SunRay Park’s 21-day spring race meet gets underway with a 10-race program, topped by the 400-yard, $100,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes (RG2) for state-bred 3-year-old Quarter Horses.
SunRay Park’s first post time for Friday’s card is set for 2:15 p.m. (MDT). Post time for the featured New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes is set for 5:27.
Byron Woodard’s Mires A La Luna is coming off of a Sunland Park winter meet during which the homebred First Moonflash gelding earned $29,543 from three starts and was a finalist in the 400-yard, $238,000 Shue Fly Stakes (RG2) on January 28. Mires A La Luna is a full brother to multiple graded stakes winner No Mires A La Luna.
Mires A La Luna drew post 6 and will be ridden by Sergio Becerra Jr. for trainer Ebert Munoz.
Fine Am Eye, a daughter of the Mr Jess Perry stallion Eye Am King trained by Fred Danley for owner Backdoor Thoroughbreds, will be stretching out in distance off of her second-place finish, a neck behind winner KJ Daddys Money, in the March 4, 350-yard Sunburst Stakes (RG3) for New Mexico-bred sophomore fillies at Sunland Park. The filly was a $27,000 yearling purchase at the 2021 New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs.
Fine Am Eye drew post 9 and will be ridden by Jose Enrique Ortiz.
The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments:
Dash Flash (Luis Martinez)
Jesses Wish (Christian Ramos)
Forrest Effort (Alfredo Sigala)
RC Heza Flashn Dream (Federico Martinez)
Jess Trigger (Edgar S. Martinez)
Mires A La Luna (Sergio Becerra Jr.)
Stinky Feet (Hector Aldrete)
Wahine (Porfirio Cano)
Fine Am Eye (Jose Ortiz)
Sol A Tare (Gerardo Vera)
AE-MM The Gray Rocket (Luis Martinez)
AE-Talent Not Luck (Edgar S. Martinez)