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By Michael Cusortelli
NEW MEXICAN SPRING FUTURITY (RG2)
Mo neys A Mak er
Sixes Royal
Money Smart Gal
Royal Quick Dash
Tempered Glass
First Smart Money
Lynns Allante
Enrique Barrera’s Moneys A Maker
parlayed a sharp break from his rail post
into a neck victory in the April 8, 300-yard
New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) for
state-bred juveniles at Sunland Park.
Prepped by Cynthia Gonzalez and aided
by a reported 15-mph tail wind, Moneys
A Maker stopped the timer in :15.202
and posted a 91 speed index under jockey
Mauro Salcedo. The $170,604 winner’s
share of the $362,987 purse increased the
gray gelding’s earnings to $180,542 from
three starts.
Moneys A Maker was bred by Dee
Mooring and Jaime Cervantes, and Barrera
acquired the gelding as a yearling for
$4,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale
at Ruidoso Downs. His sire, Sixes Royal, is
a 16-year-old Grade 1-winning son of the
First Down Dash stallion Royal Quick Dash
and the Grade 2-winning Streakin Six mare
Tempered Glass.
Racing primarily in New Mexico and
Texas from 2003-04, Sixes Royal banked
$384,977 from 17 starts, and his five wins
included a neck victory in the 2004 Texas
Classic Derby (G1) at Lone Star Park. The
stallion has sired the earners of more than
$6.3 million from 10 crops, including
multiple graded stakes winners Streak Of
Sixes and Sixy Chamisa.
Sixes Royal is a half brother to Grade
3 winner Four Six Dash. He is owned by
Mike Abraham and stands for a $2,500
fee at W.L. Mooring’s Double LL Farm at
Bosque, New Mexico.
Moneys A Maker’s dam, Money Smart
Gal, is an 11-year-old winning daughter
of First Smart Money. The gelding’s
second dam, the Takin On The Cash
mare Lynns Allante, won two stakes
from 1998-2001, including the 2000
AQHA New Mexico Distaff Challenge
at Ruidoso Downs, and she produced All
Lucky Lynn, a stakes-placed daughter
of Gold Medal Jess and a half sister to
Money Smart Gal.
Moneys A Maker’s third dam, the winning
Hempen (TB) mare Sweet Blush, foaled two
stakes winners in addition to Lynns Allante:
Blushing Bug, a two-time stakes winner and
runner-up in the 1988 Horsemen’s Quarter
Horse Racing Association Championship
(G1) at Los Alamitos, and multiple stakes
winner Make Em Blush.
The fifth-fastest qualifier to the Spring
Futurity, Moneys A Maker broke his
maiden with a nose victory as the 11-10
favorite in his trial on March 17. The
gelding was sent to post at odds of 8-1 in
the final and returned a $19 win mutuel.
Cadilac Flash, a 14-1 longshot, ran
second to complete a $2 exacta payoff of
$223. Tempting Star Gazer, fastest qualifier
and 1-2 favorite Flash Moonfire, Two
Wines, Jans Cartel, Miles Of Flash, Bigg
Daddy, Flashin Angel, and Wood Be Kuhi
completed the order of finish.
Cadilac Flash, the third-fastest
qualifier, is a homebred daughter of
champion First Moonflash campaigned by
Fred Danley. The chestnut filly has earned
$70,678 from two outs.
Tempting Star Gazer races for Jose
R. Espinosa and Jill Giles. A bay son of
First Moonflash and a $23,000 yearling
purchase at the 2016 New Mexico-Bred
Sale, the gelding has banked $41,887 from
two starts.
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