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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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