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By Michael Cusortelli
COPPER TOP FUTURITY (R)
On The Low Dow n
Dome
Speedin Excess
Storm Cat
She’s Tops
In Excess (IRE)
Danish Dessert
On The Low Down, a chestnut son
of Dome racing for Dale Taylor, Bobby
McQueen and Suzanne Kirby, broke his
maiden with a 1 1/4-length victory in the
April 16, $147,196 Copper Top Futurity
(R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at
Sunland Park.
Ridden by Tracy Hebert for trainer
Todd Fincher, On The Low Down
covered 4 1/2 furlongs in :51.17. The
$73,598 winner’s share of the purse
increased the gelding’s earnings to
$75,556 from two outs.
On The Low Down made his debut
with a second-place finish in the second
of three Copper Top trials on March 25.
The gelding was bred by Brad King and
Todd Fincher, and he became the seventh
black-type stakes winner from 13 crops
sired by Dome, an unraced 19-year-old
son of the Storm Bird stallion Storm Cat
and a half brother to multiple Grade 1
winner Dixie Union.
Dome entered stud in ’02, and he has
sired the earners of more than $5.4 million
from 176 starters, including multiple stakes
winners Glory Be Mine, ZZ Dome, and
Etoile de Dome. The stallion is owned by
Hardeman LLC and stands for a $2,500
fee at W.L. and Dee Mooring’s Double LL
Farm at Bosque, New Mexico.
On The Low Down is also one of two
winners from as many starters produced by
Speedin Excess, an 11-year-old daughter
of the Siberian Express stallion In Excess
(IRE) who ran second in the 6-furlong,
$122,050 Barretts Debutante Stakes (R)
during the Los Angeles County Fair meet
at Fairplex Park in 2008.
On The Low Down’s second dam, the
Regal Classic mare Danish Dessert, is a half
sister to two stakes winners: Ever Steady,
a four-time stakes winner at Woodbine
Racecourse near Toronto and Exhibition
Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, from
1989-90, and Sparrow Lake, a two-time
stakes winner at Woodbine in 1988. The
gelding traces back to his third dam, Stray
Flight, a daughter of the Northern Dancer
stallion Viceregal and a half sister to Cadet
Corps, the winner of the ’81 Prince of
Wales Stakes (R) at Fort Erie.
Sent to post at odds of 7-1 in the field
of nine, On The Low Down returned a
$16.20 win mutuel and teamed with 4-5
favorite Red Raider for a $2 exacta payoff
of $50.40. Storm The Beach, a 12-1
longshot, finished third, 1 3/4 lengths
behind On The Low Down, to complete a
$171.40 ($1) trifecta.
Happy Resources, Western Warning,
Belly Button Who, Diabolical Empress,
P J’s Gold, and Big Boom completed the
order of finish. Tucker D was scratched.
Red Raider is a homebred son of the
Hennessy stallion Roll Hennessy Roll
racing for Brad King and Dale Taylor. The
winner of the first Copper Top Futurity
trial on March 25, the chestnut gelding
has earned $34,779 from two outs.
Storm The Beach is campaigned by
J & SM Inc. of Fort Stockton, Texas,
which acquired the gelded son of Attila’s
Storm from breeders Tom and Leslie
Goncharoff for $28,000 at last year’s
New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale at
Ruidoso Downs. Storm The Beach has
won one of two outs and has banked
$23,004.
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