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NEW MEXICAN SPRING FUTURITY (RG2)
By Michael Cusortelli
Mo NEYS A MAk ER
Sixes Royal
Royal Quick Dash
Tempered Glass
Money Smart Gal
First Smart Money
Lynns Allante
Enrique Barrera’s Moneys A Maker parlayed a sharp break from his rail post into a neck victory in the April 8, 300-yard New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) for state-bred juveniles at Sunland Park.
Prepped by Cynthia Gonzalez and aided by a reported 15-mph tail wind, Moneys
A Maker stopped the timer in :15.202
and posted a 91 speed index under jockey Mauro Salcedo. The $170,604 winner’s share of the $362,987 purse increased the gray gelding’s earnings to $180,542 from three starts.
Moneys A Maker was bred by Dee Mooring and Jaime Cervantes, and Barrera acquired the gelding as a yearling for $4,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs. His sire, Sixes Royal, is a 16-year-old Grade 1-winning son of the First Down Dash stallion Royal Quick Dash and the Grade 2-winning Streakin Six mare Tempered Glass.
Racing primarily in New Mexico and Texas from 2003-04, Sixes Royal banked $384,977 from 17 starts, and his five wins included a neck victory in the 2004 Texas Classic Derby (G1) at Lone Star Park. The stallion has sired the earners of more than
$6.3 million from 10 crops, including multiple graded stakes winners Streak Of Sixes and Sixy Chamisa.
Sixes Royal is a half brother to Grade
3 winner Four Six Dash. He is owned by Mike Abraham and stands for a $2,500 fee at W.L. Mooring’s Double LL Farm at Bosque, New Mexico.
Moneys A Maker’s dam, Money Smart Gal, is an 11-year-old winning daughter of First Smart Money. The gelding’s second dam, the Takin On The Cash mare Lynns Allante, won two stakes
from 1998-2001, including the 2000 AQHA New Mexico Distaff Challenge
at Ruidoso Downs, and she produced All Lucky Lynn, a stakes-placed daughter
of Gold Medal Jess and a half sister to Money Smart Gal.
Moneys A Maker’s third dam, the winning Hempen (TB) mare Sweet Blush, foaled two stakes winners in addition to Lynns Allante: Blushing Bug, a two-time stakes winner and runner-up in the 1988 Horsemen’s Quarter Horse Racing Association Championship (G1) at Los Alamitos, and multiple stakes winner Make Em Blush.
The fifth-fastest qualifier to the Spring
Futurity, Moneys A Maker broke his maiden with a nose victory as the 11-10 favorite in his trial on March 17. The gelding was sent to post at odds of 8-1 in the final and returned a $19 win mutuel.
Cadilac Flash, a 14-1 longshot, ran second to complete a $2 exacta payoff of $223. Tempting Star Gazer, fastest qualifier and 1-2 favorite Flash Moonfire, Two Wines, Jans Cartel, Miles Of Flash, Bigg Daddy, Flashin Angel, and Wood Be Kuhi completed the order of finish.
Cadilac Flash, the third-fastest qualifier, is a homebred daughter of champion First Moonflash campaigned by Fred Danley. The chestnut filly has earned $70,678 from two outs.
Tempting Star Gazer races for Jose
R. Espinosa and Jill Giles. A bay son of First Moonflash and a $23,000 yearling purchase at the 2016 New Mexico-Bred Sale, the gelding has banked $41,887 from two starts.
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