Graded stakes winners Over Da Edge (pictured), Big Posies Cartel, and Bella De Ball are three of the 48 New Mexico-bred sophomores entered in Saturday’s 350-yard Mountain Top Derby (R) […]
Mountain Top QH Futurity Trials Set for Friday at Ruidoso Downs
A total of 127 New Mexico-bred 2-year-old Quarter Horses are entered in Friday’s 350-yard Mountain Top Futurity (RG2) trials at Ruidoso Downs. Thirteen trials will be contested, starting at 1 […]
Corrina Corrina wins open stakes
SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS STAKES By Michael Cusortelli Corrina Corrina Facing open stakes company for the second time in her four-year racing career, Derrick W. Jenkins’ Corrina Corrina scored a […]
Pavel wins the New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity RG3
NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’ FUTURITY (RG3) By Michael Cusortelli Pavel Pavel, a gelded son of second-year sire Czar Cartel MV owned and trained by Jorge Luis Sanchez Jr., broke sharply from […]
Fastest Qualifier JLB Eye The Tiger Draws Post 2 for New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity
Rene Salgado’s JLB Eye The Tiger drew post 2 for Saturday’s 350-yard, $120,000-added New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG3) for state-bred 2-year-old Quarter Horses at SunRay Park. The fastest qualifier, JLB […]
Kendrick Stakes won by Higher Ed
KENDRICK STAKES (R) By Michael Cusortelli Higher Ed Making the second start of his sophomore campaign, Higher Ed won the May 11, $73,313 Kendrick Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 3-year-old […]
Seven State-Bred 3-Year-Old Thoroughbreds Entered in Saturday’s $75,000 Kendrick Stakes
Seven New Mexico-bred 3-year-old Thoroughbreds, led by Marking Canyon, are entered in Saturday’s 6 1/2-furlong, $75,000 Kendrick Stakes (R) at SunRay Park. A homebred son of the Bernardini stallion Marking […]
All American Triple Crown, Zia Festival Highlight 47-Day Ruidoso Downs Meet
Ruidoso Downs Racetrack, nestled in the mountains of southern New Mexico, opens its 47-day meet on Friday, May 24. Once again, the track’s Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred meet will be […]
Field Set for New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity at SunRay Park
JLB Eye The Tiger, a gray son of Eye Am King racing for Rene Salgado, is the fastest qualifier to the May 18, $230,000-added New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG3) for […]
Just En King wins Jimmy Drake Stakes
JIMMY DRAKE STAKES (RG3) By Michael Cusortelli Just En King Ronald Ulibarri’s Just En King opened his 4-year-old season with a track-record half-length win in the May 3, 350-yard Jimmy […]