Caprock Cutie morning line favorite in La Senora Stakes
Glen Robertson and Bobby McQueen’s Caprock Cutie has been installed as the 2-to-1 morning line favorite for Monday’s 25th running of the $80,000 La Senora Stakes for 3-year-old New Mexico-bred fillies at Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino.
Trained by Dick Cappellucci, Caprock Cutie is looking for back-to-back stakes victories after a 4 1/2 length romp in the Lea County Stakes on Dec. 16 at Zia Park. Bred in New Mexico by Robertson, the Marking filly has already earned a pair of wins and two third place finishes from five career starts. She will break from the outside post with Alfredo Juarez, Jr. on board in the field of seven runners.
Caprock Cutie, with earnings of more than $112,000 in her bankroll, was a close third in her stakes debut last November at Zia Park in the New Mexico Classic Lassie Stakes. In that race, she finished just a half-length behind Country Club Crush and Mark’s Sassy Girl, both of which will line up against her in the La Senora Stakes to be run at a distance of six furlongs.
Trainer Todd Fincher is expected to have as many as four starters in the gate for the La Senora, which will be run as the seventh race on the Monday program. Mark’s Sassy Girl, who went into the gate as the prohibitive favorite in the Lea County Stakes last time out, broke awkwardly and dropped jockey Floyd Wethey, Jr. moments after the start.
Prior to that, Mark’s Sassy Girl was second in the New Mexico Classic Lassie and third in the New Mexico State Fair Thoroughbred Futurity at Albuquerque Downs on Oct. 12. Bred in New Mexico by Wesley Gray & Glenda Gray, Mark’s Sassy Girl has earned more than $87,000 while winning once from five career starts.
Mark’s Sassy Girl will be ridden Monday by Guillermo Rodriguez and will break from post three in the La Senora, which has a scheduled post time of 3:04 p.m.
Fincher will also send out recent maiden winner I Am Paula Revere, a daughter of American Anthem coming off a smashing score on Dec. 15 in which she won by five lengths. Bred in New Mexico by owners Reliance Ranches LLC, I Am Paula Revere will break from the rail and is the 3-to-1 third choice on the morning line with Olaf Hernandez aboard.
Trainer Dallas Barton will send out Country Club Crush, in search of her second stakes win. The daughter of Marking was a narrow winner of the New Mexico Classic Lassie Stakes and was second last time out in the Lea County Stakes. With earnings of more than $137,000 for owners Barbara Barton and Jay H. Barton, Country Club Crush will be ridden by Miguel J. Fuentes, Jr. and will break from post two in the La Senora Stakes.
The field, from the rail out, with morning line odds and jockeys, for the $80,000 La Senora Stakes:
1- I AM PAULA REVERE (3-1) Olaf Hernandez
2- COUNTRY CLUB CRUSH (7/2) Miguel Fuentes, Jr.
3- MARK’S SASSY GIRL (5/2) Guillermo Rodriguez
4- WHO SAID IT’S EASY (20-1) Oscar Andrade, Jr.
5- AMERICAN PRADA (8-1) Luis Valenzuela
6- TRUMP DANCE (20-1) Luis Negron
7- CAPROCK CUTIE (2-1) Alfredo Juarez, Jr.