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NMHBA Stakes (RG2)
RYANSMANONTHEMOON
by Michael Cusortelli
First Moonflash
First To Flash
Nagano Moon
Girlonthego
Man On The Move
Devons Wish
Ryansmanonthemoon became the 2019 Quarter Horse season’s first two-time graded stakes winner, as the bay son of champion First Moonflash was a prompt 7-5 favorite in the Feb. 16, $85,000 New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association Stakes (RG2) at Sunland Park.
Ridden by Mauro Salcedo and
aided by a reported 25-mph tail wind, Ryansmanonthemoon covered 400 yards in: 18.942 while posting a 106 speed index, and the homebred gelding’s margin of victory was a neck from 5-2 second choice Cd Mamas Boy. Cynthia Gonzalez trained Ryansmanonthemoon for own- ers Jimmy Negrete and Jimmy Vasquez.
Ryansmanonthemoon’s sire, First Moonflash, was the sport’s champion aged stal- lion in 2009. A 14-year-old son of ’02 champion 2-year-old colt First To Flash, First Moonflash won 10 graded stakes and earned $969,828 from 25 starts while racing from 2007-09.
First Moonflash has sired the earners of more than $15.2 million from seven crops, includ-
ing champions Handsome Jack Flash, Foxy Moonflash, and Flash And Roll, and 2014 All American Derby (G1) winner Too Flash For You.
The stallion is owned by a partnership and stands for a $10,000 fee at W.L. and Dee Mooring’s Double LL Farm at Bosque, New Mexico.
Ryansmanonthemoon’s dam, Girlonthego, is a 7-year-old daughter of Man On The Move who won the 2014 Zia Futurity (RG1) at Ruidoso Downs. His third dam, the winning and stakes-placed Kiptys Charger mare Kiptys Wish, was a finalist in the 1991 Bandera Downs (G2) and Manor Downs (G3) derbies.
Ryansmanonthemoon was coming off of a neck victory in the 400-yard, $211,000 Shue Fly Stakes (RG2) for New Mexico-bred 3-year- olds at Sunland Park on January 26. Raced in New Mexico and Oklahoma, the gelding has won four of 12 starts, and the $51,000 winner’s share of the purse from his second career stakes win pushed his bankroll to $193,917, of which $152,017 has been pocketed this year.
CD Flash And Fame ran third, a head behind runner-up CD Mamas Boy, and was followed by Cm Rowdy James, Tooflashyforyou, Freedom Flash, J Gatsby, Easy Over The Moon, Igotmybiggirljeanson, and Nevado Cartel.
CD Mamas Boy is a sorrel son of First
Moonflash campaigned by Daniel A. Ramirez, and he was coming off of a second-place finish in the Shue Fly. The gelding has won two of seven races and has earned $106,214, and his resume includes a third-place finish, a half of a length behind winner Jess Fire Chick, in last year’s 400-yard, $410,000 Zia Futurity (RG1) at Ruidoso Downs.
CD Flash And Fame races for German Amaya. A brown First Moonflash colt and a $20,000 claimer during the 2017-18 Sunland Park meet, he has won two of seven outs, and the $8,500 third-place share of the New Mexico HBA Stakes purse pushed his bankroll to $31,187.
victories in the 5 1/2-furlong, $135,000 Rio Grande Senorita Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs, the 6-furlong, $140,000 New Mexico Cup Lassie Championship (R) at Zia Park, and the 6-furlong, $85,000 La Senora Stakes (R) at Sunland Park.
Tijuana finished second and was followed by Bryn’s Fancy Pants, McWend, Explosive Spy, and McGlorious.
Tijuana is a 6-year-old Devon Lane mare owned by Dale F. Taylor Racing LLC. Tijuana has won six of 28 starts, and the $17,000 run- ner-up share of the La Coneja purse increased
La Coneja Stakes (R)
Diabolical
Artax
Bonnie Byerly
Gator Prowl
Roar Of The Tiger
Reed And Rite
FAST GATOR
Fast Gator, a homebred 4-year-old daughter of Diabolical owned by J. Kirk and Judy Robison of El Paso, Texas, made her season debut with a wire-to-wire, 2-length win in the La Coneja Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred distaffs at Sunland Park on Feb. 17.
Sent to post as the 13-10 favorite in a field of six, Fast Gator covered 6 furlongs in 1:08.98, the filly’s fastest clocking in five starts at the distance. Alfredo Juarez Jr. rode Fast Gator for trainer Henry Dominguez.
Fast Gator ended her sophomore campaign with a ninth-place finish, 12-lengths behind winner Susans Violette, in the 5 1/2-fur-
long, $85,000 New Mexico State Racing Commission Handicap (R) on December 29. The filly is one of 12 black-type stakes winners from seven crops sired by Diabolical, a Grade 2-winning son of the Marquetry stallion Artax.
Diabolical has sired the earners of more than $7.9 million from 142 starters, including multiple stakes winners Diabolical Dame and That’s The Idea. A half-brother to What A Name (IRE), a Group 3 winner in France, the
stallion is owned by Fred A. Alexander and J. Kirk Robison, and he stood the 2018 season for a $4,000 fee at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
Fast Gator is also one of four winners from as many starters produced by Gator Prowl, a 12-year- old daughter of the Storm Cat stallion Roar Of The Tiger who won the 2010 Marshua Stakes at Laurel Racecourse in Maryland. Fast Gator is a full sister to Diabolical Gator, the winner of the 2018 Sierra Blanca Handicap (R) at Ruidoso, and she is a half-sister to Gator Heat, the winner of the ’15 Dine Stakes (R) at SunRay Park.
Fast Gator’s third dam, the winning Copelan mare Future Answer, was a half-sister to What A Brainstorm, a two-time graded stakes winner whose resume included a victory in the 2001 Pan American Handicap (G2) at Gulfstream Park.
Fast Gator has won seven of her 10 starts, and the $51,000 winner’s share of the purse from her fifth lifetime stakes score pushed
her earnings to $345,135. The filly began her career with a four-race win streak that included
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