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SUNLAND PARK
by Michael Cusortelli
Johnie L. Jamison Handicap (R)
Dome
Storm Cat
She’s Tops
Lauren Lynn
Hadif
Soiree
THUNDER DOME
Thunder Dome rallied to win the Dec. 29, 6 1/2-furlong Johnie L. Jamison Handicap (R) for New Mexico-bred Thoroughbreds at Sunland Park.
Ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr. and sent
to post as the 8-5 favorite, Thunder Dome defeated Go For A Stroll by one length. No frac- tional times or winning time was recorded by Equibase. Dallas Barton prepped the 4-year-old chestnut son of Dome for owners W.D. Carson Sr., M.H. Carson, and Leach Racing LLC.
Thunder Dome was bred by Frank Richardson and W. L. Mooring, and he is one of seven official black-type stakes winner sired by Dome, an unraced Kentucky-bred son of Storm Cat and a half-brother to two-time Grade 1 winner Dixie Union. Dome has sired 122 winners and the earn- ers of more than $6.3 million from 199 starters, including multiple stakes winners Glory Be Mine, Z.Z. Dome, and Etoile de Dome.
Dome is owned by a partnership, and he stands for a $2,000 fee at W.L. and Dee Mooring’s Double LL Farms at Bosque, New Mexico.
Thunder Dome is one of five winners and two stakes winners from seven starters foaled by Lauren Lynn, an 18-year-old winning daughter of Hadif who ran second in the 2003 Valor Farm Stakes (R) at Lone Star Park and Yellow Rose Stakes (R) at Sam Houston Race
Park. The gelding is a half-brother to brother to If I Had A Bull, the winner of the ’10 Sierra Starlet Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs.
Thunder Dome’s second dam, the Full Choke mare Soiree, won three stakes in New Mexico from 1996-98, including the ’96 Kachina Stakes at Ruidoso Downs. Soiree was a full sister to three stakes winners: B.G.’s Drone, a three-time stakes winner in New Mexico from 1991-94; Talent Connection, a gelding who won four stakes from 1990-91, including the $50,000 Texas Derby at Bandera Downs in ’91; and Flying Drone, the winner of the 1994 New Mexican Stakes (R) at Santa Fe Downs and Rio Grande Futurity (R) at Ruidoso.
Thunder Dome was shortening in distance off of his 3 1/4-length victory in the 1-mile, $180,000 Rocky Gulch New Mexico Cup Championship (R) at Zia Park on November 4. He has won nine of 26 starts and has earned $529,263, and his four career stakes victories include a 2 1/4-length score in the 7-fur-
long, $70,000 O.D. McDonald Stakes (R) at Albuquerque Downs in June.
Stormin The Jewels finished third, 1 1/2-lengths behind Thunder Dome, and was followed by Blazing Navarone, Flying Rollex, Shining Source, Hollywood Henry, Me Darlin Rod, and D E Lover.
Go For A Stroll has won seven of 22 starts and has banked $318,013 for his owner, R.D. Hubbard, who also bred the 4-year-old gelded son of Attila’s Storm. Go For A Stroll has won three stakes, including the 7 1/2-furlong, $50,000 Land of Enchantment Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs on July 29.
A 5-year-old son of Attila’s Storm rac-
ing for J & SM Inc. of Fort Stockton, Texas, Stormin The Jewels has won six of 26 outs, and the $8,500 third-place share of the Johnie L. Jamison Handicap purse pushed the bay gelding’s earnings to $461,011. Stormin The Jewels has won five stakes, including the 5 1/2-furlong, $70,000 Casey Darnell Stakes (R) at Albuquerque Downs in Sept.
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