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THE DOWNS AT ALBUQUERQUE
New Mexico Sate Fair QH Futurity (RG3)
Story by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Coady Photography
Big Daddy Cartel
Corona Cartel
Miss Racy Eyes
Tres Of Alice
Tres Seis
Alice K White
DONELLI
The fastest qualifier and 1-2 favorite in a field of 10 state-bred 2-year-olds, Donelli sprinted to a three-quarter length win in the September 22, 400-yard New Mexico State Fair Quarter Horse Futurity (RG3) at Albuquerque Downs.
Donelli covered her trip in :19.691 while scoring her first career stakes victory. Alan Hernandez rode the homebred gray filly for Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms of Veguita, New Mexico, and trainer Wes Giles.
Donelli made her local debut with a dominating 2 1/4-length win in the second of five New Mexico State Fair Futurity trials on September 5.
“This filly has been a hard trier and honest since the first day we gate broke her,” said Giles after the race. “We were hoping that she would repeat her performance in her trial today, but since her trial she got a hot foot on her, and we were only able to put a shoe on it a few days ago. We were really concerned about that.
“But this filly is really game, and our team has worked really hard to get her to this spot,” the trainer added.
Donelli’s sire, Big Daddy Cartel, is a 10-year-old son of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel. Racing at Ruidoso Downs in 2011, the stallion earned $121,800 from five
outs and was a finalist in the All American (G1) and Rainbow (G1) futurities.
Big Daddy Cartel has sired the earners of more than $xxx.xxx million from xxx crops, including multiple graded stakes winner and 2017 All American Futurity (G1) runner-up Bigg Daddy,multiple graded stakes winner Mamacita Cartel, and graded stakes winners Daddys Blushing and Honky Tonk Daddy. The stallion is owned by and stands at MJ Farms.
Donelli’s dam, Tres Of Alice, is a home- bred winning 8-year-old daughter of 2001 AQHA champion 2-year-old colt Tres Seis and a half sister to 2015 champion 3-year-old filly Astica and Bigg Daddy. Her second dam, the homebred First Down Dash mare Alice K White, was the sport’s champion sophomore filly in ’09.
Donelli’s third dam, the homebred Lanes Leinster mare Champagne Lane, won three graded stakes from 1996-97, including the 1997 La Primera del Ano Derby (G2) at
Los Alamitos.
Raced at Albuquerque Downs and Ruidoso
Downs, Donelli has won three of five starts, and the $193,098 winner’s share of the $386,196 New Mexico State Fair Futurity purse -- the richest of the 2019 Albuquerque meet -- boosted her earnings to $208,898. The filly’s resume includes a second-place finish,
a nose behind longshot winner Don Chuy C, in the 400-yard, $50,000 By By JJ Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs on July 27.
Apollo Chicks finished second and was fol- lowed by Mi Moonflash, Finnley, Outta Debt, Crazy Cartel, Easters Regard, Girl With A Plan, Streaks Featured TF, and Daddies Superstar.
Apollo Chicks races for Wallace Johnson, who also bred the sorrel daughter of Jess A Chicks. The filly has won two of three outs, and the $77,239 runner-up share of the purse pushed her earnings to $86,299.
A homebred daughter of champion First Moonflash, Mi Moonflash has won two
of four starts for owners Pierre and Leslie Amestoy and Roger Beasley. The brown filly has banked $61,727.
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