichols. Even<br />
though Jimmy hadn’t ridden a Quarter<br />
Horse since he’d been a kid, he accepted<br />
the mount on the big grey. It was the<br />
only time Jimmy ever rode Bart B.S.,<br />
and they won by daylight going the 330<br />
yards in :17.2. Jimmy lost both stirrups<br />
coming out of the gates at the start, but<br />
neither he nor Bart lost one stride.<br />
Bart got left at the gate his next<br />
trip, and was narrowly beaten by gutsy<br />
Clabbertown G. Clabbertown G. was<br />
the type of horse who ran every step of<br />
the way, but it was a different story in<br />
the Northern Handicap (T. Chavez up)<br />
where Bart got another bad start. Left at<br />
the gate packing 128 pounds Bart B.S.<br />
ran like a big freight train to easily collar<br />
Clabbertown G. and Barbara L. in the<br />
time of :18.3. He ended out the year with<br />
a world’s record effort at Los Alamitos<br />
going 400 yards. Throughout his racing<br />
career, Bart B.S. was plagued with calcium<br />
in a knee, and Walt only started him a<br />
total of seventeen times in three years.<br />
The horse won the Rocky Mountain<br />
Championship the last year he ran.<br />
It was during this stay in California<br />
that Walt first saw Monita. She had<br />
made an auspicous start in Del Rio when<br />
she set a world’s record in her first out<br />
as a two year old, but things had started<br />
going wrong. Walt told Lewis Blackwell<br />
about Monita and, after she flipped in<br />
the gate at Bay Meadows, Blackwell<br />
bought her for five thousand dollars.<br />
Walt turned her out immediately, and<br />
the only time she spent indoors off her<br />
grass paddock was when she was put up<br />
at night.<br />
Monita’s kind nature began returning<br />
under Dorothy’s watchful eyes. Dorothy<br />
Harris and Monita got along famously.<br />
Monita wasn’t a big mare, and she was<br />
a finiky eater. It took a very quiet barn,<br />
and races spaced comfortably apart, to<br />
cater to her. In Walt she had someone<br />
who understood her, and for him she did<br />
some of her best running. She became a<br />
good gate horse, but couldn’t stand to<br />
be roughed coming out of the gate so<br />
racing in California suited her very well.<br />
Pari-mutuel racing was a better regulated<br />
sport, and Quarter racing benefited from<br />
the bigger, well run tracks giving them<br />
racing dates. It would be of inte<strong>res</strong>t to<br />
New Mexico horsemen to know that<br />
although Monita ran well for her regular<br />
rider, Israel (Ike) Garza, someone else also<br />
got considerable run from her. Almost<br />
everyone in the local racing business knows<br />
valet Dell Jessop, and <strong>res</strong>pects this avid<br />
fisherman very much. Walt told me that<br />
Dell and Monita made a very good team.<br />
Horses he<br />
loved with<br />
a passion,<br />
and racing<br />
became<br />
his life.<br />
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Everyone recalls the Quarter Horses that<br />
Walt Harris trained, but he also did a good<br />
job on Thoroughbreds. A few of the tracks<br />
he and Dorothy ran horses at were Tropical<br />
Park, Ak-Sar-Ben, St. Louis, Oaklawn Park,<br />
New Orleans and Detroit. They spent<br />
time at almost all the California tracks, and<br />
sometimes split the barn with Dorothy at<br />
one track and Walt at another. Dorothy<br />
recalled the time that, having no place to<br />
run a $2,500 claimer named Imputent<br />
Lady, she placed her in a $25,000 added<br />
race at Pomona, and ran second. She also<br />
did quite well with an own son of Triple<br />
Crown winner Omaha...in Omaha.<br />
When I asked Walt if there was any<br />
particular thing that helped him most, he<br />
was quick to answer, “Binoculars”. He<br />
said that he never trusted someone else to<br />
tell him what was going on in a race. He<br />
wanted to see it for himself. He was also<br />
adamant about a horseman being kind to<br />
his horses, and that there was no place for<br />
a bad temper in this sport. Walt is known<br />
for minding his business with exquisite<br />
care, a quality which has attracted some<br />
of the best owners and their horses in<br />
the racing industry. He trained for Lewis<br />
Blackwell starting in 1950 and was still<br />
doing business with him when Blackwell’s<br />
Mamie Taylor won the Thoroughbred<br />
Santa Fe Lassie Stakes in 1972.<br />
Walt’s last years as a public trainer<br />
were filled by the horse Barney O’ Toole.<br />
The Downs at Santa Fe racing seasons<br />
1973-74 were dominated by this good<br />
running colt. Walt likes to remember<br />
each and every horse he trained as being<br />
something special. Horses like Hard<br />
Twist, Black Easter Bunny, Bart B.S., and<br />
War Basket. War Basket? “Just a little<br />
Thoroughbred gelding with the most<br />
guts in the world. A truly big heart.”<br />
Several years ago, Walt underwent<br />
open heart surgery and is semi-retired<br />
from the sport of racing. I visited him and<br />
Dorothy at their place outside of Moriarty,<br />
New Mexico. Walt showed me his sleek<br />
and fat horses, including the white ponyhorse<br />
Rainbow which Dorothy gave him<br />
for Christmas 24 years ago.<br />
I sifted through many stacks of racing<br />
mementos and faded win pictu<strong>res</strong> to select<br />
one I thought would say it best. I pi cked<br />
the one of Monita winning the Champion<br />
Handicap at Bay Meadows because she<br />
is legend. Horsemen seem to remember<br />
her past time forgetting, and the good<br />
ones need to be remembered. Add Walt J.<br />
Harris to that list...for he is legend.<br />
Some of the<br />
greats that<br />
Walt Harris<br />
trained . . .<br />
1951 World<br />
Champion,<br />
1951<br />
Co-Champion<br />
Stallion<br />
Bart B.S.<br />
1946 Champion Stallion, 1951<br />
Co-Champion Stallion Hard Twist<br />
1952 Co-Champion 3-Year-Old Filly Black Easter Bunny<br />
was retired to the broodmare band after her race career<br />
50 New Mexico Horse Breeder
#1 Leading TB Trainer of The Year<br />
for SunRay<br />
Park, Sunland<br />
Park, Zia Park,<br />
Ruidoso Downs<br />
& Downs at<br />
Albuquerque!<br />
3+ years Consecutively at<br />
SunRay Park, Sunland Park &<br />
Downs at Albuquerque!<br />
Over $21 Million In<br />
Lifetime Earnings!<br />
$1.3 Million in <strong>2017</strong> (so far)<br />
$2.1 Million in 2016<br />
55% of the Starters<br />
Lit the Board 4,225 Times!<br />
1788 Total Wins • 83 Total Stakes Wins<br />
Including…<br />
$200,000 Zia Park Dist. Champ. • $110,000 Jack<br />
Cole Handicap • $110,000 Mt. Cristo Rey Handicap<br />
• $110,000 LaSenora Stakes • $100,000 Bill Thomas<br />
Memorial Stakes (Twice) • $100,000 Riley Allison<br />
Stakes (Twice) • $100,000 Mine That Bird Overnight<br />
Stakes • $100,000 Zia Park Sprint Stakes • $100,000<br />
Harry Henson Handicap (Three Years Cnsecutively)<br />
Training Successful<br />
Thoroughbreds for Over 18 Years!<br />
Give us a call so we can help you<br />
get to the Winner’s Circle.<br />
Evans Racing Stables<br />
Justin Evans<br />
(602) 358-5676 • jevansracing@aol.com<br />
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New Mexico Day at SunRay Park<br />
May 13, <strong>2017</strong><br />
. . . to Jill Giles for the cupcakes, giveaway items for the kids and your hard work!<br />
. . . to SunRay Park for all your help!<br />
. . . and to our blanket sponsors: MJ Farms, Laney Enterprises, Double LL Farms, Rockin<br />
Teepee Ranch, Crystal Springs Farm, Hermosa Plastic Surgery and MTS Race Feeds.<br />
52 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Bonnie The Barfly<br />
Sponsored by MJ Farms<br />
Purse $6,000 • 440 Yards :22.25<br />
Dick Harp, Owner • Guadalupe Munoz Jr.,<br />
Trainer • Jaime Parga Leos, Jockey<br />
Saturday Nite Juliet<br />
Sponsored by New Mexico Horse Breeders<br />
Association • Purse $7,500 • 350 Yards :17.61<br />
Lonnie Vaughn, Owner/Trainer • Jose Luis<br />
Enriquez, Jockey<br />
RJS Special Version<br />
Sponsored by Laney Enterprises<br />
Purse $21,000 • 350 Yards :17.59<br />
Rosa I. Oros, Owner • Francisco Soto,<br />
Trainer • Martin Felix, Jockey<br />
Sixty Hanna<br />
Sponsored by Double LL Farms<br />
Purse $17,000 • 350 Yards<br />
Diamond Racing Stables LLC, Owner • Shae<br />
L. Cox, Trainer • Jose Luis Enriquez, Jockey<br />
California Gurl<br />
Sponsored by Rockin Teepee Ranch • Purse<br />
$17,900 • 400 Yards :19.70 • Javier M.<br />
Chavez, Owner • Jose Ignacio DeHerrera,<br />
Trainer • Albert T. Medrano, Jockey<br />
Vista Creek<br />
Sponsored by Crystal Springs Farm<br />
Purse $6,400 • 4 1/2 Furlongs :52.80<br />
A & A Equine, Inc. and Don Heim, Owners<br />
• Justin R. Evans, Trainer • Frank Reyes, Jockey<br />
Raider Red<br />
Sponsored by Hermosa Plastic Surgery<br />
Purse $7,700 • 4 1/2 Furlongs :53.20<br />
We Win LLC, Owner • Shaun C. Morrow,<br />
Trainer • Daniel R. Amaya, Jockey<br />
I’m A Dancin Who<br />
Sponsored by Ziems Ford Corners<br />
Purse $21,000 • 4 1/2 Furlongs :52.08<br />
J.D. Brooks, S. Bryant, D. Hubbard, L. Lewis<br />
& T. Rushing, Owners • Todd W. Fincher,<br />
Trainer • Tracy J. Hebert, Jockey<br />
Princely Warrior<br />
Sponsored by MTS Race Feeds<br />
Purse $6,500 • 6 1/2 Furlongs 1:20.17<br />
Go-To-Toga Racing LLC and Bill & Susan<br />
Tomasic, Owners • Justin R. Evans, Trainer<br />
• David Michael Lopez, Jockey<br />
<strong>NMHBA</strong> • Sunray Park Race Track • May 13, <strong>2017</strong> • photos by coady photography<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 53
. . . taxpayers need<br />
to somehow review<br />
records so as to<br />
reduce expenses<br />
or enhance the<br />
possibility of<br />
generating income.<br />
by John Alan Cohan<br />
who is an attorney rep<strong>res</strong>enting<br />
people in federal and state<br />
tax disputes, IRS appeals, and<br />
Tax Court litigation, and is a<br />
long-standing author of a legal<br />
advice column published in<br />
numerous sporting magazines.<br />
In addition, he advises<br />
organizations on compliance<br />
with newly enacted laws and<br />
regulations. John is also author<br />
of the book, Turn Your Hobby<br />
Into A Business -- The Right<br />
Way.<br />
He can be reached at:<br />
(310) 278-0203, or email at<br />
johnalancohan@aol.com. His<br />
website is JohnAlanCohan.com<br />
Is the Tax Court Biased<br />
in Favor of the IRS?<br />
The U.S. Tax Court is a critically important<br />
institution. It is the the most common forum<br />
in which taxpayers litigate federal tax disputes.<br />
The court frequently decides IRS assertions that the<br />
taxpayer understated the correct tax liability, <strong>res</strong>ulting<br />
in a tax “deficiency.”<br />
Many commentators argue that Tax Court judges<br />
are biased in favor of the IRS. Judges hear cases<br />
alone, without a jury. Many Tax Court judges have<br />
worked in the IRS Chief Counsel’s office or in the Tax<br />
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Tax<br />
Court does not assign judges randomly to cases. The<br />
procedu<strong>res</strong> are extremely burdensome. The burden<br />
of proof is “preponderance of the evidence,” which is<br />
a loose standard of evidence, and highly subjective. It<br />
means the the IRS could win if 51% of its evidence is<br />
more convincing to the judge than the taxpayer’s.<br />
The Tax Court makes budget requests to<br />
Cong<strong>res</strong>s’s tax-writing committees. In justifying its<br />
budget requests, the Tax Court invariably explains<br />
to cong<strong>res</strong>sional committees how well it is enforcing<br />
the tax laws.<br />
A Tax Court judge, Diane L. Kroupa, was<br />
indicted on tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the<br />
United States, and obstruction charges, raising<br />
questions about whether any of her rulings could be<br />
vulnerable to challenge as a <strong>res</strong>ult. (Judge Kroupa<br />
abruptly <strong>res</strong>igned prior to the indictment without<br />
explanation. Her husband, now divorced, was also<br />
indicted.) As a Tax Court judge, Kroupa heard and<br />
decided a wide range of cases, including some that<br />
came down against taxpayers in the horse and cattle<br />
industries. In October of 2016, she pleaded guilty<br />
to conspiring to defraud the IRS and other crimes.<br />
When sentenced at a later date, she is likely to serve a<br />
significant prison term.<br />
Another judge, L. Paige Marvel, has also been<br />
harsh with <strong>res</strong>pect to the horse industry. In a recent<br />
case, Carmody v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2016-<br />
225, Judge Marvel came down hard on a taxpayer’s<br />
efforts to run his horse racing venture profitably.<br />
The taxpayer, Jerald Carmody, has owned race<br />
horses for more than 20 years, mainly as co-owner<br />
with others, and worked full-time as a sales rep<strong>res</strong>entative<br />
for a helicopter company.<br />
He owned <strong>low</strong>er priced horses, which were actively<br />
raced in Washington State. Professional trainers were<br />
employed. He spent time every day on his horse racing<br />
activity, <strong>res</strong>earched horses that would be in competition,<br />
and searched for other horses to purchase.<br />
He purchased and improved a five-acre property<br />
with a 4,000 square-foot barn, horse stalls, a<br />
5,000-square-foot arena, indoor horse shelters, and<br />
nine pastu<strong>res</strong>. He personally cleaned stalls and pastu<strong>res</strong>.<br />
Some of the horses won several races each, and<br />
one was the all-time race winner at Emerald Downs<br />
with 21 wins. Mr. Carmody was named owner of the<br />
year at Emerald Downs. The races entered ranged in<br />
purses from $8,000 to $50,000.<br />
During a 10-year period, the taxpayer’s losses were<br />
from $16,064 to $81,345, with no profit year. But<br />
there was income in each year, ranging from $17,917<br />
to $128,068.<br />
When horses were retired from racing, they were<br />
sold or given away. Of 36 horses sold, there was a net<br />
gain on only eight of those sales.<br />
Mr. Carmody had a horse racing bank account,<br />
but paid for expenses out of his personal account as<br />
well as the racing account.<br />
Mr. Carmody kept a folder for each horse with<br />
various receipts and documents related to that horse.<br />
Judge Marvel said that Mr. Carmody did not<br />
use any of his records to reduce losses or to achieve<br />
profitability. The court noted that Mr. Carmody<br />
had no written business plan, no budgets and no<br />
economic forecasts. “In fact, the record is devoid of<br />
any credible evidence that petitioner engaged in any<br />
meaningful financial management with <strong>res</strong>pect to his<br />
horse racing activity.”<br />
The court said, “While a taxpayer need not<br />
maintain a sophisticated cost accounting system, the<br />
taxpayer should keep records that enable the taxpayer<br />
to cut expenses, generate or increase profits, or evaluate<br />
the overall performance of the operation.”<br />
The court also faulted Mr. Carmody for commingling<br />
his personal and horse racing finances. “This<br />
commingling of personal and horse racing activity<br />
funds is not indicative of a businesslike practice.”<br />
The court also noted that Mr. Carmody realized<br />
no profits in a 20-year period, and that “he contends<br />
that he suffered losses because he reinvested his gross<br />
receipts back into the horse racing activity and that<br />
he used his gross receipts to improve his barns, arena,<br />
and other horse racing activity property. Petitioner’s<br />
contentions are woefully insufficient to justify or<br />
even explain an unbroken string of over 20 years of<br />
substantial losses.”<br />
The court concluded that the petitioner did not<br />
engage in his horse racing activity with the predominant,<br />
primary, or principal objective of making a profit.<br />
The only silver lining in this case is that the judge<br />
rejected the IRS’ accuracy-related penalties because<br />
the taxpayer had reasonably relied on his accountant’s<br />
advice in taking the deductions.<br />
One of the important lessons in this case is<br />
that taxpayers need to somehow review records<br />
so as to reduce expenses or enhance the possibility<br />
of generating income. It is important to keep<br />
track of expenses on a per-animal basis. And it is<br />
important to prepare financial statements, profit<br />
and loss projections, budgets, breakeven analyses,<br />
or marketing surveys, as the IRS considers these<br />
to be significant financial tools to aid in evaluating<br />
the overall performance of an operation.<br />
54 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Trials to be run September 9th<br />
Finals September 24, <strong>2017</strong><br />
$100,000 Added*<br />
(est. gross purse $350,000)<br />
TWO-YEAR-OLDS, FOALS OF 2015<br />
WEIGHT: 122 lbs. 400 YARDS No Sex Al<strong>low</strong>ance.<br />
Trials same distance as the Finals.<br />
˜ e Downs at Albuquerque<br />
P.O. Box 8510 • Albuquerque, N.M. 87198 (505) 266-5555<br />
Supplemental Nominations<br />
• Supplemental nominations will be accepted<br />
on or before entry date for the Trials in the amount of<br />
$20,000 which will include all fees.<br />
• Supplemental Nominations are not eligible to the<br />
3% of Gross Purse.<br />
Mail to: Nominations Secretary<br />
The Downs at Albuquerque<br />
P.O. Box 8510 • Albuquerque, NM 87198-8510<br />
Please make checks payable to: The Downs at Albuquerque<br />
DO NOT COMBINE DIFFERENT FUTURITY OR<br />
DERBY PAYMENTS ON ONE CHECK!<br />
Each Futurity or Derby has a Separate Account.
<strong>2017</strong> Downs at Albuquerque<br />
Stakes Schedule<br />
Get<br />
Your<br />
Race On<br />
in New<br />
Mexico!<br />
O.D. McDonald Handicap $70,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, June 24<br />
Seven Furlongs<br />
Three-Year Olds and Older, Registered N. M. Bred<br />
* $40,000 [est.] from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, June 14 at 5:00 pm<br />
Petticoat Stakes<br />
$50,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, July 1<br />
Six Furlongs<br />
Three-Year Olds Fillies<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, June 21 at 5:00 pm<br />
Budweiser Special<br />
$55,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, July 8<br />
Six & One Half Furlongs<br />
Three-Year Olds and Older<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, June 28 at 5:00<br />
Charles Taylor Derby<br />
$55,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, July 15<br />
One-Mile & One Sixteenth<br />
Three-Year Olds<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, July 5 at 5:00 pm<br />
Albuquerque Distaff<br />
$55,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, July 22<br />
One-Mile<br />
Fillies & Ma<strong>res</strong> Three-Year Olds & Older<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, July 12 at 5:00 pm<br />
AQHA Distance Challenge (G3) $50,000 Added<br />
Sunday, July 23<br />
870 Yards<br />
Three Year Olds & Older<br />
Trials Saturday, July 8<br />
*$20,000 (est) from AQHA Challenge Purse Fund<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
145 Louisiana Blvd. NE<br />
Albuquerque, NM 87108<br />
Phone 505.266-5555<br />
www.abqdowns.com<br />
56 New Mexico Horse Breeder<br />
The Duke City Sprint<br />
$50,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, July 29<br />
Five & One Half Furlongs<br />
Three-Year Olds<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, July 19 at 5:00 pm<br />
The Downs at Albuquerque Handicap<br />
Saturday, August 5<br />
$200,000 Guaranteed<br />
Three-Year Olds and Older<br />
One Mile & One Eighth<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, July 26 at 5:00 pm
<strong>2017</strong> Downs at Albuquerque<br />
New Mexico State Fair Stakes<br />
Manzano Stakes<br />
$50,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, August 12<br />
Six Furlongs<br />
Two-Year Olds<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, August 2 at 5:00 pm<br />
Billy Powell Claiming Stakes $20,000 Guaranteed<br />
Saturday, August 19<br />
One-Mile & One Sixteenth<br />
Three Year Olds & Older Claiming Price $6,250<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, August 9 at 5:00 pm<br />
Carlos Salazar<br />
$70,000 Guaranteed*<br />
Saturday, August 26<br />
Six & One Half Furlongs<br />
Fillies & Ma<strong>res</strong> Three Year Olds & Older, Registered NM Bred<br />
*$40,000 (est.) from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, August 16 at 5:00 pm<br />
First Moonflash Q.H. Maturity $75,000 Added<br />
Sunday, August 27 (Est. Gross Purse $150,000)<br />
Four-Year Olds & Older, Registered NM Bred<br />
Trials Sunday, August 13<br />
440 Yards<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
* $50,000 [est.] from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
Casino at The Downs Thoroughbred Derby<br />
Sunday, September 3<br />
$75,000 Added<br />
Three-Year Olds, Registered NM Bred<br />
Trials Wednesday, August 16 Six & One Half Furlongs<br />
(Est. Gross Purse $135,000)<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
* $50,000 [est.] from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
The Balloon City Stakes<br />
$50,000 Guaranteed<br />
Sunday, September 10<br />
400 Yards<br />
Fillies & Ma<strong>res</strong> Three-Year Olds & Older<br />
Nominations close Friday, September 1 at 5:00 pm<br />
Casey Darnell Handicap<br />
$70,000 Guaranteed*<br />
Saturday, September 16<br />
Five & One Half Furlongs<br />
Three-Year Olds & Older, Registered NM Bred<br />
*$40,000 (est) from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
Nominations close Wednesday, September 6 at 5:00 pm<br />
Downs at Albuquerque “La Fiesta” Q.H. Derby<br />
Saturday, September 23<br />
$75,000 Added<br />
Trials Friday, September 8 (Est. Gross Purse $200,000)<br />
Three-Year Olds<br />
440 Yards<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
New Mexico State Fair Q.H. Futurity (RG-3)<br />
Saturday, September 23<br />
$100,000 Added<br />
Trials Friday, September 8 (Est. Gross Purse $250,000)<br />
Two-Year Olds, Registered NM Bred 400 Yards<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
* $50,000 [est.] from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
Downs at Albuquerque “La Fiesta” Futurity<br />
Sunday, September 24<br />
$100,000 Added<br />
Trials Saturday, September 9 (Est. Gross Purse $300,000)<br />
Two-Year Olds<br />
400 Yards<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
New Mexico State Fair Thoroughbred Futurity<br />
Sunday, September 24<br />
$100,000 Added<br />
Trials Saturday, September 9 (Est. Gross Purse $200,000)<br />
Two-Year Olds, Registered NM Bred<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
* $50,000 [est.] from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
New Mexico State Fair Q.H. Derby (RG-3)<br />
Sunday, September 24<br />
$100,000 Added<br />
Trials Sunday, September 10 (Est. Gross Purse $200,000)<br />
Three-Year Olds, Registered NM Bred 400 Yards<br />
Supplemental Nominations Due at Time of Entry for Trials<br />
* $50,000 [est.] from <strong>NMHBA</strong> Purse Enhancement Fund<br />
The “Downs” Fall Quarter Horse Championship<br />
Sunday, September 24<br />
$250,000 Guaranteed<br />
Three-Year Olds & Older<br />
440 Yards<br />
Nominations close Friday, September 15 at 5:00 pm<br />
Con Jackson Claiming Handicap<br />
$20,000 Added<br />
Sunday, September 24<br />
One Mile & Thirteen Sixteenths<br />
Three-Year Olds and Older Claiming Price $6,250<br />
Nominations close Friday, September 15 at 5:00 pm<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 57
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
LA CONEJA STAKES (R)<br />
w oodACOu ldad id<br />
Minister Eric<br />
Prospective Girl<br />
Old Trieste<br />
Musical Minister<br />
Langfuhr<br />
Woodman’s Prospect<br />
Making her first start in more than a<br />
year, Woodacouldadid outran her 34-1<br />
odds to win the March 26, $100,000 La<br />
Coneja Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred<br />
distaffers at Sunland Park.<br />
Woodacouldadid covered 5 1/2<br />
furlongs in 1:03.65 under jockey Elvin<br />
Gonzalez, and the homebred 6-year-old<br />
mare’s winning margin was a half of a<br />
length from 8-5 favorite Diabolical Dame.<br />
Jose Gonzalez Jr. saddled Woodacouldadid<br />
for owner Terrine G. Ransier of Deming,<br />
New Mexico.<br />
Woodacouldadid’s last start, in fact,<br />
was in the 2016 La Coneja Stakes, where<br />
the chestnut mare ran fifth, 1 1/2 lengths<br />
behind winner Tea Light.<br />
“She had been training well, and this<br />
was a race we were pointing to,” said<br />
Gonzalez after the race. “She beat some<br />
great horses.”<br />
Woodacouldadid is one of 40 winners<br />
from 71 starters sired by Minister Eric, a<br />
Kentucky-bred son of the A.P. Indy stallion<br />
Old Trieste. Racing in California and<br />
Kentucky from 2003-06, Minister Eric earned<br />
$562,771 from 13 outs, and his three wins<br />
included a half-length victory in the 1 1/16-<br />
mile, $200,000 San Fernando Breeders’ Cup<br />
Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park in ’05.<br />
Minister Eric has sired four official blacktype<br />
stakes winners and the earners of more<br />
than $2.3 million. The stallion stood the<br />
2015 season at Lake Star Stud in Kentucky.<br />
Woodacouldadid is one of two winners<br />
from as many starters produced by<br />
Prospective Girl, an unraced 13-year-old<br />
unraced Kentucky-bred daughter of 1996<br />
Canadian champion sprinter Langfuhr.<br />
Her second dam, Woodman’s Prospect,<br />
is a winning daughter of Woodman and<br />
a half sister to Windrush, the winner of<br />
the $109,800 Stymie Handicap (G3) at<br />
Aqueduct in ’01.<br />
Woodacouldadid traces back to her third<br />
dam, the stakes-winning Storm Cat mare<br />
Tempest Dancer. A Kentucky-bred 1990 foal,<br />
Tempest Dancer was a full sister to Sardula,<br />
a daughter of Storm Cat who won four<br />
graded stakes from 1993-94, including the<br />
1993 Hollywood Starlet Stakes (G1) and ’94<br />
Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs, and<br />
a half sister to Imperial Gesture, the winner of<br />
the 2002 Beldame Stakes (G1) and Gazelle<br />
Handicap (G1), both at Belmont Park.<br />
Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico,<br />
Woodacouldadid has won seven of 22<br />
outs, and the $60,000 winner’s share of<br />
the purse from her first career stakes score<br />
bumped her earnings to $179,218.<br />
Woodacouldadid returned a $70.80 win<br />
mutuel and teamed with Diabolical Dame<br />
for a $2 exacta payoff of $486.60. Bryn’s<br />
Fancy Pants, the 17-10 second choice in<br />
the field of nine, finished third, 1 3/4<br />
lengths behind the winner, to complete an<br />
$878.10 ($1) trifecta.<br />
My Bikini Fell Off, Indian Tiva, Tijuana,<br />
She Devil, Bloss, and Tilla Cat completed<br />
the order of finish.<br />
Diabolical Dame races for Joe Dee<br />
Brooks, Scott Bryant, and Derrol Hubbard,<br />
who acquired the 5-year-old daughter of<br />
the Artax stallion Diabolical as a yearling<br />
for $25,000 at the 2013 New Mexico-Bred<br />
Sale at Ruidoso Downs. Diabolical Dame<br />
has won 12 of 21 starts, and her seven stakes<br />
victories include two wins against open<br />
company. The $22,000 runner-up share of<br />
the La Coneja purse increased her bankroll<br />
to $518,980, of which $234,200 was earned<br />
during her sophomore season in 2015.<br />
Bryn’s Fancy Pants is a homebred<br />
4-year-old chestnut daughter of the<br />
Gone West stallion Southwestern Heat.<br />
Campaigned by Dale Taylor, Carey<br />
Taylor, and Jon Hogg, the filly has banked<br />
$259,916 from 11 races, and her four<br />
stakes wins include last year’s open 5<br />
1/2-furlong, $50,000 Petticoat Stakes at<br />
Albuquerque Downs.<br />
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58 New Mexico Horse Breeder
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’ OAKS (R)<br />
pink CADIl l ac<br />
Diabolical<br />
Full Moon Tonight<br />
Artax<br />
Bonnie Byerly<br />
Storm Cat<br />
Successfully<br />
Pink Cadillac, a homebred dark bay or<br />
brown daughter of Diabolical owned by J.<br />
Kirk and Judy Robison of El Paso, Texas,<br />
scored her first stakes win in the March 26,<br />
$100,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks (R)<br />
at Sunland Park.<br />
Ridden by Ken Tohill for trainer Joel<br />
Marr and sent to post at odds of 7-1 in<br />
the field of seven state-bred sophomore<br />
fillies, Pink Cadillac went 1 1/16 miles<br />
in 1:45.73, and her winning margin was<br />
a neck from multiple stakes winner and<br />
2-5 favorite Sippin. The $60,000 winner’s<br />
share of the purse increased the filly’s<br />
bankroll to $115,200.<br />
Pink Cadillac was making her first<br />
start since January 22, when she finished<br />
second, 2 1/2 lengths behind Sippin, in<br />
the 1-mile, $85,000 Enchant<strong>res</strong>s Stakes (R)<br />
at Sunland. The filly is one of 87 winners<br />
from five crops sired by Diabolical, a<br />
multiple graded stakes winning 14-year-old<br />
son of the Marquetry stallion Artax.<br />
Racing in five different countries<br />
from 2005-09, Diabolical won nine<br />
of 32 starts and earned $1,467,401,<br />
and his six stakes victories included<br />
the 6-furlong, $260,000 Alfred G.<br />
Vanderbilt Handicap (G2) at Saratoga<br />
in ’07. Diabolical has sired eight official<br />
black-type stakes winners and the<br />
earners of more than $5.1 million from<br />
108 starters.<br />
Diabolical is a half brother to What<br />
A Name (IRE), a Mr. Greeley filly who<br />
won two Group 3 stakes in France from<br />
2012-13. The stallion is owned by Fred<br />
Alexander and J. Kirk Robison, and he<br />
stands at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A&A<br />
Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.<br />
Pink Cadillac is also one of five winners<br />
from six starters produced Full Moon<br />
Tonight, a 15-year-old Virginia-bred<br />
daughter of Storm Cat. The filly’s third<br />
dam, the Nijinsky II mare La Confidence,<br />
foaled two stakes winners: Flawlessly, a<br />
nine-time Grade 1 winner from 1991-<br />
94 and the sport’s champion female turf<br />
horse in 1992 and ’93, and Perfect, the<br />
winner of the 1995 Ascot Handicap (G3)<br />
at Bay Meadows.<br />
Pink Cadillac’s fourth dam, the<br />
Round Table mare La Dame Du Lac,<br />
produced five stakes winners in Europe,<br />
including Group 3 winners Lake Como<br />
and Single Combat. Pink Cadillac traces<br />
back to her fifth dam, Cosmah, a stakeswinning<br />
Kentucky-bred daughter of the<br />
Pharamond II stallion Cosmic Bomb<br />
who foaled four stakes winners, including<br />
Halo, a two-time graded stakes winner<br />
who won the $100,000 United Nations<br />
Handicap (G1) at Atlantic City, New<br />
Jersey, in ’74.<br />
Pink Cadillac has won two of her nine<br />
outs, and her <strong>res</strong>ume includes a third-place<br />
finish in last year’s 6-furlong, $140,000<br />
New Mexico Cup Lassie Championship (R)<br />
for state-bred 2-year-old fillies at Zia Park.<br />
McAway ran third, 3 3/4 lengths<br />
behind Pink Cadillac, and was fol<strong>low</strong>ed<br />
by Frosty, Ivy Gimlet, Rolling Star, and<br />
Forgivnessis Pwr.<br />
Sippin is a homebred daughter of<br />
the Swiss Yodeler stallion Swissle Stick<br />
campaigned by R.D. Hubbard. The<br />
chestnut filly has won seven of nine<br />
starts, and her five stakes victories<br />
include last year’s open 6-furlong,<br />
$50,000 Permian Basin Stakes at Zia<br />
Park. The $22,000 runner-up share of<br />
the New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks purse<br />
upped her earnings to $348,547, of<br />
which $268,047 was banked during her<br />
2-year-old season.<br />
A homebred filly by the Medaglia<br />
d’Oro stallion McKenna’s Justice,<br />
McAway races for Tom and Sandra<br />
McKenna’s Judge Lanier Racing.<br />
McAway has won one of two starts and<br />
has earned $19,480.<br />
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By Michael Cusortelli<br />
NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’ DERBY (R)<br />
go f or a st rol l<br />
Attila’s Storm<br />
Garter<br />
Fo<strong>res</strong>t Wildcat<br />
Sweet Symmetry<br />
Bernardini<br />
Fire The Groom<br />
R.D. Hubbard’s Go For A Stroll, a<br />
homebred dark bay or brown son of Attila’s<br />
Storm, unleashed a furious stretch rally<br />
to win the March 26, 1 1/16-mile New<br />
Mexico Breeders’ Derby (R) for state-bred<br />
3-year-olds at Sunland Park.<br />
Ridden by Tracy Hebert for trainer Todd<br />
Fincher, Go For A Stroll stayed far behind<br />
the fractions of :22.54, :46.56, and 1:12.74<br />
established by pacesetter Tiz A Roll. The<br />
gelding reached the wire in 1:44.78, a neck<br />
in front of Storming Back, and the $60,000<br />
winner’s share of the $100,000 purse<br />
pushed his earnings to $104,418.<br />
Go For A Stroll is one of 84 winners<br />
from 120 starters sired by Attila’s Storm,<br />
a 15-year-old Kentucky-bred son of the<br />
Storm Cat stallion Fo<strong>res</strong>t Wildcat. Racing<br />
in five different states from 2004-07,<br />
including New York and California, Attila’s<br />
Storm won five of 18 starts and earned<br />
$534,983, and his <strong>res</strong>ume included a<br />
1 1/4-length victory in the 6-furlong,<br />
$105,100 Toboggan Handicap (G3) at<br />
Aqueduct in ’07, and a second-place finish<br />
in Proud Tower Too’s 2005 Malibu Stakes<br />
(G1) at Santa Anita Park.<br />
Attila’s Storm has sired 16 blacktype<br />
stakes winners and the earners<br />
of more than $6.8 million from seven<br />
crops, including multiple stakes winners<br />
Thermal, Dashkova, and Reaper. The<br />
stallion is owned by R.D. Hubbard and<br />
stands for a $4,000 fee at Fred and Linda<br />
Alexander’s A & A Ranch at Anthony,<br />
New Mexico.<br />
Go For A Stroll’s dam, Garter, is a<br />
9-year-old unraced daughter of the A.P.<br />
Indy stallion Bernardini. Garter has<br />
produced three winners from as many<br />
starters, including Stormy Day, a full sister<br />
to Go For A Stroll who won last year’s<br />
6-furlong, $50,000 Lincoln Handicap (R)<br />
at Ruidoso Downs.<br />
A winner of two of five starts, all in<br />
New Mexico, Go For A Stroll began his<br />
sophomore season with a second-place<br />
finish, 1 1/4 lengths behind winner He’s<br />
Another Who, in the 6-furlong, $85,000<br />
Four Rivers John Deere Stakes (R) for<br />
New Mexico-bred sophomo<strong>res</strong> on New<br />
Year’s Day. The gelding broke his maiden<br />
at first asking, as he won a 5 1/2-furlong,<br />
$25,500 maiden-special-weight dash at Zia<br />
Park on November 7.<br />
He’s Another Who, the 17-10 favorite<br />
in the full field of 12, finished third, 4 1/2<br />
lengths behind Go For A Stroll. Hute,<br />
Dom Strait, Go Gotta Go, El Tule, Waki’s<br />
Pride, Ize On Tickle, Muster, Reining<br />
Pesos, and Tiza Roll completed the order<br />
of finish.<br />
Runner-up Storming Back races for<br />
Dale Taylor, who also bred the bay son<br />
of Attila’s Storm. Storming Back has won<br />
two of 11 starts and has banked $95,524,<br />
of which $57,540 has been earned this<br />
season, and the gelding’s <strong>res</strong>ume includes<br />
a third-place finish, 2 3/4 lengths behind<br />
winner Ignored, in last year’s 5-furlong,<br />
$176,298 Mountain Top Futurity (R) at<br />
Ruidoso Downs.<br />
A chestnut gelding by Quinton’s Gold,<br />
He’s Another Who was coming off of<br />
a third-place finish in the February 4,<br />
$85,000 Red Hedeman Mile Stakes (R)<br />
for his owner Champion Racing Stable.<br />
He’s Another Who has won two of eight<br />
outs, including one stakes, and the $10,000<br />
third-place share of the New Mexico<br />
Breeders’ Derby purse bumped his bankroll<br />
to $94,720.<br />
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60 New Mexico Horse Breeder
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
NEW MEXICAN SPRING FUTURITY (RG2)<br />
Mo neys A Mak er<br />
Sixes Royal<br />
Money Smart Gal<br />
Royal Quick Dash<br />
Tempered Glass<br />
First Smart Money<br />
Lynns Allante<br />
Enrique Barrera’s Moneys A Maker<br />
parlayed a sharp break from his rail post<br />
into a neck victory in the April 8, 300-yard<br />
New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) for<br />
state-bred juveniles at Sunland Park.<br />
Prepped by Cynthia Gonzalez and aided<br />
by a reported 15-mph tail wind, Moneys<br />
A Maker stopped the timer in :15.202<br />
and posted a 91 speed index under jockey<br />
Mauro Salcedo. The $170,604 winner’s<br />
share of the $362,987 purse increased the<br />
gray gelding’s earnings to $180,542 from<br />
three starts.<br />
Moneys A Maker was bred by Dee<br />
Mooring and Jaime Cervantes, and Barrera<br />
acquired the gelding as a yearling for<br />
$4,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale<br />
at Ruidoso Downs. His sire, Sixes Royal, is<br />
a 16-year-old Grade 1-winning son of the<br />
First Down Dash stallion Royal Quick Dash<br />
and the Grade 2-winning Streakin Six mare<br />
Tempered Glass.<br />
Racing primarily in New Mexico and<br />
Texas from 2003-04, Sixes Royal banked<br />
$384,977 from 17 starts, and his five wins<br />
included a neck victory in the 2004 Texas<br />
Classic Derby (G1) at Lone Star Park. The<br />
stallion has sired the earners of more than<br />
$6.3 million from 10 crops, including<br />
multiple graded stakes winners Streak Of<br />
Sixes and Sixy Chamisa.<br />
Sixes Royal is a half brother to Grade<br />
3 winner Four Six Dash. He is owned by<br />
Mike Abraham and stands for a $2,500<br />
fee at W.L. Mooring’s Double LL Farm at<br />
Bosque, New Mexico.<br />
Moneys A Maker’s dam, Money Smart<br />
Gal, is an 11-year-old winning daughter<br />
of First Smart Money. The gelding’s<br />
second dam, the Takin On The Cash<br />
mare Lynns Allante, won two stakes<br />
from 1998-2001, including the 2000<br />
AQHA New Mexico Distaff Challenge<br />
at Ruidoso Downs, and she produced All<br />
Lucky Lynn, a stakes-placed daughter<br />
of Gold Medal Jess and a half sister to<br />
Money Smart Gal.<br />
Moneys A Maker’s third dam, the winning<br />
Hempen (TB) mare Sweet Blush, foaled two<br />
stakes winners in addition to Lynns Allante:<br />
Blushing Bug, a two-time stakes winner and<br />
runner-up in the 1988 Horsemen’s Quarter<br />
Horse Racing Association Championship<br />
(G1) at Los Alamitos, and multiple stakes<br />
winner Make Em Blush.<br />
The fifth-fastest qualifier to the Spring<br />
Futurity, Moneys A Maker broke his<br />
maiden with a nose victory as the 11-10<br />
favorite in his trial on March 17. The<br />
gelding was sent to post at odds of 8-1 in<br />
the final and returned a $19 win mutuel.<br />
Cadilac Flash, a 14-1 longshot, ran<br />
second to complete a $2 exacta payoff of<br />
$223. Tempting Star Gazer, fastest qualifier<br />
and 1-2 favorite Flash Moonfire, Two<br />
Wines, Jans Cartel, Miles Of Flash, Bigg<br />
Daddy, Flashin Angel, and Wood Be Kuhi<br />
completed the order of finish.<br />
Cadilac Flash, the third-fastest<br />
qualifier, is a homebred daughter of<br />
champion First Moonflash campaigned by<br />
Fred Danley. The chestnut filly has earned<br />
$70,678 from two outs.<br />
Tempting Star Gazer races for Jose<br />
R. Espinosa and Jill Giles. A bay son of<br />
First Moonflash and a $23,000 yearling<br />
purchase at the 2016 New Mexico-Bred<br />
Sale, the gelding has banked $41,887 from<br />
two starts.<br />
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<strong>SUMMER</strong> SPRING <strong>2017</strong> 61
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
COPPER TOP FUTURITY (R)<br />
On The Low Dow n<br />
Dome<br />
Speedin Excess<br />
Storm Cat<br />
She’s Tops<br />
In Excess (IRE)<br />
Danish Dessert<br />
On The Low Down, a chestnut son<br />
of Dome racing for Dale Taylor, Bobby<br />
McQueen and Suzanne Kirby, broke his<br />
maiden with a 1 1/4-length victory in the<br />
April 16, $147,196 Copper Top Futurity<br />
(R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at<br />
Sunland Park.<br />
Ridden by Tracy Hebert for trainer<br />
Todd Fincher, On The Low Down<br />
covered 4 1/2 furlongs in :51.17. The<br />
$73,598 winner’s share of the purse<br />
increased the gelding’s earnings to<br />
$75,556 from two outs.<br />
On The Low Down made his debut<br />
with a second-place finish in the second<br />
of three Copper Top trials on March 25.<br />
The gelding was bred by Brad King and<br />
Todd Fincher, and he became the seventh<br />
black-type stakes winner from 13 crops<br />
sired by Dome, an unraced 19-year-old<br />
son of the Storm Bird stallion Storm Cat<br />
and a half brother to multiple Grade 1<br />
winner Dixie Union.<br />
Dome entered stud in ’02, and he has<br />
sired the earners of more than $5.4 million<br />
from 176 starters, including multiple stakes<br />
winners Glory Be Mine, ZZ Dome, and<br />
Etoile de Dome. The stallion is owned by<br />
Hardeman LLC and stands for a $2,500<br />
fee at W.L. and Dee Mooring’s Double LL<br />
Farm at Bosque, New Mexico.<br />
On The Low Down is also one of two<br />
winners from as many starters produced by<br />
Speedin Excess, an 11-year-old daughter<br />
of the Siberian Exp<strong>res</strong>s stallion In Excess<br />
(IRE) who ran second in the 6-furlong,<br />
$122,050 Barretts Debutante Stakes (R)<br />
during the Los Angeles County Fair meet<br />
at Fairplex Park in 2008.<br />
On The Low Down’s second dam, the<br />
Regal Classic mare Danish Dessert, is a half<br />
sister to two stakes winners: Ever Steady,<br />
a four-time stakes winner at Woodbine<br />
Racecourse near Toronto and Exhibition<br />
Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, from<br />
1989-90, and Sparrow Lake, a two-time<br />
stakes winner at Woodbine in 1988. The<br />
gelding traces back to his third dam, Stray<br />
Flight, a daughter of the Northern Dancer<br />
stallion Viceregal and a half sister to Cadet<br />
Corps, the winner of the ’81 Prince of<br />
Wales Stakes (R) at Fort Erie.<br />
Sent to post at odds of 7-1 in the field<br />
of nine, On The Low Down returned a<br />
$16.20 win mutuel and teamed with 4-5<br />
favorite Red Raider for a $2 exacta payoff<br />
of $50.40. Storm The Beach, a 12-1<br />
longshot, finished third, 1 3/4 lengths<br />
behind On The Low Down, to complete a<br />
$171.40 ($1) trifecta.<br />
Happy Resources, Western Warning,<br />
Belly Button Who, Diabolical Emp<strong>res</strong>s,<br />
P J’s Gold, and Big Boom completed the<br />
order of finish. Tucker D was scratched.<br />
Red Raider is a homebred son of the<br />
Hennessy stallion Roll Hennessy Roll<br />
racing for Brad King and Dale Taylor. The<br />
winner of the first Copper Top Futurity<br />
trial on March 25, the chestnut gelding<br />
has earned $34,779 from two outs.<br />
Storm The Beach is campaigned by<br />
J & SM Inc. of Fort Stockton, Texas,<br />
which acquired the gelded son of Attila’s<br />
Storm from breeders Tom and Leslie<br />
Goncharoff for $28,000 at last year’s<br />
New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale at<br />
Ruidoso Downs. Storm The Beach has<br />
won one of two outs and has banked<br />
$23,004.<br />
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62 New Mexico Horse Breeder
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
MESILLA VALLEY SPEED HANDICAP (RG2)<br />
Seis Menudos<br />
Southern Corona<br />
Uno Menudo<br />
Corona Cartel<br />
Southern Policy<br />
Dash Ta Fame<br />
Shes A Hauler<br />
Sent to post at odds of 14-1, Seis Menudos<br />
<strong>res</strong>ponded with a head victory in the March<br />
4, $85,000 Mesilla Valley Speed Handicap<br />
(RG2) for New Mexico-breds at Sunland Park.<br />
Seis Menudos covered 350 yards in<br />
:17.212 and earned a 98 speed index under<br />
jockey Raul Herrera. Adam Tapia saddled<br />
the 5-year-old gelding for owner Eloy<br />
Humberto Pena.<br />
Seis Menudos was stretching out in<br />
distance off of a second-place finish in a<br />
300-yard, $33,500 al<strong>low</strong>ance-optional<br />
claiming ($50,000) dash for state-breds at<br />
Sunland on February 3. The gelding was<br />
bred by William McCarty.<br />
Seis Menudos’ sire, the winning Corona<br />
Cartel stallion Southern Corona, ran second<br />
in the 870-yard Woodlands Stakes at Sam<br />
Houston Race Park in 2004. A full brother<br />
to multiple graded stakes winner Southern<br />
Cartel, Southern Corona has sired the earners<br />
of more than $6.2 million from 10 crops,<br />
including multiple graded stakes winner Little<br />
Bit Southern and Bp Shes Southern, and<br />
graded stakes winner BL Corona.<br />
Seis Menudos’ dam, Uno Menudo, is<br />
a 15-year-old daughter of the First Down<br />
Dash stallion Dash Ta Fame. Racing in<br />
New Mexico from 2004-05, the mare<br />
banked $242,511 from nine outs, and her<br />
four wins included a one-length victory<br />
with a 105 speed index in the ‘04 Zia<br />
Futurity (RG1) at Ruidoso Downs.<br />
Seis Menudos has raced exclusively in<br />
New Mexico. A $5,000 claimer during the<br />
2015 Zia Park fall meet, the gelding has won<br />
nine of 19 starts, and the $51,000 winner’s<br />
share pushed his earnings to $160,811.<br />
Seis Menudos returned a $30.80 win<br />
mutuel and paired with runner-up Jess Cruzin<br />
On By, the 5-1 third choice, for a $2 exacta<br />
payoff of $272.20. Princess Jesse, the 2-1<br />
second choice, finished third, a neck behind the<br />
winner, to complete a $908.20 ($1) trifecta.<br />
Play Misty Foreme, Justified By Chicks,<br />
17-10 favorite Seeyalateralligator, Frank N<br />
Jesse, Booyah Bay, Teana Fay, and Major<br />
Moonflash completed the order of finish.<br />
A homebred 4-year-old son of Jesse James<br />
Jr, Jess Cruzin On By races for Yaneth Cabrera,<br />
who also bred the stallion. Jess Cruzin On<br />
By has won six of 12 outs, including the<br />
2015 New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) at<br />
Sunland Park, and he has banked $234,292.<br />
Princess Jesse is a homebred 4-year-old<br />
Jesse James Jr mare owned and trained by<br />
Vance Mikkelson of Belen, New Mexico.<br />
Princess Jesse won seven of 14 starts and<br />
has earned $306,035, and her three graded<br />
stakes victories include last year’s Zia<br />
Handicap (RG2) at Ruidoso Downs and<br />
Lou Wooten/Sydney Valentini Handicap<br />
(RG1) at Sunland Park.<br />
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NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY STAKES (R)<br />
shining source<br />
Source<br />
Shine Miss Comet<br />
Montbrook<br />
Stem<br />
Comet Shine<br />
Miss Atlantic<br />
Elvin Gonzalez rode Shining Source to<br />
a one-length victory in the $85,000 New<br />
Mexico State University Handicap (R) for<br />
state-breds at Sunland Park on March 18.<br />
Campaigned by Barton Racing Stables<br />
LLC and trainer Blake Rust, Shining<br />
Source covered her 1-mile-and-70-yard trip<br />
in 1:39.83 while earning his seventh win in<br />
30 outs and first stakes score. The $51,000<br />
winner’s share of the purse pushed the<br />
6-year-old gelding’s bankroll to $228,190.<br />
Shining Source was bred by Susan<br />
Vescovo. The gelding is one of 17 winners<br />
from 34 starters sired by Source, a son of<br />
Montbrook and a half brother to black-type<br />
stakes winners Dinner Affair and Reporter.<br />
Raced at 11 tracks in five states from 2001-<br />
06, including Sunland Park, Source earned<br />
$368,125 from 61 starts, and his <strong>res</strong>ume<br />
included a third-place finish in the $54,150<br />
KLAQ Handicap at Sunland.<br />
Now 19, Source has sired the earners<br />
of more than $980,000 from six crops.<br />
The stallion is owned by Chris Hourigan,<br />
and stood the 2016 season for a $1,000<br />
fee at Hourigan Horse Farm in Anthony,<br />
New Mexico.<br />
Shining Source is also one of two winners<br />
from as many starters produced by Shine<br />
Miss Comet, a New Mexico-bred 15-yearold<br />
winning daughter of the Fappiano<br />
stallion Comet Shine. The gelding is a half<br />
brother to Kimbell, a Western Gambler filly<br />
who ran second in the 2016 New Mexico<br />
Breeders’ Oaks (R) and Enchant<strong>res</strong>s Stakes<br />
(R), both at Sunland Park.<br />
Shining Source’s <strong>res</strong>ume includes a thirdplace<br />
finish, one length behind Weather<br />
Dodger, in the January 14, 1 1/16 mile<br />
Albert Dominguez Memorial Handicap<br />
(R) at Sunland, and a second-place run in<br />
the 2015 Johnie L. Jamison Handicap (R)<br />
at Sunland and University of New Mexico<br />
Handicap (R) at Albuquerque Downs.<br />
Liberty Lover ran second and was<br />
fol<strong>low</strong>ed by Streaks Bro, Hit A Lick, Ten<br />
Penny Cents, Weather Dodger, Golly Gee,<br />
Shotgun Wedding, and G M Gage.<br />
A homebred 5-year-old stallion by the<br />
Artax stallion Diabolical, Liberty Lover races<br />
for J. Kirk and Judy Robison of El Paso,<br />
Texas. Liberty Lover has five of 16 starts,<br />
including three stakes during his 2-year-old<br />
campaign, and the $18,700 runner-up share<br />
of the New Mexico State University Handicap<br />
purse bumped his bankroll to $317,379.<br />
Streaks Bro is campaigned by Maurcenia<br />
Cross of Fort Sumter, New Mexico, who<br />
also bred the 5-year-old son of Elijah’s<br />
Song. The gelding has won four of 27 races,<br />
including last year’s 1-mile, $180,000 Rocky<br />
Gulch New Mexico Cup Championship (R)<br />
at Zia Park, and he has earned $275,613.<br />
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<strong>SUMMER</strong> SPRING <strong>2017</strong> 63
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
SUNBURST STAKES (RG3)<br />
Running DRAGo n<br />
Zulu Dragon<br />
Banking Lane<br />
First Down Dash<br />
Hidden Dragon<br />
Devon Lane (TB)<br />
Banking Disco<br />
Running Dragon kept her winning<br />
streak alive with a wire-to-wire, half-length<br />
victory in the April 1, $85,000 Sunburst<br />
Stakes (RG3) for New Mexico-bred<br />
sophomore fillies at Sunland Park.<br />
Ridden by Adrian Ramos, Running<br />
Dragon went 350 yards in :17.387 while<br />
posting a 93 speed index and her fourth<br />
consecutive win. Juan M. Gonzalez<br />
prepped the homebred Zulu Dragon filly<br />
for owner By By JJ LLC of El Paso, Texas.<br />
Running Dragon is the leading earner<br />
sired by second-year sire Zulu Dragon,<br />
a 10-year-old son of all-time leading sire<br />
and 1987 world champion First Down<br />
Dash and the graded stakes winning Dean<br />
Miracle mare Hidden Dragon. A half<br />
brother to 2013 Mountain Top Futurity<br />
(RG1) winner Heza Wild Dragon, Zulu<br />
Dragon raced from 2009-13, and he<br />
earned $180,054 from 29 outs, and his six<br />
wins included the ‘12 James Isaac Hobbs<br />
Stakes (G2) at Zia Park.<br />
Zulu Dragon has sired the earners of<br />
more than $951,000 from two crops,<br />
including 2016 New Mexico Cup Futurity<br />
(RG2) winner Magnifico Dragon. The<br />
stallion is owned by 21 Partnership and<br />
stands for a $6,000 fee at Bar Y Equine in<br />
Berino, New Mexico.<br />
Running Dragon is also the first starter<br />
foaled by the homebred 11-year-old Storm<br />
Cat (TB) mare Banking Lane.<br />
Raced exclusively in New Mexico,<br />
Running Dragon has won 10 of her 12 starts,<br />
and the $51,000 winner’s share bumped<br />
her bankroll to $572,641. The filly’s current<br />
streak includes victories in the February 19,<br />
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association<br />
Stakes (RG2), and the January 15, Shue Fly<br />
Stakes (RG2), both at Sunland Park.<br />
Running Dragon was sent to post as the<br />
1-5 favorite and returned a $2.40 win mutuel<br />
in the Sunburst. Princess Jessie Jane, the 7-2<br />
second choice in the full field of 10, ran second<br />
to complete a $2 exacta dividend of $6.<br />
Frost Dalena finished third and was<br />
fol<strong>low</strong>ed by Eyes Gona Flash You, First<br />
Vegas Moon, First Lluvia Runaway, La<br />
Montesa, La Riena Del Sur, Miss Call Me<br />
First, and Jess A Glance.<br />
Princess Jessie Jane is a daughter of Jesse<br />
James Jr owned by Daniel Nunez. The filly<br />
has won two of six outs, and the $18,700<br />
runner-up share of the Sunburst Stakes<br />
pushed her earnings to $52,460.<br />
A $9,700 purchase at the 2015 Heritage<br />
Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City, Frost<br />
Dalena races for Jeff Caron. The Chicks<br />
Regard filly has won two of eight races and has<br />
banked $54,048, and she was the runner-up to<br />
A Super Sonic Boom in last year’s New Mexico<br />
Breeders’ Futurity (RG3) at SunRay Park.<br />
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SUNLAND PARK MEET RECAP<br />
Sunland Park registered increases in<br />
average daily handle and average field size<br />
during its 72-day Thoroughbred and Quarter<br />
Horse meet, which ended on April 18.<br />
According to figu<strong>res</strong> provided by the<br />
track, Sunland Park’s per-race handle reached<br />
a track-record $74,685. Total on-track<br />
handle on Sunland’s live races was up 22<br />
percent and off-track handle on its live races<br />
increased 36 percent over the track’s 2015-<br />
16 season, which was shortened to 61 days<br />
due to an EHV-1 outbreak on track and at<br />
nearby training centers.<br />
“Comparing this year’s stats to last<br />
year’s is like comparing apples to oranges<br />
because we ran fewer days last year,” said<br />
Sunland Park director of racing Dustin<br />
Dix. “But looking at an average-per-race<br />
handle, we were up more than 11 percent.<br />
I think moving all of our Quarter Horse<br />
races to Fridays and offering primarily<br />
Thoroughbred races the other three days<br />
helped contribute to the increase, especially<br />
in our off-track handle.<br />
“Also, we moved the majority of our<br />
stakes races to Sundays because there is<br />
less competition for those types of races on<br />
Sundays,” he added. “Of course, running<br />
the Sunland Derby this year after one year<br />
off contributed several million dollars to<br />
our overall handle.”<br />
Average field size on Sunland Park’s<br />
races reached 8.72 horses per race, up 3<br />
percent from 8.46 during the track’s 2015-<br />
16 season. Sunland’s average field size for<br />
its Thoroughbred races was up 2.5 percent,<br />
from 8.19 in 2015-16 to 8.39 this year.<br />
“Even with us running 11 more<br />
days this year, we saw a decrease in<br />
our catastrophic injuries,” Dix said.<br />
“Considering that, along with our average<br />
field size being up and our handle being<br />
up, we were very pleased with the meet.<br />
“We just want to keep growing and<br />
making our track a better place for<br />
horsemen and fans alike,” he added.<br />
On the track, Ry Eikleberry was Sunland<br />
Park’s leading Thoroughbred jockey with<br />
65 wins from 305 mounts, 11 more than<br />
runner-up Alfredo Juarez Jr., who rode<br />
the winners of 54 races from 281 mounts.<br />
Juarez was the meet’s leading jockey in<br />
mount earnings at $1,536,063.<br />
Sunland Park’s leading Thoroughbred<br />
trainer, Justin Evans, won 57 races from<br />
207 starters, 25 more than runner-up<br />
Henry Dominguez, who prepped the<br />
winners of 32 races from 213 starters.<br />
Evans also led all Thoroughbred trainers in<br />
purse earnings at $1,061,808.<br />
Tom and Sandra McKenna’s Judge<br />
Lanier Racing topped all Sunland Park<br />
Thoroughbred owners with 24 wins from<br />
174 starters, 14 more than runner-up<br />
Solitaire Stables, which won 10 races from<br />
40 starters. Judge Lanier Racing also was<br />
the meet’s leading Thoroughbred owner<br />
with purse earnings at $811,116.<br />
Esgar Ramirez, last year’s AQHA<br />
champion jockey, topped all Quarter Horse<br />
riders at Sunland Park with 26 wins from<br />
126 mounts, two more than runner-up<br />
64 New Mexico Horse Breeder
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
The new hotel at Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino opened in April.<br />
Esgar Ramirez was named Sunland Park’s<br />
leading Quarter Horse jockey with 26 wins<br />
Mauro Salcedo, who won 24 races from<br />
114 mounts and led all jockeys in mount<br />
earnings at $651,556.<br />
Jose Luis Muela was Sunland Park’s<br />
leading Quarter Horse trainer with nine wins<br />
from 38 starters, one more than runners-up<br />
Adam Tapia (eight winners from 41 starters),<br />
Cynthia Gonzalez, (eight winners from 43<br />
starters), and Wes Giles (eight winners from<br />
62 starters). Gonzalez topped all trainers in<br />
purse earnings at $348,516.<br />
Sunland Park’s leading Quarter Horse<br />
owner, Eloy Humberto Pena, won five races<br />
from 10 starters, two more than runners-up<br />
By By JJ LLC of El Paso, Texas (four wins<br />
from five starters) and Yaneth Cabrera (four<br />
wins from 11 starters). By By JJ LLC was<br />
the meet’s leading Quarter Horse owner in<br />
purse earnings with $204,504.<br />
Sunland Park’s richest and most<br />
p<strong>res</strong>tigious Thoroughbred race, the 1<br />
1/8-mile, $800,000 Sunland Derby (G3)<br />
on March 26, was won by the Kentuckybred<br />
Street Boss colt Hence. A homebred<br />
trained by ridden by Juarez for owner<br />
Calumet Farm and trainer Steve Asmussen,<br />
Hence covered 9 furlongs in 1:48.10 and<br />
his winning margin was 1 1/2 lengths<br />
from Judge Lanier Racing’s Conquest Mo<br />
Money. The colt earned the $400,000<br />
winner’s share of the Sunland Derby purse<br />
and 50 qualifying points for the May 6,<br />
$2-million Kentucky Derby (G1), the first<br />
leg of Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown,<br />
at Churchill Downs.<br />
Sunland Derby Day, which featured a<br />
total of seven Thoroughbred stakes, also<br />
drew 16,039 fans on-track, the meet’s<br />
largest crowd of the season. Sunland Derby<br />
Day also drew the meet’s highest one-day<br />
handle, $3,163,994, of which $300,783<br />
was wagered on-track. The Sunland Derby<br />
itself drew a handle of $1,060,571 in the<br />
win-place-show, exacta, trifecta, superfecta,<br />
and super high 5 pools.<br />
“This race has really grown in popularity<br />
since it became graded (in 2013),” Dix said.<br />
“This was the first year that we had to exclude<br />
horses whose connections wanted to enter.”<br />
Enrique Barrera’s Moneys A Maker,<br />
a gray son of Sixes Royal trained by<br />
Cynthia Gonzalez, won the meet’s richest<br />
Quarter Horse stakes, the $362,987 New<br />
Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) for statebred<br />
juveniles on April 8. The gelding,<br />
who was bred by Dee Mooring and Jaime<br />
Cervantes, covered 300 yards in :15.202<br />
and banked the $170,604 winner’s share<br />
of the purse.<br />
Ry Eikleberry was name Sunland<br />
Park’s leading Thoroughbred jockey<br />
with 65 wins<br />
According to figu<strong>res</strong> provided<br />
by the track, Sunland Park’s<br />
per-race handle reached a<br />
track-record $74,685.<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> SPRING <strong>2017</strong> 65
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’ FUTURITY (RG3)<br />
Wdc Woody B Fa st<br />
Woodbridge<br />
Signs Of Speeding<br />
Dash Ta Fame<br />
Champagne Lane<br />
Vital Sign<br />
Twas Speeding<br />
Wdc Woody B Fast, a bay son of<br />
Woodbridge owned by Barton Ranch<br />
Stables LLC and trainer Blake Rust and the<br />
second-fastest qualifier, sprinted to a wireto-wire,<br />
three-quarter length victory in the<br />
May 14, $110,213 New Mexico Breeders’<br />
Futurity (RG3) for state-bred juveniles at<br />
SunRay Park.<br />
Ridden by Martin Felix and sent to post<br />
as the 6-1 fourth choice in the full field of<br />
10, Wdc Woody B Fast covered 350 yards<br />
in :17.476 and earned a 90 speed index<br />
while aided by a reported 12-mph tail<br />
wind. The $51,800 winner’s share of the<br />
purse bumped the gelding’s bankroll to<br />
$53,600 from two outs.<br />
Wdc Woody B Fast made his debut with<br />
a one-length win in his Breeders’ Futurity<br />
trial on April 28. The gelding was bred by<br />
Denton Crozier of Hobbs, New Mexico,<br />
and his sire, Woodbridge, is an unraced<br />
18-year-old son of Dash Ta Fame and<br />
the multiple graded stakes winning Lanes<br />
Leinster mare Champagne Lane.<br />
A full brother to Grade 1 winner Kendall<br />
Jackson and a half brother to 2015 AQHA<br />
champion 3-year-old filly Alice K White,<br />
Woodbridge has sired the earners of more<br />
than $2.4 million from 10 crops, including<br />
multiple graded stakes winner Carson City Girl<br />
and graded stakes winners Threedeewoodee,<br />
Woodys Allstar, Woody Dungarees, and Wdc<br />
Wendys Wine. The stallion is owned by and<br />
stands for a $2,500 fee at Mac and Janis<br />
Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico.<br />
Wdc Woody B Fast’s dam, Signs Of<br />
Speeding, is an unraced homebred 12-yearold<br />
daughter of Vital Sign. The gelding’s<br />
second dam, the stakes-winning Twaynas<br />
Dash mare Twas Speeding, ran second in the<br />
1994 Boise Derby (G3) at Les Bois Park.<br />
Wdc Woody B Fast returned a $14.80<br />
win mutuel and paired with runner-up 13-1<br />
longshot Osbaldo Blue Diamond for a $2<br />
exacta dividend of $152.20. Bug Daddy<br />
Cartel, the fastest qualifier and 17-10<br />
favorite, ran third, one length behind the<br />
winner to complete a $294.20 ($1) trifecta.<br />
Frangellica finished fourth, 1 1/4<br />
lengths behind Wdc Woody B Fast. Soxx<br />
Ar, A Diamond Mercedes, Jans Cartel, Big<br />
Daddy Kp, Flash Of Victory, and Redd<br />
Metal completed the order of finish.<br />
Osbaldo Blue Diamond is a homebred<br />
daughter of the Jesse James Jr stallion<br />
Osbaldo owned by Hubaldo Solis of<br />
Peralta, New Mexico. The gray filly has<br />
banked $22,558 from four outs.<br />
Bug Daddy Cartel broke his maiden<br />
with a neck victory in the last of four<br />
New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity trials. A<br />
homebred bay colt by second-year sire<br />
Big Daddy Cartel, Bug Daddy Cartel has<br />
won one of three races, and the $12,124<br />
third-place share of the purse increased his<br />
earnings to $14,814 for his owner, Jesus<br />
M. Estrada.<br />
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66 New Mexico Horse Breeder
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
RUSSELL AND HELEN FOUTZ DISTAFF HANDICAP (R)<br />
Woodacouldadid<br />
Minister Eric<br />
Prospective Girl<br />
Old Trieste<br />
Musical Minister<br />
Langfuhr<br />
Woodman’s Prospect<br />
Breaking sharply from post 4 under jockey<br />
Tracy Hebert, Woodacouldadid sprinted to<br />
a wire-to-wire victory in the 6 1/2-furlong,<br />
$40,000 Russell and Helen Foutz Distaff<br />
Handicap (R) on April 24 at SunRay Park.<br />
Woodacouldadid set fractions of :23.08<br />
and :46.81 before reaching the finish line<br />
1 3/4 lengths in front of Desert City in<br />
1:18.19. Jose R. Gonzalez Jr. saddled the<br />
homebred 6-year-old daughter of Minister<br />
Eric for owner Terrine G. Ransier of<br />
Deming, New Mexico.<br />
Woodacouldadid is one of four black-type<br />
winners sired by Minister Eric, a Kentuckybred<br />
son of the A.P. Indy stallion Old<br />
Trieste. Raced in California and Kentucky<br />
from 2003-06, Minister Eric earned<br />
$562,771 from 13 starts and scored a halflength<br />
victory in the 1 1/16-mile, $200,000<br />
San Fernando Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G2) for<br />
4-year-olds at San Anita Park in 2005.<br />
Minister Eric entered stud in 2007 and has<br />
sired the earners of more than $2.3 million<br />
from 71 starters. The stallion stood the 2015<br />
season at Lake Star Stud in Kentucky.<br />
Woodacouldadid’s dam, Prospective Girl,<br />
is a 13-year-old unraced Kentucky-bred mare<br />
by the Danzig stallion Langfuhr who has<br />
foaled two winners from as many starters.<br />
Woodacouldadid’s second dam, the winning<br />
Woodman mare Woodman’s Prospect, is a half<br />
sister to Windrush, the winner of the $109,800<br />
Stymie Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct in 2001.<br />
Woodacouldadid returned a $3.80 win<br />
mutuel as the 9-10 favorite in the Russell<br />
and Helen Foutz Distaff, just four weeks<br />
after she sprung a 34-1 upset victory in the<br />
5 1/2-furlong, $100,000 La Coneja Stakes<br />
(R) for New Mexico-bred fillies and ma<strong>res</strong><br />
at Sunland Park. All told, the mare has won<br />
eight of 23 races, including both of her outs<br />
this season, and the $24,000 winner’s share<br />
of the Foutz Distaff purse bumped her<br />
bankroll to $203,218.<br />
Rogue Divergent finished third, 3<br />
1/4 lengths behind the winner, and was<br />
fol<strong>low</strong>ed by My Bikini Fell Off, Sunday<br />
Rose, and One Foxy Babe.<br />
Runner-up Desert City is a 5-year-old<br />
daughter of the late Desert God campaigned<br />
by Stable HMA, which claimed the mare for<br />
$10,000 at Sunland Park on April 8. Raced<br />
exclusively in New Mexico, the mare has won<br />
two of 15 starts and has earned $45,205.<br />
Rogue Divergent is owned by Dr.<br />
Miguel Gallegos’ Gallegos del Norte<br />
Racing of Albuquerque, which also<br />
bred the 4-year-old daughter of the<br />
Carson City stallion Valet Man. Rogue<br />
Divergent has won three of 11 outs,<br />
and the $4,000 third-place share of<br />
the Foutz Distaff purse increased her<br />
bankroll to $45,961.<br />
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JACK COLE STAKES (R)<br />
Shining SOURCE<br />
Source<br />
Shine Miss Comet<br />
Montbrook<br />
Stem<br />
Comet Shine<br />
Miss Atlantic<br />
Elvin Gonzalez rode Shining Source to<br />
a neck victory in the May 8, 1-mile Jack<br />
Cole Stakes (R) for New Mexico-breds at<br />
SunRay Park.<br />
Sent to post as the 9-5 favorite in the<br />
field of six, Shining Source made his eightfurlong<br />
trip in 1:39.32. The 6-year-old<br />
dark bay or brown gelding races for Barton<br />
Ranch Stables LLC and trainer Blake Rust.<br />
Shining Source was bred by Susan<br />
Vescovo. The gelding is one of 17 winners<br />
from 34 starters sired by Source. A<br />
Florida-bred son of the Buckaroo stallion<br />
Montbrook and a half brother to stakes<br />
winners Dinner Affair and Reporter, Source<br />
earned $368,125 from 61 starts from<br />
2001-06, and his <strong>res</strong>ume included a thirdplace<br />
finish in the 5 1/2-furlongs, $54,150<br />
KLAQ Handicap at Sunland Park in ’03.<br />
Source has sired the earners of more than<br />
$980,000 from six crops. Now 19, Source<br />
is owned by Chris P. Hourigan and stands at<br />
Hourigan Horse Farm at Anthony, NM.<br />
Shining Source’s dam, the winning New<br />
Mexico-bred Comet Shine mare Shine Miss<br />
Comet, has produced two winners from as<br />
many starters, including Kimbell, a winning<br />
half sister to Shining Source who ran second<br />
in last year’s New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks<br />
(R) and Enchant<strong>res</strong>s Stakes (R), both at<br />
Sunland Park. Shining Source’s second dam,<br />
Atlantic Miss, is a winning California-bred<br />
daughter of the Icecapade stallion Fatih.<br />
Shining Source was coming off of a<br />
Sunland Park meet during which the gelding<br />
scored a one-length victory in the March<br />
18, $85,000 New Mexico State University<br />
Handicap (R) at 1 mile and 70 yards. Raced<br />
exclusively in New Mexico, Shining Source<br />
has won eight of 32 starts, and the $24,000<br />
winner’s share of the $40,000 Jack Cole<br />
purse bumped his earnings to $253,858.<br />
Song Of Laura, an 8-1 longshot,<br />
finished second and was fol<strong>low</strong>ed by<br />
Weather Dodger, That’s Who, Atillas Gift,<br />
and Desert Mystery.<br />
A 5-year-old gelding by the Sultry<br />
Song stallion Song Of Navarrone, Song<br />
Of Laura races for Teed Off Stable LLC.<br />
The bay gelding, who was claimed for<br />
$25,000 on November 28 at Zia Park,<br />
has won five of 25 outs, and the $8,800<br />
runner-up share of the purse pushed his<br />
bankroll to $177,778.<br />
Weather Dodger is a homebred son of<br />
Weather Warning campaigned by Lisa M.<br />
Rehburg of Mountain Center, California.<br />
A 5-year-old gelding, Weather Dodger<br />
has won four of 23 starts and has earned<br />
$229,031, and his two stakes victories<br />
include a three-quarter length score in the<br />
January 14, $85,000 Albert Dominguez<br />
Memorial Handicap (R) at Sunland Park.<br />
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<strong>SUMMER</strong> SPRING <strong>2017</strong> 67
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
C.O. “KEN” KENDRICK MEMORIAL STAKES (R)<br />
Comics Cashw ay<br />
Comic Genius<br />
Swapping Lanes<br />
Unbridled<br />
Squan Song<br />
The Way Home<br />
Cats Bounty<br />
Helen Nave’s Comics Cashway made<br />
her career debut with a four-length<br />
victory in the May 15, $45,000 C.O.<br />
“Ken” Kendrick Memorial Stakes (R) at<br />
SunRay Park.<br />
Ridden by Tracy Hebert, Comics<br />
Cashway covered 4 1/2 furlongs in :53.78.<br />
Todd Fincher prepped the homebred filly,<br />
who earned the $27,000 winner’s share of<br />
the $45,000 purse.<br />
Comics Cashway is one of 38 winners<br />
sired by Comic Genius, a winning<br />
19-year-old son of Unbridled whose<br />
68 starters have earned more than $1.8<br />
million and include three official blacktype<br />
stakes winners. Racing in five states<br />
between 2001-03, Comic Genius earned<br />
$108,320 from 14 outs, and his <strong>res</strong>ume<br />
included a second-place finish in the<br />
2001 Rockingham Park Derby in New<br />
Hampshire.<br />
Comic Genius is a half brother to<br />
Quinpool, a daughter of Alydar who ran<br />
third in the ’93 Kentucky Oaks (G1) at<br />
Churchill Downs. The stallion is owned<br />
by Mark F. McCarthy and stands in<br />
Albuquerque.<br />
Comics Cashway is also one of two<br />
winners from as many starters produced<br />
by Swapping Lanes, an unraced<br />
homebred 8-year-old daughter of The<br />
Way Home and a half sister to fourtime<br />
New Mexicos-bred stakes winner<br />
Comicsperfectstorm. The filly’s third<br />
dam, the unraced Peninsula Prince<br />
mare Pinkie Blue, was a half sister to<br />
Diamond Ego, a son of Bold Ego who<br />
won three unofficial black-type stakes at<br />
Albuquerque Downs in 1991.<br />
Comics Cashway was sent to post as the<br />
2-1 second choice in the field of six and<br />
returned a $6.60 win mutuel. Ghost Of<br />
Creebear, the even-money choice and the<br />
only Kendrick Memorial entry with at least<br />
one previous out, ran second to complete a<br />
$2 exacta payoff of $16.80.<br />
Orogrande, Oh So Attractive, Hot Trick<br />
and Avenue Of Fire completed the order<br />
of finish.<br />
Ghost Of Creebear is a dark bay or<br />
brown daughter of Dome racing for Mike<br />
G. Parker. The $9,900 runner-up share of<br />
the Kendrick Memorial purse pushed her<br />
bankroll to $11,128 from three starts.<br />
A full sister to four-time New Mexicobred<br />
stakes winner Lady Genius and a<br />
half to three multiple stakes winners,<br />
Orogrande races for W.D. Carson Sr.,<br />
M.H. Carson, and Leach Racing LLC.<br />
The chestnut daughter of Quinton’s Gold<br />
was making her debut in the Kendrick<br />
Memorial and banked $4,500 for her<br />
third-place run.<br />
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JIMMY DRAKE STAKES (RG3)<br />
Seis Menu DOS<br />
Southern Corona<br />
Uno Menudo<br />
Corona Cartel<br />
Southern Policy<br />
Dash Ta Fame<br />
Shes A Hauler<br />
A one-time $5,000 claimer, Seis Menudos<br />
was a prompt 6-5 favorite in the May 26<br />
Jimmy Drake Stakes (RG3) for New Mexicobred<br />
Quarter Horses at SunRay Park.<br />
Seis Menudos covered 400 yards in<br />
:19.326 and earned a career-best 101 speed<br />
index while aided by a 12-mph tail wind. J.<br />
Martin Bourdieu rode the sorrel 6-year-old<br />
gelding for owner Eloy Humberto Pena<br />
and trainer Michael Megariz III.<br />
Seis Menudos was bred by William G.<br />
McCarty. The gelding’s sire, the winning<br />
Southern Corona, ran second in the<br />
Woodlands Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park<br />
in 2004. Southern Corona has sired the earners<br />
of more than $6.2 million from 10 crops,<br />
including multiple graded stakes winners Little<br />
Bit Southern and Bp Shes Southern.<br />
Seis Menudos is one of seven winners<br />
produced by Uno Menudo, a daughter<br />
of Dash Ta Fame and the winner of the<br />
’04 Zia Futurity-RG1 at Ruidoso Downs.<br />
Uno Menudo has foaled two other stakes<br />
winners, Quatro Menudos, who won the<br />
2011 New Mexico Cup Derby-RG2 at Zia<br />
Park, and Cinco Menudos, who won the<br />
2015 New Mexico Breeders’ Championship-<br />
RG3 at Albuquerque Downs.<br />
Seis Menudos was stretching out in<br />
distance off of his head victory in the<br />
Mesilla Valley Speed Handicap-RG2 at<br />
Sunland Park. Campaigned exclusively in<br />
New Mexico, he has won 10 of 20 starts,<br />
and the winner’s share of the Jimmy Drake<br />
purse bumped his earnings to $184,811.<br />
Seis Menudos was sent to post as the<br />
6-5 favorite in the field of six and returned<br />
a $4.40 win mutuel. Major Bites finished<br />
second, 1 1/2 lengths behind the winner,<br />
to complete a $9.80 ($2) exacta.<br />
Play Misty Foreme, Carson City Girl,<br />
Jess Rueben James, and Major Moonflash<br />
completed the order of finish.<br />
Major Bites is a 4-year-old Jesse James<br />
Jr gelding campaigned by Israel Bordier.<br />
Major Bites has won four of 15 races, and<br />
was a finalist in the 2016 Shue Fly Stakes-<br />
RG2. The runner-up share of the purse<br />
pushed Major Bites’ bankroll to $116,424.<br />
Play Misty Foreme races for Robert D.<br />
Smith. A 4-year-old son of Jesse James Jr, the<br />
gelding has earned $156,054 from 16 starts,<br />
and his five wins include a nose victory in last<br />
year’s Zia Derby-RG2 at Ruidoso Downs.<br />
Contested annually at SunRay Park, the<br />
Jimmy Drake Stakes honors the memory of<br />
the late Jimmy Drake, a longtime <strong>res</strong>ident of<br />
Farmington, New Mexico, who died in 2011.<br />
Drake served as p<strong>res</strong>ident of the New Mexico<br />
Horse Breeders’ Association, as well as on the<br />
New Mexico Racing Commission from 1980-<br />
85, and he was instrumental in the opening of<br />
San Juan Downs Racetrack in ’85.<br />
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68 New Mexico Horse Breeder
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
DINE STAKES (R)<br />
Go Fo r A Strol l<br />
Attila’s Storm<br />
Garter<br />
Fo<strong>res</strong>t Wildcat<br />
Sweet Symmetry<br />
Bernardini<br />
Fire The Groom<br />
R.D. Hubbard’s Go For A Stroll, the<br />
3-5 favorite in a field of eight New Mexicobred<br />
3-year-olds, rallied to win the $40,000<br />
Dine Stakes (R) at SunRay Park on June 5.<br />
Prepped by Todd Fincher and ridden by<br />
Tracy Hebert, Go For A Stroll closed on the<br />
fractions of :24.32 and :47.97 established<br />
by pacesetter Waitingonasunnyday. The<br />
homebred dark bay or brown gelding covered<br />
6 1/2 furlongs in 1:19.32, and his margin of<br />
victory was three-quarters of a length from<br />
4-1 second choice Thunder Dome.<br />
Go For A Stroll is one of 85 winners<br />
from 122 starters sired by Attila’s Storm, a<br />
15-year-old son of Fo<strong>res</strong>t Wildcat who has<br />
sired the earners of $6.8 million from seven<br />
crops. Racing from 2004-07, Attila’s Storm<br />
won five of 18 starts, including the 2007<br />
Toboggan Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct,<br />
and earned $534,983.<br />
Attila’s Storm has sired 16 official blacktype<br />
stakes winners, including multiple<br />
stakes winners Thermal, Dashkova, and<br />
Reaper, and Hermano, the $100,000 saletopper<br />
at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale<br />
at Ruidoso Downs. The stallion is owned<br />
by R.D. Hubbard and stands for a $4,000<br />
fee at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A<br />
Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.<br />
Go For A Stroll’s dam, the unraced<br />
9-year-old Bernardini mare Garter, has<br />
foaled three winners from as many starters.<br />
Stormy Day, a full sister to the gelding,<br />
won last year’s 6-furlong Lincoln Handicap<br />
(R) at Ruidoso Downs.<br />
Go For A Stroll was shortening in<br />
distance off of his come-from-behind, neck<br />
victory in the 1 1/16-mile, $100,000 New<br />
Mexico Breeders’ Derby (R) at Sunland<br />
Park on March 26. All told, the gelding<br />
has won three of six races, and the $24,000<br />
winner’s share of the Dine Stakes purse<br />
bumped his bankroll to $128,418, of which<br />
$113,118 has been pocketed this season.<br />
Waitingonasunnyday finished third, 4<br />
1/4 lengths behind Go For A Stroll, and<br />
was fol<strong>low</strong>ed by C K Charlie, Go Gotta Go,<br />
Smashed, Blazing Away, and Que Pasa.<br />
Runner-up Thunder Dome was making<br />
his season debut in the Dine for owners<br />
W.D. Carson Sr., M.H. Carson, and Leach<br />
Racing LLC. A chestnut son of the Storm<br />
Cat stallion Dome, the gelding has won<br />
two of eight starts, including last year’s 5<br />
1/2-furlong, $152,986 Rio Grande Senor<br />
Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs, and he has<br />
banked $144,283.<br />
Waitingonasunnyday is a bay son of<br />
Weather Warning campaigned by Orville L.<br />
Blades. The gelding has won one of eight<br />
outs, and the $4,000 third-place share<br />
of the Dine purse pushed his earnings to<br />
$29,106.<br />
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TO TAH Stakes (R)<br />
PJ’s Gol d<br />
Mr. Gold Mover<br />
Shes A Looker Rf<br />
Mr. Greeley<br />
Gold Mover<br />
Silver Season<br />
Smooching<br />
PJ’s Gold led at every call en route to<br />
a 5 1/4-length victory on June 12 in the<br />
$45,000 Totah Stakes (R) for New Mexicobred<br />
2-year-olds at SunRay Park.<br />
Ridden by Enrique Gomez, PJ’s Gold<br />
covered 4 1/2 furlongs in :52.19. Henry<br />
Dominguez prepped the homebred colt for<br />
owner Paul W. Jenson.<br />
PJ’s Gold is one of four winners from<br />
nine starters sired by Mr. Gold Mover. An<br />
unraced 9-year-old Virginia-bred son of<br />
Mr. Greeley and the Grade 2-winning Gold<br />
Fever mare Gold Mover, Mr. Gold Mover<br />
is a half brother to stakes winners Maleeh<br />
and Giant Mover.<br />
Mr. Gold Mover has sired the earners<br />
of more than $163,000 from two crops,<br />
including M G M’s Valentine, the runnerup<br />
to Sippin in last year’s New Mexico<br />
Cup Lassie Championship (R) at Zia Park.<br />
The stallion is owned by JT & B Racing<br />
and stands at Bar Y Equine at Berino, New<br />
Mexico.<br />
PJ’s Gold is also the first starter foaled<br />
by Shes A Looker RF, a winning 8-year-old<br />
daughter of Silver Season. His second dam,<br />
the Sunday Minister mare Smooching, is<br />
a half sister to Ciento, a gelding who won<br />
14 New Mexico-bred stakes and earned<br />
$816,244 from 2000-08.<br />
PJ’s Gold traces back to his fourth dam,<br />
Maybe A Kiss. A winning daughter of<br />
1967 horse of the year Damascus, Maybe<br />
A Kiss was a full sister to Drachma, the<br />
winner of the 1987 Gallant Man Stakes<br />
(G3) at Saratoga, and she was a half<br />
sister to ’91 Travers Stakes (G1) winner<br />
Corporate Report.<br />
Raced exclusively in New Mexico, PJ’s<br />
Gold has won two of three starts, and the<br />
$27,000 winner’s share of the Totah Stakes<br />
purse bumped his bankroll to $34,548. The<br />
gelding was a finalist in the Copper Top<br />
Futurity (R) at Sunland Park on April 16.<br />
PJ’s Gold was sent to post as the 1-2<br />
favorite and returned a $3 win mutuel.<br />
Hollywood Henry, the 7-1 third choice,<br />
finished second to complete a $13.80 ($2)<br />
exacta.<br />
Gabby Who, Personal Guarantee,<br />
Smooth Talkin Red, and Jeremiah Who<br />
completed the order of finish.<br />
A son of Roll Hennessy Roll,<br />
Hollywood Henry was making his debut<br />
for owner Bennie A. Vanecek. The colt was<br />
purchased as a yearling for $17,500 at last<br />
year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso<br />
Downs, and he banked $9,900 for his<br />
second-place run in the Totah.<br />
Gabby Who finished 10 1/2 lengths<br />
behind PJ’s Gold. The gelded son of The<br />
Way Home has earned $4,936 from three<br />
starts for his owner, Thomas Ciaccio.<br />
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<strong>SUMMER</strong> SPRING <strong>2017</strong> 69
By Michael Cusortelli<br />
SAM HOUSTON JUVENILE STAKES<br />
Daddys BLUSHINg<br />
Big Daddy Cartel<br />
Sandy June Bug<br />
Corona Cartel<br />
Miss Racy Eyes<br />
Blushing Bug<br />
Sandys Fame<br />
Gary W. Hartstack’s Daddys Blushing<br />
took the measure of nine opponents when the<br />
he won the April 29, $48,360 Sam Houston<br />
Juvenile Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park.<br />
Ridden by Francisco Calderon and<br />
racing against a reported 18-mph head<br />
wind, Daddys Blushing went 330 yards in<br />
:16.843 and earned a 93 speed index. Leon<br />
Bard prepped the bay New Mexico-bred<br />
son of Big Daddy Cartel.<br />
Hartstack acquired Daddys Blushing for<br />
$14,000 at last year’s Ruidoso Select Yearling<br />
Sale. The gelding was bred by Mac and Janis<br />
Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico,<br />
and he is one of two stakes winners from two<br />
crops sired by Big Daddy Cartel.<br />
An 8-year-old son of Corona Cartel and<br />
the graded stakes winning Mr Eye Opener<br />
mare Miss Racy Eyes earned $121,800<br />
from five outs while racing in 2011, and he<br />
was a finalist in the 440-yard All American<br />
Futurity (G1) and 400-yard Rainbow<br />
Futurity (G1), both at Ruidoso Downs. The<br />
stallion has sired the earners of more than<br />
$737,000, including A Super Sonic Boom,<br />
the winner of last year’s New Mexico<br />
Breeders’ Futurity (RG3) at SunRay Park.<br />
Big Daddy Cartel is a half brother to stakes<br />
winner Racy La Jolla. The stallion is owned by<br />
and stands for a $3,500 fee at MJ Farms.<br />
Daddys Blushing is out of Sandy June<br />
Bug, an unraced homebred 16-year-old<br />
daughter of the Bugs Alive In 75 stallion<br />
Blushing Bug. The gelding is a half brother<br />
to two stakes winners: Junior June Bug, the<br />
winner of two stakes from 2012-13 including<br />
the 2013 Zia Derby (RG3) at Ruidoso<br />
Downs; and ’06 New Mexican Spring Fling<br />
Stakes (R) winner Hedge Fund.<br />
Daddys Blushing’s second dam, the<br />
winning homebred Dash Ta Fame mare<br />
Sandys Fame, ran second in the 1997<br />
Diamond Classic Futurity (RG1) at<br />
Casper, Wyoming. A ’95 foal, Sandys Fame<br />
produced graded stakes winner Sandys Jesse<br />
and the winning and stakes-placed Lagaria,<br />
the dam of 2011 Mountain Top Futurity<br />
(R) winner Sammy James.<br />
Daddys Blushing made his debut<br />
with a three-quarter length victory in a<br />
Sam Houston Futurity trial on April 7.<br />
The $14,508 winner’s share of the Sam<br />
Houston Juvenile purse bumped his<br />
earnings to $16,308.<br />
Just Another Natural finished<br />
second, a neck behind Daddys Blushing.<br />
Mi Rey Cartel, Krash N Diamonds,<br />
Thecartelofmiracle, Eye B Dashing,<br />
Mystical Jess, Prison Break Pilsner,<br />
Coronarita Blue, and Raise Sweet<br />
completed the order of finish.<br />
Just Another Natural is a homebred<br />
daughter of the Corona Cartel stallion<br />
Furyofthewind racing for T.C. Flack. The<br />
filly has won one of three outs and has<br />
banked $17,100.<br />
A homebred brown son of The Louisiana<br />
Cartel, Mi Rey Cartel is owned by Jose L.<br />
Estrada and Paul Lozolla. The gelding has<br />
earned $11,472 from two races.<br />
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70 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Important<br />
Reminders!<br />
HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR BROODMARE<br />
IN FOAL OUT OF NEW MEXICO?<br />
Should your mare leave the state of New Mexico after<br />
being bred, a fee of $500 along with the required<br />
form needs to be submitted to the Association office.<br />
For more information<br />
If you need applications or further<br />
information, call the New Mexico<br />
Horse Breeders Association office at<br />
(505) 262-0224<br />
<strong>NMHBA</strong> • PO Box 36869<br />
Albuquerque, NM 87176<br />
Fax (505) 265-8009<br />
The <strong>res</strong>ulting foal from said breeding must be born in<br />
New Mexico in order to be considered a New Mexico<br />
Bred foal provided that the return form was submitted<br />
prior to foaling.<br />
You can obtain the forms on our website at<br />
www.nmhorsebreeders.com or for more information,<br />
please call the Association office at (505) 262-0224.<br />
REGISTER YOUR BROODMARES<br />
Broodma<strong>res</strong> need to be registered by September 1st<br />
of the year they are bred in order for their foals to be<br />
registered without penalty. Once a Broodmare is put<br />
into the registry she is registered for life.<br />
All rules apply to Recipient Ma<strong>res</strong> as well.<br />
Current membership is required when registering<br />
any horses.<br />
All forms are available at www.nmhorsebreeders.com<br />
REGISTRATION PAPERS<br />
If you have a New Mexico Bred that has been renamed<br />
or has been given a reissued set of registration papers,<br />
you need to get them re-stamped by the New Mexico<br />
Horse Breeders’ Association Office. For further<br />
information, call (505) 262-0224.<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 71
March 15 filly by DMNV<br />
Mountable & out of Fancy Perks<br />
Alive, owned by Hilary Van Gerpen<br />
<strong>2017</strong> foal by El Damazo & out of<br />
Foundaflyer, owned by<br />
Juan & Sergio Castro<br />
March 24 filly by Right Rigger & out of<br />
First To Blush, owned by Susan Hunter<br />
April 29 filly by Finale & out of<br />
Cherokee Heart, owned by Gaylen Rust<br />
April 18 filly by Abstraction & out<br />
of Fickle, owned by Gaylen Rust<br />
<strong>2017</strong> foal by Chicks Regard & out of Total<br />
Miracle, owned by Vance Mikkelson<br />
<strong>2017</strong> foal by Big Daddy Cartel &<br />
out of Fly Stolis Chick, owned by<br />
Telma Gonzalez<br />
April 30 filly by Finale & out of<br />
Hysteria, owned by Gaylen Rust<br />
<strong>2017</strong> foal by Reagal Eagle & out of<br />
Double Moon Baby, owned by<br />
Elsa Sotelo<br />
March 8 colt by Finale & out of Time For Deception, owned by Gaylen Rust<br />
<strong>2017</strong> foal by Woodbridge & out of<br />
Averyspecialsouthern, owned by<br />
Jason & Lisa Pruitt<br />
Feb. 2 foal by Precocity & out of<br />
Miss Wil<strong>low</strong>, owned by Jay Taylor<br />
<strong>2017</strong> filly by Rebel Alliance and out of Ryzilla, owned by Brian Bentley,<br />
Bentley Farms<br />
72 New Mexico Horse Breeder
It Continues To Happen In<br />
˜ e Most Lucrative State Bred<br />
Program In ˜ e Nation!<br />
$10.4 Million Paid in 2016!<br />
Over $6 Million in Stakes Races for New<br />
Mexico Breds!<br />
Richest Day of Racing<br />
For State Breds!<br />
Come & Join Us!<br />
Get In On The<br />
Huge Purses!<br />
Watch for the <strong>2017</strong> Dates to Get Your<br />
Next Champion at one of these sales<br />
New Mexico Bred Thoroughbred Sale<br />
Fol<strong>low</strong>ed by 50 Quarter Horses<br />
August 18, <strong>2017</strong><br />
New Mexico Bred Quarter Horse Sale<br />
August 19, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Select Foal In Utero Sale<br />
August 19, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale<br />
September 1-3, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Uptown Station<br />
PO Box 36869 • Albuquerque, NM 87176<br />
(505) 262-0224 • www.nmhorsebreeders.com<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 73
Report from March <strong>2017</strong> NM Racing<br />
Commission Meeting<br />
The New Mexico Racing Commission<br />
held its monthly meeting at its headquarters<br />
in Albuquerque on Thursday, March 16.<br />
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association<br />
executive director Anna Fay Davis gave<br />
the commission the race-a-day report for<br />
the first 48 days of the Sunland Park meet,<br />
which opened December 16. During this<br />
period, the track carded 205 New Mexicobred<br />
races, 159 for Thoroughbreds and 46<br />
for Quarter Horses. By comparison, Sunland<br />
Park carded 203 state-bred races -- 152 for<br />
Thoroughbreds and 51 for Quarter Horses,<br />
during the first 48 days of its 2015-16 meet.<br />
An average of 4.27 New Mexico-bred<br />
races per day have been run during the first<br />
48 days of the Sunland Park meet, a slight<br />
increase over the 4.23 state-bred races per day<br />
during the first 48 days of its 2015-16 season.<br />
Also, during the first 36 days of the Sunland<br />
Park season, a total of 205 New Mexico-breds<br />
have competed in open overnight<br />
races, of which 56 (27 percent) finished<br />
first, second, or third. Of this total, 41<br />
were Thoroughbreds and 15 were Quarter<br />
Horses. Bonuses totaling $42,781.10 were<br />
paid to the owners of these horses.<br />
Ms. Davis added that, during the first<br />
48 days of its 2016-17 season, Sunland<br />
Park has carded 185 New Mexico-bred<br />
overnight races.<br />
“There were 1,729 New Mexico-breds<br />
that were scheduled to participate in these<br />
races,” she reported. “This is an average of<br />
9.35 New Mexico-breds per race.”<br />
Sunland Park’s 72-day meet runs<br />
through April 18.<br />
• Commissioner Jerry Cosper of<br />
Belen reported on the commission’s<br />
medication committee meeting, which<br />
was held on March 15.<br />
“The primary discussions revolved<br />
around setting up guidelines on hair<br />
testing,” Dr. Cosper said. “We’re just<br />
getting off the ground on this, but it<br />
was a good start.<br />
“We also looked at the possibility of<br />
al<strong>low</strong>ing racing secretaries to write races<br />
that have medication <strong>res</strong>trictions,” he<br />
added. “We tabled this issue and will<br />
look at it again in the future.”<br />
• New Mexico Horsemen’s Association<br />
(www.newmexicohorsemen.com)<br />
executive director Pat Bingham said that<br />
the NMHA is in preliminary discussions<br />
with Sunland Park Racetrack for an<br />
owners’ outreach celebration.<br />
“We think it would be beneficial to<br />
our existing owners, and we’re hopeful<br />
that it would help us attract new<br />
owners,” Mr. Bingham said. “As we all<br />
know, it’s the owners that help keep our<br />
industry going.”<br />
Mr. Bingham also reported that,<br />
effective April 21, beginning with drug<br />
tests performed on horses, the NMHA<br />
will no longer pay for any splits or<br />
associated costs that are requested by<br />
an owner or trainer. Anyone requesting<br />
a split test will be required to call the<br />
NMHA office in Albuquerque at (505)<br />
266-7056. If the split that is sent to<br />
the referee lab comes back negative, the<br />
owner or trainer paying for the split test<br />
will be reimbursed for the cost of the<br />
split test by the NMHA.<br />
• Commission executive director<br />
Ismael “Izzy” Trejo reported that the<br />
commission is currently advertising for<br />
stewards positions at SunRay Park, The<br />
Downs at Albuquerque, and the New<br />
Mexico State Fair meets.<br />
Also at the meeting:<br />
• The commission approved SunRay<br />
Park’s condition book for its 36-day<br />
season, which runs April 21-June 19.<br />
“Once our revenue starts to pick<br />
up, we’ll add some money to our<br />
bottom-level claiming purses,” said<br />
SunRay Park director of racing Lonnie<br />
Barber. “We are aware that our bottom-level<br />
races make our race cards go,<br />
but we also realize a need to improve<br />
the quality of our races toward the top<br />
of the class ladder.”<br />
• The commission approved the condition<br />
book and condition book officials,<br />
stakes schedule, stall application, and<br />
purse structure for The Downs at<br />
Albuquerque meet, which runs June<br />
24-September 24.<br />
Gerald Richards will serve as the<br />
track’s racing secretary, replacing Jim<br />
Collins. In addition, the track has<br />
increased its bottom-level claiming price<br />
from $5,000 to $6,250, has added a<br />
$20,000 claiming level to its condition<br />
book, and director of racing Don Cook<br />
announced that the winner of this year’s<br />
440-yard, $250,000 Downs Fall Quarter<br />
Horse Championship on September<br />
24 will earn a starting berth in the 440-<br />
yard, $750,000 Champion of Champions<br />
(G1) at Los Alamitos in December,<br />
Quarter Horse racing’s richest and most<br />
p<strong>res</strong>tigious race for older horses.<br />
“We think this will help us draw the<br />
best horses in the world for our signature<br />
Quarter Horse race, and we’re<br />
excited about that,” Mr. Cook said.<br />
• Sunland Park director of racing Dustin<br />
Dix reported that overall handle at his<br />
track is up 20 percent over last year,<br />
when an EHV-1 outbreak at the track<br />
and several nearby training centers<br />
impacted its 2015-16 meet.<br />
“Our average field size is also up over last<br />
year,” Mr. Dix added. “All indications are<br />
that we were having a successful meet.”<br />
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Report from April <strong>2017</strong> NM Racing<br />
Commission Meeting<br />
The New Mexico Racing Commission<br />
held its monthly meeting at its headquarters<br />
in Albuquerque on Thursday, April 13.<br />
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association<br />
executive director Anna Fay Davis gave<br />
the commission the race-a-day report for the<br />
first 64 days of the Sunland Park meet, which<br />
opened December 16. During this period, the<br />
track carded 274 New Mexico-bred races, 214<br />
for Thoroughbreds and 60 for Quarter Horses.<br />
By comparison, Sunland Park carded 269<br />
state-bred races -- 209 for Thoroughbreds and<br />
60 for Quarter Horses, during its 2015-16<br />
meet, which was shortened to 61 days.<br />
An average of 4.28 New Mexico-bred<br />
races per day have been run during the<br />
first 64 days of the Sunland Park meet,<br />
a decrease of 3 percent from the 4.41<br />
state-bred races per day during the track’s<br />
61-day 2015-16 season.<br />
Also, during the first 55 days of the<br />
Sunland Park season, a total of 320 New<br />
Mexico-breds have competed in open overnight<br />
races, of which 83 (26 percent) finished<br />
first, second, or third. Of this total, 63<br />
were Thoroughbreds and 20 were Quarter<br />
Horses. Bonuses totaling $58,767.50 were<br />
paid to the owners of these horses.<br />
Ms. Davis added that, during the first<br />
64 days of its 2016-17 season, Sunland<br />
Park has carded 237 New Mexico-bred<br />
overnight races.<br />
“There were 2,241 New Mexico-breds<br />
that were scheduled to participate in these<br />
races,” she reported. “This is an average of<br />
9.46 New Mexico-breds per race.”<br />
Ms. Davis also introduced Mary Barber<br />
to the commission. Ms. Barber has been<br />
the <strong>NMHBA</strong>’s registrar since 1993.<br />
“Mary is <strong>res</strong>ponsible for registering<br />
horses, keeping track of New Mexico-bred<br />
races and New Mexico-breds racing in open<br />
races,” Ms. Davis said. “When you call the<br />
office with a question, she’s the one who<br />
can find the answers for you.”<br />
Sunland Park’s 72-day meet runs<br />
through April 18.<br />
• Commission vice chair Gayla McCulloch<br />
of Farmington reported on the<br />
commission’s rules committee meeting,<br />
which was held on April 12.<br />
“The meeting went very well,” Ms.<br />
McCulloch said. “The main topic of<br />
the meeting was to update our rules to<br />
be consistent with the (Association of<br />
Racing Commissioners International’s)<br />
recent revision of their model rules.”<br />
• New Mexico Horsemen’s Association<br />
(www.newmexicohorsemen.com) executive<br />
director Pat Bingham reported that the<br />
<strong>NMHBA</strong> would hold its awards banquet<br />
in Farmington on May 10. The banquet<br />
will honor award winners from 2015-16.<br />
Mr. Bingham also said that the<br />
<strong>NMHBA</strong> has <strong>res</strong>umed producing its newsletter<br />
and that the mailing list numbers<br />
5,200 subscribers. In addition, the association<br />
is working with the University of New<br />
Mexico’s economics department to produced<br />
a report on the economic impact of<br />
the horse industry in New Mexico.<br />
“Also, (Governor Susana Martinez)<br />
will likely call a special session of the legislature<br />
in the near future, and there will<br />
be efforts to impose gross receipt taxes<br />
on our purses,” Mr. Bingham said. “We<br />
will continue to strongly oppose that.”<br />
• Commission executive director Ismael<br />
“Izzy” Trejo recently celebrated his<br />
one-year anniversary in his post.<br />
“I’d like to thank everyone who<br />
made the transition a smooth one for<br />
me, and I will continue to step out on<br />
the plank for this industry because it<br />
is one that has fed me and educated<br />
me,”said Mr. Trejo, whose father, Amalio,<br />
has been a longtime trainer on the<br />
southwest racing circuit.<br />
Mr. Trejo also reported on the p<strong>res</strong>eason<br />
walk-through at SunRay Park<br />
in Farmington, which opens its 36-day<br />
meet on April 21.<br />
“The entire facility is as tidy as it can<br />
be,” he said. “I look forward to a great<br />
meet, and I plan to visit as often as I can.<br />
“I also would like to congratulate<br />
Sunland Park on a job well done on<br />
its Sunland Derby Day program,” Mr.<br />
Trejo added. “They put on a great event<br />
for the entire weekend. It was a great<br />
event for the horse racing industry in<br />
New Mexico.”<br />
Also at the meeting:<br />
• The commission approved Dr. David<br />
Fly to be its official veterinarian for the<br />
52-day Ruidoso meet, which opens<br />
May 26.<br />
• The commission approved the fol<strong>low</strong>ing<br />
board of stewards for the SunRay Park<br />
meet: Ron Walker (p<strong>res</strong>iding), Linda<br />
Salinas, and Martin Hamilton. A former<br />
jockey, Hamilton rode the winners of<br />
796 Thoroughbred races from 1976-90,<br />
primarily on the west coast, and he has<br />
been working in various capacities as a<br />
racing official since he retired from riding.<br />
• The commission approved the jockey<br />
and exercise rider insurance policy for<br />
the Albuquerque Downs meet, which<br />
opens on June 24. “Our premium was<br />
reduced 4 percent from last year, so<br />
that’s an encouraging sign,” said track<br />
director of racing Don Cook.<br />
• The commission approved Ruidoso<br />
Downs’ request to reduce its number of<br />
race dates in <strong>2017</strong> from 60, as originally<br />
approved, to 52. Ruidoso Downs will<br />
drop Monday racing from its schedule<br />
starting July 8 through the end of its<br />
meet on September 4.<br />
Ruidoso Downs spokesman Dennis<br />
Monroe reported that the track would<br />
amend its condition book to offer 10<br />
races a day, up from the original nine,<br />
and would implement a 5-percent purse<br />
increase for overnight races.<br />
Rep<strong>res</strong>enting the New Mexico<br />
Horsemen’s Association, executive<br />
director Pat Bingham said that his<br />
group opposed the cut in dates.<br />
”Many people would be affected<br />
if the track was al<strong>low</strong>ed to cut its<br />
dates,” Mr. Bingham said. “It would<br />
cut the number of opportunities for<br />
our horsemen, particularly on the<br />
Thoroughbred side. The meet’s dates<br />
have already been set, and people have<br />
made their plans.”<br />
“With the overlap we have with<br />
Albuquerque, we have trouble filling<br />
our races as it is,” Mr. Monroe said.<br />
“Because we have such little crowd participation<br />
on Mondays, as people have<br />
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already left Ruidoso after the weekend,<br />
this move makes sense to us.”<br />
The commission approved the cut in<br />
dates by a 4-1 vote, with Ms. McCulloch<br />
casting the lone “no” vote.<br />
• The commission approved the jockey<br />
and exercise rider insurance policy for<br />
SunRay Park. “Our premium dropped<br />
by 10 percent, and we’re hoping for<br />
another good year,” said SunRay<br />
director of racing Lonnie Barber.<br />
“We’ve done a lot of work on our<br />
racetrack to prepare for the opening of<br />
our meet,” he added. “We added about<br />
1,500 tons of sand and about 1,000<br />
tons of bark, and we plan to add some<br />
gypsum to it. As of yesterday (April<br />
12), we had 21 horses on the grounds,<br />
but we had enough stall application to<br />
fill up our barns when the meet starts.<br />
A lot of horses will be showing up in<br />
the next week.”<br />
• Sunland Park director of racing Dustin Dix<br />
reported that handle on Sunland Derby<br />
Day, March 26, reached $3.2 million.<br />
“We were hoping for $4 million, but<br />
we were very pleased,” he added. “After<br />
what happened last year and being that<br />
we were forced to cancel it last year, it<br />
was good to have it back this year. We<br />
added a Pick-4 wager and rolling double<br />
wagers, and we increased the amount of<br />
time between races to accommodate the<br />
large crowd.<br />
“To hear Sunland Park mentioned<br />
in a national spotlight is good for New<br />
Mexico racing,” Mr. Dix said. “I’ve<br />
been fortunate enough to be a part of<br />
every Sunland Derby since the race’s<br />
inception, and to see how much it’s<br />
grown in stature is very gratifying. We<br />
hope to grow it even more.”<br />
Report from May <strong>2017</strong> NM Racing<br />
Commission Meeting<br />
The New Mexico Racing Commission<br />
held its monthly meeting at its headquarters<br />
at SunRay Park Racetrack and Casino<br />
on Thursday, May 11.<br />
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association<br />
executive director Anna Fay Davis gave<br />
the commission the final race-a-day report<br />
for the 72-day Sunland Park meet, which<br />
ran December 16-April 18. During the<br />
Sunland meet, the track carded 309 New<br />
Mexico-bred races, 242 for Thoroughbreds<br />
and 67 for Quarter Horses. By comparison,<br />
Sunland Park carded 269 state-bred races --<br />
209 for Thoroughbreds and 60 for Quarter<br />
Horses, during its 2015-16 meet, which<br />
was shortened to 61 days.<br />
An average of 4.29 New Mexico-bred<br />
races per day have were run during the<br />
2016-17 Sunland Park meet, a decrease of<br />
2.7 percent from the 4.41 state-bred races<br />
per day during the track’s 2015-16 season.<br />
Also, during the Sunland Park season, a<br />
total of 450 New Mexico-breds competed in<br />
open overnight races, of which 120 (27 percent)<br />
finished first, second, or third. Of this<br />
total, 91 were Thoroughbreds and 29 were<br />
Quarter Horses. Bonuses totaling $88,625.90<br />
were paid to the owners of these horses.<br />
Ms. Davis added that, during the Sunland<br />
meet the track carded 270 New Mexico-bred<br />
overnight races.<br />
“There were 2,595 New Mexico-breds<br />
that were scheduled to participate in these<br />
races,” she reported. “This is an average of<br />
9.61 New Mexico-breds per race.”<br />
Ms. Davis also gave the commission the<br />
race-a-day report for the first eight days<br />
of the 36-day SunRay Park meet, which<br />
opened April 21. During this period, the<br />
track carded 18 New Mexico-bred races,<br />
10 for Thoroughbreds and eight for<br />
Quarter Horses. By comparison, SunRay<br />
Park carded 15 state-bred races -- five<br />
for Thoroughbreds and 10 for Quarter<br />
Horses -- during the first eight days of its<br />
2016 season.<br />
An average of 2.25 New Mexicobred<br />
have been run during the first eight<br />
days of the <strong>2017</strong> SunRay Park meet, an<br />
increase of 19.7 percent over the 1.88<br />
state-bred races per day during the track’s<br />
2016 season.<br />
Ms. Davis added that, during the first<br />
eight days of the SunRay meet, the track<br />
carded 13 New Mexico-bred overnight races.<br />
“There were 109 New Mexico-breds<br />
that were scheduled to participate in these<br />
races,” she said. “This is an average of 8.38<br />
New Mexico-breds per race. We are working<br />
with the director of racing (Lonnie Barber)<br />
to get the average up to three before the<br />
meet is over.”<br />
• New Mexico Horsemen’s Association<br />
(www.newmexicohorsemen.com)<br />
executive director Pat Bingham<br />
thanked Lonnie Barber for hosting the<br />
NMHA’s awards banquet at SunRay<br />
Park. The banquet honored the New<br />
Mexico award winners from the 2015<br />
and ’16 seasons.<br />
Mr. Bingham also told the commission<br />
that the University of New Mexico<br />
is conducting an economic impact study<br />
for the state’s racing industry, and that<br />
the NMHA is distributing a quarterly<br />
newsletter to its membership.<br />
Mr. Bingham added that the NMHA<br />
supports the concept of mixed meets at<br />
New Mexico tracks and the 60/40 (percent)<br />
splits between Thoroughbred and<br />
Quarter Horse races.<br />
• Commission executive director Ismael<br />
“Izzy” Trejo said that he attended<br />
the opening-day program at SunRay<br />
Park, which was held April 21. The<br />
commission’s safety walk-through at<br />
Ruidoso Downs, which he attended, was<br />
held on May 8. On May 1, Mr. Trejo<br />
conducted some interviews for the open<br />
position of commission investigator.<br />
Also, the commission’s equine disease<br />
protocols were changed, effective<br />
May 11. A health certificate for horses<br />
traveling intra-state must have been<br />
issued within the last 30 days. All health<br />
certificates must be issued at the point<br />
of origin for the horse; in the event<br />
of an outbreak, the 72 hours will be<br />
required for health certificates.<br />
• New Mexico Horse Breeders’<br />
Association p<strong>res</strong>ident Ralph Vincent and<br />
American Quarter Horse Association<br />
chief racing officer Janet Van Bebber<br />
both exp<strong>res</strong>sed concern to the<br />
commission regarding the plans of two<br />
76 New Mexico Horse Breeder
tracks to apply for all-Thoroughbred<br />
meets for <strong>2017</strong>-18.<br />
Mr. Vincent also p<strong>res</strong>ented to the commission<br />
a petition, which basically asked the<br />
commission not to cut racing opportunities<br />
for Quarter Horses next year.<br />
One petition signer specifically<br />
spoke against a reduction in Quarter<br />
Horse races.<br />
“I am not happy with the request<br />
from the two racetracks,” the signer<br />
stated. “The major reason the New<br />
Mexico state legislature al<strong>low</strong>ed gaming<br />
was to support the horse-raising industry<br />
in the state. The cutting of Quarter<br />
Horse racing in the state is not something<br />
that I would ever support and<br />
should not even be considered.<br />
“I am sure many more legislators feel<br />
the same way and would be looking at<br />
keeping this from happening,” the signer<br />
added. “The racehorse industry needs<br />
to be supported at all levels to provide<br />
the important economic benefits to the<br />
state and its <strong>res</strong>idents. I strongly object<br />
to the consideration of this proposal<br />
against Quarter Horse racing in the<br />
state of New Mexico.”<br />
Ms. Van Bebber reminded the commission<br />
that the AQHA sponsors the<br />
six “integrity teams” for enforcement<br />
during many big racing events in New<br />
Mexico, including the All American<br />
Futurity (G1) at Ruidoso Downs.<br />
Also at the meeting:<br />
• The commission approved the fol<strong>low</strong>ing<br />
board of stewards for the Ruidoso Downs<br />
meet, which opens May 26: Violet Smith,<br />
Jill Cathey, and Ruben Rivera.<br />
• The commission approved the<br />
fol<strong>low</strong>ing board of stewards for the<br />
Albuquerque Downs meet, which<br />
opens June 24: Ron Walker, Martin<br />
Hamilton, and Linda Salinas.<br />
• The commission approved Dr. Frank<br />
Anderson to work as the official state<br />
veterinarian for the first week of the<br />
Albuquerque Downs meet. Mr. Trejo<br />
said that he will announce who will<br />
complete the season at a later date.<br />
• The commission approved an amending<br />
of the SunRay Park stakes schedule to<br />
cancel the New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes<br />
(RG3) for state-bred 3-year-old Quarter<br />
Horses, which was scheduled to be run<br />
on May 12.<br />
• The commission approved the<br />
application of Matt Crawford to serve<br />
as racing secretary during the Zia<br />
Park meet, which runs September<br />
9-December 12. The commission also<br />
approved the amending of the closing<br />
dates for some of the track’s stakes, as<br />
well as the track’s stall application.<br />
• The commission approved the jockey and<br />
exercise rider insurance policy for Ruidoso<br />
Downs. The premium for the policy<br />
decreased 25 percent from 2016.<br />
Report from June <strong>2017</strong> NM Racing<br />
Commission Meeting<br />
The New Mexico Racing Commission<br />
held its monthly meeting at its headquarters<br />
in Albuquerque on Thursday, June 15.<br />
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association<br />
executive director Anna Fay Davis gave<br />
the commission the race-a-day report for<br />
the first 28 days of the SunRay Park meet,<br />
which opened April 21. During this period,<br />
the track carded 74 New Mexico-bred<br />
races, 42 for Thoroughbreds and 32 for<br />
Quarter Horses. By comparison, SunRay<br />
Park carded 64 state-bred races -- 34 for<br />
Thoroughbreds and 30 for Quarter Horses<br />
during the first 28 days of its 2016 meet.<br />
An average of 2.64 New Mexico-bred<br />
races per day have been run during the<br />
first 28 days of the SunRay Park meet, an<br />
increase of 15 percent over the 2.29 statebred<br />
races per day contested during the<br />
first 28 days of the track’s 2016 season.<br />
“I don’t think we’ll get the average of<br />
New Mexico-bred races per day above 3<br />
(at SunRay Park), but we are certainly better<br />
than where we were during the same<br />
period last year,” said Ms. Davis.<br />
Also, during the first 19 days of the Sun-<br />
Ray Park season, a total of 308 New Mexico-breds<br />
have competed in open overnight<br />
races, of which 106 (34 percent) finished<br />
first, second, or third. Of this total, 50<br />
were Thoroughbreds and 56 were Quarter<br />
Horses. Bonuses totaling $51,523.50 were<br />
paid to the owners of these horses.<br />
Ms. Davis added that, during the first<br />
28 days of its <strong>2017</strong> season, SunRay Park<br />
has carded 64 New Mexico-bred overnight<br />
races.<br />
“There were 528 New Mexico-breds<br />
that were scheduled to participate in these<br />
races,” she reported. “This is an average of<br />
8.25 New Mexico-breds per race.”<br />
SunRay Park’s 36-day meet runs<br />
through June 19.<br />
Ms. Davis also gave the commission the<br />
race-a-day report for the first eight days of<br />
the Ruidoso Downs meet, which opened<br />
May 26. During this period, the track<br />
carded 32 New Mexico-bred races, 14 for<br />
Thoroughbreds and 18 for Quarter Horses.<br />
By comparison, Ruidoso Downs carded 28<br />
state-bred races -- 11 for Thoroughbreds<br />
and 17 for Quarter Horses -- during the<br />
first eight days of its 2016 meet.<br />
An average of 4 New Mexico-bred races<br />
per day have been run during the first<br />
eight days of the Ruidoso Downs meet, an<br />
increase of 14 percent over the 3.5 statebred<br />
races per day during the first eight<br />
days of the track’s 2016 season.<br />
Ms. Davis added that, during the first<br />
eight days of its <strong>2017</strong> season, Ruidoso<br />
Downs has carded 20 New Mexico-bred<br />
overnight races.<br />
“There were 165 New Mexico-breds<br />
that were scheduled to participate in these<br />
races,” she said. “This is an average of 8.25<br />
New Mexico-breds per race.”<br />
Ruidoso Downs’ 52-day meet runs<br />
through Labor Day, September 4.<br />
In addition, Ms. Davis distributed the<br />
<strong>2017</strong> version of the <strong>NMHBA</strong>’s marketing<br />
brochure. The foldout brochure points out<br />
the history of horse racing in New Mexico<br />
and the <strong>NMHBA</strong>’s mission statement, and<br />
it includes a membership application.<br />
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• Commission vice chair Gayla McCulloch<br />
of Farmington reported on the<br />
commission’s race dates committee<br />
meeting, which was held on June 14.<br />
“The meeting went well, and all race<br />
dates (for 2018) were settled except for<br />
SunRay Park,” she said. “SunRay had<br />
originally applied for a 36-day season<br />
but shortened their request to 33.<br />
“(Ruidoso Downs executive) Shaun<br />
Hubbard brought up the concept of<br />
purse-sharing between tracks, which<br />
wasn’t supported,” Ms. McCulloch<br />
added. “We also discussed the possibility<br />
of eliminating overlaps so we<br />
don’t have more than one track racing<br />
at a time. We also talked about having<br />
enough horses to fill our races,<br />
acknowledging that foal crops have<br />
declined.<br />
“We have to fight these issues every<br />
year,” she said. “If we are going to thrive<br />
as an industry, we are going to have to<br />
look at things differently in the future.”<br />
Commission chairman Ray Willis of<br />
Roswell said that the New Mexico racing<br />
industry has a chance to improve its<br />
product and should take advantage of<br />
the opportunity.<br />
“Texas has issues, and so does<br />
California,” Mr. Willis said. “We have<br />
year-round racing in our state. We have<br />
several good opportunities, and now is<br />
a good time to take advantage of them.<br />
It’s the mission of this commission<br />
to make sure racing is beneficial to all<br />
stakeholders.”<br />
The fol<strong>low</strong>ing race dates were<br />
approved for 2018:<br />
• Sunland Park (72 days), December<br />
15-April 17<br />
• SunRay Park (33 days), April 21-June<br />
18. The meet will last nine weeks, with<br />
the track running three days a week for<br />
the first weekend, and three days per<br />
week for the last two weekends.<br />
• Ruidoso Downs (47 days), May<br />
25-September 3. The track will run a<br />
four days during its first weekend, which<br />
includes the Memorial Day holiday,<br />
and four days during its final weekend,<br />
which includes the Labor Day holiday.<br />
The <strong>res</strong>t of the meet will consist of<br />
three-day weeks.<br />
• Albuquerque Downs (38 days), June<br />
29-September 1<br />
• New Mexico State Fair at Albuquerque<br />
Downs (17 days), September 2-23.<br />
• Zia Park (56 days), September<br />
8-December 11<br />
“Going forward, I think we should<br />
have race dates committee meetings<br />
every month, or at least every two<br />
months,” Ms. McCulloch said. “If we<br />
don’t get on top of these issues we have,<br />
then I guarantee we’ll be going through<br />
the same things next year.”<br />
• New Mexico Horsemen’s Association<br />
(www.newmexicohorsemen.com) executive<br />
director Pat Bingham reported that<br />
the economic impact study currently<br />
being conducted by the University of<br />
New Mexico’s economics department<br />
will be conducted in two stages.<br />
“The first stage will focus on the<br />
horse racing industry’s current impact<br />
on the state’s economy,” Mr. Bingham<br />
said. “The second stage will look<br />
at future impacts and project where<br />
we might be five, 10, even 15 years<br />
from now. We expect the first part<br />
of the impact study to come out in<br />
September.”<br />
• Commission executive director Ismael<br />
“Izzy” Trejo gave the commission his<br />
monthly report.<br />
“I was at Ruidoso Downs last weekend,<br />
and they had a great weekend of<br />
racing with the rarity of two dead heats<br />
(for the win) in two Grade 1 races in<br />
two days,” he said. “I also visited Sun-<br />
Ray Park recently and had an informal<br />
chat with horsemen. I met with (general<br />
manager) Brad (Boehm) and (director<br />
of racing) Lonnie (Barber) and sat in<br />
the racing office and saw how they had<br />
to scramble to fill a nine-race card. I<br />
watched the race office staff hustle and<br />
the horseman come through to make<br />
the card go.”<br />
Mr. Trejo also reported on the p<strong>res</strong>eason<br />
walk-through at Albuquerque<br />
Downs, which opens its 58-day meet on<br />
June 24.<br />
“The stewards’ office has been renovated,<br />
and it’s plain to see that (track<br />
p<strong>res</strong>ident) Paul Blanchard has invested<br />
much of the track’s profits back into the<br />
facility,” he added. “I’m optimistic that<br />
it will be a great meet.”<br />
Also at the meeting:<br />
• The commission announced its schedule<br />
of regular monthly meetings for the <strong>res</strong>t<br />
of the year. All meetings will be held in<br />
Albuquerque unless otherwise noted:<br />
Thursday, July 13 (at Ruidoso Downs)<br />
Thursday, August 17<br />
Thursday, September 14<br />
Thursday, October 12<br />
Thursday, November 16.<br />
• The commission approved the<br />
establishment of a race review<br />
committee consisting of Jerry<br />
Nicodemus, Harold Payne, Kenneth<br />
Hart, and Dr. Scot Waterman<br />
(alternate), whose purpose will be<br />
to review race appeals before they<br />
are brought to the full five-member<br />
commission.<br />
• The commission approved Dr.<br />
Alan Chastain to serve as its out-ofcompetition<br />
veterinarian and Dr. Scot<br />
Waterman to serve as its equine medical<br />
director for Fiscal Year 2018.<br />
• The commission approved Dr. Rodney<br />
Taylor to serve as state veterinarian for<br />
the 58-day Albuquerque Downs/New<br />
Mexico State Fair meet, which runs<br />
June 24-September 24.<br />
• The commission approved Sunland<br />
Park’s <strong>2017</strong>-18 stakes schedule, which<br />
will basically be the same as last year.<br />
The only major exception will be<br />
that the New Mexico State Racing<br />
Commission Stakes (R) purse will be<br />
increased to $100,000 and will be run<br />
on Sunland Derby Day, March 25.<br />
The La Coneja Stakes (R) for fillies<br />
and ma<strong>res</strong> will be moved from Sunland<br />
Derby Day to March 17.<br />
• SunRay Park director of racing Lonnie<br />
Barber discussed his track’s difficulty<br />
filling races during its <strong>2017</strong> meet.<br />
“We had to cancel two stakes due<br />
to lack of entries, and we ran one New<br />
Mexico-bred 2-year-old stakes with six<br />
head -- five first-time starters and one<br />
maiden,” he said. “We’re going to take<br />
a look at our stakes schedule for next<br />
year. We’re going to meet with the<br />
horsemen and breeders to see what we<br />
can do to get these races to fill.<br />
“We’re looking at maybe going to a<br />
Saturday-through-Tuesday schedule for<br />
next year, and maybe switching our all-<br />
Quarter Horse day to either Saturdays<br />
or Sundays,” Mr. Barber added.<br />
The next New Mexico Racing Commission<br />
monthly meeting is scheduled<br />
for Thursday, July 13, at Ruidoso<br />
Downs. For more information, visit the<br />
commission’s website at http://nmrc.<br />
state.nm.us, or call (505) 222-0700.<br />
78 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Douglas Clayton Davidson<br />
1949 - <strong>2017</strong><br />
In Memoriam<br />
Douglas Clayton Davidson, 68, of Farmington, passed<br />
away Wednesday, March 22, <strong>2017</strong>, in Albuquerque. He<br />
was born Jan. 6, 1949, in Farmington to Elmer Dewey<br />
and Frieda Foutz Davidson.<br />
Doug graduated from Kirtland Central High School<br />
in 1967, and attended New Mexico Technical Institute,<br />
but his passion was horses. Doug was a highly regarded<br />
jockey for 29 years and retired to become a trainer for<br />
20+ years. He always said, “His talent was all in his<br />
hands.” His race track family meant everything to him.<br />
Doug always went out of his way to help fel<strong>low</strong> riders,<br />
friends, or family, and loved his animals no matter how<br />
big or small.<br />
Doug is survived by his wife, Nanette; son, Darren<br />
(Kimberly) Davidson; stepchildren, Ryan Fetters and<br />
Rachelle Stewart; four grandchildren; his siblings,<br />
Sherri Sue Titus, Lynda Storme Thompson (Norman),<br />
Michael (Cynthia) Davidson, Dayna Bush, Starr (Mark)<br />
Seifried and Michelle Bergal; and numerous nieces and<br />
nephews.<br />
A Celebration of Life was held April 29 along with<br />
“Doug Day at the Races” at the SunRay Park and<br />
Casino in Farmington, NM. In lieu of f<strong>low</strong>ers, please<br />
send donations to Making A Mark, The Mark A. Villa<br />
Memorial Foundation, at P.O. Box 41233, Phoenix,<br />
AZ 85080.<br />
Steven Prather<br />
1957 - <strong>2017</strong><br />
Steven Dean Prather, 59, was born August 29,<br />
1957 in Denver City, TX, to Paul ‘’Dink’’ and<br />
Bessie Prather. He passed away on May 13, <strong>2017</strong> in<br />
Houston, TX. Steven had numerous achievements<br />
in his life and was a member of various associations,<br />
including: working alongside his father Dink at<br />
Chaparral Service, Inc. in Eunice, NM, until it was<br />
sold in 2006; was a Master Mason of the Eunice<br />
Masonic Lodge since March of 1982; served on the<br />
Lea County Fair Board from October 17, 1988 to<br />
May 19, 1993; was a member of the State Board<br />
for the New Mexico Horseman’s Association in<br />
2005 and 2006; served on the Zia Park Horseman’s<br />
Committee in 2005 and then again from 2011<br />
through 2016; and served on the New Mexico Horse<br />
Breeders’ Association Board of Trustees in 2015 and<br />
2016. Steve owned and operated Doubletree Farm<br />
and also recently received the Jim Curry Memorial<br />
Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Mexico<br />
Horseman’s Association for the year of 2016.<br />
He married Susan Hughes on April 20, 2002 in<br />
Hobbs, NM, and is survived by his wife, Susan Prather of<br />
Hobbs, NM; children, Adrianne Williams and husband<br />
Todd of Lubbock, TX, Rowdy Prather of Clovis, NM,<br />
Russell Pickerel of Eunice, NM, Kevin Pickerel of<br />
Midland, TX, Jarod Pickerel, of Hobbs, NM; his mother,<br />
Bessie Prather of Hobbs, NM; two sisters, Stephanie<br />
Prather of Alamogordo, NM and Sherry Prather of<br />
Eunice, NM; grandchildren, Allison Williams, Alexandria<br />
Prather and Reese Williams; numerous nieces, nephews,<br />
aunts, uncles, cousins and very special friends. He was<br />
preceded in death by his father, Paul ‘’Dink’’ Prather. In<br />
lieu of f<strong>low</strong>ers, please send memorial contributions to Cal<br />
Farley’s, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79174.<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 79
CLASSIFIEDS<br />
CORNER<br />
FARMS & RANCHES<br />
Mountain States Equine<br />
Mary Cap, DVM<br />
2604 Pinson Road<br />
Hobbs, New Mexico 88242<br />
Phone (575) 392-7488<br />
REAL ESTATE<br />
TRAINERS<br />
MB<br />
Standing:<br />
FIRST CLASS SIGN<br />
Open stalls available for<br />
2018 breeding season!<br />
Sale Prep<br />
Available<br />
for<br />
All Major Sales<br />
Mike Barber<br />
Racing Stable<br />
Racing QHs & TBs<br />
Throughout The Southwest<br />
Phone (505) 877-3720<br />
Cell (505) 249-8979<br />
Advertiser’s Index<br />
A & A Ranch ............................................................................................ 9<br />
Bentley Farms ...................................................................................... 80<br />
Cox Ranch ............................................................................................ 26<br />
Crystal Springs .................................................................................... 28<br />
Double LL Farm ........................................................ Back Cover, 12-13<br />
Doubletree Farm LLC ............................................................................ 5<br />
El Rancho Go Broko ............................................................................ 39<br />
E Slash Ranch ................................................................................... 2-3<br />
Evans Racing Stables ......................................................................... 51<br />
Hunter Creek Farms, LLC ..................................... Inside Front Cover, 1<br />
Lazy A Farm ........................................................................................ 24<br />
Michelet Homestead Realty ................................................................ 80<br />
Mike Barber Racing Stable ................................................................. 80<br />
Mountain States Equine ....................................................................... 80<br />
New Mexico’s Licensed Horse Rescues ............................................... 7<br />
New Mexico Horse Breeders Association .... 6, 14, 40-43, 52-53, 73, 74<br />
New Mexico Horsemen's Association .................................................. 25<br />
Paragon Farms ..................................................................................... 27<br />
Ruidoso Horse Sales Company ........................................................... 29<br />
Sierra Blanca Equine ..................................................................... 15-18<br />
Sunland Park ........................................................................................ 47<br />
The Downs at Albuquerque ............................................................ 55-57<br />
The Quarter Company, LLC ....................................... Inside Back Cover<br />
TNL Farm, Inc. ..........................................................................11, 34-35<br />
3 Thoroughbred<br />
Yearling Consignments to the<br />
New Mexico Bred Sale!<br />
ALL SIRED BY OUR VERY OWN REBEL ALLIANCE:<br />
Half-brother to Grade 3 Winner FISHY ADVICE ($505,850). By QUIET AMERICAN ($754,650),<br />
Champion Sire of Nearly $65 Million. Out of 4-Time Stakes Winner LADY SKYWALKER ($215,326).<br />
NAME PENDING, 2016, f.<br />
(Rebel Alliance-Admired Most, Cuvee)<br />
Out of a full sister to Grade 2<br />
Placed Curlina ($161,537, dam<br />
of Grade 3 Placed Sine Wave,<br />
<strong>2017</strong>, $83,400), 4-Time Winner<br />
LIMESTONE EDGE ($178,492),<br />
etc. 2 nd dam is Most Admired<br />
($10,400), half-sister to Grade<br />
1 Winner MENHOUBAH<br />
($464,601), etc.<br />
NAME PENDING, 2016, g.<br />
(Rebel Alliance-Binnster, Tabasco Cat)<br />
Half-brother to 6-Time Winner<br />
BEN BREEZY ($83,530), NUGGET<br />
QUEEN ($39,208), etc. Out of a<br />
winning daughter of TOBASCO<br />
CAT ($2,347,671), a half-sister to<br />
5-Time Winner READY FOR<br />
REGENT ($68,587), LABEEB<br />
LUCKY GIRL ($21,439), etc.<br />
2 nd dam is Fit And Ready<br />
($129,218), half-sister to<br />
Champion XTRA HEAT<br />
($2,389,635), etc.<br />
NAME PENDING, 2016, g.<br />
(Rebel Alliance-La Luz, Minister Eric)<br />
Out of 3-Time Winner La Luz<br />
($78,102), half-sister to 3-Time<br />
Winner Bloss ($99,561), 3-Time<br />
Winner TOO LOW FOR ZERO<br />
($35,565), ATTACKING LOB<br />
($19,405), etc. 2 nd dam is 3-Time<br />
Winner LA FEVER ($28,845),<br />
half-sister to Ecuador Champion<br />
& Horse of the Year<br />
MISS VANCOUVER.<br />
BENTLEY FARMS • Brian Bentley • (505) 261-3858<br />
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80 New Mexico Horse Breeder
“Whenbetterthannow,<br />
Sway Away’s first starter<br />
in NM. Wins “with plenty<br />
left” at Sunland Park”
NEW MEXICO’S LEADING BREEDER OF<br />
CHAMPION QUARTER HORSES AND THOROUGHBREDS<br />
ALSONO TB<br />
(Limehouse-Miss Blue Grass, St. Jovite)<br />
CAPITOL GUY TB<br />
(Dome-Elated Again, Geiger Counter)<br />
FIRST MOONFLASH<br />
(First To Flash-Nagano Moon, Major Rime)<br />
We thank all our clients,<br />
old and new, for their<br />
enthusiastic support of<br />
this industry and their<br />
continuing trust and faith<br />
in Double LL Farms.<br />
Dee and I love what we<br />
do and we simply could<br />
not do it without great<br />
clients, incredible stallions<br />
& ma<strong>res</strong>, and more than<br />
just a little luck.<br />
JESS A CHICKS<br />
(Chicks A Blazin-Jess Satin, Mr Jess Perry)<br />
LAUGH TRACK TB<br />
(Distorted Humor-Flaming Heart, Touch Gold)<br />
DOME TB<br />
(Storm Cat-She’s Tops, Capote)<br />
EYE ON CORONA<br />
(Corona Cartel-Louisiana Eye Opener,<br />
Mr Eye Opener)<br />
We are blessed and<br />
humbled by the miracles<br />
we witness every day,<br />
thank you for sharing<br />
your dreams with us.<br />
-W.L.<br />
SIXES ROYAL<br />
(Royal Quick Dash–Tempered Glass, Streakin Six)<br />
ROCK SOLID JESS<br />
(Mr Jess Perry-Rockin The Tetons, Tolltac)<br />
PO Box 40 • Bosque, New Mexico 87006<br />
W. L. Mooring • (505) 864-2485 • www.DoubleLLFarms.com • LLFarm@q.com<br />
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