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walk thRu cRystal si 95, $664,059
champion 2-year-Old Filly
Breeders: La Presita LLC & Armando Leon Owner: EG High Desert Farms, LLC Trainer: Yanet Rodriguez
Jockeys: Alejandro Luna & Jesus Ayala Rios
2015 Record: 9-6(2)-1(0)-0, $664,059,
Ed Burke Million F.-G1, Kindergarten F.-G2, 4th Golden State Million F.-G1,
fnl. Los Alamitos Two Million F.-G1
Walk Thru Crystal is an “all-Los Alamitos” Champion. Not only has the filly spent her entire racing career thus far at the California track, so did her sire and dam. And trainer Yanet Rodriguez practically grew up at Los Alamitos.
Walk Thru Fire, the sire of Walk Thru Crystal, raced at Los Alamitos and stands at Burns Ranch in Menifee, California. Also the sire of 2015 World Champion Heza Dasha Fire, Walk Thru Fire was getting his second consecutive Champion 2-Year-Old Filly, having sired 2014 Champion Jess Walking Thru.
Walk Thru Crystal’s dam, Corona Crystal, was a stakes winner and multiple graded stakes- placed runner at Los Alamitos. La Presita LLC and Armando Leon bred Walk Thru Crystal in California, and La Presita consigned her to the 2014 Los Alamitos Equine Sale where Enrique Gonzalez bought her for $60,000.
Gonzalez campaigns Walk Thru Crystal in the name of his EG High Desert Farms. Walk Thru Crystal was so precocious that Rodriguez was able to start her in April. The filly broke her maiden by 1 1/2-lengths under jockey Alejandro Luna, and less than a month later they returned to qualify the fastest for the Kindergarten Futurity-G2.
In the Kindergarten final, Walk Thru Crystal broke sharply, put away a rival early, and pulled off to 1/2-length victory. She gave her trainer her first win in a futurity at Los Alamitos.
“I can’t say much—I’m so excited,” Rodriguez said. It was especially meaningful because the trainer’s father, Santiago, who won 346 Quarter Horse races at Los Alamitos as a trainer, was there to see the race.
Walk Thru Crystal kept her winning streak going in her trial and the final of the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1. She led throughout in the final, scoring by 3/4-length.
“When she gets to the track, she knows what to do,” said Rodriguez.
Walk Thru Crystal completed the year
by qualifying for the Golden State Million Futurity-G1 and the Los Alamitos $2 Million Futurity-G1, but had trouble in each of the finals. She earned $664,059 for the season, along with her Championship.
Walk Thru Crystal wins the Kindergarten Futurity at Los Alamitos
First Down Dash
Walk Thru Fire
Sweet Beduino
Dash For Cash
First Prize Rose
Beduino TB
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat Game Plan Sweet Feast
First Down Dash Easy Henryetta Chicks Beduino Sizzling Lil
Tiny’s Gay Sparkling Tip
Dash For Cash Phoebe’s Moon Bug
Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go To Market Hide And Seek Jet Deck
Leo Jewel
Lady Bug’s Moon Casco Rose
Grey Sovereign Romany Belle Rejected
Quick Eye
Easy Jet
Go Maggie Go Leo Feast
Cherry Sweet
Dash For Cash First Prize Rose Easy Jet
Babys Henryetta Beduino TB
A Classy Chick Sizzle Te Lilsalady TB Tiny Watch Gay’s Delight Diamond Charge Tiptoe Tune TB Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Lady Bug’s Moon Phoebe Dial
Three Bars Golden Rocket Go Man Go
La Galla Win Market Wise Pretty Does Alibhai
Scattered
Moon Deck
Miss Night Bar Leo
Linda Jewel
Top Moon
FL Lady Bug Levan
Prissy Hankins Nasrullah
Kong
Vilmorin
Romany Chi Revoked
By Line
Depth Charge Eye To Eye
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar
Go Man Go Maggie Mcgowan Feast TB
Kay Cindy Leo Custus Rastus TB Cherry Chub
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug
Jet Deck
Lena’s Bar TB Lanovay
Baby Steel TB Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat Chick’s Deck Mayshego TB Azure Te TB Jet’s Fair Lady Reb’s Policy Here’s To Lil Anchor Watch TB Clabber Tiny Rocket Bar TB Miss Ginger Gay Hy Diamond TB Lovely Lupita Spy Song
Apoora
Rocket Bar TB Go Galla Go
To Market
Hide And Seek Top Moon
FL Lady Bug Johnny Dial Phoebe AK
Sweet Game WALK THRu CRySTAL, ‘13, f.
Corona Cartel
Corona Crystal
Swiftette
Holland Ease
Corona Chick
Merridoc
Phoebette
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