Page 54 - New Mexico Horse Breeder Summer 2018

SUNLAND pArk
by Michael Cusortelli
New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks (R)
Roll Hennessy Roll
Hennessy
Roll Over Baby
Accomodate
Pleasantly Perfect
Consort Music
HeNNessy expRess
Sent to post as the 11-10 favorite in a field of six state-bred 3-year-old fillies, Hennessy Express responded with a wire-to-wire, 2 1/4-length victory in the March 25, $100,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks (R) at Sunland Park.
Hennessy Express completed her 1 1/16- mile trip in 1:44.31 after setting fractions of :24.60, :48.81, and 1:13.59. Roimes Chirinos rode the homebred dark bay or brown daugh- ter of Roll Hennessy Roll for owner Dale F. Taylor Racing LLC.
Hennessy Express was coming off of a fifth- place finish, 3 1/4 lengths behind winner To Satisfy You, in a 1-mile, non-winners-of-three allowance route on a track officially labeled “slow” on February 18. The filly is one of 10 black-type stakes winners from 11 crops sired by Roll Hennessy Roll, an 18-year-old Kentucky- bred son of the Storm Cat stallion Hennessy.
Raced in five states, including New Mexico, from 2002-04, Roll Hennessy Roll banked $173,869 from 12 starts, and his four wins included a four-length score in the 7-furlong, $125,000 Hollywood Prevue Stakes (G3) at Hollywood Park in ’02. The stallion has sired the earners of more than $5.9 million from 137 starters, including multiple stakes winners Kiss My Hennessy, Back Seat Roll, Twixy Roll, and Lakehouse Fun.
Roll Hennessy Roll is a half brother to three stakes winners, including Grade 3 winner Sing Baby Sing and 2004 Florida Derby (G1)
runner-up Value Plus. The stallion is owned by Fred Alexander and Brad King, and he stands for a $2,500 fee at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
Hennessy Express’ dam, the unraced 10-year- old Pleasantly Perfect mare Accommodate, has produced four winners from as many starters, including a pair of stakes-placed half brothers to Hennessy Express: Hit A Lick, a son of Attila’s Storm who ran second in last year’s Albert Dominguez Memorial Handicap (R) at Sunland Park, and Storming Back, an Attila’s Storm gelding who finished second in last year’s New Mexico Breeders’ Derby (R) at Sunland.
Hennessy Express’ second dam, the winning Prospector’s Music mare Consort Music, ran third in the 2004 Affectionately Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct. The filly’s third dam, the win-
ning Deputy Minister mare Possible Consort, produced two other stakes-placed runners and was a half sister to three stakes winners, including Fairy Garden, a daughter of Lyphard who won four graded stakes from 1992-93, including the $200,000 Orchid Handicap (G2) at Gulfstream Park in Florida and $100,000 Matchmaker Stakes (G2) at Atlantic City Racecourse in New Jersey.
All told, Hennessy Express has won three of nine starts, and the $60,000 winner’s share of the purse from her second career stakes victory pushed her earnings to $140,675, of which $11,963 has been pocketed this season. The filly’s
resume includes a wire-to-wire, 8 1/4-length vic- tory in the 1-mile, $85,000 Enchantress Stakes (R) at Sunland Park on January 18.
Movin On finished second and was fol- lowed by McGoldie, Scarlet Streak, Donna Who, and Diabolical Diva.
A dark bay or brown daughter of Indian Firewater, Movin On races for C. Donnell Echols, who also bred the filly. Movin On has won one of six outs, and the $20,000 runner- up share of the New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks purse bumped her bankroll to $55,150.
McGoldie is a homebred McKenna’s Justice filly campaigned by Tom and Sandy McKenna’s Judge Lanier Racing. McGoldie has won eight of nine starts and has earned $60,360, and
her resume includes a second-place finish to Hennessy Express in the Enchantress Stakes.
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