New Mexico State Fair - New Mexico Horse Breeders Association

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Tommie Morelos/Coady Photo Lineage Championship winner Miracle Snow . “This is a nice horse, and he had beaten a lot of the same horses in his previous races,” added the rider. “He was due for a win today.” Shez Mighty Pfind, a 16-1 longshot, ran second, and was followed by 8-5 favorite In Famous Caper, Take On Smashing, BP Shes Southern, Caliente Tyger, Gold Zime, Coronas Rocky, and Lite A Fire. A 6-year-old Heza Bold Man mare owned and trained by Raymond Valerio, Shez Mighty Pfind has earned $156,939 from 40 outs, and her eight wins include last year’s La Mariposa Handicap (G3) and Buttons and Bows Stakes (G3) at The Downs at Albuquerque. The one-time $10,000 claimer also ran third, three-quarters of a length behind winner Me Chickie, in last year’s Lineage Championship. In Famous Caper races for Ramon O. Gonzalez Jr. of Edgewood, New Mexico, who claimed the 5-year-old Dash Ta Fame gelding for $10,000 at Zia Park in October 2009. In Famous Caper has won eight of 32 starts – including the 350-yard, $100,000 Mesilla Valley Speed Handicap (RG2) at Sunland Park on March 14 – and he has earned $222,227, of which $153,324 has come since the claim. he was worth a claim. “After I got him, I had him scoped, and he had a lung infection,” he added. “I fixed that, and the horse started eating better and training better. I worked him here about five days ago, and he looked super. Ken Tohill worked him that day, and he told me he thought this was a stakes horse.” Cowboy Got Game was bred by Rita Danley of Anthony, New Mexico, and the gelding is one of three stakes winners from 24 starters sired by Rabbits Rainbow, a Yawls Rabbit stallion who won six stakes from 1998-99, including the ’98 West Texas Sun Country Futurity (G1) at Sunland Park. Now 14 and a full brother to 2001 Zia Futurity (RG1) winner Rabbits Jet, Rabbits Rainbow has sired six crops and the earners of more than $934,000, including his top earner, 2008 New Mexico Cup Futurity (RG1) winner Rabbit Revival. The stallion stood the 2009 season for a $2,000 fee at Weatherly Horse Farm at Anthony, New Mexico. Cowboy Got Game is also one of five winners from as many starters foaled by Cowgirl Cadillac, a daughter of the Dash For Cash stallion Celadon who won three graded futurities in 1998, including the $135,491 Zia Futurity (RG2) at Ruidoso Downs. Cowgirl Cadillac has produced three stakes winners, including On Star Cowboy, a gelding by champion Now I Know whose five 870 stakes victories included the 2006 Challenger Six Handicap (RG1) at Sunland Park, and Cowboy Jackpot, a Jacksboro gelding who won the 2005 Getaway Handicap (G3) at Sunland. Cowboy Got Game’s second dam, the winning Six Fortunes mare Surprising Fortune, was a finalist in the 1991 Santa Fe Downs Derby (RG3). A 1988 New Mexico-bred foal, Surprising Fortune also foaled five winners from five starters, including two stakes-winning half sisters to Cowgirl Cadillac – Grit And Glamour, a filly by Bar Forth who won the 2000 Shue Fly Stakes (RG3) at Sunland Park, and Real Fortunate Gal, a Real Runaway filly who won the ’05 Lineage Championship (R) at The Downs at Albuquerque. Surprising Fortune is a half sister to Real Easy Surprise, a filly by Realeasy Chick who won the 1989 Prescott Downs Derby. Cowboy Got Game has won three of 12 races – includ- JOHN AUGUSTINE STAKES (R) Cowboy Got Game A $10,000 claim on June 24, Cowboy Got Game paid immediate dividends for his new connections when he scored a wire-to-wire, three-length victory in the $40,000 John Augustine Stakes (R). Alejandro Medellin rode the 4-year-old Rabbits Rainbow gelding for owner Ramon O. Gonzalez Jr. of Edgewood, New Mexico, and trainer Andres Gonzalez. Making his first start since the claim, Cowboy Got Game covered 870 yards in :44.630 and earned a lifetime-best 103 speed index. “I watched this horse gallop and train in the mornings at SunRay Park, and I always liked the way he looked, but they never ran him in a claiming race,” said Ramon Gonzalez. “So that day, when I saw him in for a claim, I decided Cowboy Got Game is an easy winner in the John Augustine. Tommie Morelos/Coady Photo 18 New Mexico Horse Breeder
ing one of five at the 870 distance – and he has earned $64,462. Last year, the gelding ran fourth, 2 ¼ lengths behind winner Lethal Delight, in the $334,257 Shue Fly Stakes (RG1) at Sunland Park. Of his total bankroll, Cowboy Got Game has earned $24,544 since Gonzalez’s claim. “When I’m training my horses, I watch everybody else’s horses,” he said. “When I like one horse, I just follow him every morning. I’ve been doing that for about 24 years. “With this horse, it looked like the gallop boy was fighting him every time,” Gonzalez added. “The horse looked unhappy. I’ve been patient with him. If you treat a horse the right way, he’ll give you everything he has.” Whata Lucky Man, an 18-1 longshot, ran second, a nose in front of 17-10 favorite Heza Bold Color. GHF Roadrunner, Mr Frenchman, Should Been A Cowboy, and KC Royal Flush completed the order of finish. Whata Lucky Man earned $8,400 for his owner, Rene Saucedo of El Paso, Texas, who claimed the 8-year-old Fast Debonair gelding for $12,500 in December 2009. All told, Whata Lucky Man has banked $232,577 from seven wins in 59 outs, of which $47,570 has been earned since the claim, and his stakes record includes a neck victory in the 2004 Zia Juvenile Invitational (R) at Ruidoso Downs. Heza Bold Color was coming off of a third-place finish to BRT Opulence in the August 1, $50,000 Zia 870 Championship (R) at Ruidoso Downs. The 6-year-old bay gelding and one-time $10,000 claimer by Heza Bold Man has earned $149,242 from seven victories in 30 starts. Six of Heza Bold Color’s wins have come at the 870-yard distance. DON JUAN DE ONATE STAKES (R) Smash Dancer Miguel Hernandez rode Smash Dancer to the gelding’s richest-ever victory in the 6-furlong, $40,000 Don Juan de Onate Stakes (R) for state-bred 3-year-olds. Saddled by Todd Fincher for owner Barbara M. Coleman of Farmington, New Mexico, the homebred bay gelding by Robyn Dancer stopped the timer in 1:08.59, and his margin of victory was 5 ½ lengths from 11-10 favorite Lester’s Echo. The $24,000 winner’s share of the purse represented the biggest payday of Smash Dancer’s 11-race career. Smash Dancer was coming off of a troubled fourth place finish in the August 1, $50,000 Roadrunner Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs. “He had a perfect trip today, and at Ruidoso he was stuck in between horses on a really fast pace, and another horse came over and bothered him, cut his front right leg and knocked him off stride,” said Fincher. “But this horse has run a good race his last five or six races. He’s just steadily improving.” “The cut was nothing serious,” added the trainer. “It just broke the skin.” Smash Dancer is one of 415 winners from 555 starters sired by the late Robyn Dancer, a son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Crafty Prospector who won the Grade 3, $107,700 Triple Bend Handicap (G3) at Hollywood Park in 1991 and November 2010 ran third in that season’s $1-million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Churchill Downs. A Kentucky-bred, Robyn Dancer has sired 20 stakes winners and the earners of more than $29.1 million, including two-time Grade 3 winner Dancing Guy. He was euthanized last December after he kicked a stall wall and shattered the sesamoids in his hind leg. Smash Dancer is also one of seven winners from as many starters produced by Some Smash, an unraced 15-year-old daughter of the Rare Performer stallion Rare Brick. The gelding is a half brother to two stakes winners by Ghostly Moves – Some Ghost, a gelding who has won eight stakes from 2005-09, including the $100,000 Albert Dominguez Memorial Handicap (R) at Sunland Park from 2006-09, and Zzzs Ghost, the winner of the 2006 Chief Narbona Stakes (R) at Albuquerque. Smash Dancer’s second dam, the Star de Naskra mare A Smash, won the 1985 Willard C. Kruger Handicap at The Downs at Albuquerque. A 1982 Kentucky-bred foal, A Smash foaled the late A Smashing Chance, a colt by Mogambo who won the ’92 Old Town Derby at Albuquerque, and Slamming, a gelding by Claim who ran second in the $100,000 Gold Rush Futurity at Arapahoe Park in 1995. Smash Dancer traces back to his third dam, the late Binary mare Half Smash. A winner of two stakes in New Mexico from 1973-74, including the 1973 Rio Grande Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, Half Smash produced 12 winners from 12 starters, including three stakes winners. One her foals, the Native Uproar gelding Last Eight Club, won two stakes on the turf in 1990 in Oklahoma and Louisiana, including the listed $50,000 Bossier City Handicap at Louisiana Downs. Half Smash was a half sister to 1976 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Futurity winner Smash It, a filly by Foggy Road who died in ’82. Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, Smash Dancer has earned $91,500 from four wins in 11 starts. The gelding followed his Don Juan de Onate win with a 1 ¾-length victory in a 6-furlong, $39,200 allowance sprint at Zia Park on September 11. “This horse is getting better to train all the time – the Don Juan De Onate winner Smash Dancer. 19 Tommie Morelos/Coady Photo
Page 1 and 2: New Breeder Mexico Horse November 2
Page 3 and 4: Premier Mare Care Facility The only
Page 5 and 6: November 2010 5
Page 7 and 8: authorities at the time of publicat
Page 9 and 10: FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ruidoso
Page 11 and 12: famous lane si 106 First Foals Will
Page 13 and 14: chickie Cherry cola si 107 Sire of
Page 15 and 16: PELICAN STAKES (RG3) Woody Dungaree
Page 17: Tommie Morelos/Coady Photo gelding
Page 21 and 22: Tommie Morelos/Coady Photo win in 1
Page 23 and 24: Tommie Morelos/Coady Photo I am Les
Page 25 and 26: Bred nearly 100 mares in 2010 1st y
Page 27 and 28: NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR BREEDERS’ S
Page 29 and 30: at Albuquerque is when he got run o
Page 31 and 32: the 4 ½-furlong, $75,000 C.O. “K
Page 33 and 34: GEORGE MALOOF FUTURITY (R) Russian
Page 35 and 36: ``You don’t need to know English
Page 37 and 38: REMINDER !!!!!!!! Registration as a
Page 39 and 40: NEW MEXICO’S LICENSED HORSE RESCU
Page 43 and 44: special talent, but everybody pitch
Page 47 and 48: Mi k k e l s o n Ra c i n g Racing
Page 53 and 54: the time we started him on the plat

New Mexico State Fair - New Mexico Horse Breeders Association

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?