Dale F. Taylor Racing’s Hennessy Express will make her 5-year-old season debut in Saturday’s 6 1/2-furlong, $100,000 Carlos Salazar Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred fillies and mares at Albuquerque Downs.
A homebred 5-year-old daughter of Roll Hennessy Roll trained by Todd Fincher, Hennessy Express will be making her first start since October 27, when the mare rallied to score a two-length victory in the 1-mile, $175,000 Peppers Pride New Mexico Cup Championship (R) at Zia Park. Hennessy Express drew post 3 and will be ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr.
Other contenders include Waltzing Attila, a homebred 6-year-old Attila’s Storm mare trained by Nancy Summers for owners Wesley and Glenda Gray, and B4 Farms LLC’s Let It Roll, a 4-year-old Roll Hennessy Roll filly trained by Todd Fincher. Waltzing Attila will be stretching out in distance off of her wire-to-wire, four-length victory in the 6-furlong, $50,000 Lincoln Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs on July 26.
Waltzing Attila drew post 5 and will be ridden by J. Martin Bourdieu.
Let It Roll is coming off of a second-place finish to Waltzing Attila in the Lincoln Handicap. The filly has earned $207,868 from 21 outs, and her three wins include a neck victory in last year’s Carlos Salazar Stakes.
Let It Roll drew post 8 and will be ridden by Shane Laviolette.
The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds:
Ballinouttacontrol (Jimmy Ray Coates), 8-1
Sexy Bikini Model (Luis Negron), 8-1
Hennessy Express (Alfredo Juarez Jr.), 3-1
Beautiful Bounty (Miguel Perez), 12-1
Waltzing Attila (J. Martin Bourdieu), 4-1
Count Them Again (Frank Reyes), 10-1
Orogrande (Luis Fuentes), 10-1
Let It Roll (Shane Laviolette), 6-1
I’m A Dancin Who (Tracy Hebert), 12-1
Short Pockets (Enrique Gomez), 12-1
Flight Song (Francisco Amparan), 5-1
Time Is Precious (Gustavo Herrera), 12-1