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Speedhorse Futurity-G3
ACCOUNTABLY
by John Moorehouse
Accountably continues to mature as a competitor, and his connections reaped the benefits of that maturity as the two- year-old gray gelding notched his first-ever stakes victory in the $233,100 Speedhorse Futurity-G3 at Fair Meadows in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 30.
Accountably made a fairly stress-free run into black type. The gelding broke well from the 2-gate, moving into the front by a head at the first call.
Accountably opened up a 1/2-length separation by the time he entered the stretch, and continued to pull away during the final yards to win by 3/4-length.
The 350-yard stakes-winning trip took :17.477, resulting in a 96 speed index.
Accountably brought home an $88,578 payday that swelled the his lifetime earn- ings to $115,976.
Ygnacio Romo owns Accountably, who now has been to the winner’s circle twice in four career starts.
The gelding was the second fastest qualifier to the Heritage Place Futurity-G1, finishing ninth in the June 4 finals.
He showed nice progression by breaking his maiden with a victory in the Speedhorse Futurity trials. He broke fairly well in his
July 16 heat, and then he drew away late to top the qualifying ladder.
“He’s been really good,” stated trainer Kelli Martin of Accountably.
“He likes to play and all that, but he’s really attentive and he’s trained well,” she continued. “We’ve not really had to worry about anything.”
Martin noted she “was
pretty excited” about the gelding’s chances prior to the race.
“I really felt like he was ready and we could win this,” she said. “All he had to do was leave and not have any errors there, and he did.”
Martin added, “They were a little tight on him, but he came through between
the 1 and the 3, and away he went. The farther they went, the farther he got away from them.”
Yordanis Amaro, Martin’s jockey of choice, has been aboard Accountably in all of his starts.
“Our team is a well-oiled machine,” Martin said. “Our jockey ... he’s rode all
these colts at the track. He’s our go-to man, as far as rid- ing. He’s doing well. He’s doing super.”
Accountably came under Martin’s training in February. She looks to add another stakes win to his body of work—the Texas Classic Futurity in November.
“Regardless of how this went, he was going to the
Classic,” Martin noted.
Accountably was bred in Texas by
Bobby D. Cox out of the mare Check The Account, who holds a graded stakes victory. The 2002 mare won the 2005 running of the Firecracker Derby-G2 at Delta Downs, finished third in the that year’s East Distaff Challenge-G3, and was a final-
ist in the 2005 AQHA Distaff Challenge Championship-G1 and in the 2004 Sunland Park Fall Futurity-G2.
As a broodmare, Check The Account has produced 100% money earnerd from nine offspring, six of whom have made starts
to date. Accountably becomes the second stakes winner in the brood. His half-brother,
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Accountably & Yordanis Amaro win the $233,100 Speedhorse Futurity-G3 by 3/4-lengths
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