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Shue Fly Stakes (RG2)
Sent to post at odds of 24-1, Champagne Room responded with a neck victory in the January 25, $226,108 Shue Fly Stakes (RG2) for New Mexico-bred 3-year-old Quarter Horses at Sunland Park.
Champagne Room covered 400 yards in :19.374 while aided by a reported 7-mph tail wind. Alonso Rivera rode the gray daughter of Big Daddy Cartel for owner Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico, and trainer Jimmy Padgett.
Champagne Room was bred by MJ Farms and Burnett Ranches, and the $106,271 winner’s share of the Shue Fly Stakes purse increased Champagne Room’s earnings to $117,511. The filly’s sire, Big Daddy Cartel, is an 11-year-old son of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel. Racing at Ruidoso Downs in 2011, Big Daddy Cartel earned $121,800 from five starts, and he was a finalist in the Grade 1 All American and Rainbow futurities.
Big Daddy Cartel has sired the earners
of more than $7.6 million from five crops, including multiple graded stakes winner and 2017 All American Futurity (G1) runner-up Bigg Daddy, and multiple graded stakes win- ners Cat Daddys Lil Girl, Mamacita Cartel, and Daddys Blushing. The stallion is owned
by and stands for a $5,500 fee at MJ Farms. Champagne Room is out of Champagne
Perry, an unraced homebred 8-year-old daughter of the Streakin La Jolla stallion Mr Jess Perry. Her second dam, the homebred Lanes Leinster mare Champagne Lane, won the 1996 Diamond Classic Futurity (RG1) at the Central Wyoming Fair and ’97 La Primera del Ano Derby (G2) at Los Alamitos.
Champagne Room traces back to Dashin Sandy, a homebred daughter of the Streakin Six stallion Streakin Dash who won the 1992 Diamond Classic Futurity (RG1) and was a finalist in that season’s Golden State Futurity (G1) and the ’93 La Primera del Ano Derby (G1), both at Los Alamitos.
The 10th-fastest qualifier, Champagne Room made her sophomore season debut with a second-place finish in the third of six Shue Fly Stakes trials on January 4. The filly has won three of six outs while racing exclusively in New Mexico.
Donelli, the second-fastest qualifier and 8-5 favorite in the full field of 10, finished second and was followed by fastest quali- fier Jess Tequila Talkin, Jess Featured Girl, Six Pack Fame, Doinwhateverittakes, Perrys Regard, Close To Crazy, Take It To The Judge, and Lewandosky.
Donelli is a homebred gray daughter of Big Daddy Cartel owned by MJ Farms. The filly has banked $255,337 from seven outs, and her four wins include a three-quarter length score as the odds-on favorite in the 400-yard, $386,196 New Mexico State Fair Futurity (RG3) at Albuquerque Downs on September 22.
A bay Jesse James Jr gelding racing for Gary W. Hartstack of Houston, Texas, and a $22,000 yearling purchase at the 2018 New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs, Jess Tequila Talkin has won three of eight starts, and he was a finalist in last year’s Zia Futurity (RG1). The $24,872 third-place share of the Shue Fly Stakes purse pushed his earnings to $83,619.
by Michael Cusortelli
SUNLAND PARK
Big Daddy Cartel
Corona Cartel
Miss Racy Eyes
Champagne Perry
Mr Jess Perry
Champagne Lane
CHAMPAGNE ROOM
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