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Horse Breeder
New Mexico
July 2010
Verny Remains Undefeated!
July 2010
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Southern Corona
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Metallic Lion
SI-102, $262,082 (Apollo TB - Diva Reba,
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Horse Breeder
New Mexico
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Officers
President
Q. Mike Cadotte
1st Vice President
Jay L. Taylor
2nd Vice President
Denton Crozier
Norma Alvarez
Rita J. Danley
Dan S. Delaney
Tom Goncharoff
Thomas W. Pierce, Jr.
Kay M. Thurman
Johnny Trujillo
Chuck Webb
Mark Wise
Peralta
Albuquerque
Hobbs
La Union
Anthony
Las Cruces
Tularosa
Albuquerque
Belen
Tularosa
Farmington
Las Cruces
Anna Fay Davis
Executive Director
Mary M. Barber
Registrar
Amber Martin
Administrative Assistant
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On The Cover: Verny winning the Totah TB Futurity at SunRay
Park: Tommie Morales/Coady Photography
INSIDE
News...
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Legend Blane Schvaneveldt
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Letter From the Executive Director
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Upcoming Events and Deadlines
Important Reminders
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Letter From the President
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New Members
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The Anderson Family and Quarter Win Farms
By Glenda Price
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Updated Equine Piroplasmosis Info
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SUNRAY PARK
Russell and Helen Foutz Handicap
Jack Cole Handicap
Four Corners Senora Stakes
NM Breeders Stakes
Aztec Oaks
NM Breeders QH Futurity
C.O. “Ken” Kendrick Stakes
Totah Stakes
Tommy “Duke” Smith Handicap
NM Horsemen’s Association H.
SunRay Firecracker Stakes
Dine Stakes
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RUIDOSO DOWNS
Mountain Top QH Futurity
Mountain Top TB Futurity
Sierra Blanca Handicap
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Out In The Pasture
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Forms & Intructions
AQHA Notice
NM-bred Races
Classified Corner
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Friendly Fly Trap
By Heather Smith Thomas
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Chuck Webb
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Ad Deadline
For 2010 September Issue
August 10, 2010
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Jack Brooks, JackMartin, Eddie Garcia, Leonard Blach and Paul Jones
2010 Class Inducted Saturday Into
Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame
The 2010 class of trainer Paul Jones, owner/breeder Dr.
Leonard Blach, jockey Eddie Garcia and All American Futurity winner Mr Master Bug was inducted into the Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame on June 27 during ceremonies at Ruidoso
Downs.
Paul Jones is the eight-time defending national quarter horse
training champion and the only trainer to have three or more wins
in the Grade 1, $2,000,000 All American Futurity and the Grade 1,
$750,000 Champion Of Champions at Los Alamitos Race Course
in Southern California. The All American Futurity is the premier
quarter horse race for 2-year-olds while the Champion Of Champions is the sport’s iconic race for older horses.
Jones-trained horses have won more than 3,000 races – including 321 stakes races – and earned nearly $57,000,000.
Dr. Leonard Blach of Roswell, New Mexico is a veterinarian
who has overseen the breeding careers of many historic quarter
horse stallions, including Easy Jet, Go Man Go and Rocket Wrangler. He opened the first equine surgical hospital in New Mexico
near Santa Fe and managed Buena Suerte Ranch in Roswell.
Blach achieved international racing fame in 2009 as co-owner
of Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, who went on to finish
second in the Preakness Stakes and third in the Belmont Stakes.
Garcia is the all-time leading rider of winners and stakes winner at Los Alamitos Race Course. He won the 1993 All American
Futurity aboard A Classic Dash and also holds victories in the Los
Alamitos Two Million Futurity, Golden State Million Futurity, the
Los Alamitos Championship and the Los Alamitos Derby.
Marvin and Lela Barnes’ homebred Mr Master Bug won
the 1982 All American Futurity, 1983 Rainbow Derby and 1984
All American Gold Cup at Ruidoso Downs. Trained by Ruidoso
Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame member Jack Brooks, he was the
all-time leading money earner upon his retirement and is still the
all-time leading money-earning stallion with $1,793,718 in career
earnings.
The Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame is located on
the second floor at Ruidoso Downs and is open during racing
hours. Admission is free.
Report from June NM Racing Commission Meeting in Albuquerque
The New Mexico Racing Commission held its monthly meeting at
its headquarters in Albuquerque on Friday, June 18.
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association executive director
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Anna Fay Davis gave the commission her race-a-day reports for
SunRay Park and Ruidoso Downs through June 13. During the
first 32 days of the SunRay meet, the track ran 160 New Mexicobred races – 113 for Thoroughbreds and 47 for Quarter Horses.
By comparison, SunRay carded 192 state-bred races during the
first 40 days of its 2009 meet, 113 for Thoroughbreds and 79 for
Quarter Horses.
Through June 13, during the first 32 days of its current meet,
SunRay has run an average of 5 New Mexico-bred races a day,
an increase of 4 percent over the average of 4.8 state-bred races
a day during the first 40 days of its ’09 season.
Ruidoso Downs’ meet, which opened May 28, has seen a
total of 47 New Mexico-bred races during its first 12 days – 25 for
Thoroughbreds and 22 for Quarter Horses. A total of 75 state-bred
races – 47 for Thoroughbreds and 28 for Quarter Horses – were
contested during the first 19 days of the track’s 2009 season.
Through June 13, during the first 12 days of its current meet,
Ruidoso has run an average of 3.92 New Mexico-bred races a
day, a decrease of less than one percent from the average of 3.95
state-bred races a day during the first 19 days of its ’09 season.
During the first 25 days of the SunRay meet, a total of 185
New Mexico-bred Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses ran in open
overnight races, of which 58 (32 percent) finished first, second, or
third. Of this total, 47 were Quarter Horses and 11 were Thoroughbreds. Bonuses totaling $37,393.20 were paid to the owners
of these horses.
During the first three days of the Ruidoso Downs meet, a total
of 11 New Mexico-bred Thoroughbres and Quarter Horses ran in
open overnight races, of which two (19 percent) finished first, second or third. Of this total, one was a Quarter Horse and one was a
Thoroughbred. Bonuses totaling $816 were paid to the owners of
these horses.
In his monthly report to the commission, New Mexico Horsemen’s Association executive director Pat Bingham talked about
the NMHA board meeting held on June 15.
“The horsemen are frustrated about the situation in Raton,
especially those who races in the northern part of the state,” Bingham said. “We would like to see this situation resolved as soon as
possible. We understand that (Horse Racing at Raton LLC) has
the right for due process, but everybody concerned would like to
see closure on this matter as soon as possible.”
Bingham also revisited the issue of allowing maidens older
than 5 years of age to race at New Mexico tracks.
“Nobody has shown me any scientific reason why maidens
should be allowed to race if they’re 6 years old or older,” he said.
“Their knees are set, and their joints and legs are set.”
Commission chairperson Marty Cope responded to Bingham,
saying that the commission considered the matter closed.
“I hear from trainers all the time, and you are the only person
who’s in support of allowing maidens older than 5 to race,” she
said. “We’re not going to consider it.”
The commission also heard testimony from the Jockeys’
Guild regarding the matter of losing jockey mount fees. Southwest
region manager John Beech and attorney Mindy Coleman represented the Guild.
The issue of losing jockey mount fees came to a head at SunRay Park on April 24, when jockeys refused to ride, forcing track
management to cancel its scheduled 10-race program.
Beech said that there has only been one losing-mount fee
increase since 1985, and that was $5 in 2000.
“Since 1985, trainers’ day rates have gone up, and farriers
have raised their rates, but mount fees have effectively been cut
in half since then when you factor in the cost-of-living increase,”
he added.
Beech cited examples of other tracks that have increased
their mount fees, including Arlington Park near Chicago, and
tracks in California and Oklahoma. He said that, in California, the
losing mount fee is currently $55, but it’s scheduled to increase to
$65 in 2011 and $75 in ’12. A minimum mount fee of $80 has just
been established at Arlington, and starting on July 11 the minimum mount fee will increase to $75 at Remington Park and Fair
Meadows at Tulsa in Oklahoma.
Also, Beech noted that the minimum mount fees at Turf Paradise and Yavapai Downs were $55 and $50, respectively.
Commission vice chairman Eddie Fowler and Beech agreed
that the losing mount fees at New Mexico tracks shouldn’t be the
same at Sunland Park, Zia Park, and SunRay Park, where purses
are among the highest in the state, as they are at The Downs at
Albuquerque and Ruidoso Downs, where purses are the lowest.
Cope encouraged the Jockeys’ Guild and NMHA to work out
their differences on the issue before the commission’s next meeting on July 21, “or we will resolve it then.”
The commission also approved Ruidoso Downs’ All American
Future Wager. Modeled after the Kentucky Derby Future Wager
conducted by Churchill Downs, the All American Future Wager will
take place from July 15-18.
Like the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, bettors will be able
to choose between 24 betting interests – 23 named horses and
one field entry, encompassing all other horses. The wager will
be available at Ruidoso Downs and its off-track wagering sites,
including Los Alamitos, and a website has been established at
www.aafuturewager.com.
The All American Futurity (G1) trials will be run at Ruidoso
Downs on August 19, with the $1.9-million final scheduled for
Labor Day, September 6.
Equine Injury Database Statistics Discussed At
Third Welfare And Safety Of The Racehorse Summit
At the third Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit held
at Keeneland on June 28 and 29, Dr. Tim Parkin, noted epidemiologist from the University of Glasgow’s Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, presented a preliminary analysis of racing fatalities in
North America from data compiled in the Equine Injury Database.
Fatality information was based upon a year’s worth of data
beginning November 1, 2008, from 378,864 total starts in Thoroughbred flat races at 73 racetracks participating in the Equine
Injury Database at that time.
The conclusions presented by Dr. Parkin included:
The incidence of fatality in 2-year-olds for the one-year period
July 2010
was significantly lower than that of older horses, 3 years of age
and up
The incidence of fatality in fillies, mares and geldings for the
one-year period was significantly lower than that of intact males
The incidence of fatality for the one-year period was not
significantly different for horses racing at different distances or
carrying different weights
The incidence of fatality for the one-year period was not
significantly different for dirt, synthetic and turf racing surfaces, or
condition of the dirt and turf racing surfaces
“This preliminary analysis just scratches the surface,” said
Parkin, who serves as a consultant on the Equine Injury Database. “As the number of starts recorded in the database continues
to grow, more complex statistical analyses can focus upon multiple variables studied in concert to better understand the myriad
of factors which may contribute to fatal and non-fatal injuries. In
addition, differences that may not have achieved statistical significance after one year of data collection may do so with additional
observations recorded in the database.”
“The work presented today represents a starting point, not
a destination,” said Dr. Mary Scollay, equine medical director for
the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and a consultant on the
Equine Injury Database. “This begins to answer the question of
what is happening. The ‘how’ and ‘why’ remain to be determined.”
“The creation and existence of the Equine Injury Database
serves as a shining example of what can be achieved when industry stakeholders work together under a shared goal to improve the
health and safety of our equine athletes,” said Matt Iuliano, the executive vice president and executive director of The Jockey Club.
“Dr. Parkin’s work illustrates the importance of a database such as
the Equine Injury Database, supplemented with other information
to support our decision makers with good science for analyzing
and solving problems facing our industry. We look forward to the
continued development and integration of additional information
resources to assist our industry leaders.”
The Jockey Club, through two of its for-profit subsidiary companies, InCompass and The Jockey Club Technology Services
Inc., has underwritten the cost to develop and operate the Equine
Injury Database as a service to the industry. By agreement with
the participating racetracks, from time to time The Jockey Club
may publish certain summary statistics from the Equine Injury Database, but will not provide statistics that identify specific participants, including racetracks, horses or persons. The Equine Injury
Database contains a suite of reports for racetracks to analyze
data collected at their respective facilities.
A list of racetracks participating in the Equine Injury Database
can be found at jockeyclub.com/initiatives.asp.
New Mexico-bred Sale Catalog Available
The New Mexico-Bred Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred
Yearling Sale catalog is now available at Robin Glenn Pedigree's
Web site. Click here to access the catalog.
The New Mexico-Bred Sale will be hosted at the Ruidoso
Sale Co., and features 433 cataloged horses. The sale will be
held August 20-21, on the weekend after the All American Futurity
(G1) and All American Derby (G1) trials. Click here to visit Ruidoso Sale Co.'s Web site.
AQHA Launches Full Circle
American Quarter Horse owners love their horses – past,
present and future – and many want to keep track of those horses
even after they are sold.
The American Quarter Horse Association developed the Full
Circle program to reunite breeders and previous owners with
horses they remember well. Through the free Full Circle program,
AQHA members will be able to indicate on a horse’s registration
certificate that if the horse ever becomes unwanted, unusable or
simply ready for retirement, the member will – if possible – assist
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in providing or finding a suitable home.
Originally dubbed Greener Pastures, the program has been
renamed Full Circle and enhanced. The Full Circle name more
accurately reflects the goal of the program when horses that were
once sold by their original owner come full circle back to them,
often times after lengthy careers enriching lives of multiple riders.
Even in the program’s short existence, AQHA has received success stories from customers who have been reunited with horses
they once owned. To read more about Full Circle, visit http://www.
aqha.com/fullcircle.
The free, voluntary program does not guarantee a buyback or
exchange of money will occur nor that a horse is assured a home
– situations can and do change. It allows members an opportunity to keep track of and provide for the long-term care of horses
they’ve bred or owned. However, you must be an AQHA member
to sign up and enroll a horse in the program. AQHA members can
enroll a horse by logging in to the member services section at
www.aqhamembers.com or by calling the Registration Department
at (806) 376-4811.
“AQHA wants to help responsible horse owners,” said Don
Treadway Jr., AQHA executive vice president. “We believe we can
better serve the equine industry and help ensure the long-term
care of horses we register with this program. By implementing Full
Circle, we begin to fill a void.”
Through this new program, the Association will act as a
clearinghouse by tracking Full Circle-enrolled horses and AQHA
members who have indicated the desire to help.
Jockey G.R. Carter Tops $50 Million
Champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr. on June 20 topped the
$50 million mark in earnings. Carter is the sport's all-time leading
jockey by money earned.
Carter on Sunday rode New Mexico Streaker to a secondplace finish in the Mountain Top Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, garnering a $40,705 check and moving him over the earnings mark.
His earnings by the end of the weekend stood at $50,017,598.
Carter is a nine-time champion jockey, including winning the
award for consecutive years from 2003 to 2008. Jockey Jacky
Martin, who recently returned to race riding, is No. 2 on the alltime earnings list with $41.4 million.
Avenue Of Flags
It is with great sadness, that we announce the death of Avenue
of Flags. Avenue of Flags, 22 years old, son of Seattle Slew, was
euthanized on May 14, 2010, due to an accident in his paddock.
Avenue of Flags was buried at GW Stables Estate under the
pecan trees where he used to watch over his broodmare band.
Avenue of Flags was owned by Winners Circle Bloodstock, Inc.
Let The Musicbegin
Three-time stakes winner and earner of over $360,000, Let The
Musicbegin was put to rest after a stall injury on June 2. The talented mare owned by Ladies First and Winstar Farm and trained
by Claire Greenwood won the Permian Basin Stakes at Zia Park,
the Sydney Valentini Handicap at Sunland Park and the Russell
and Helen Foutz Handicap at SunRay Park. The Chimes Band
mare was bred Pierre Amestoy.
Howard L. “Cotton” Beddo
Howard L. “Cotton” Beddo died March 6, 2010. He was born
in Hobart, Oklahoma in 1935 and became involved with horses
and horse racing at a very young age through the interests of his
father E.R. Beddo, a Quarter Horse trainer.
After graduating high school in Midwest City, Oklahoma,
he enlisted in the Army and with 504th Operations Detachment
of 34th Brigade as Assistant Chief Plotter at the Antiaircraft
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Operations Center in Germany. After returning home Cotton
trained Quarter Horses at Raton, New Mexico, Los Alamitos,
California and Centennial in Denver. He began working on the
starting gate at Ruidoso Downs in 1960 and assisted Dr. Joe
Miller in his veterinary practice. The two men decided to become
partners and in 1964 began Ho-Jo Farm, a thoroughbred breeding
facility in Anthony, New Mexico. Cotton was co-owner and farm
manager.
Among the stallions Cotton and Dr. Miller brought to New
Mexico to stand at Ho-Jo Farm were Sheila’s Reward, Binary,
Tyler’s Hill, Foggy Road, Arachnoid and Scout Leader. As partners
they bred, raised and raced many stakes winners including Frosty
Tail, Centavos. Prince of Birds, a colt they bred and sold as
yearling won the Irish Two Thousand Guineas in 1987.
Cotton bred, and raced Indiahoma, who won the California
Cup Mile in 1998.
Cotton is survived by Eleanor, his wife of 48 years and by
his three sons; Mike, Byron and Sheldon, their wives and five
grandchildren.
Ozzie Reeves
Ozzie Reeves, 84, formerly of La Villita, New Mexico died
in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 16, 2010. He was born in Camp
Springs, Texas. During his childhood his family travelled from
Alabama to Arizona where he worked all kinds of odd jobs. He
enlisted in the U.S. Navy at age 17. He worked as the ship’s
cobbler on the USS Vicksburg and saw action in the Pacific
Theater during WWII. He learned telecommunications during
his service in the Navy and went to work as a lineman for the
Mountain States Telephone Company after his discharge.
He worked on telephone lines between El Paso, Texas
and Trinidad, Colorado. He married Jane Ellen Cartwright
on December 4, 1948. Together they purchased a telephone
company in Chama. He and Jane worked the company for many
years and later bought and sold other telephone companies. He
was an avid businessman and was later instrumental in the water
works in Chama. He was also the founder and board member of
several banks.
He was also a hunter and fisherman and once took the editor
of Sports Illustrated up on the Cumbres to fish.
In 1966 he sold his telephone companies and decided to live
his lifelong dream of owning Thoroughbred racehorses, travelling
to Kentucky to purchase four yearlings who would become La
Villita Ruler, La Villita Lady, Princess Flame and Nasky Lyn. He
owned raced and trained until 1981 racing at tracks in California,
New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska and Pennsylvania eventually
owning fifty and standing two stallions at stud - O Be Joyful and
Real Petty. During this time he was a member of the New Mexico
Horse Breeders Association and lobbied for passage of a bill to
award monies to owners and breeders of New Mexico-breds. In
1980 he was awarded the association’s Horseman of the Year
Award. He was also active politically throughout his life.
In 1993 he sold his New Mexico property and moved to Vera,
Oklahoma where he purchased a 1600 acre ranch and raised
cattle and pecans.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife of 52
years, Jane; and two brothers. He is survived by his long-time
companion, Betty Jo With; his children, daughter Marilyn Reeves
and husband Mathew Maes; son Mike Reeves; and daughter
Peggy and husband Howard Reed; four grandchildren and 2 great
grandchildren; his brother Larry Reeves and wife Jaime; and his
sister Barbara “Bobbie” Swinney.
Cremation has taken place and a celebration of Ozzie’s life
will be held in September. Donations in Ozzie’s memory can be
made to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, P.O. Box
3387, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866.
QUARTER HORSE TRAINING LEGEND BLANE
SCHVANEVELDT PASSES AWAY
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif.-Blane Schvaneveldt, the legendary Quarter Horse trainer whose influence on the sport
was felt throughout the western United States, has died,
the family announced on July 5.
Schvaneveldt, of Cypress, Calif., died on July 5. He
suffered a heart arrhythmia on July 2, the family said over
the weekend in a statement released by the publicity department of Los Alamitos Race Course.
Schvaneveldt was hospitalized at Los Alamitos Medical Center after showing signs of distress on the morning
of July 2 while having breakfast with his wife, Shirley, in the
backstretch café at Los Alamitos racecourse. Earlier that
morning, he oversaw the training of his racing stable.
Schvaneveldt was 76.
Schvaneveldt won 3,982 races and 38 training titles at
Los Alamitos, and trained such champions as Refrigerator, First Down Dash, Town Policy, and Dash for Speed, to
name a few.
The full extent of his achievements is unknown. The
American Quarter Horse Association did not keep individual
records for trainers until 1970. Schvaneveldt had a record
386 Quarter Horse stakes wins at Los Alamitos.
“He may have been the best trainer to ever put his
hands on a horse,” said trainer Jack Van Berg, a friend of
Schvaneveldt’s who won the 1987 Kentucky Derby with
Alysheba.
One of 12 children born in Preston, Idaho, Schvaneveldt began training in the Pacific Northwest, and relocated to Los Alamitos in 1968. Over the years, he won many
of the track’s major stakes multiple times, including nine
runnings of the Champion of Champions, the annual yearJuly 2010
end race that plays a pivotal role in the World Champion
voting, the highest honor in Quarter Horse racing.
Among his other prestigious wins, Schvaneveldt won
six runnings of the Ed Burke Futurity and Go Man Go
Handicap and won five runnings of the El Primero Del Ano
Derby, Los Alamitos Derby, Vessels Maturity, Golden State
Futurity and Governor’s Cup Futurity.
“It’s hard to imagine a Los Alamitos racecourse without
Blane Schvaneveldt,” said Edward C. Allred, the owner
of Los Alamitos Race Course. “During my early days as a
racehorse owner and breeder, I relied heavily on his knowledge and counsel. I can’t begin to tell people how much I
will miss him.”
At his stable’s height from the mid-1970s to the early
1990s, Schvaneveldt trained for many of the sport’s most
prominent owners, from states and regions such as California, Oklahoma, Texas and the Pacific Northwest. At one
time, Schvaneveldt had a division racing at Sunland Park
and Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.
Schvaneveldt led the nation’s Quarter Horse trainers in
money won and earnings in 1977, and repeated those titles
for the next eight years. The AQHA inaugurated a title for
champion trainer in 1985, and Schvaneveldt was the first
winner and earned the award annually through 1996.
Schvaneveldt was active with his stable this year
despite persistent health problems in recent years, particularly with his back. Last month, his Divide the Cash set a
350-yard track record at Los Alamitos. On Memorial Day,
he traveled to Idaho for a high school class reunion.
Schvaneveldt won the richest race of his career in December 2008 when Tres Passes won the $2,038,250 Los
Alamitos Two Million Futurity. The win surpassed a milestone that had lasted a month. Schvaneveldt won his first
seven-figure race in November 2008 when Tres Passes
won the Golden State Million Futurity.
Inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2001, Schvaneveldt served in two organizations that led the sport – the
AQHA racing committee and AQHA racing council. A ranch
owner in Romoland, Calif., where he stood stallions, Schvaneveldt conducted an annual yearling sale in Southern
California.
Schvaneveldt’s influence in Quarter Horse Racing led
to two races being named in his honor in recent years – the
Blane Schvaneveldt Futurity at Wyoming Downs and the
Blane Schvaneveldt Handicap at Los Alamitos, which will
be run this year on Oct. 1.
A burial service was held in Preston, Idaho on July 13.
A memorial service was also held at Los Alamitos Race
Course following the burial.
Schvaneveldt is survived by his wife, Shirley; two
daughters, Shonna Smith and Brenda Figueroa; and three
grandchildren, Brandi Mitchell, Brayden Figueroa and Barrett Figueroa. By Orlando Gutierrez
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Sunland Park concluded the race meet on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. They ran 426 New Mexico Bred races in 77 days.
2010 – 77 DAYS
2009 COMPARISON – 77 DAYS
264 TB OVERNIGHT
112 QH OVERNIGHT
8 TB TRIALS
18 QH TRIALS
15 TB STAKES
9 QH STAKES 426 TOTAL
230 TB OVERNIGHT
126 QH OVERNIGHT
6 TB TRIALS 17 QH TRIALS
13 TB STAKES 9 QH STAKES 401 TOTAL
5.54 AVERAGE PER DAY
287 TB + 139 QH = 426
+ 272 FOR TWO A DAY
5.21 AVERAGE PER DAY
249 TB + 152 QH = 401
+ 247 FOR TWO A DAY
NM Breds in Open Overnight Races at Sunland Park
# of Horses
2010
422
2009
315
Came in 1st,
2nd or 3rd
103
70
%
TB
QH
Amount Paid
25
22
10
19
93
51
$106,914.40
$ 92,981.90
I would like to thank Sunland Park for being supportive of the New Mexico Bred Program.
Michael Cusortelli has been updating the website (nmhorsebreeders.com). Hopefully you have had a chance to review the site.
Michael refers to the website as a work in progress. If anyone has a farm or business and would like for it to be listed online, please
contact him at oaktown_c@hotmail.com.
Currently there are two issues we are trying to solve:
1. Sale sites for New Mexico Breds. Options are being reviewed and we hope to have horses for sale available soon.
2. Looking at the possibility of having banner ads on the website.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact Michael Cusortelli at oaktown_c@hotmail.com.
Make plans to attend the buyer’s seminar on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at the Ruidoso Horse Sale Pavilion from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00
a.m. There will be discussions regarding conformation, veterinary concerns and understanding sales catalog terminology.
The industry will be working on the 2011 race dates in the near future. At the June Commission meeting, all the racetracks submitted the 2011 Primary Application, 2011 Race Dates and 2011 Simulcast License. The 2011 Race Dates and Simulcast License for La
Mesa Racetrack, Zia Park, SunRay Park, Ruidoso Downs, Downs At Albuquerque and New Mexico State Fair were tabled.
Be sure to stop by the Association booth during Zia Festival and the sales at Ruidoso Downs.
Have a safe summer!
Anna Fay Davis
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July 2010
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UPCOMING EVENTS
& DEADLINES
July 21, 2010
New Mexico Racing Commission Meeting
10:30 a.m. at the Conference Room
4900 Alameda Blvd – (505) 222-0700
July 23, 2010
Stall applications due at Zia Park
(575) 492-7000
August 1, 2010
Zia Festival, Ruidoso Downs Racetrack
(575) 378-4431
August 1, 2010
Downs At Albuquerque barn area opens
August 14 – November 14, 2010
Downs At Albuquerque / NM State Fair Meet
(505) 266-5555
August 20 & 21, 2010
NM Bred Quarter Horse & Thoroughbred Yearling Sale
Ruidoso Downs Sale Pavilion
(505) 262-0224
August 21, 2010
Buyer’s Seminar
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. at the Ruidoso Horse Sale Pavilion
(505) 262-0224
August 22, 2010
Lineage Day – Downs At Albuquerque
(505) 266-5555
August 25, 2010
New Mexico Racing Commission Meeting
10:30 a.m. in the Conference Room
4900 Alameda Blvd – (505) 222-0700
August 25, 2010
Zia Park barn area opens
September 1, 2010
New broodmares in foal registration deadline
(505) 262-0224
September 3-5, 2010
Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale
Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion
(575) 378-4474
!!!!!!! REMINDER !!!!!!
DON’T FORGET TO GET YOUR
YEARLINGS STAMPED
NEW MEXICO BRED
PRIOR TO THE
RUIDOSO ANNUAL TB & QH
NEW MEXICO BRED SALE
IMPORTANT REMINDER!
Broodmares need to be registered by
September 1st of the year they are bred
in order for their foals to be registered
without penalty. Once a Broodmare is
put into the registry she is registered for
life.
The mare must remain in the State of
New Mexico for her entire
pregnancy and foaling.
All rules apply to Recipient Mares as
well.
Current membership is required when
registering any horses.
If you need any applications or further
information, please call the New Mexico
Horse Breeders Association office at
(505) 262-0224.
Dates & locations are subject to change. For more information
contact NMHBA at (505) 262-0224 or www.nmhorsebreeders.com.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Fellow Members:
I hope everyone had a great breeding and foaling season.
Over the last few months I have been thinking about “What is the status of the Horse Racing Industry in New Mexico?”. Is it
as good as it can get or do we need to make changes? At what cost would change come? Who gets the benefits of the change
and who loses? How do we better our breeds? Will it work for everyone? Do we need more race days or more races? Do we
have enough horses? Do we need to change the definition of a New Mexico Bred? Does each track need a competition committee or do we let individuals do their job? What came first, gaming or the horse? Does it seem like I am going in circles?
Breeders and owners are the most resilient individuals in the world. There can only be 10 or 12 winners a day, depending
on the number of races run that day. There can only be one winner of the Kentucky Derby or All American Futurity, but
hundreds try. I guess what I am getting at is that in order to answer any of these questions and make this the best possible
program in the country, we need participation from every breeder and owner. We must elect individuals who understand that
we are the third largest industry in the state. We must elect board members and committees that understand we are a unique
racing jurisdiction. We must get off the sidelines and get involved.
Good luck at the races.
See you at the sale.
Q. Mike Cadotte
NMHBA President
Welcome New Members
Alvarado, Luis, Jr.
Avila, Anthony E.
Bright, William H.
Chavez, Hector N.
Conner, Julie
Culiver, Kathleen
Gonzalez, Erin
July 2010
Henrichs / Cowboy Dentist FM, LLC (Kelly
Henrichs)
Macassar Corporation (Cory McNair)
Segovia, Jesus M.
Wolf, Steve
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Updated Equine Piroplasmosis Information Sheet from the USDA
Equine Piroplasmosis (EP) is a blood-borne parasitic disease that affects horses, ponies, donkeys, mules,
and zebras. EP-infected animals can develop fever, anemia, yellowing of the membranes in the eyes and
mouth, and dark brown to red-tinged urine.
Some animals die from the disease, while others never get sick. Horses with persistent EP infections are
carriers of the parasites that cause the disease and are potential sources of infection to other horses.
Since 2008, EP-infected horses have been found in several states. Horses that tested positive for the
disease have been quarantined or euthanized, and horses that had contact with infected horses have been
tested.
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has developed guidelines for managing
infected and exposed horses and is working with EP researchers, equine industry partners, and state animal
health authorities to develop additional control strategies.
For information on the control of EP in your state, contact your state animal health official or the federal
area veterinarian in charge for your state.
How EP is Spread
EP is spread by certain ticks, which move the parasites from one horse to another. Recently, EP has been
spread via ticks on a small number of premises in close proximity. An on-going investigation is underway to
determine the types of ticks involved.
At this point, it does not appear that EP infections via ticks have occurred outside the affected premises.
Investigations are ongoing to determine how EP was introduced to U.S. horses.
People can also spread the EP disease by reusing needles or syringes between infected and uninfected
horses. Dental, tattoo, and surgical equipment can also spread disease if they are not thoroughly cleaned and
disinfected between horses.
In addition, taking blood from an infected horse – even one that appears healthy – and giving it to an uninfected horse as a transfusion would likely move the disease agent between horses.
Recently, disease spread has occurred through the reuse of needles and/or syringes. There have also been
reports during disease investigations of nonveterinarians administering blood transfusions on horses to enhance performance.
What You Can Do to Protect Your Horses from EP
Always:
Use a new sterile needle and syringe for all injections, whether into a vein or muscle.
Clean and disinfect equine dental, tattoo, and surgical equipment between horses.
Have any horse that will serve as a blood donor tested for EP.
Contact your veterinarian if your horse is sick and has signs of fever, reduced feed intake, or lethargy.
Check with your state animal health official if you need more specifics about EP.
Never:
Reuse needles or syringes between horses, even if the horses live on the same facility and appear normal.
Insert a previously used needle into a drug or vaccine multidose bottle.
Use dental, tattoo, or surgical equipment that has not been thoroughly cleaned and sanitized.
Use blood from a horse of unknown infectious disease agent status for transfusion.
More information on EP is available at:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/animal_health/content/printable_version/fs_equinep_08.pdf
To find the federal area veterinarian in charge in your state:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/area_offices
For a listing of state animal health offices:
http://www.usaha.org/StateAnimalHealthOfficials.pdf
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Congratulations to Willard Burbach
and all the connections of Two-Time
Stakes Winner VERNY!
VERNY winning the $125,162 Copper Top at
Sunland Park.
VERNY winning the $75,000 Totah Futurity at
SunRay Park.
Watch for TS Stallions yearlings at
the Ruidoso TB Sale!
YELLOWROSE FARM
Hip #
Sire
Dam
Dam sire
247
330
332
345
Gold Case
Golden Shine
Gold Case
Precocity
Binnster
Honey Dont Stop
Bubbly Lady
Dance Company
Tabasco Cat
Golden Missile
Chief's Crown
Vilzak
(Forty Niner - Silent Account by Private Account)
MESA VISTA STUD
Hip #
119
226
271
360
Sire
Golden Shine
Gold Case
Gold Case
Gold Case
July 2010
Gold
Case
Dam
Alert The Prilgrim
Pretty Suzi
Stars and Spice
Far Out Lady
Dam sire
Gold Alert
Dixie Brass
Tabasco Cat
Bold Executive
TS STALLIONS
Truman Smith, DVM • 1600 S. Second St.
Raton, New Mexico 87740
Phone: 575-445-3912 • FAX 575-445-2386
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The Anderson Family
And Quarter Win Farms
story and photos by Glenda Price
Trent, Jan, Howard and Emily Anderson with and Needle Bush.
New Mexico’s race horse family got a
new addition recently – Howard and
Jan Anderson – along with their outstanding horses.
They had been coming to New Mexico from their Washington-Oregon neighborhood looking around, checking out
various sections of the state, since 1994. They settled on
the Tularosa area. Other parts of the state were nice just for
living there, but “this was best suited for what we wanted to
do and its proximity to the tracks,” says Howard, “and we
found this place (just north of Tularosa) available.”
They bought it in 2006, and came here periodically until
last June, when they both retired from their “day jobs” and
became permanent New Mexico residents. They are happy
to be here fulltime. Howard says racing only part-time in
New Mexico was difficult from the far-off Pacific Northwest.
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The Andersons’ horses are fine additions to New Mexico’s breeding industry. “We have 10 brood mares,” Howard says, “one Thoroughbred and the rest Quarter Horse
mares.” They also have young stock, of course -- fillies,
colts, yearlings, 2- and 3-year olds.
Their standing stallion, Cascadian is a fine contributor
to New Mexico Bred genetics. He is a 1996 unraced son
of Seattle Slew out of La Griffe by Prince John. Everyone
knows about Seattle Slew, but Cascadian’s female side deserves notice as well. La Griffe, daughter of Prince John, is
dam of seven stakes horses, including champion handicap
horse Blushing John ($1,533,026).
Cascadian, himself, is represented by 17 stakes horses
from his first seven crops of racing age, including the
Oregon 2-year-old champions Cascadiansasquatch and
Cascades Express and the 2010 multiple stakes winner
Seven Torrents.
Two thirds of his starters are winners (66%) and more
than one of every four of his starters has won or placed in a
stakes race (28%). The Andersons acquired Cascadian last
year, and he now calls Tularosa home.
They may be new to New Mexico, but the Andersons are
not new to high-powered race horses. They are especially
proud of their foundation mare – Tweebers Goldust. She’s
37 years old and has her own “forever” pasture out front.
Her offspring and their offspring continue to add to her
legacy, and she has a brick in her name at AQHA Headquarters.
The other mares are not slouches. “This year,” Howard says, “ we bred three mares to Gone to the Mountain
(standing at A&A Ranch at Anthony), two to Brookstone
Bay (standing at JEH New Mexico Division at Hondo, sire
of All American Futurity winner Runnning Brook Gal), one to
Shake Em Open (standing at Bar Y Equine at Berino), one
Quarter mare and the Thoroughbred mare to Cascadian.”
Obviously, a great deal of thought goes into the breeding decisions. Yes, Howard studies pedigrees. Also, “I look
at their size and the way they’re built, try to find what will
cross the best. Everybody is an individual.” He smiles and
adds, “Nobody has it figured out. If they ever do they’ll have
a lot of money.”
During breeding season Howard keeps records of details
like when the mare is ovulating. “It’s nice to have those
later,” he says, “so when we sell one we can tell the mare’s
complete story.”
He adds, “I want people to buy good horses, not just the
ones we don’t want. We plan to have them available from
weanling age on. If one is not good I don’t want it either.”
Also, when people come look and choose their purchases, and then come back later Howard can honestly say,
“You picked it.”
Multiple stakes producer Cascadian.
Howard says, “”We’re here, raising the best horses we
can.”
Jan adds, “We want to make New Mexico proud.”
They both laughingly agree that “somebody might have to
move over.” They have a nice, informative website: http://
www.quarterwinfarms.com
July 2010
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Howard’s whole life has been with horses, various kinds.
He grew up in Minnesota. “My dad and granddad had a lot
of draft horses, buggy horses, Quarter horses,” he says.
“Every year we would go to the Dakotas and bring back a
truck load of colts we would then break and sell.”
After four years in the Navy, Howard began working as a
heavy equipment operator. Jan, from southern California,
worked as a bookkeeper. They spent their weekends running horses, taking them to area race tracks – and winning.
Howard has always trained his horses himself, and he
proudly notes, “I never broke a horse down.”
The Andersons’ horses always have been a hands-on
family affair. Jan, as we would expect, keeps the horse
records. Daughter Stacey was their jockey until she went
on to other things. Now she’s a teacher working on her
doctorate. Son Jason is a musician based in Nashville.
He records under the name Jason Howard. Son Trent, a
former pro rodeo saddle bronc rider, is a PSI manager at
Fort Bliss. He comes and helps with the horses, which the
last couple of months has been often because Howard is
recuperating from hip replacement surgery.
Howard uses pipe fencing, and the horses stay outside
and don’t wear halters. “That’s what works for us,” he comments.
One newly acquired gray mare, Quick M Silver breeding,
is being coddled a bit because Howard thinks she need a
few more pounds. Her breeding goes back to Peter McCue,
and Howard says when she was purchased he was told
they couldn’t rope off her colts because they were too fast.
“They ran right by the cattle.” He adds, “She looks Thoroughbred even though she’s Quarter horse breeding. I bred
her to Cascadian.”
Howard knows “when you’re new to an area, you haven’t
proven anything yet.” He also knows winning is the best
advertisement.
Daughter Stacey says, “It’s been a long time coming. I’d
love to see them succeed at what they’ve always wanted to
do.”
Bottom: Howard Anderson with broodmares. Right:
Foundation broodmare, Tweeber’s Goldust, 37 years old.
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RUSSELL AND HELEN FOUTZ DISTAFF HANDICAP (R)
Happy
Me
By Michael Cusortelli
Rated perfectly from post 4 by jockey Ken Tohill, Happy
Me scored a wire-to-wire, 3 ¾-length victory in the $75,000
Russell and Helen Foutz Distaff Handicap (R) at SunRay
Park on May 1.
Happy Me covered 6 ½ furlongs in 1:17.44 after setting
fractional splits of :23.05 and :46.61. Fred Danley saddled
the homebred 4-year-old filly by Lesters Boy for his wife,
owner Rita Danley of Anthony, New Mexico.
Happy Me is one of three stakes winners from 35 starters sired by Lesters Boy, a 14-year-old son of the Relaunch
stallion Cee’s Tizzy who won two stakes in California from
2001-02. A full brother to Theresa’s Tizzy, whose six career
stakes victories included the 2000 Rancho Bernardo Handicap (G3) at Del Mar, Lesters Boy has sired the earners of
more than $1.25 million from five crops. The California-bred
stallion stands for a $3,000 fee at Miguel Gallegos’ Gallegos del Norte Farm in Albuquerque.
Happy Me’s winning dam, the 12-year-old Brave Lad
mare I’m A Happy Gal, has foaled four winners from as
many starters, including I Am Lesters Gal, a filly by Lesters Boy who ran third in last year’s $125,855 Rio Grande
Senorita Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs.
Sent to post as the 13-10 favorite, Happy Me returned
a $4.60 win mutuel and teamed with runner-up Mylilmemo
for a ($2) exacta return of $27.40 and ($2) quinella payoff
of $17.20. Negotiablafections, the 9-2 second choice, ran
third, six lengths behind Happy Me, to complete a ($2)
trifecta of $128.40.
Happy Me has won six of eight starts, and the $45,000
winner’s share of the Foutz Handicap purse pushed her
earnings to $260,160. The filly’s stakes record includes a
July 2010
wire-to-wire, head victory in the 5 ½-furlong, $125,000 La
Coneja Handicap (R) at Sunland Park on March 28, and
a 2 ¾-length win in last year’s 6-furlong, $125,000 New
Mexico Racing Commission Handicap (R) at Sunland.
Mylilmemo banked $15,000 to boost her bankroll to
$165,101 for owners Bill Guess of Phoenix, and Danna
Buechler of Santa Teresa, New Mexico. A 4-year-old bay
daughter of Hot War, Mylilmemo won last year’s $75,000
Aztec Oaks Stakes (R) for state-bred fillies at SunRay.
Negotiablafections is a 6-year-old mare by Prince Of
Fame, and she earned $7,500 for owner Terry Millenbine
of Seagraves, Texas. A career earner of $267,881 from six
wins in 13 outs, Negotiablafections won last season’s onemile, $182,190 New Mexico Cup Peppers Pride Filly and
Mare Championship (R) at Zia Park.
The Foutz Handicap was originally scheduled to be run
on April 24, but that day’s 10-race program was cancelled
due to a jockeys’ strike at SunRay. The stakes is named in
honor of Russell and Helen Foutz, a prominent family in the
Farmington, New Mexico, area in the latter part of the 20th
century.
Russell Foutz died in 2005 at the age of 91. An operator of several trading posts in the Four Corners area, he
was well noted for his influence in the development and
promotion of Navajo arts and crafts, and he was an expert
on Navajo weavings. He was also active in politics, serving
as the chairman of the local Republican Party in the 1950s
and ‘60s.
Foutz was also a prominent breeder of Thoroughbred
racehorses and was the New Mexico breeder of the year in
1991.
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Tommie Morales/Coady Photo
JACK COLE HANDICAP (R)
Fullofenergy
by michael cusortelli
Fullofenergy, a 7-year-old Desert God gelding racing
for Joe Allen and Michael Stinson, recorded his fifth career
stakes victory in the May 9, $100,000 Jack Cole Handicap
(R) for New Mexico-breds at SunRay Park.
Saddled by Joel Marr and ridden by Carlos Madeira,
Fullofenergy covered one mile in 1:37.34 while defeating
2009 Jack Cole Handicap winner Some Ghost by a half of
a length. The $60,000 winner’s share of the purse boosted
Fullofenergy’s earnings to $472,537.
Pacesetter Enchanted Outlaw set fast fractions of
:22.66, :45.32, and 1:09.94 before he faded to cross the
wire fifth, 3 ½ lengths behind Fullofenergy.
Madeira knows Fullofenergy well, as he has ridden the
gelding in 33 of his 36 starts.
“The speed really hadn’t been backing up all day, so
I had to get into my horse a little bit and put some pressure on (Enchanted Outlaw),” said Madeira after the race.
“I heard (Some Ghost) coming, but I didn’t see him until
right at the wire. He was coming on pretty fast there at the
finish.”
Fullofenergy was bred by Allen, a resident of Abilene,
Texas, and the gelding is one of 12 stakes winners from
105 starters sired by Desert God, an unraced 19-year-old
stallion by Fappiano and half brother to stakes winners
Better Than Honour, Smolensk, and Turnberry Isle (IRE).
A Virginia-bred, Desert God has sired the earners of more
than $5.5 million from 15 crops, including Peppers Pride,
the holder of the North American record of 19 consecutive
wins. He stands for a $6,000 fee at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Horse Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
Fullofenergy is also one of three winners from as many
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starters foaled by Energywithattitude, a winning 12-year-old
mare by the Diamond Prospect stallion High Energy who
ran third in the 2000 Texas Thoroughbred Association Sale
Futurity (R) at Lone Star Park.
Fullofenergy’s third dam, the unraced Mickey McGuire
mare Just A Drizzle, foaled Latter Day Paula, a filly by Marquetry who won the ’01 King County Handicap at Emerald
Downs near Seattle. The gelding traces back to his fourth
dam, Rare Exchange, a winning daughter of 1956 Horse of
the Year Swaps who ran third in the 1962 Spinaway Stakes
at Saratoga.
Marr indicated that Fullofenergy would be pointed to
the 7 ½-furlong, $50,000 Land of Enchantment Handicap
on Zia Festival Day, August 1, at Ruidoso Downs, a race
that the gelding has won the last three seasons.
Lesters Secret, the 19-10 favorite, ran third and was
followed by Outofecho, Enchanted Outlaw, Ocean Joe,
Brax, and Mr Windsor.
Some Ghost is a 9-year-old bay gelding by Ghostly
Moves owned and trained by Jess Alley of Sunland Park,
New Mexico. Some Ghost has earned $878,762 from
46 outs, and his 15 victories include the $100,000 Albert
Dominguez Memorial Handicap (R) at Sunland Park from
2006-09.
A 4-year-old Lesters Boy gelding racing for Simply The
Best Thoroughbreds of Temecula, California, and trainer
Henry Dominguez, Lesters Secret earned $10,000 to
increase his bankroll to $362,564. Lesters Secret was coming off of a victory in the one-mile, $125,000 New Mexico
State University Handicap (R) at Sunland Park on March
21.
FOUR CORNERS SENORA STAKES (R)
Jenuine
Joy
Sent to post as the 6-5 favorite, Jenuine Joy ran her
win streak to four following a half-length victory in the April
25 Four Corners Senora Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred
fillies and mares at SunRay Park.
Jenuine Joy was ridden by Ricky Ramirez for owner
Fredda Draper of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, and trainer
Carl Draper. The 4-year-old gray daughter of Genuine
Strawfly covered 400 yards in :19.37 and earned a 99
speed index.
A homebred mare, Jenuine Joy became the eighth
stakes winners from five crops sired by Genuine Strawfly,
a son of the Special Effort stallion Strawfly Special who
won the 2002 All American Derby (G1). Now 11, Genuine
Strawfly is a half brother to Grade 3 winner Corona High,
and his 131 starters have banked more than $3.4 million
and include Genuine Streaker. He stands for a $2,500 fee
at Dr. Leonard Blach’s Buena Suerte Equine in Roswell,
New Mexico.
Jenuine Joy is also one of two winners from three starters produced by Super Perla Negra, a winning 13-year-old
daughter of the Coup de Kas (TB) stallion Super Duper
Couper. Jenuine Joy’s second dam, Red Tag Sale, was a
winning daughter of the Beduino (TB) stallion Young Beduino who ran third in the ’93 Zia Freshman Handicap (R) for
New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs.
Jenuine Joy traces back to her third dam, Real Easy
Surprise, a daughter of the Real Easy Jet stallion Realeasy
Chick who won the 1989 Prescott Downs Derby in Arizona
and was a finalist in that season’s West Texas Derby (G2)
at Sunland Park. Real Easy Surprise foaled four winners
from six starters, including Real Easy Celadon, the winner
of two stakes at The Downs at Albuquerque in 1999 and
that season’s New Mexico region high-point 3-year-old filly.
Real Easy Surprise is a half sister to Loose On The
Lead, a gelding by Young Beduino who ran second in the
July 2010
’92 Hard Twist Stakes (R) at Albuquerque.
Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, Jenuine Joy
has won four of five races, and the $45,000 winner’s share
of the $75,000 Four Corners Senora purse increased her
bankroll to $101,400. After running ninth as the 19-10 favorite in her career debut at Ruidoso Downs in June 2008, the
mare returned to win three consecutive races from January
5-April 3 at Sunland Park.
Carl Draper said that Jenuine Joy sustained a minor
injury in her debut.
“She just reared straight up when the starter kicked the
button, and when she came back down the rest of the field
was off and gone,” recalled the trainer. “The rider just took
a hold of her and galloped her to the finish.
“This mare is really fine-boned and has a very powerful
body,” he added. “She had a little chip in her left knee and,
as powerful and fine-boned as she is, I thought that she’d
tear that knee up if I ran her some more that 2-year-old
year. So we took the chip out and turned her out, but when
I brought her back as a 3-year-old she had a reaction to
some additives I put in her feed. She also got sore in her
shoulders, so I turned her out again until she could get all
that out of her system.”
Draper said that Jenuine Joy, who was named for the
Drapers 6-year-old great granddaughter Paige Joy, has
been turned out again and is at Horsemen’s Park in Tularosa.
“I built a big new barn last August at Horsemen’s Park,”
he added. “I have some fabulous turnout pens with big
sheds, so she’s down there relaxing in heaven. I plan to get
her back up in time for a couple of races at Zia Park, and
then we’ll take her to Sunland Park and run her there for
the big money through the winter.”
Jenuine Joy is a half brother to CD Frontier Justice,
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Estrada of Albuquerque. The 6-year-old mare by Genuine
Strawfly was 19 days removed from a second-place finish
as a 42-1 longshot in a 350-yard, $15,000 claiming sprint at
Sunland Park, and her stakes resume includes a runner-up
effort in the $72,050 Pelican Stakes (RG3) for state-bred
sophomore fillies at The Downs at Albuquerque in 2007.
The 9-5 second choice, BP Shes Southern banked
$7,500 for Bill B. Price of Thackerville, Oklahoma, who bred
the 4-year-old sorrel daughter of Southern Cartel. BP Shes
Southern has earned $252,166 from six wins in 26 starts,
and she’s won two stakes: last year’s 400-yard, $125,000
New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association Stakes (RG2) at
Sunland, and the 400-yard, $97,778 New Mexico State Fair
Senorita Futurity (RG3) at Albuquerque. BP Shes Southern
was also last year’s New Mexico region high-point sophomore filly.
a gelding by Desirio who broke Quarter Horse racing’s
330-yard world record at Sunland Park last winter and
posted the second-fastest qualifying time for the Grade
1, $568,965 Ruidoso Derby. CD Frontier Justice is being
pointed to the 440-yard All American Derby (G1) trials on
August 20.
Another of Jenuine Joy’s half brothers, CD Riggins, is
a yearling colt by Desirio, a graded stakes winning Strawfly Special stallion and one of nine starters foaled by the
Grade 1-winning Sixarun mare Lady Tenaya.
“He’s a big, awesome-looking colt,” Draper said of CD
Riggins. “I can’t wait until next year for him.”
Flicka de Fly ran second and was followed by BP Shes
Southern, Blushing Cartel, My Box Of Chocolate, and
Southern Discomfort.
Flicka de Fly earned $16,500 for her owner, Edilberto
NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’ STAKES (R)
Here
Kittykittykitty
Here Kittykittykitty, a sorrel gelding by Genuine Strawfly racing for Jay and Mary Lou Standefer, recorded his
second career stakes victory in the $75,000 New Mexico
Breeders’ Stakes (R) for state-bred 3-year-olds at SunRay
Park on Saturday.
Ridden by Esgar Ramirez for trainer Wes Giles, Here
Kittykittykitty made his 400-yard trip in :19.277, aided by
a 20-mph tail wind as reported by Equibase. He earned a
lifetime-best 102 speed index as the 5-1 third choice, and
his margin of victory was one length from 13-10 favorite
Corona Memory Crest.
Here Kittykittykitty was bred by the Standefers, residents of Roswell, New Mexico, and the gelding is one of
eight stakes winners from five crops sired by Genuine
Strawfly, an 11-year-old son of the Special Effort stallion
Strawfly Special whose four wins included the 2002 All
American (G1) and Ruidoso (G2) derbies.
A half brother to Grade 3 winner Corona High, Genuine
Strawfly has sired the earners of more than $3.5 million
from 137 starters, including One Diamond Kitty, a stakes22
winning 4-year-old gelding who most recently ran second to
Jess You And I in the 440-yard, $250,000 Remington Park
Invitational Championship (G1) in Oklahoma. He stands for
a $2,500 fee at Dr. Leonard Blach’s Buena Suerte Equine
in Roswell.
Here Kittykittykitty’s dam, One Diamond Cat, is an
unraced 9-year-old mare by champion Now I Know who
has produced three winners from as many starters, including One Diamond Kitty, the winner of the 2008 New Mexico
Spring Fling Stakes (R) at Sunland Park and last year’s
New Mexico region high-point sophomore gelding.
Here Kittykittykitty’s second dam, the Shoot No mare
No Billi Jo, won the New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque in 1997, and she
was a finalist against open company in the ’98 Mile High
Derby (G2) at Arapahoe Park near Denver.
One Diamond Cat was also bred by the Standefers,
as was No Billi Jo. One Diamond Cat’s 2008 foal, Brooksy,
was acquired from the Standefers by Tyler Graham at last
year’s Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City. A
filly by second-year sire Brookstone Bay trained by Blane
Wood, Brooksy won a Mountain Top Quarter Horse Futurity
(RG2) trial on June 4 and posted the fifth-fastest qualifying
time for the June 20, $254,353 final.
“One Diamond Cat got hurt when she was being broke
– that’s why she never raced – but we decided to keep
her as a broodmare,” said Mary Lou Standefer. “We have
Brooksy’s full brother, named One Diamond Tiger, consigned to his year’s Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale. He’s a
nice-looking colt, and I think he’ll draw a lot of interest. But
if we don’t get what we think he’s worth, we’ll pull him back
and run him ourselves next year.
“We sell some of our yearlings and keep some of
them,” she added. “We never really know for sure which
ones to keep, but if it was easy, the same people would do
all the winning. We watch them run around out in the pasture when they’re babies, and from doing that you can kind
of tell which ones are the special ones.”
Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, Here Kittykittykitty has earned $246,746 from three wins in nine outs.
The gelding broke his maiden by three-quarters of a length
in a New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG1) trial at Sunland
Park last year, but he didn’t race in the final. His stakes
record includes a win in last year’s 400-yard, $335,885
New Mexico Cup Futurity (RG1) at Zia Park, and he was a
finalist in the Zia Futurity (RG1) at Ruidoso Downs.
The New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes represented Here
Kittykittykitty’s first start since November 29, when he ran
fifth, two lengths behind champion Runnning Brook Gal, in
the Grade 1, $305,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship
Stakes at Zia Park. The gelding prepped for his 3-year-old
AZTEC OAKS (R)
Awintersdream
Joe D. Brooks’ Awintersdream earned her second
career stakes victory in Saturday’s 6 ½-furlong, $75,000
Aztec Oaks (R) for New Mexico-bred sophomore fillies at
SunRay Park.
Saddled by Todd Fincher and ridden by Juan Ochoa,
Awintersdream set fractions of :23.17 and 46.36 before
stopping the timer in 1:17.06 for 6 ½ furlongs. The filly’s
margin of victory was a neck from Desert Tap. Favorite
Flag, the 3-5 favorite, ran third.
Brooks, a resident of Levelland, Texas, acquired
Awintersdream for $8,000 at the 2008 New Mexico-Bred
Yearling Sale in Ruidoso Downs. Bred by G. Chris Coleman of Farmington, New Mexico, Awintersdream is one of
15 stakes winners from 10 crops sired by Suave Prospect,
a Florida-bred son of the Northern Prospect stallion Fortunate Prospect who won two Grade 3 stakes in 1994-95
and ran second in Thunder Gulch’s 1995 Florida Derby
(G1).
Now 18, Suave Prospect has sired the earners of more
than $17.1 million from 306 starters, including Umpateedle,
a filly whose 17 wins in 53 outs included the 2005 Gallant
Bloom Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park and Endine Handicap (G3) at Delaware Park. He stands for a $4,000 fee at
July 2010
debut with a 220-yard work at Sunland Park in :12.09, a
breeze that was the third-fastest of 29 at the distance on
April 16. A 330-yard work at Ruidoso Downs on May 21
was accomplished in :17.81.
“We talked to Wes about this horse all spring, and he
told us he was coming back like gangbusters,” said Mary
Lou Standefer. “So we thought we might have a pretty special 3-year-old here. We have high hopes for him.
“After the (New Mexico Cup Futurity), we had his knees
cleaned out – he just had a couple of small chips removed
– and then we brought him back slow, pointing him to this
race,” she added. “We have him paid into the (August 1)
Zia Derby, and then if it all works out we might supplement
him for $40,000 to the All American Derby.”
Sixy Chamisa, the 7-5 second choice, ran third, 1 ½
lengths behind Here Kittykittykitty, and was followed by Sixy
N Hot, Rances Reason, Littlesouthernswing, and The Gap.
Runner-up Corona Memory Crest was coming off of a
four-race win streak that started back on June 28, 2009,
when the brown Corona Caliente gelding took a 350-yard
maiden sprint at Ruidoso Downs. A homebred racing for
Desiree Mooring of Bosque, New Mexico, Corona Memory
Crest earned $16,500 to push his bankroll to $60,128.
Sixy Chamisa is a gray daughter of Sixes Royal racing
for SM Cattle Export Co. of Socorro, Texas. Sixy Chamisa
has earned $223,913 from 11 races, and her seven victories include the April 17, $75,000 Sunburst Stakes (R) for
New Mexico-bred fillies at Sunland Park, and last season’s
350-yard, $150,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG2)
at SunRay.
Doubletree Farm in Eunice, New Mexico.
“When we’re looking at horses at a sale, we try to focus
on conformation as much as we can,” said Brooks, who
owns an oil and gas service company in Levelland. “That’s
something that Todd is big on. Todd actually picked out this
filly out based on her conformation and build. He thought it
would be a good buy, and he was right.
“This was Todd’s pick – I really can’t take much credit
for it,” he added. “When you buy a horse with good conformation, you tend not to have to deal with the problems that
horses with bad conformation have.”
Awintersdream is also one of two starters foaled by
Snowbound N Delmar, a 7-year-old daughter of the Meadowlake stallion Snowbound who won the 2005 ATBA Fall
Sales Stakes (R) at Turf Paradise. Snowbound N Delmar’s
full sister, Madringa, won the ’04 Bangles and Beads
Stakes during the Los Angeles County Fair meet at Fairplex
Park. The mare is also a half sister to Boca Fast, a colt by
Boca Rio who won the 1999 Washington State Legislators
Stakes at Emerald Downs near Seattle.
The $45,000 winner’s share of the Aztec Oaks purse
increased Awintersdream’s earnings to $123,560. The
filly has won four of seven races, including last year’s 4
½-furlong, $75,000 Ken Kendrick Memorial Stakes at SunRay. She qualified for the Rio Grande Senorita Futurity (R)
for New Mexico-bred 2-year-old fillies at Ruidoso, but she
was scratched from the final.
“The track was really muddy that day, and that’s why
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we decided to scratch her,” said Brooks, who added that
Awintersdream was sent to New Mexico Equine Veterinary
Clinic in Albuquerque, where Dr. Stephen Derwelis removed a small chip in one of her knees.
Awintersdream made her 3-year-old debut at Sunland
Park on April 18, winning a 5 ½-furlong, $36,000 allowance sprint by 1 ¼ lengths in her first out in more than nine
months.
Brooks is also part of the West Texas Partnership,
a group of four partners who campaign Chuchuluco, a
3-year-old Devon Lane gelding who has won two stakes,
including last year’s $152,690 New Mexico Cup Colts &
Geldings Stakes (R) at Zia Park. The partnership also
races Chantilly Cat, a promising 2-year-old filly by Dome
who broke her maiden by 6 ½ lengths at Ruidoso Downs
back in June.
Brooks indicated that Awintersdream might make her
next start in the August 1, $50,000 Sierra Starlet Handicap
on Zia Festival Day at Ruidoso Downs.
Teras Baby ran fourth, 4 ½ lengths behind Awintersdream, and was followed by Please N Teras and Conchis
Monchis.
Runner-up Desert Tap earned $16,500 to boost her
bankroll to $50,382 for owner William DuPont III of Orlando,
Florida. A dark bay or brown daughter of Desert God, Desert Tap was a finalist in last year’s Ruidoso Horse Sale (R)
and Rio Grande Senorita (R) futurities at Ruidoso Downs.
A $14,500 buy at the ’08 New Mexico-Bred Yearling
Sale, Favorite Flag earned $7,500 for her owner, J. Kirk
Robison of El Paso, Texas. The Avenue Of Flags filly won
the March 28, $125,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks (R) at
Sunland Park, and she ran third, six lengths behind winner
Glory Be Mine, in the January 16 La Senora Stakes (R) at
Sunland.
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Awintersdream
NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’
FUTURITY (RG3)
WR
Aces Fame
Rose Webb’s WR Aces Fame picked up her first stakes
victory in the $172,100 New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity
(RG3) at SunRay Park on May 30.
Prepped by Wes Giles, who gave a leg up to jockey
Freddie Martinez, WR Aces Fame covered 350 yards in
:17.324 to earn a career-best 95 speed index. The winner’s
share of the stakes-record purse increased her earnings to
$114,345.
“I just showed up here for the picture,” joked Giles, who
also has a string of Quarter Horses in training at Ruidoso
Downs. “We’ve got a really good team on the backside, and
they all make my job a lot easier.”
WR Aces Fame was bred by Webb, a resident of Farmington, New Mexico, and the filly became the 79th stakes
winner from 16 crops sired by Dash Ta Fame, a Grade
1-winning son of First Down Dash whose 1,072 starters
have earned more than $15.8 million. After standing for
several years at MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico, the
21-year-old stallion currently stands for a $6,500 fee at Dr.
William Swyers’ Smart Ranches at Temecula, California.
WR Aces Fame is also one of three winners from five
starters foaled by her dam, WR Red Ace, a 12-year-old
daughter of the Special Effort stallion Lucky Aces N Eights.
Bred by Webb, WR Red Ace earned $313,416 and won
seven stakes from 31 starts from 2000-03, and she was the
New Mexico region high-point 3-year-old filly in ’01.
WR Aces Fame’s second dam, the winning Casady
Casanova mare WR Cassia, ran third in the 1988 Four
Corners Futurity at old San Juan Downs in Farmington.
The mare produced 11 starters, including Lucky Cassia, a
dun gelding by Lucky Aces N Eights who ran second in the
1997 Santa Fe Downs Futurity (RG3).
WR Aces Fame’s stakes victory was her second in four
starts. The filly began her career last spring at Sunland
Park, where her record included a fourth-place run in the
300-yard, $75,000 New Mexican Spring Fling Stakes (R).
Martinez was riding WR Aces Fame for the first time.
The jockey competed at Remington Park the night before,
where he rode the New Mexico-bred gelding One Diamond
Kitty to a second-place finish in the Grade 1, $250,000
Remington Park Invitational Championship.
“I had no worries about him coming in here,” said Giles
of Martinez. “He’s a true pro, and he rode a terrific race for
us.”
The third-fastest qualifier, WR Aces Fame was sent to
post at odds of nearly 9-1 and returned a $19.60 win mutuel. RGR Lyon A Tac, a maiden 40-1 longshot, ran second, a
nose behind the winner, to complete a ($2) exacta return of
$596.80. Fastest qualifier Famous Dungarees, WR Dash,
Mal Intenciones, Corona Sixer, Vicente Y Su Corona, 2-1
favorite Love Me Caliente, Formerly Royal, and Famous
Bullet completed the order of finish.
Webb also bred and races WR Dash, a full sister to WR
Aces Fame. WR Dash broke her maiden in a New Mexican
Spring Futurity (RG1) trial and ran eighth in the $283,555
final.
“We’ve bred a lot of our mares to Dash Ta Fame – if
his horses don’t run at the racetrack, there’s always a big
demand for them as barrel horses,” said Rose Webb’s son,
Chuck Webb. “WR Aces Fame and WR Dash are both
embryo transfers, and they both came from the same flush.
In essence, they’re twins.”
Webb added that WR Aces Fame and WR Dash are
being pointed to the Shue Fly Stakes (RG1) at Sunland
Park in December. Until then, they’ll both get a well-earned
rest.
“It’s time for them to get turned out and get a rest,”
he said. “They’ve been training since the middle part of
November, and they’ve done everything we’ve asked them
to do. We felt that if we went to Sunland and got an out or
two in them, that would set them up for the futurities here in
Farmington.
“WR Dash qualified for the Spring Futurity, but she
didn’t do as well as we thought she would in the final,”
Webb added. “That was OK, because we were able to get
a couple of outs and some experience in her – the same
with WR Aces Fame. When you get four or five outs in a
2-year-old by this time of year, it’s time to turn them out and
let them grow up a bit.”
RGR Lyon A Tac earned $34,420 to boost his bankroll
to $36,690 for owners David Hinkins and Ross Hinkins of
Orangeville, Utah. The homebred bay gelding by Stormin’
Lyon (TB) began his career in a New Mexican Spring Futurity trial at Sunland Park on March 26.
A chestnut gelding by Dash Ta Fame, Famous Dungarees races for Holy Bucket LLC. Famous Dungarees
banked $17,210 to increase his earnings to $21,182. The
gelding was coming off of a neck victory in the second of
five New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity trials on May 13.
WR Aces Fame
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C.O. “KEN” KENDRICK MEMORIAL STAKES (R)
Tin
Can Kitty
Catalino Martinez rode Tin Can Kitty to a one-length
win in the June 19, $75,000 C.O. “Ken” Kendrick Memorial
Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-old fillies at SunRay Park.
Prepped by Carlos Sedillo for owner Three H Racing
LLC of Lovington, New Mexico, Tin Can Kitty covered 4 ½
furlongs in :50.83 while posting her second victory in three
outs and first stakes score. The $45,000 winner’s share of
the purse increased her earnings to $77,687.
A homebred filly, Tin Can Kitty became the first stakes
winner sired by Tin Can Sailor, a 9-year-old son of the Danzig stallion Military who won the 2003 Riley Allison Futurity
at Sunland Park and who is a half brother to the stakesplaced Yankee Victor colt Yankee Soldier. He stands for a
$1,000 fee at W.L. Mooring’s Double L Farm at Bosque,
New Mexico.
Tin Can Kitty’s dam, the winning Distinctive Cat mare
Equality Cat, has produced two winners from as many
starters. The filly’s second dam, Y Not Sizzle, is a 21-yearold daughter of the Blade stallion Poly’s Blade who won the
$102,839 Kachina Stakes at Ruidoso Downs in 1991. Y Not
Sizzle’s half brother, the Bold Ego colt Sid’s Ego, set the
5-furlong track record at Ruidoso in ‘86, one year before he
ran second in the Old Town and Ocotillo (R) derbies at The
Downs at Albuquerque.
Tin Can Kitty’s fourth dam, Little Sizzler was a daughter
of the Beau Pere stallion Flitterpere who produced the late
Daddy’s Little Man, a colt by Big Little Man who won two
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stakes from 1973-74, including the ’73 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Futurity.
Beginning her career at Sunland Park on March 30,
Tin Can Kitty won a trial for the fillies division of the Copper
Top Futurity (R) by four lengths. The filly ran second, two
lengths behind winner Squall Wilbud, in the $133,436 final
on April 17.
Squallena, a 49-1 longshot, ran second and was followed by Squall Wilbud and Shamrock Girl, who finished in
a dead heat for third. Highspeed Rescue, Shug’s Midnight,
Comicsperfectstorm, Seevee Forever, and Roll Texas Roll
completed the order of finish.
A homebred daughter of Summer Squall racing for
W.T. Stradley and Tom Williams, Squallena earned $15,000
to increase her bankroll to $21,557. Winless in four outs,
Squallena was coming off of a second-place finish in a 4
½-furlong maiden sprint at Ruidoso Downs on May 29.
Squall Wilbud banked $5,250 to push her earnings
to $72,969 for Stradley and Williams. The homebred bay
daughter of Squall won the fillies division of the Copper Top
Futurity at odds of 29-1.
Shamrock Girl also earned $5,250 for her owner, David
Wolochuk of Glendale, Arizona. A bay daughter by King
Bull, Shamrock Girl won her first two starts at Sunland Park
before she ran third as the 3-5 choice, 3 ¾ lengths behind
Squall Wilbud, in the fillies division of the Copper Top Futurity.
Verny
Stays Unbeaten Following Totah Stakes
Willard Burbach’s Verny remained undefeated following
his victory in the July 3, $75,000 Totah Stakes (R) for New
Mexico-bred 2-year-old colts and geldings at SunRay Park.
Prepped by Greg Green and ridden by Alfredo Juarez
Jr., Verny covered 4 ½ furlongs in :50.94 while recording his third win in as many races. The chestnut gelding’s
margin of victory was a nose from Russian Lane, and he
returned an $6.60 win mutuel as the 2-1 favorite.
Verny was bred by Burbach, 69, a resident of Greeley,
Colorado, and vice president of the Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association. At Arapahoe Park on June 12,
Burbach was honored as the CTBA’s top breeder for 2009,
as his Colorado-bred runners earned $133,135.
Verny is one of 19 stakes winners from 381 starters
sired by Gold Case. A 16-year-old son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Forty Niner, Gold Case won two stakes during
his 2-year-old season at Fair Grounds Racecourse in New
Orleans. Gold Case has sired the earners of $19.09 million from 10 crops, including Randaroo, a six-time graded
stakes winner from 2002-03 in New York, Maryland, and
Florida. He stands for a $5,000 fee at Dr. Truman Smith’s
Mesa Vista Stud at Raton, New Mexico.
Verny’s dam, Hunka, is a winning daughter of the Halo
stallion Present Value who has produced three winners
from four starters. Now 11, Hunka is a half sister to two
stakes winners – Folsum, a gelding by Twining who won
July 2010
the 2007 Daylight Sprint Stakes at Ruidoso Downs, and
CK Jett, a Cobra King gelding who won the ’03 Colorado
Thoroughbred Breeders’ Futurity (R) at Arapahoe Park near
Denver.
Verny’s third dam, the Washington-bred Knights Choice
mare Knight Traker, won the 1987 Autumn Days Stakes at
Canterbury Downs in Minnesota.
Verny’s stakes resume includes a nose victory in the
colts and geldings division of the 4 ½-furlong, $125,162
Copper Top Futurity (R) at Sunland Park on April 17. The
$45,000 winner’s share of the Totah Stakes purse increased his lifetime earnings to $113,581.
Running Squall ran third and was followed by Mesh,
River Grade Trick, Runaway Hennessy, Elijah’s Elite, Harry
And Lloyd, Ting, and Brittany Boy.
Russian Lane earned $15,000 for his owner, Marjorie
A. Martin of El Paso, Texas. A $9,700 buy at last year’s
New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale in Ruidoso Downs, the
chestnut colt by Devon Lane broke his maiden by 3 ½
lengths in his career debut on May 31.
Running Squall was coming off of a 1 ¼-length victory
in a 4 ½-furlong maiden claiming sprint at Ruidoso Downs
on June 11. A homebred gelding by Squall racing for W.T.
Stradley of Hobbs, New Mexico, banked $7,500 for his
third-place finish, and he has earned $13,220 from five
starts.
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TOMMY “DUKE” SMITH HANDICAP
Salt
On The Side
James J. Gonzales II and Dennis Means, two horsemen with past ties to Quarter Horse racing's most prestigious race, combined to win the July 3 Tommy “Duke”
Smith Handicap (RG2) for New Mexico-bred aged runners
at SunRay Park.
Saddled by Gonzales and ridden by Means for owner
Victor R. Diaz of Sunland Park, New Mexico, the 4-year-old
gelding Salt On The Side outran his 16-1 odds to win the
$75,000 stakes by a nose from A First Caller. The son of
the late The Down Side went 400 yards in :19.122, earning
a lifetime-best 106 speed index and breaking by 27/100ths
of a second the previous stakes record set by Leonas TR in
2008.
Gonzales and Means have both ridden winners of
the Grade 1, $2-million All American Futurity at Ruidoso
Downs. Gonzales won the race with Rosella Anrin Prieto’s
By By JJ in 2003, and Means accomplished the feat with
TNT Racing’s Ausual Suspect in ’01.
Salt On The Side was bred by R.D. Hubbard, and the
gelding is one of seven stakes winners from 75 starters
sired by The Down Side, a Grade 1-winning stallion by alltime leading sire First Down Dash whose three crops have
earned more than $2.5 million and include Double Down
Special, a gelding who has won this year’s Ruidoso (G1)
and West Texas (G3) derbies. The Down Side died in a
barn fire in 2006.
Salt On The Side is also one of two winners from as
many starters produced by his dam, the winning Salt Lake
(TB) mare Salty Broad. Now 11, Salty Broad is a half sister
to three graded stakes winners, including 1996 Southern
California Derby (G1) winner Western Heart and ’99 Rainbow Derby (G1) winner and 2008 AQHA champion broodmare My Dashing Lady.
Salt On The Side’s third dam, Lady Juno, was a 1976
foal by the Bold Ruler (TB) stallion Master Hand (TB) who
won the 1980 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos
and was that season’s champion aged mare. The gelding’s
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fourth dam, Juno Reward, was a winning daughter of the
Moon Deck stallion Jet Deck who foaled three stakes winners, including 1985 West Texas Futurity (G2) winner Life
Styles.
A 16-1 longshot, Salt On The Side returned a $35.60
win mutuel and teamed with A First Caller for a ($2) exacta
payoff of $222.20. Miracle Snow ran third, three-quarters
of a length behind the winner, to complete a $970.20 ($2)
trifecta.
The $45,000 winner’s share of the Duke Smith purse
increased Salt On The Side’s earnings to $118,154. Racing
exclusively in New Mexico, the gelding has won three of 10
races, including last year’s 400-yard, $107,173 Zia Derby
(RG2) at Ruidoso Downs at odds of 18-1. He also was a
finalist in the New Mexico State Fair Breeders’ Derby (R) at
The Downs at Albuquerque.
In Famous Caper, the 3-5 favorite, ran fourth and was
followed by Dueling Juan, Gold Zime, Klassic Strawfly,
Blushing Daisy, Go Buddy Lee, and Astreakin Bliss.
A First Caller is a homebred 5-year-old gelding by
Calligrapher who ran second to champion First Moonflash
in last year’s New Mexico Cup Championship (RG1) at
Zia Park and Jess Burner Memorial Handicap (RG1) at
Sunland Park. A winner of seven of 28 races, A First Caller
earned $15,000 to increase his bankroll to $339,315 for his
owner, Richard R. Shearer of Portales, New Mexico.
Miracle Snow banked $7,500 for his owners, Melvin and Mary Neugebauer of Manzanola, Colorado. The
homebred 6-year-old gelding by champion Dean Miracle
has earned $272,500 from eight victories in 30 outs, and
his stakes resume includes a win in the 2007 Hard Twist
Stakes (RG3) for state-bred 3-year-olds on Lineage Day at
Run every year since SunRay Park opened in 1999,
the Tommy “Duke” Smith Handicap honors the late longtime
sports editor of the Farmington Daily Times. The stakes
was run as the New Mexico Handicap until two years ago.
NEW MEXICO HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION HANDICAP
BRT
Opulence
A one-time $5,000 claimer, Martin Orona’s BRT Opulence scored a wire-to-wire, 1 ½-length win in the $75,000
New Mexico Horsemen’s Association Handicap (R) at
SunRay Park on July 4.
BRT Opulence went 870 yards in :44.473 and posted a
102 speed index under jockey J. Martin Bourdieu. The victory was his seventh in 27 starts and first stakes score.
“I had a great trip,” said Bourdieu. “We broke with the
4 (Key’s Band [TB]) and 6 (Heza Bold Color), and we were
able to open up a little down the backstretch. I gave him a
little breather at the head of the stretch, and then he was
able to kick it up again.
“Martin has done a great job with this horse,” added the
rider. “Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a long winning
streak for him.”
BRT Opulence ran seventh, 8 ½ lengths behind winner
Dash Of Deanie, in last year’s NMHA Handicap.
“I think we did a better job of getting him ready for this
year’s race,” said Orona, who also trains the sorrel 6-yearold gelding by Real Runaway. “I’m not sure when he’ll race
next, but we’ll weight our options and see what’s next for
him. We’re going to take our time with him.”
BRT Opulence was bred by Dr. Bob Story and Ryan
Story, and the gelding became the ninth stakes winner
from 94 starters sired by Real Runaway, a winning son of
the Beduino (TB) stallion Runaway Winner who ran third in
champion Uncas’ 1997 Los Alamitos Derby (G1). To date,
Real Runaway has sired the earners of more than $4.2
million from seven crops, including Arealstraitheart, a New
Mexico-bred gelding who won three graded stakes from
2005-06, including the 2006 All American Derby (G1) at
Ruidoso Downs, and ran second in champion Teller Cartel’s
’05 All American Futurity (G1). Real Runaway died in 2005.
A full brother to Im Off N Runnin, a gelding who ran
July 2010
third in the 2008 New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG2),
BRT Opulence is one of four winners from as many starters
produced by the unraced Meter Me Gone mare La Vita E
Bella. Now 11, La Vita E Bella is a half sister to 2007 AQHA
Texas Challenge (G1) winner Ride With The King and ’03
TQHA Sale Futurity (RG1) runner-up Doin It Jess For Fun.
BRT Opulence’s second dam, the winning On A High
mare High Cotton Doll, was a finalist in the 1991 Dash For
Cash Futurity (G1) at Los Alamitos. The gelding’s third
dam, the winning and stakes-placed Reb’s Policy (TB)
mare Caralot, foaled three stakes winners, including 1989
Las Damas Handicap (G1) winner and Champion of Champions (G1) runner-up Streakin Cara, and ’01 Sunland Park
Fall Derby (G3) winner Royal N Rowdy.
BRT Opulence has won seven of 27 races, including six of his 12 starts at the 870-yard distance, and the
$45,000 winner’s share of the NMHA Handicap purse increased his earnings to $228,843. The gelding ran second,
one length behind Key’s Band (TB), in last year’s 870-yard,
$148,230 New Mexico Cup 870 Championship (R) at Zia
Park.
Heza Bold Color ran second, 2 ¾ lengths in front of
2-1 favorite Key’s Band. Robyn Lane, Whata Lucky Man,
Lost Southerner, Recall Dreams, and Littlesouthernswing
completed the order of finish.
A $10,000 claimer at Zia Park last fall, Heza Bold Color
earned $15,750 for his owner, Maria G. Gonzalez of Edgewood, New Mexico. The 6-year-old gelding by champion
Heza Bold Man has won seven of 27 races, including six at
the 870 distance, and has banked $137,162.
Key’s Band is a 6-year-old gelding by Chimes Band
(TB) who also races for Maria Gonzalez. Key’s Band
earned $7,500 to increase his career bankroll to $384,402,
and his eight wins in 22 outs include five stakes.
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SUNRAY PARK FIRECRACKER STAKES
Woody
Dungarees
A sharp break from post 1 helped Woody Dungarees
score a 1 ½-length victory in the July 4, $75,000 SunRay
Park Firecracker Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 3-yearold fillies at SunRay Park.
Saddled by Mike Barber for owner Holy Bucket LLC,
Woody Dungarees covered 400 yards in :19.185 under
jockey Alonso Rivera, who has ridden the filly in seven of
her 10 starts. The clocking was good for a lifetime-best
speed index of 104.
“She broke good,” said Rivera. “This is a filly that
seems to be getting better every time out.”
Woody Dungarees was bred by Ron and Kay Jenkins
of Los Lunas, New Mexico, and the filly became the third
stakes winner from 48 starters sired by Woodbridge, an
unraced son of the First Down Dash stallion Dash Ta Fame.
Now 11, Woodbridge is a full brother to Grade 1 winner and
one-time world record holder Kendall Jackson, and he is a
half brother to Alice K White, last year’s champion 3-yearold filly.
Woodbridge’s five crops have earned more than
$632,000, and Woody Dungarees represents his top earner. The stallion stands for a $1,000 fee at Mac Murray and
Janis Spencer Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico.
Woody Dungarees is one of two winners from three
starters produced by Gingham Dungarees, a winning and
stakes-placed 9-year-old daughter of the Magnificence stallion Now I Know. The filly’s half brother, Famous Dungarees, ran third in this year’s New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity
(RG2) at SunRay.
Woody Dungarees’ second dam, Gingham N Diamonds, is a winning 18-year-old mare by the Dash For
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Cash stallion The Adamas who ran second in the 1994 Clovis Classic Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs and third in that
season’s New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) at
Woody Dungarees has won four races, and the
$45,000 winner’s share of the Firecracker Stakes purse
increased her earnings to $109,760. The filly was coming
off of a 1 ¾-length victory in a 350-yard allowance race on
June 10, and her stakes record includes a runner-up finish in last year’s New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity
(RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque, and a third-place run
in last season’s New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG2) at
SunRay.
Sixy Chamisa, the 3-5 favorite, ran third and was followed by Little Bit Southern, Gold Diggin Reason, Eleven
To Seven, and Frosties Corona.
Sixy Chamisa earned $16,500 to push her bankroll to
$240,413 for her owner, SM Cattle Export Co. of Socorro,
Texas. The gray daughter of Sixes Royal has won seven of
12 races, including the April 17 Sunburst Stakes (R) at Sunland Park and last year’s $150,000 New Mexico Breeders’
Futurity.
A homebred bay filly by Southern Corona racing for
Richard and Patricia Shearer of Portales, New Mexico,
Little Bit Southern earned $7,500. The filly, who broke her
maiden for a $10,000 tag at Sunland Park on January 24,
has banked $40,203 from 11 starts, and she ran second, a
half of a length behind winner Seven Coronas, in last year’s
New Mexican Spring Fling Stakes (R) at Sunland.
DINE STAKES
Train
Rider Blues
Train Rider Blues was a prompt 2-1 favorite in the
$75,000 Dine Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 3-year-olds
at SunRay Park on July 3.
Racing for Freda McSwane and Joe Walters, Train
Rider Blues rallied to defeat 3-1 second choice My Picasso
by a nose. Closing off of the fractions of :22.68, and :45.18
set by Eightnchangegroom, the bay colt by Desert God
covered 6 ½ furlongs in 1:16.71 while recording his fourth
win in 14 starts. Joe Martinez rode Train Rider Blues for
trainer Terry Walker.
McSwane, an attorney who lives in Ruidoso, New
Mexico, and Walters acquired Train Rider Blues for $5,000
at the 2008 New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale. Bred by T.J.
and Sharon Monsen of El Paso, Texas, the colt is one of 13
stakes winners from 110 starters sired by Desert God, an
unraced son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Fappiano and
half brother to stakes winners Better Than Honour, Smolensk, and Turnberry Isle.
Now 19, Desert God has sired 15 crops and the earners of more than $5.7 million, including Peppers Pride, an
earner of $1,066,085 and the holder of the North American
record of 19 consecutive wins by a Thoroughbred. He
stands for a $6,000 fee at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A &
A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
Train Rider Blues is also one of two starters produced
by Cara Marisa, a winning 12-year-old daughter of the
Storm Cat stallion Hennessy. The colt’s third dam, the For
The Moment mare Eileen’s Moment, produced 1992 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Lil E Tee and four stakes-placed
runners.
Train Rider Blues traces back to his fourth dam, the
Hawaii mare Sailaway. A 1976 Kentucky-bred foal, SailaJuly 2010
way foaled two stakes winners, including the late Thirty
Zip, a filly by Tri Jet who won eight stakes in Florida from
1985-88.
The $45,000 winner’s share of the Dine Stakes increased Train Rider Blues’ bankroll to $259,663. The
colt has won three stakes, including last year’s 5-furlong,
$159,556 Ruidoso Horse Sale Futurity (R) and 5 ½-furlong,
$109,026 Rio Grande Senor Futurity (R), both of which
were run at Ruidoso Downs.
Train Rider Blues was coming off of a consecutive
second-place finishes in the May 30 Norgor Derby at Ruidoso Downs and March 28 New Mexico Breeders’ Derby
(R) at Sunland Park.
Pacesetter Eightnchangegroom finished third, 1 ¼
lengths behind Train Rider Blues. Smash Dancer, Rig’s
Runner, Go Barney Go. Go Emmit Go, Riot Control, In
Flags Honor, and Countrybumpkin Who completed the
order of finish.
A homebred gelding by Devon Lane who broke his
maiden for a $12,500 tag at Zia Park last fall, runner-up My
Picasso earned $15,000 to push his earnings to $81,340
for owner Winnie Vick of Mesilla Park, New Mexico. My
Picasso ran third in last year’s one-mile, $130,460 New
Mexico Eddy County Stakes (R) for state-bred 2-year-olds
at Zia Park.
Eightnchangegroom is a homebred bay gelding by Regal Groom owned and trained by Ronald W. Ekins of Lake
Shore, Utah. An earner of $31,020 from two wins in three
outs, Eightnchangegroom was coming off of two straight
victories, including a 4 ¼-length allowance score as the 8-5
favorite on May 30.
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MOUNTAIN TOP QUARTER HORSE FUTURITY (RG2)
Streak
Of Sixes
Streak Of Sixes got back on the winning track in the
June 20 Mountain Top Quarter Horse Futurity (RG2) for
New Mexico-breds at Ruidoso Downs.
Racing for Peter and Marjorie Gallegos of Ranchos de
Taos, New Mexico, and trained by Juan Gonzalez, Streak
Of Sixes covered 350 yards in :17.389 while pinning a
1 ¼-length defeat on runner-up New Mexico Streaker.
The sorrel filly by Sixes Royal posted her fourth win in
five starts, and the winner’s share of the stakes-record
$254,408 purse increased her earnings to $274,938.
“Everything went great today,” said jockey Tony Guymon, who has ridden Streak Of Sixes in four of the filly’s
races. “The 1 hole helped a lot. I was totally confident she
would run a big race, and she did.
“She has a lot of talent,” he added. “I’m glad the owners stuck with me after I got hurt so I could get her back. I
owe a lot to them. I’m a really big fan of these Sixes Royal
babies. They have tons of run.”
Streak Of Sixes was bred by Sam and Karen Tanner,
and the filly is one of two stakes winners from 139 starters
sired by Sixes Royal, a 9-year-old son of champion Royal
Quick Dash who won the 2004 Texas Classic Derby (G1) at
Lone Star Park. The Texas-bred stallion, whose half brother
Four Six Dash won the 870-yard Pauls Valley Handicap
(G3) at Remington Park in ’99, has sired the earners of
more than $1.7 million from three crops. He stands for a
$2,000 fee at W.L. Mooring’s Double LL Farm at Bosque,
New Mexico.
A half sister to 2009 New Mexican Spring Fling Stakes
(R) winner Seven Coronas, Streak Of Sixes is also one of
three winners from as many starters foaled by the winning
Major Rime mare Perfect Sevens. Now 10, Perfect Sevens
is a full sister to Eight Fortunes, a gelding by Major Rime
who ran second in Chicks A Dashin’s 2005 New Mexico
State Fair Senor Futurity (RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque.
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Streak Of Sixes began her career with a three-race win
streak that included the 300-yard, $283,555 New Mexican
Spring Futurity (RG1) in a track-record :14.994 at Sunland
Park on April 11. She entered the final of the Mountain
Top, which was run as the Ruidoso Horse Sale Futurity
from 2004-09, with a third-place finish in her June 4 trial, in
which she recorded the ninth-fastest qualifying time.
“She had a lot of trouble in the trials,” said Gonzalez.
“She got away from the gate terrible, and we were lucky
to qualify. We were glad to get the 1 hole in the final; we
schooled her in the gates, and she stood in there and broke
good today. She ran right down the rail and didn’t bobble.
She looked really good the whole race.”
Pete Gallegos indicated that Streak Of Sixes would
make her next start in the 400-yard Zia Futurity (RG1) trials
on July 15.
“She is one good filly, and she gets stronger and stronger,” Gallegos said. “She has a good kick about midway
through the race, and the longer distances don’t look they’ll
bother her later on.
“We don’t know exactly what we’ll do after the Zia – we
have to get in first and go from there,” he added. “I have to
give a lot of credit to her sire, Sixes Royal.”
The fastest qualifier, runner-up New Mexico Streaker
finished a half of a length in front of third-place Strait Away
Fame. Oh Classy Corona, Reckless Lane, Portell Regard,
Merryvale, Little Bit Corona, Brooksy, and Takin Chick completed the order of finish.
A brown gelding by Brookstone Bay racing for a
partnership, New Mexico Streaker earned $40,705 to take
his bankroll to $56,055. The gelding has won two of three
races, including the first of seven Mountain Top trials on
June 4.
Strait Away Fame banked $20,989 for his owner, Juan
Esquivel of El Paso, Texas. The sorrel maiden colt by Dash
Ta Fame has earned $21,809 from three starts.
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MOUNTAIN TOP THOROUGHBRED FUTURITY
Red
Rock Springs
Rated perfectly by jockey Mark Villa, Red Rock
Springs sprinted to a wire-to-wire, half-length victory in the
$136,221 Mountain Top Thoroughbred Futurity (R) for New
Mexico-breds at Ruidoso Downs on June 26.
Red Rock Springs covered 5 furlongs in :59.25 on a
track labeled “good” after setting fractions of :22.41 and
:46.11. Tony Sedillo of Sunland Park, New Mexico, owns
and trains the dark bay or brown colt by Your Eminence.
Red Rock Springs was bred by Michael Weatherly
of Mesquite, New Mexico, and the colt was acquired by
Sedillo for $9,700 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Yearling
Sale. Red Rock Springs became the second stakes winner
from 30 starters sired by Your Eminence, an unraced son
of the Halo stallion Saint Ballado and half brother to 1997
Ashland Stakes (G1) winner Glitter Woman and ’01 Breeders’ Cup Distaff Stakes (G1) winner Unbridled Elaine.
Now 9, Your Eminence has sired the earners of more
than $596,000 from three crops, including My New Lady,
a 4-year-old mare who won the May 3, $79,250 Ma Kettle
Stakes at Indiana Downs near Indianapolis. The Kentuckybred stallion stands for a $2,500 fee at Weatherly Horse
Farms in Anthony, New Mexico.
Red Rock Springs is also one of four winners from five
starters produced by the winning Golden Act mare Ocean
Springs. The colt’s half brother, the Mr. Groush gelding
Ocean Joe, ran second in the 2006 Ruidoso Thoroughbred
Sale Futurity (R). Another half brother, the To Teras colt
Spring To Teras, was the runner-up in the ’08 New Mexico
Eddy County Stakes (R) at Zia Park.
July 2010
Red Rock Springs’ third dam, the unraced Sassafras
(FR) mare Rose Goddess (IRE), foaled three stakes winners, including Shaybani, a colt by Al Nasr (FR) who won
two Group 2 races in South Africa in the late 1980s, and
Sanam, a Golden Act colt who was Italy’s champion 2-yearold and Ireland’s champion freshman colt in 1986.
A 1979 foal who died in 1990, Rose Goddess was a
half sister to two stakes winners, including ’78 Hong Kong
Derby winner and 1980 Hong Kong horse of the year
Grand Boy.
All told, Red Rock Springs has won two of four races,
and the $68,112 winner’s share of the Mountain Top Futurity purse pushed his bankroll to $77,182. The colt broke
his maiden in a 4 ½-furlong Copper Top Futurity (R) trial at
Sunland Park on March 30, but he didn’t race in the final.
Texas Silver, the 13-10 favorite, ran second and was
followed by Quick Flag, Dodson, Ruby Tequila, DJ’s Diamond, High Siete, and Mysticalundertones.
A gray or roan colt by Silver Season, Texas Silver
earned $27,244 to boost his earnings to $56,144 for owner
J.K. Robison of El Paso, Texas. The colt, who was acquired
for $25,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale,
was coming off of a 2 ½-length victory in his Mountain Top
trial on June 10.
Quick Flag increased his earnings to $17,117 for his
owners, R.E. Keith, Philip Godwin, Eddie Harrell, and O.C.
Jarvis. The bay gelding by Avenue Of Flags is winless in
his first two outs.
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SIERRA BLANCA HANDICAP
Lefty Who
Ruidoso Downs/Photo
Isaias Enriquez rode 8-5 favorite Lefty Who to a comefrom-behind victory in the $50,000 Sierra Blanca Handicap
(R) for New Mexico-breds at Ruidoso Downs on July 4.
In front of a Fourth of July holiday crowd announced at
6,077, Lefty Who covered 5 ½ furlongs on a track labeled
“good” in 1:03. Joel Marr saddled the homebred 4-year-old
Quinton’s Gold gelding for owner Sam E. Stevens of La
Mesa, Texas.
Lefty Who is one of two stakes winners from 14 starters sired by Quinton’s Gold, a 13-year-old son of the Mr.
Prospector stallion Carson City who won the 6-furlong,
$100,000 Phoenix Gold Cup at Turf Paradise in 2002. The
Kentucky-bred stallion has sired the earners of more than
$1.07 million from three crops, and he stands for a $3,500
fee at Steve Prather’s Doubletree Farm near Hobbs, New
Mexico.
Lefty Who is also one of two winners from three starters foaled by his dam, the winning 16-year-old Fortunate
Prospect mare Fortunate Kate. The gelding’s third dam,
Yukon Katie, was a daughter of the Royal Charger stallion Mongo who produced nine winners from 10 starters,
including Kodiack, a colt by Run For Nurse who won the
1979 Ben Ali Handicap (G3) at Keeneland Racecourse in
Kentucky and ran second in Clev Er Tell’s 1977 Arkansas
Derby (G2) at Oaklawn Park.
Lefty Who’s fourth dam, Klondike Kate, was a winning
daughter of Mark-Ye-Well who produced Fair Ye Well, a
filly by Ridan who won the 1970 Pocahontas Stakes at
Churchill Downs.
A picture of consistency throughout his career, Lefty
Who has won 10 of 16 races, including all four of his outs at
Ruidoso Downs. The $30,000 winner’s share of the Sierra
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Blanca purse increased his earnings to $551,854, making
the gelding his sire’s top money earner. Lefty Who has won
seven stakes, including last year’s 5 ½-furlong, $50,000
Road Runner Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs and 6-furlong, $75,000 Dine Stakes (R) at SunRay Park.
In 2008, Lefty Who began his career with a five-race
win streak that included the Rio Grande Senor Futurity (R)
at Ruidoso Downs, the New Mexico Cup Colts & Geldings
Stakes (R) and New Mexico Eddy County Stakes (R) at Zia
Park, and Red Hedeman Mile Stakes (R) at Sunland Park.
Lefty Who was sent to post as the 8-5 favorite and
returned a $5.20 win mutuel, and his margin of victory was
a neck from Smarty Ghost. Lesters Secret, the 9-5 second
choice, ran third, three lengths behind the winner. Gulchrunssweet, Double Smart, Cattleman Prospect, Bewild
Hennessy, and Tricky Odds completed the order of finish.
A 6-year-old gelding by Ghostly Moves racing for Ramon O. Gonzalez Jr. of Edgewood, New Mexico, Smarty
Ghost earned $11,000 to boost his bankroll to $93,053.
Ghostly Moves was claimed by Gonzalez for $10,000
at Sunland Park on April 20, and he was coming off of
a second-place finish as the 2-1 favorite in a June 18, 6
½-furlong allowance race at SunRay Park.
Lesters Secret is a 4-year-old Lesters Boy gelding campaigned by Simply The Best Thoroughbreds of Temecula,
California, and trainer Henry Dominguez. Lesters Secret
banked $5,000 to push his earnings to $367,564 from six
wins in 20 starts. The gelding’s stakes resume includes a
victory in the one-mile, $125,000 New Mexico State University Handicap (R) for state-breds at Sunland Park on March
21.
Out In The Pasture
Metallic Lion QH colt out of Tizzie Lizzie. Owned by Nancy
and David Lock. Foaled at Hunter Creek Farm.
SUBMIT PHOTOS
Email foal photos to
swrnpub@earthlink.net,
jpeg files only.
Include sire - dam, owner
& farm location
Carmen’s Glory TB colt out of Sharla’s Jazz Dancer. Owned
by Charles Gober. Foaled at Hunter Creek Farm.
Carmen’s Glory TB filly out of Shes A Good Sport. Owned by Golden Ransom TB colt out of Truly Tricky. Owned by
Charles Gober. Foaled at Hunter Creek Farm.
Gaylen Rust. Foaled at Hunter Creek Farm.
July 2010
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Famous Lane QH colt out
of West Wing. Owned by
Carl Rempe.
Golden Ransom TB colt out of Katlin’s
Beauty. Owned by Gaylen Rust. Foaled
at Hunter Creek Farm.
Currie Maben with his Jesse James Jr QH colt out of Nitros
Cash. Owned by Currie and Nadine Maben.
Dash Ta Fame QH colt out of Lotta Train. Owned by
Currie and Nadine Maben.
Famous Lane QH filly out of Christmas Crystal.
Owned by Currie and Nadine Maben.
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Recip mare and foal out of Rare Pie by Ketel Won.
Foaled at Born Running Ranch. Owned by Sara
Donaldson.
Coronas Blackdiamond colt out of Lady Keepin Cash. Foaled at Born Running Ranch.
Owned by Ron Cameron
TB colt by Desert God out of
Mary Beverly. Foaled at Born
Running Ranch. Owned by
Wendy Davis.
July 2010
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Always
selling
the Bes
t!
2010 New Mexico Bred Thoroughbred
and Quarter Horse Yearling Sale
To be held August 20, 21 After The Races (AA Futurity and Derby Trials)
2010 Ruidoso Select Quarter Horse
Yearling and Broodmare Sale
Labor Day Weekend - September 3,4, & 5 (After The Races)
Ruidoso Downs Horse Sale Pavilion
Ruidoso Downs Racetrack
PO BOX 909 • Ruidoso Downs • New Mexico 88346
575-378-4474 • Fax 575-378-4788
email: dreed@raceruidoso.com • carolynfenter@raceruidoso.com
website: ruidososelectyearlingsale.com
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INCENTIVE
NCENTIVE AWARDS
WARDS FUNDS
UNDS
The Association distributes incentive award monies for the racing seasons ending at the conclusion
of the New Mexico State Fair, in accordance with laws and regulations enacted by the New Mexico
State Legislature and the New Mexico State Racing Commission. Five-eights of one percent (.625%)
of the straight pari-mutuel handle and one and three-eights percent (1.375%) of the exotic pari-mutuel
race handle at all New Mexico race tracks is transmitted weekly to the Association for distribution
as incentive awards to winning New Mexico bred horse owners, breeders, and stallion owners. The
Association receives eight percent (8%) for administrative expenses. 1/3 of the gaming purse revenue
is designated to the Incentive Award Fund.
AWARD MONIES TO BE DISTRIBUTED BASED UPON RACE CLASS AS FOLLOWS:
CLASS A ~ Maiden, Trials, Futurities, Derbys, Allowance, Handicaps & Stakes
CLASS B ~ Claiming races of $10,000 and above
CLASS C ~ Claiming races below $10,000
CLASS D ~ Maiden Claiming races
OWNER AWARDS are distributed annually in November for any New Mexico Bred finishing first, second
or third in any race within New Mexico. This is 40% of the total fund.
BREEDER’S AWARDS are distributed annually in November to the breeder, the owner of the dam at the
time of foaling, for first place in any race within New Mexico. This is 45% of the total fund.
STALLION AWARDS are distributed annually in November to the Stallion Owner for first place in any race
within New Mexico. This is 7% of the total fund.
10% TRACK BREEDER AWARDS Each racetrack in the State of New Mexico is required to pay a 10%
track breeders award to any New Mexico bred horse that wins a race. 10% of the winning purse
provided by the racetrack from the Horsemen’s Purse Fund is paid to the breeder of record. 10% of
Added Monies By The Racetrack In Stakes Races is paid by the track to the breeder of record. Any
monies added to a purse by an organization other than the race track is not included in the 10% track
breeder awards. The track breeder award sheets are sent to the New Mexico Horse Breeders offices
for completion of addresses and social security numbers as well as verification of the New Mexico
bred status of each winning horse.
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NOTICE
Due to the AQHA now using electronic imaging, new registration papers
are created every time a change is made (such as new ownership, parentage verification & marking changes).
If your horse was stamped New Mexico Bred, our seal and registration
number will no longer be on the registration papers.
Please have your reissued registration papers re-stamped New Mexico
Bred as soon as possible to avoid delays at the racetracks.
There is no charge for this service.
Come by our office at: 1020 Texas, NE – Albuquerque, NM 87110
Or mail to: PO Box 36869 – Albuquerque, NM 87176
If you have questions, please call us at 1-800-696-4023
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2010 New Mexico Bred Races
Ruidoso Downs
Quarter Horse
Mountain Top NM Bred Futurity RG2 • $40,000 Added
Zia Futurity RG1 • $50,000 Added
Zia Derby RG2 • $50,000 Added
Zia Handicap RG2 • $50,000 Guaranteed
Zia 870 Championship • $50,000 Guaranteed
Thoroughbred
Mountain Top NM Bred Futurity • $40,000 Added
Sierra Blanca Handicap • $50,000 Guaranteed
Rio Grande Senorita Futurity • $50,000 Added
Rio Grande Senor Futurity • $50,000 Added
Road Runner Handicap • $50,000 Guaranteed
Land Of Enchantment Handicap • $50,000 Guaranteed
Lincoln Handicap • $50,000 Guaranteed
Sierra Starlet • $50,000 Guaranteed
Downs at Albuquerque / New Mexico State Fair
Quarter Horse John Augustine • $40,000.00 Guaranteed Hard Twist RG3• $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Pelican RG3 • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Lineage Championship RG3 • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Lineage QH Claiming Stakes• $10,000.00 Added
NM State Fair Senor Futurity RG3 • $40,000.00 Added
NM State Fair Senorita Futurity RG3 • $40,000.00 Added
NM State Fair QH Breeders’ Derby RG3 • $40,000.00 Added NM Breeders’ QH Championship RG3 • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Thoroughbred
Don Juan De Onate • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Chief Narbona • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Casey Darnell Pony Express • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Carlos Salazar • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
The Lineage Stakes • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Lineage TB Claiming Stakes• $10,000.00 Added
E. T. Springer • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
NM State Fair TB Breeders’ Stakes • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
Dessie & Fern Sawyer Futurity • $40,000.00 Added
George Maloof Futurity • $40,000.00 Added
University Of New Mexico Handicap • $40,000.00 Guaranteed
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Environmentally Friendly
Fly Trap
By Heather Smith Thomas
The battle against flies is constant, but there are ways
to reduce these costly and irritating pests—without use of
pesticides and toxic chemicals. One of the most effective
methods is the Epps Biting Fly Trap™, invented by a cattleman in Oklahoma. It is now made and marketed by Mark
and Virginia Bonacquista (Horseline Products) in Henderson, Tennessee. A growing number of stockmen and horse
owners are using it to reduce fly problems in barnyards and
pastures.
Alan Epps, who had about 250 cattle, came up with
the idea after being frustrated by his inability to adequately
control biting flies. “His steers were tormented by horse
flies--miserable and bloody, and covered with welts from
the bites. He’d tried everything, but nothing worked very
well,” says Bonacquista.
For 3 years Epps kept tinkering with different things
and did research on the habits of biting flies. Flies are attracted to the shape and silhouette of an animal, so Epps
made a framework of wood to attract them. The frame
contained a large contrasting surface area, utilizing a dark
portion and some transparent panels to simulate the air
space above an animal and under its belly—the areas
where flies normally circle before landing on the animal to
bite and feed. When the flies hit the transparent sheets
they ricochet into trays of water below them, and drown.
By 1998 Epps had developed a unit that was working
well, and presented the idea to Farnam. “Farnam took
the concept and manufactured it, until 2007. At that point
Farnam was bought out by a larger company, Central Life
Science, and they closed the farm division. Every product
in the farm division was discontinued,” says Bonacquista.
This included waterers, gates, and the fly trap.
“We’d been using their fly trap on our own farm for 5
years with great success, and called the company to order
more of the clear plastic sheets, which every 2 years need
to be replaced--the only things we’d ever had to replace on
the traps. We loved those traps; we’d found out about them
through our veterinarian. We’d come to the same point of
frustration after using all the sprays, fly collars, rub-ons and
feed throughs. Nothing seemed to work, especially for 2 of
our mares. They were running through thickets and brush,
cutting themselves up trying to get the flies off,” he says.
“When I called to order more of the sheets and found
they were no longer available, I was upset. This was the
only thing we’d found that works! So we contacted Mr.
Epps directly and signed a contract with him to manufacture the product ourselves and distribute it,” says Bonacquista.
“There were about 6000 units already in use. After purchasing a unit, the only thing that ever needs replacing is
the transparent sheets.” You merely add water and a few
drops of dishwashing soap to the catch trays during fly
season.
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“Farnam’s entomologists did some research and made
a claim that it will attract and kill the flies in a 40-acre area.
I didn’t want to make such a bold statement, but we can
guarantee that it will clear the biting flies from 20 acres,” he
says. This does not include houseflies, just biting flies.
All biting flies (horse flies, deer flies, stable flies, black
flies, mosquitoes, etc.) are attracted to large dark objects.
“If you have a black horse and a light horse, or a black cow
and a light colored cow, flies are more attracted to the dark
one. They tend to fly around the animal 2 or 3 times before they attack. The 2 plastic sheets are on a 45-degree
angle with the trap. That’s the only place there is light,” he
explains. The flies run into these sheets, thinking they are
flying over the animal or around its legs.
“They hit the clear plastic sheets, fall into the water,
and drown. You add 8 drops of dishwashing soap to each
tray, and the soap breaks the surface tension of the water
so the insects can’t float. They are immediately wetted
completely, and sink and drown quicker.” They are unable
to float, swim or climb out. “When we starting using our
trap, within less than a month we’d reduced our fly problem.
Research showed that a trap kills, on average, about one
pound of biting flies every day,” says Bonacquista. The actual amount will depend on the fly population in your area.
“Each year, our fly population is less. Now we’re only
getting a pound of flies every week. When you start killing
off half a million biting flies, it starts to make a dent in the
population because they can’t reproduce that quickly.”
He refers to a 3-year research project at Cornell University, University of Florida and New York Pest Management. “One of the researchers told me our trap’s effectiveness was about 10 to 1 compared to any other method they
tried, looking at 15 other products. They also tested our
trap for 3 years in upstate New York on dairy farms, looking
at a non-chemical approach versus use of pesticides.” The
problem with pesticides is that they only work short term
and some insects develop resistance. Another drawback:
many chemicals are toxic to other forms of life as well.
Fly predator wasps help control houseflies and stable
flies that lay eggs in manure and rotting organic matter like
old hay or bedding, but have no effect on horse flies and
deer flies. The fly trap is more efficient in that it will kill any
of the biting flies.
The idea is very simple. “All Alan Epps did was look at the
natural behavior of these flies and created this trap to trick
them. It’s black, produces a silhouette and gives off heat.
It catches a lot of flies in the evening when the dark portion
is still warm.” When air cools off, the black trap is warmer,
and the fly thinks this is an animal. The fly can still see the
light part, so that’s where it flies. If you stand nearby you
can hear flies hitting the sheets—ping, ping, ping—and falling into the water traps.
The trap costs $295. “This is a one-time investment.
I’ve talked with people who’ve had their traps since 1999
and they still work very well. You just need to replace the
clear plastic sheets because they deteriorate, but those
only cost $8,” he says. This is inexpensive, compared with
what you’d spend for sprays, repellents and wipe-on products for horses, or for chemicals to treat cattle. Customers
in regions with a long fly season might need to replace the
sheets every year, whereas in other areas the sheets might
last for 3 years. Bonacquista replaces his every 2 years.
The traps work best when placed in an open area
where flies see it from a distance. When set up, the trap is
about 5 feet tall and 7 feet long. All you have to do is scoop
out the dead flies every other day or so with an aquarium
net, add more water and soap if needed, and change the
water about every 2 weeks. Each tray holds about 3.5
gallons of water. There’s no messy bait to handle, and it
doesn’t matter what kind of dish soap you use. If the trap
is in a pasture or barnyard, you can put an electric wire
around it so animals won’t rub on it or damage it. “We have
ours about 12 feet outside the pasture so the horses won’t
bother it. Cattle ranchers often put it inside the pasture with
a hot wire around it,” he says.
“Farnam never promoted the trap. They had some tax
breaks because they had a non-chemical product and
that’s why they carried it, but preferred to sell fly sprays,
wipes, etc. because there was more money to be made
with those,” says Bonacquista. “I talked with Tractor Supply, Southern States, Farm Tech and other distributors and
they’d never heard of these traps. Farnam’s rep never told
them about it. I don’t think they wanted to promote it. They
could sell a lot more bottles of fly spray and make more
profit than by selling a fly trap once.”
Last year Bonacquista started marketing a portable
trap as well. Many ranchers are now using rotational grazing and want something they could move from pasture
to pasture. The portable model has an aluminum frame
(lightweight and easy to move) but is very durable, able to
withstand 90 mph wind. Though it’s light, it won’t blow over.
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“We include 4 empty sandbags with that unit, to hold it
steady in the wind. Most people just use two. When you
move the trap you just pick up the sandbags and put them
on your trailer or the back of a pickup when you move the
trap from pasture to pasture. Sandbags were the only
things we found that could actually hold it down in a 90 mph
wind. We tried stakes, but the wind could pull them out.
The sandbags are green and match the environment, and
sit on the legs of the unit,” he says. Some of his customers
move their cattle quite often in an intensive grazing system,
and they move the trap each time they move cattle to the
next pasture.
The traps on his place have reduced fly populations
significantly. “Last summer we went riding in August. We
got about a half-mile from our ranch and got hammered by
horse flies. We decided that was no fun and turned around
and went home. When we got within about a quarter mile
of our house there were no more biting flies! Sometimes
you don’t realize how well it works until you go outside the
range of the traps.”
Bonaquista says the government recently came out
with a new conservation stewardship program for farmers
and ranchers. “Part of the criteria is that you use environmentally friendly fly control. There are specifications about
what you can or can’t use. You have to incorporate things
like fly predator wasps, traps for house and stable flies,
traps for biting flies, walk through traps for horn flies, fly
vacuums, bug zappers or use ways to enhance populations
of martins, swallows, bats, etc. that eat flies. These are
some of the criteria for non-chemical livestock pest control.
Our product fits nicely, because soap is not harmful to the
environment. Some organic dairy farmers use a soap product made by Amway, called LOC (liquid organic concentrate), which is safe enough to drink. They put this in their
fly traps and it works just as well as any other liquid soap.
Common dishwashing soap is also fine, however.”
For more information, check the website: www.horselineproducts.com or call 800-208-4846.
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CHUCK WEBB
Farmington native has served a decade on the NMHBA
board. By Michael Cusortelli
A lifelong resident of Farmington, New Mexico Horse
Breeders’ Association trustee and past president Chuck
Webb’s roots go deep in the Four Corners region of the state.
Webb recalls the days when local residents would enjoy
racing at the bush track at McGee Park at the San Juan
County Fairgrounds, which predated San Juan Downs.
“They used to run a spring meet that was just put on by
some of the local horsemen,” Webb recalls. “It was a short,
Calcutta-type meet, with no pari-mutuel wagering. They’d
run futurity and derby trials one week, then the third week of
the meet they’d run the finals, and there would be a week in
between. There’d also be a handicap race for older horses.
“Everyone just hauled in and ran their horses,” he says.
“Our family used to take a motor home out there, and my
grandmother would come out and watch the races from the
motor home. She’d always bake a chocolate cake, and quite
a few people would just come over and have a slice of chocolate cake with her.
“There were quite a few horsemen up in the Four Corners
area at that time, and they’d just run their horses together. It
seemed like Fred Danley would always come up and run a
horse or two – he was trained for Pee Wee Botkins or Jimmy
Drake, one of the local horsemen.”
The McGee Park meet eventually was replaced by San
Juan Downs, which opened in 1984 as a pari-mutuel track under the auspices of the New Mexico Racing Commission. The
Webb family – Chuck and his wife, Lori, and his parents, Max
and Rose – also raced a lot of their homebred Quarter Horses
at San Juan Downs.
In fact, the Webbs won the 1992 Four Corners Futurity
with Lucky Aces N Eights, a homebred son of 1981 world
champion Special Effort who was trained by Pat Swan and
ridden by the editor of this magazine, Robert Edwards.
Declining attendance and handle forced San Juan Downs
to shut down in 1993, after nine years of operation, and the
Farmington area was without a racetrack for about six years.
After the New Mexico legislature passed a bill allowing the
state’s tracks to operate slot machines, SunRay Park opened
for its first season in 1999.
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“San Juan Downs was a good idea at the time, but it was
county owned and operated,” Webb remembers. “I think a
lot of the county administrators just kind of soured on it, and
I don’t think the Daily Times, our local newspaper, ever gave
the track the publicity it deserved considering the revenue
it brought to the area. The paper would have rather tooted
the horn about the Connie Mack World Series, or some local
festival. It never gave the track the credit it deserved for the
economic boost it provided to the county.
“The oil and gas industry kind of took a nosedive in the
mid ‘80s, but San Juan County didn’t really feel the economic
downturn so much,” he adds. “One reason was because the
racetrack brought in a lot of people and a lot of money to the
area. I don’t think enough people appreciated that.
“Now that SunRay Park is open, it’s a good place to race.
We’ve always enjoyed running our horses up here. We’ve
always supported the meet, and we always will.”
The Webbs won both of SunRay’s futurities this year.
Their New Mexico-bred filly, the Dash Ta Fame filly WR Aces
Fame, won the $172,100 New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity
(RG2) on May 30, and they won the June 19, $100,800 Four
Corners Futurity (G3) with WR Carver, a sorrel gelding by
2006 world champion Wave Carver out of the Webbs’ homebred mare, LA Cassia.
The Webbs stand Lucky Aces N Eights at their Aces
N Eights Equine Station at Kirtland, New Mexico. The bay
stallion retired from racing in 1994, after he’d won nine of 17
races – including three stakes – and earned $58,856. This
was before slot machine revenue helped boost the state’s
race purses.
To date, Lucky Aces N Eights has sired 145 starters and
the earners of more than $3.4 million. His top earner, Luck N
Ofive, won the 2007 New Mexico Cup Quarter Horse Championship (RG1) at Zia Park for owner Shirley Burelsmith.
Aces N Eights Equine Station is managed by Shane
Hatch and his wife, Gwen. A 90-acre facility, Aces N Eights
includes a 6-furlong training track with starting gates, and a
rodeo arena.
A top sire of performance horses, Sweetshot Playgun,
also stands at Aces N Eights. Sweetshot Playgun is a 5-yearold son of Playgun, an 18-year-old stallion whose get have
earned more than $6.9 million.
“We have some colts of his on the ground that we think
the performance horse people – especially barrel racers – will
really like,” says Webb. “He’s a well-bred stallion. He has a lot
of bone and a lot of foot to him, and he has a good mind. He’s
a very talented horse.
“Shane and Gwen both had a lot to do with the success of
WR Aces Fame and WR Carver,” he adds. “We foaled those
horses out at the farm, and we weaned and halter-broke them
there before we sent them to (trainer) Wes Giles at the track.
They both spent a lot of time out at the farm in Kirkland.”
A graduate of Farmington High School, Webb was the
NMHBA president in 2005. In addition to currently serving as
a NMHBA trustee, he also sits on the state racing commission’s track safety committee.
Chuck and Lori Webb have been married for 28 years.
The couple has two adult children – their oldest, daughter
Ashley, is married to Derek Wray, and the Wrays have a
2-year-old daughter, Eden; the Webbs’ son, Chance, has a
4-year-old son named Cade.
Webb recently visited with our magazine for an interview.
NMHBA Magazine: How did you get interested in horse
racing?
Chuck Webb: Through my dad. He was a jockey when
he was young. They’d come and get him out of high school
football practice, and he’d go ride in match races at the
fairgrounds, or in Durango, all over the area. He had a love of
horses, and I just kind of followed along with that. I remember
asking him a lot of questions about horse racing when I was
a kid.
My dad bred Lucky Aces N Eights. He’s out of an Easy
Jet mare named Chickajet, and my dad raised and raced
her. Dad bred Chickajet to Special Effort to get Lucky Aces
N Eights. I can’t remember what the stud fee was to breed
to Special Effort, but I do remember it was pretty steep. Dad
would do that from time to time – he’d breed one of our better
mares to a really nice stud horse, and it seemed we’d always
come up with something pretty decent when he did that.
We’ve stood Lucky Aces N Eights for years, but we
haven’t raised many runners by him lately because we’ve
had him for so long. We’ve been breeding some of his better
daughters, like WR Red Ace and LA Cassia, to studs like
Dash Ta Fame and Wave Carver.
Through the years, we’ve mostly bred our own runners,
rather than buy outside yearlings at the sales. Like most
people, we’ve had our bumps and bruises and failures, but
we’ve also had a lot of success.
NMHBA: Speaking of Wave Carver, you and your dad
own a syndicate share in the stallion. How did that come
about?
Webb: Before Wave Carver won the Champion of Champions (in 2006), I was shopping around for a stallion to breed
WR Red Ace to. I considered Check Him Out and Separatist, but for some reason things didn’t work out with those two
studs.
So I called Royal Vista, and asked their farm manager,
Laura Wipf, about Wave Carver. She told me they didn’t know
how much they were going to stand him for just yet; they were
waiting to see how he’d do in the Champion of Champions.
Laura asked me a few questions WR Red Ace, and she said
she’d get back to me.
Three days after Wave Carver won the Champion of
Champions, Laura called and said that Scoop Vessels,
Vaughn Cook, and the other partners decided to syndicate
him. After she told me the cost of each syndicate share, dad
and I discussed it, and we both agreed that we should buy
a share. We felt that Wave Carver would fit nicely into our
breeding program.
I think it’ll pay nice dividends for us, because the Lucky
Aces N Eights mares we breed don’t have any First Down
Dash or Dash For Cash blood in them. I think it’s a good
outcross for us.
NMHBA: Talk about some of the other businesses that
you and your family run.
Webb: We started in the oil and gas business. We used
to operate all of the Tenneco Oil Company’s wells here in the
San Juan basin. That’s what dad did for a long time, and then
Tenneco came and bought us out. We were a contract pumping service for them, and they bought us out in the mid-1980s.
After that, we diversified our business interests. I have a
trading post in Waterflow (on US Highway 64, about halfway
between Farmington and Shiprock), with a big convenience
store on one end and pawn shop on the other. I have another
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convenience store here in town, and a feed store that provides a lot of the hay and feed products to the local horsemen.
We still have some oil and gas properties that we look
after, and we do some oil and gas production of our own, but
our business interests are spread out in quite a few different
directions.
NMHBA: You’ve served on the NHMBA board for about
10 years now, and you’re also a past president. Why do you
do it?
Webb: I think having someone on the board from Farmington gives the horsemen here in the Four Corners area a
voice on the board. And, we’re kind of isolated up here to
some degree, so having a local person on the board also lets
people throughout the state know what’s going on up here.
A lot of people call me or visit and want to know what’s going
on, so me being on the board gives them a chance to have
some input as far as what’s going on with the breeders’ association.
I’ve met a lot of wonderful people being on the board,
and I’ve been able to attend meetings all over the state. I’ve
made some good contacts and good friendships through that,
but I’d like to see some of the other owners and breeders get
involved as well. A lot of these people have been successful
in their businesses, and they might have different ideas on
how to do things. They have a lot of knowledge and expertise
on issues that some of us might not have.
NMHBA: You and your family know what racing was
like in New Mexico before slots. How close do you think the
state’s industry was to shutting down completely back in the
mid-1990s?
Webb: I don’t know, but before slots, trainers couldn’t
survive, jockeys couldn’t survive, and there was no way for
owners to make any money. It was to a point where you could
make more money running on the Colorado fair circuit than in
New Mexico.
Tracks like Sunland Park paid an average of $25,000 in
purses – and that was for the whole day. When you get right
down to it, it was almost an extinct industry. It was tough to
make anything work.
And you also have to give credit to all of our racetracks,
because the way the law is written, they only have to run two
New Mexico-bred races a day – one for Quarter Horses and
one for Thoroughbreds – but they all run way more than that
every day. When they take that slot machine money and use
it for state-bred races, it gives us owners and breeders a lot
more chances to run our horses. If they were only running two
or three races a day, there’d be a lot more jumping up and
down about us not getting to run our horses.
NMHBA: Before slots, was your family considering getting out of the racing business?
Webb: We might have had to, but we were lucky in one
sense. When Lucky Aces N Eights ran, it was right before the
slots money, and when his offspring ran it was right at the beginning of it. It was one of those things where we had the stud
horse, we still had the mares, and we were breeding to try to
prove our stud horse. We were thinking that maybe we could
run here in the state, or maybe run in Oklahoma or Texas if
we needed to go in that direction.
We were still active before slots and not really thinking
about getting out. But we did do a lot of wondering how we
could make money out of it to keep our involvement in it alive.
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