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J FIRE UP si 94, $1,430,411
Champion 2 Year Old, Champion 2-Year-Old Filly
Holland Ease
Corona Chick
First Down Dash Easy Henryetta Chicks Beduino Sizzling Lil
Pass ‘Em Up TB Racy Lady Vikingson TB Swinging Deal
Dash For Cash
First Prize Rose Beduino TB
Sweet Game Special Effort
Fly In The Pie
The Signature Boogie Woogie Babe
Dash For Cash First Prize Rose Easy Jet
Babys Henryetta Beduino TB
A Classy Chick Sizzle Te Lilsalady TB Noholme II Vista Rose Bunny Bid Facinatin Fanny Viking Spirit Secret Port JetToo
Keefers Deal
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet
Rose Bug
Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat
Game Plan
Sweet Feast
Raise Your Glass TB Go Effortlessly
Pie In The Sky Flying Rockette Noholme II TB Mable Chick Too Nublado Jr
Toni Bee
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 Star Kingdom Oceana
Port Vista Hedge Rose Double Bid Easter Rose Little Dick Priest Foray’s Chip TB To Market
True Trick
Spy Song
Port Darling Moon Deck Miss Night Bar Speck Deck Cash Deal
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
Raise A Native Champagne Woman Double Devil
Hijo Beauty TB Easy Jet
Miss Jelly Roll Rocket Bar TB
Fly Straw
Star Kingdom Oceana
Moolah Bux TB Mable Chick Nublado TB
Bids Jaguar Nevada Battler TB Perfect Right
Corona Cartel
Kiddy Up
Deal In Vikingson J FIRE UP, ‘15, F.
Racin Free Miss Racy Vike
Walk Thru Fire
This Boogie Fires
Boogie Special
First Down Dash
Sweet Beduino
Strawfly Special
Signed To Boogie
Breeder: Jaime H. Gomez
Owners: Darling Farms, Jaime Gomez & Ernesto Solis
Trainer: Jaime H. Gomez
Jockey: Jose Nicasio
2017 Record: 9-7(3)-2(1)-0, $1,430,411, Los Alamitos Two Million F.-G1, Golden State Million F.-G1, Gov. Cup F.-RG2, 2nd Ed Burke Million F.-G1
Los Alamitos fans know Jaime Gomez as one of the track’s top trainers. But he also does very well with his homebreds, and he got a 2-time Champion in 2017 with J Fire Up.
Gomez breeds horses at his Murrieta, California ranch, where Ernesto Solis has worked for him for 25 years. Gomez frequently gives Solis an interest in some of the homebreds, and Solis picked out This Boogie Fires, the dam of J Fire Up.
To the cover of Kiddy Up, This Boogie Fires produced J Fire Up. Gomez offered the filly at the 2016 Los Alamitos Equine Sale, buying her back for $25,000. Dan Darling of Lamont, Oklahoma, convinced Gomez to sell him a half-interest, with Gomez and Solis each keeping 25%.
“I liked the way she was built,” said Darling, who also campaigned 2-time Champion Hold Air Hostage in 2017. “I just loved the way she moved.”
Gomez trains J Fire Up for the partnership, and in her first three starts, she won once and finished second twice. She wouldn’t lose again the rest of the year while succeeding in Los Alamitos’ biggest futurities.
Because Gomez bred the filly in California, she could run in the Governor’s Cup Futurity- RG2. She scored in her trial and the final by 3/4-length each time.
J Fire Up qualified the fastest for the Golden State Million Futurity-G1. In the Nov. 5 finals, she had to battle 16-1 Matilda Czech, who never gave up. J Fire Up showed her class, however, and eked out a nose victory.
“When our filly saw the other filly, she just kept on trying,” said Gomez.
In the trials for the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1, J Fire Up qualified the second fastest, behind the colt Call Me Cole. In the Dec. 17 finals, she went favored over Call Me Cole, bulleted out of the starting gate, and never looked back. She finished 1 1/4 lengths ahead of Moonie Blues, with Call Me Cole third.
“J Fire Up has never made a mistake,” said Gomez. “She just goes out there and runs her race every time.”
Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1
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