Page 55 - New Mexico Horse Breeder Summer 2018

SUNLAND pArk
Copper Top Futurity (R)
by Michael Cusortelli
Abstraction
Pulpit
Andujar
Speedin Excess
In Excess (IRE)
Danish Dessert
HusTle up
Hustle Up earned his first stakes victory in the April 15, $162,905 Copper Top Futurity (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Sunland Park.
Prepped by Todd Fincher for owners Dale
F. Taylor Racing LLC, Bobby J. McQueen and Suzanne Kirby, Hustle Up covered 4 1/2 furlongs in :51.55, and his winning margin was a clear 7 1/2 lengths from Stealing Home. Tracy Hebert rode the dark bay or brown son of Abstraction.
Hustle Up was coming off of a wire-to- wire, 1 3/4-length victory in his career debut,
a 4 1/2-furlong Copper Top Futurity trial on March 24. The gelding was bred by Brad King and Todd Fincher, and he became the first stakes winner sired by Abstraction, an 8-year- old Kentucky-bred son of the Grade 2-winning A.P. Indy stallion Pulpit.
Racing in 2013, Abstraction won two of four starts, including the 1 1/16-mile, $75,750 Federico Tesio Stakes for 3-year-olds at Pimlico Racecourse. A half brother to stakes winner Marion Ravenwood, the stallion is owned by a partnership, and he stands for a $3,500 fee at Doubletree Farm near Hobbs, New Mexico.
Hustle Up is also one of three winners from as many starters produced by Speedin Excess,
a 12-year-old winning daughter of In Excess (IRE) who ran second in the 2008 Barretts Debutante Stakes (R) during the Los Angeles County Fair meet at Fairplex Park. Speedin Excess has foaled two stakes winners, including On The Low Down, a half brother to Hustle Up whose two stakes wins include last year’s Copper Top Futurity.
Hustle Up’s second dam, the winning Regal Classic mare Danish Dessert, is a half sister to Ever Steady, a four-time stakes winner in Canada from 1989-90, and Sparrow Lake, a two-time stakes winner at Woodbine Racecourse near Toronto in 1988. The gelding traces back to his fourth dam, the Mongo mare Barn Swallow. A ’67 foal, Barn Swallow produced stakes winner Cadet Corps, and she was a half sister to 1968 Donn Handicap winner Favorable Turn.
The $81,453 winner’s share of the Copper Top Futurity purse bumped Hustle Up’s earn- ings to $86,793.
Quien Es finished third, 9 3/4 lengths behind Hustle Up. Feisty Halo, Indian Diva, Scotty Who, Indian Dragon, Rexellent, and M G M’s Davidson completed the order of finish.
Runner-up Stealing Home was coming off
of a three-quarter length win in her Copper Top trial. A homebred bay daughter of Southwestern Heat campaigned by R.D. Hubbard and Paul Blanchard, the filly banked the $32,581 runner- up share of the Copper Top purse to push her bankroll to $37,921 from two starts.
Quien Es is owned by John and Sue May’s J & SM Inc. of Fort Stockton, Texas, which purchased the bay Quinton’s Gold gelding for $40,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs. Quien Es earned $19,549 from the Copper Top purse to increase his bankroll to $21,484 from three outs.
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