COVER 1 - NMHBA SUMMER 2017 low res
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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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