News From New Mexico Cup Day Courtesy of Ty Warrant, ZIA Park
Enchanted Outlaw Wins Rocky Gulch Championship,
One of Four Fincher-Trained Winners On Stakes-Filled Day
HOBBS, New Mexico (November 8, 2009) — Trainer Todd Fincher sent out four winners, headlined by $180,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Rocky Gulch Championship winner Enchanted Outlaw, to dominate the New Mexico Cup afternoon of racing at Zia Park with nearly $2 million in purses.
The stakes-filled 11-race program were for New Mexico-bred thoroughbreds and quarter horses. It is the richest day of state-bred racing anywhere.
Fincher also won the $170,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Peppers Pride Championship for Fillies and Mares with Negotiablafections, the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup for Colts and Geldings with Chuchuluco and the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies with Glory Be Mine.
In the New Mexico Classic Cup Rocky Gulch Championship, Ted Rushing and Lee Lewis’ Enchanted Outlaw powered away from his rivals to score the convincing victory by more than eight lengths. Alfredo Juarez Jr. was aboard for the win in 1:39.23 for one mile.
Enchanted Outlaw raced in a stalking position and then took the lead on the turn. The 4-year-old gelding then widened his advantage with each stride through the stretch to gain his third-straight win and transform from a claimer to stakes winner.
Just two starts ago, Enchanted Outlaw was racing in the $10,000-claiming ranks and won by five lengths at Zia Park. He then stepped up and won a $32,000 allowance race as the 7-10 favorite.
While racing against lesser company, Enchanted Outlaw won six of 15 starts, including five of his nine previous 2009 outs.
Ty’s Pache finished second, a neck ahead of Move Moves.
In the New Mexico Classic Cup Peppers Pride Championship for Fillies and Mares, Terry Millenbine’s Negotiablafections made a strong surge entering the final turn of the one-mile stakes and that proved an easy winner by nearly five lengths.
Negotiablafections raced the mile in 1:39.74 with Juarez Jr. aboard.
Juarez Jr. gunned Negotiablafections to a widening lead and that move proved to be the winning difference. Let The Musicbegin finished second, but never got within striking distance of Negotiablafections. La Sopresa finished third.
Sent off at 5-2 odds, Negotiablafections earned her strong support by coming off an extended layoff to easily win a Zia Park allowance race by more than three lengths. She has won six of eight career starts with one second-place finish.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup for Colts and Geldings, Chuchuluco pushed his record to three wins from three starts under a rousing ride from Isaias Enriquez.
Chuchuluco, owned by West Texas Racing Partners, raced the six furlongs in 1:09.34 to defeat Rig’s Runner by one-and-one-quarter lengths. Huntin The Trash finished third.
Chuchuluco and Huntin The Trash were each sent off at 2-1 odds with Huntin The Trash the slight favorite.
Fincher first sent Chuchuluco out to win a maiden race and then he won a conditioned allowanced race. Each of those starts came at Zia Park.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies, the solid favorite Glory Be Mine took control and the quarter pole and then the outcome was then never questioned as she easily won by one-and-one-quarter lengths over King’s Water Lilly.
Third place went to Favorite Flag.
Bobby McQueen and Dale Taylor’s Glory Be Mine raced the six furlongs in 1:11.95 under jockey Jorge Martin Bourdieu.
Glory Be Mine, the 1-5 favorite, raced to her fourth-straight win and third-straight stakes win. She came into the New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies off wins in the $126,000 Rio Grande Senorita Futurity at Ruidoso Downs and the $60,000 Permian Basin Stakes at Zia Park.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Championship Cup for Fillies, Blue Eyed Bella gave trainer Joel Marr the win by covering the six furlongs in 1:10.59.
The Isaias Enriguez-ridden Blue Eyed Bella won the stakes for 3-year-old fillies by a neck over Mylilmemo while Leading Moves finished third, another two lengths back.
Sam and Sammy Stevens’ Blue Eyed Bella scored her first 2009 win by taking the New Mexico Classic Cup Championship for Fillies. Last year, she captured the New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies and the Rio Grande Senorita Futurity.
In the $170,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Sprint Championship, Gulchrunssweet easily held off Cattleman Prospect for the one-and-one-half-length win in 1:10.18 for the six furlongs.
Regular rider Quyet Bui was aboard for trainer Bart Hone.
It was the third win in the latest four starts for Gulchrunssweet. The 9-year-old gelding scored his 20th career win in his 68th start by taking the Sprint Championship.
Gulchrunssweet won the Sierra Blanca Handicap at Ruidoso Downs in June and was second in the Pony Express Handicap at The Downs at Albuquerque in August.
Cattleman Prospect retained second place over El Dramo.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Championship for Colts and Geldings, Lesters Secret scored the mild upset win after finishing second in his previous three outs.
He was second in the Dine Stakes and the Road Runner Handicap before finishing second in a Zia Park allowance race.
Owned by Henry Dominguez and Simply The Best Thoroughbreds, Lesters Secret showed his superiority in the final 100 yards to win the stakes for sophomore colts and geldings by one length.
Odds-on favorite Lefty Who made a run through the lane to grab second by an expanding neck over Gold Asure.
In the Grade 1, $170,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Quarter Horse Championship, First Moonflash raced to his 1-2 odds while easily defeating older horses in :21.164 for the 440 yards.
Alejandro Medellin was aboard for First Moonflash’s ninth-straight win in the state of New Mexico. He ventured out of the Land Of Enchantment to finish fifth in the Grade 1, $200,000 Remington Park Championship in May. His connections passed on racing in the $350,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship against open horses last weekend at Los Alamitos in Southern California to run in Sunday’s race at Zia Park
During his New Mexico winning streak he also won the Grade 1, $400,000 The Championship at Sunland Park and the Bank of America New Mexico Championship Challenge. He has set four track records during this winning streak.
A First Caller raced with First Moonflash for the first half of the race and finished second, beaten by one and a half lengths. Miracle Snow was third.
In the Grade 2, $338,702 New Mexico Classic Futurity, the richest race on the card, favored Sixy Chmisa raced to her sixth win from seven starts for the S & M Cattle Export Company.
Sent off at 6-5 odds, Sixy Chamisa pulled away for the win in :19.291 for the 400 yards.
The Salvador Martinez-ridden Sixy Chamisa won by one length over Here Kittykittykitty and Tricks My Pick finished third.
Sixy Chamisa has done about everything asked of her third year. She has won two futurities for New Mexico-breds and her only disappointment came when she dwelt at the start of the $321,000 Zia Futurity and finished in ninth place.
In the Grade 2, $207,572 New Mexico Classic Derby, even-money favorite DM Hot Hot Hot barely held off 2-1 second-choice One Diamond Kitty to win by a nose.
Rabbit Revival was third in the field of 10 3-year-old quarter horses.
Owned by the Reed Land and Cattle Company and trained by Heath Reed, DM Hot Hot Hot raced the 440 yards in :21.413 for his fifth-straight win. He won the New Mexico Breeders Derby two starts before his New Mexico Classic Derby win.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup 870 Championship, the world’s richest 870-yard race, the thoroughbred Key’s Band rallied to pass a game quarter horse BRT Opulence and win by an expanding one-and-half lengths in :45.109 with Jorge Martin Bourdieu up.
Longshot BRT Opulence gained a clear lead on the turn, but odds-on favorite Key’s Band quickened through the lane for his third straight victory. He started his winning streak with a win in the Zia 870 Championship at Ruidoso Downs.
Mr Frenchman, a quarter horse, finished three-lengths behind BRT Opulence for third.
One of Four Fincher-Trained Winners On Stakes-Filled Day
HOBBS, New Mexico (November 8, 2009) — Trainer Todd Fincher sent out four winners, headlined by $180,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Rocky Gulch Championship winner Enchanted Outlaw, to dominate the New Mexico Cup afternoon of racing at Zia Park with nearly $2 million in purses.
The stakes-filled 11-race program were for New Mexico-bred thoroughbreds and quarter horses. It is the richest day of state-bred racing anywhere.
Fincher also won the $170,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Peppers Pride Championship for Fillies and Mares with Negotiablafections, the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup for Colts and Geldings with Chuchuluco and the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies with Glory Be Mine.
In the New Mexico Classic Cup Rocky Gulch Championship, Ted Rushing and Lee Lewis’ Enchanted Outlaw powered away from his rivals to score the convincing victory by more than eight lengths. Alfredo Juarez Jr. was aboard for the win in 1:39.23 for one mile.
Enchanted Outlaw raced in a stalking position and then took the lead on the turn. The 4-year-old gelding then widened his advantage with each stride through the stretch to gain his third-straight win and transform from a claimer to stakes winner.
Just two starts ago, Enchanted Outlaw was racing in the $10,000-claiming ranks and won by five lengths at Zia Park. He then stepped up and won a $32,000 allowance race as the 7-10 favorite.
While racing against lesser company, Enchanted Outlaw won six of 15 starts, including five of his nine previous 2009 outs.
Ty’s Pache finished second, a neck ahead of Move Moves.
In the New Mexico Classic Cup Peppers Pride Championship for Fillies and Mares, Terry Millenbine’s Negotiablafections made a strong surge entering the final turn of the one-mile stakes and that proved an easy winner by nearly five lengths.
Negotiablafections raced the mile in 1:39.74 with Juarez Jr. aboard.
Juarez Jr. gunned Negotiablafections to a widening lead and that move proved to be the winning difference. Let The Musicbegin finished second, but never got within striking distance of Negotiablafections. La Sopresa finished third.
Sent off at 5-2 odds, Negotiablafections earned her strong support by coming off an extended layoff to easily win a Zia Park allowance race by more than three lengths. She has won six of eight career starts with one second-place finish.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup for Colts and Geldings, Chuchuluco pushed his record to three wins from three starts under a rousing ride from Isaias Enriquez.
Chuchuluco, owned by West Texas Racing Partners, raced the six furlongs in 1:09.34 to defeat Rig’s Runner by one-and-one-quarter lengths. Huntin The Trash finished third.
Chuchuluco and Huntin The Trash were each sent off at 2-1 odds with Huntin The Trash the slight favorite.
Fincher first sent Chuchuluco out to win a maiden race and then he won a conditioned allowanced race. Each of those starts came at Zia Park.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies, the solid favorite Glory Be Mine took control and the quarter pole and then the outcome was then never questioned as she easily won by one-and-one-quarter lengths over King’s Water Lilly.
Third place went to Favorite Flag.
Bobby McQueen and Dale Taylor’s Glory Be Mine raced the six furlongs in 1:11.95 under jockey Jorge Martin Bourdieu.
Glory Be Mine, the 1-5 favorite, raced to her fourth-straight win and third-straight stakes win. She came into the New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies off wins in the $126,000 Rio Grande Senorita Futurity at Ruidoso Downs and the $60,000 Permian Basin Stakes at Zia Park.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Championship Cup for Fillies, Blue Eyed Bella gave trainer Joel Marr the win by covering the six furlongs in 1:10.59.
The Isaias Enriguez-ridden Blue Eyed Bella won the stakes for 3-year-old fillies by a neck over Mylilmemo while Leading Moves finished third, another two lengths back.
Sam and Sammy Stevens’ Blue Eyed Bella scored her first 2009 win by taking the New Mexico Classic Cup Championship for Fillies. Last year, she captured the New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile for Fillies and the Rio Grande Senorita Futurity.
In the $170,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Sprint Championship, Gulchrunssweet easily held off Cattleman Prospect for the one-and-one-half-length win in 1:10.18 for the six furlongs.
Regular rider Quyet Bui was aboard for trainer Bart Hone.
It was the third win in the latest four starts for Gulchrunssweet. The 9-year-old gelding scored his 20th career win in his 68th start by taking the Sprint Championship.
Gulchrunssweet won the Sierra Blanca Handicap at Ruidoso Downs in June and was second in the Pony Express Handicap at The Downs at Albuquerque in August.
Cattleman Prospect retained second place over El Dramo.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Championship for Colts and Geldings, Lesters Secret scored the mild upset win after finishing second in his previous three outs.
He was second in the Dine Stakes and the Road Runner Handicap before finishing second in a Zia Park allowance race.
Owned by Henry Dominguez and Simply The Best Thoroughbreds, Lesters Secret showed his superiority in the final 100 yards to win the stakes for sophomore colts and geldings by one length.
Odds-on favorite Lefty Who made a run through the lane to grab second by an expanding neck over Gold Asure.
In the Grade 1, $170,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Quarter Horse Championship, First Moonflash raced to his 1-2 odds while easily defeating older horses in :21.164 for the 440 yards.
Alejandro Medellin was aboard for First Moonflash’s ninth-straight win in the state of New Mexico. He ventured out of the Land Of Enchantment to finish fifth in the Grade 1, $200,000 Remington Park Championship in May. His connections passed on racing in the $350,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship against open horses last weekend at Los Alamitos in Southern California to run in Sunday’s race at Zia Park
During his New Mexico winning streak he also won the Grade 1, $400,000 The Championship at Sunland Park and the Bank of America New Mexico Championship Challenge. He has set four track records during this winning streak.
A First Caller raced with First Moonflash for the first half of the race and finished second, beaten by one and a half lengths. Miracle Snow was third.
In the Grade 2, $338,702 New Mexico Classic Futurity, the richest race on the card, favored Sixy Chmisa raced to her sixth win from seven starts for the S & M Cattle Export Company.
Sent off at 6-5 odds, Sixy Chamisa pulled away for the win in :19.291 for the 400 yards.
The Salvador Martinez-ridden Sixy Chamisa won by one length over Here Kittykittykitty and Tricks My Pick finished third.
Sixy Chamisa has done about everything asked of her third year. She has won two futurities for New Mexico-breds and her only disappointment came when she dwelt at the start of the $321,000 Zia Futurity and finished in ninth place.
In the Grade 2, $207,572 New Mexico Classic Derby, even-money favorite DM Hot Hot Hot barely held off 2-1 second-choice One Diamond Kitty to win by a nose.
Rabbit Revival was third in the field of 10 3-year-old quarter horses.
Owned by the Reed Land and Cattle Company and trained by Heath Reed, DM Hot Hot Hot raced the 440 yards in :21.413 for his fifth-straight win. He won the New Mexico Breeders Derby two starts before his New Mexico Classic Derby win.
In the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup 870 Championship, the world’s richest 870-yard race, the thoroughbred Key’s Band rallied to pass a game quarter horse BRT Opulence and win by an expanding one-and-half lengths in :45.109 with Jorge Martin Bourdieu up.
Longshot BRT Opulence gained a clear lead on the turn, but odds-on favorite Key’s Band quickened through the lane for his third straight victory. He started his winning streak with a win in the Zia 870 Championship at Ruidoso Downs.
Mr Frenchman, a quarter horse, finished three-lengths behind BRT Opulence for third.
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