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SUNLAND PARK
La Senora Stakes (R)
AFRICAN HEAT
Making her first start in two months, African Heat led at every call en route to a 1/2-length victory in the Jan. 6, $85,000 La Senora Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred sopho- more fillies at Sunland Park.
African Heat set fractions of :21.67 and :44.10 before reaching the wire in 1:08.90 for 6-furlongs. Ry Eikleberry rode the homebred filly for owners J. Kirk and Judy Robison of El Paso, Texas, and trainer E. Henry Dominguez.
African Heat was racing for the first time since November 4, when the chestnut filly ran second, 5 3/4-lengths behind winner Roll On Matilda, in the 6-furlong, $140,000 New Mexico Cup Lassie Championship (R) at Zia Park. She is one of five black-type stakes winners sired by Southwestern Heat,
a Grade 3-placed Kentucky-bred son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Gone West and 2001 champion 3-year-old filly Xtra Heat.
Racing between 2006-08, Southwestern Heat earned $155,340 from 17 starts, and his four wins included the ’07 Sonny Hine Stakes at Laurel. The stallion has sired the earners of more than $3.2 million from five crops, including multiple
stakes winner Bryn’s Fancy Pants. Southwestern Heat died due to colic in January 2017.
African Heat is also one of two starters pro- duced by Good Mama, an unraced Kentucky-bred 8-year-old daughter of the A.P. Indy stallion Indigo Shiner. The filly’s fourth dam, the late Quadrangle mare Smart Angle, was a four-time Grade 1 winner in New York and Maryland in ’79.
African Heat traces back to her fifth dam, Smartaire, a daughter of Quibu who foaled a total of four stakes winners, including Quadratic, a full brother to Smart Angle who won the
1977 Cowdin Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park, and Smarten, a half-brother to Smart Angle who won five graded stakes in ’79, including the $150,000 Ohio Derby (G2) at Thistledown and $100,000 American Derby (G2) at Arlington Park.
African Heat has won three of four starts, and the $51,000 winner’s share of the purse from her second stakes score pushed her bank- roll to $151,889. The filly’s resume includes a wire-to-wire, 2-length victory in the 5 1/2-fur- long, $135,000 Rio Grande Senorita Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs in September.
Roll On Matilda finished second and was
followed by Flight Song, Deleterious, M G M’s Victoria, Shug’s Best, and Julie Who.
A chestnut daughter of Roll Hennessy
Roll owned by Raymond L. Gilder, Roll On Matilda has earned $155,836 from six outs, and her three wins include the Nov. 4, 6-furlong New Mexico Cup Lassie Championship (R). The filly also ran second to African Heat in the Rio Grande Senorita Futurity.
Flight Song races for R.D. Hubbard and Shaun Hubbard. A homebred dark bay or brown daughter of Attila’s Storm, the filly has won two of four starts and has banked $36,060.
behind runner-up Hute, and was followed by Hit A Lick, odds-on favorite Thunder Dome, Go For A Stroll, G M Gage, Streaks Bro, and Weather Dodger.
Hute is a homebred 5-year-old son of Western Gambler racing for Michael C. Stinson. The dark bay or brown gelding has earned $253,260 from 16 outs, and his four wins include the 2017 Rocky Gulch New Mexico Cup Championship (R) at Zia Park.
An 8-year-old dark bay or brown son of the Montbrook stallion Source, Shining Source
is owned by Barton Ranch Stables LLC and
by Michael Cusortelli
Southwestern Heat
Gone West
Xtra Heat
Good Mama
Indygo Shiner
Apple Strudel
Albert Dominguez Mem. Handicap (R)
Song Of Navarone
Sultry Song
Timely Legend
Carmen’s Delight
Carmen’s Glory
Dela’s Delight
BLAZING NAVARONE
Making just his second start against older Thoroughbreds, Blazing Navarone held on at the wire to win the Jan. 20, 1 1/16-mile Albert Dominguez Memorial Handicap (R) for New Mexico-breds at Sunland Park.
Blazing Navarone defeated Hute by a
head while covering his 8 1/2-furlong trip in 1:43.71. Ry Eikleberry rode Blazing Navarone for owners George E. Coleman and E. Henry Dominguez, who also trains the 4-year-old bay son of Song Of Navarone.
Blazing Navarone banked the $51,000 win- ner’s share of the $85,000 purse. The gelding was bred by Lucky Six Inc. of Sunland Park, New Mexico, and he is one of 18 winners from 27 starters sired by Song Of Navarone, a 19-year-old son of the Cox’s Ridge stallion Sultry Song.
Racing from 2006-10, Song Of Navarone earned $757,858 from 21 starts, and his five stakes victories included the 1 1/8-mile, $600,000 WinStar Derby at Sunland Park in 2007, and the 1 1/8-mile, $208,730 Zia Park Distance Championship in ’08. A half-brother to Celluloid Hero, a multiple stakes winner
at Canterbury Park and Oaklawn Park from 2006-09, he has sired the earners of more than $1.09 million.
Song Of Navarone is owned by E. Henry Dominguez, and he stands at Lucky Six Farm at Sunland Park.
Blazing Navarone is one of four winners from five starters foaled by Carmen’s Delight, a winning daughter of the Relaunch stallion Carmen’s Glory. The gelding is a half-brother to Carmen’s Rocket, a Rocket Included gelding who ran third in the 2013 Dine Stakes (R) at SunRay Park.
Blazing Navarone’s fourth dam, the King Of The Castle mare Western Saint, ran second in the ’82 Dessie Sawyer Futurity at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque.
Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, Blazing Navarone has won seven of 15 starts and has banked $383,476, and four of his five stakes wins have come at Sunland Park and include last year’s 1 1/16-mile, $100,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Derby (R).
Shining Source finished third, 2 1/4-lengths
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