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RUIDOSO DOWNS
Mountain Top QH Futurity (RG2)
Jesse James Jr
Mr Jess Perry
Loose Lips
Tangled Vines
Dash Ta Fame
Dashin Sandy
PICK YOUR POUR
Pick Your Pour, a gelded son of the Mr Jess Perry stallion Jesse James Jr, kept his perfect record intact with a wire-to-wire, two-length win in the June 19, $341,862 Mountain
Top Quarter Horse Futurity (RG2) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs. Prepped by James Gonzales II for owners
Orlando Granillo, Azucena Mendoza and Rene Mendoza, Pick Your Pour covered 350 yards in :17.473 while earning a lifetime-best 94 speed index and his first career stakes victory. Mario Delgado rode the sorrel gelding.
Pick Your Pour recorded the seventh-fastest qualifying time with his wire-to-wire, one-length victory in one of 13 Mountain Top Futurity
trials on June 3. The gelding was purchased from breeder MJ Farms of Veguita, New Mexico, for $25,000 at last year’s Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale.
Pick Your Pour’s sire, Jesse James Jr, earned $167,275 from 21 starts from 2003-06, and his five wins included the 2005 First Down Dash Handicap at Los Alamitos. His record also included a second-place finish in the 2004 Golden State Derby (G1) and a third-place run in world champion Be A Bono’s Los Alamitos Super Derby (G1).
A full brother to 2006 Retama Park Derby (G1) winner Jesstified, Jesse James Jr has sired the earners of more than $21.4 million from 12 crops, including 2015 AQHA champion sophomore filly
Astica and multiple graded stakes winners Major Bites, Colby James and Osbaldo. The stallion died on August 24, 2017, after a battle with laminitis.
Pick Your Pour is out of Tangled Vines, a homebred winning daughter of the First Down Dash stallion Dash Ta Fame. The gelding is a full brother to two stakes winners, including 2012 New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG3) winner Rex Hill, and he is a half-brother to stakes winner Legend Of The Vine.
Pick Your Pour’s second dam, the homebred Streakin Dash mare Dashin Sandy, won the 1992 Diamond Classic Futurity (RG2) at the Central Wyoming Fair at Casper and was a finalist in that season’s Grade 1 Golden State Futurity at Los Alamitos. Dashin Sandy produced Champagne Lane, a graded stakes winning daughter of Lanes Leinster and the dam of 2009 AQHA champion 3-year-old filly Alice K White.
Pick Your Pour has won both of his outs, and the $146,887 winner’s share of the Mountain Top Futurity purse increased the gelding’s earnings to $150,487.
Reef Ridge finished second and was followed by fastest qualifier Ricanelo, Fast Flashn, Kings Touch, La Pantera, One Sweet Love, KJ Daddys Money and Fine Am Eye. Tenth-fastest qualifier Whisky Road was listed by the Equibase chart as a trainer scratch.
A son of the Dash Ta Fame stallion
Woodbridge racing for E. Gene Bradley and Tod Bradley, Reef Ridge banked $62,952 to bring his earnings to $80,782 from four starts. The brown gelding was purchased as a yearling by the Bradleys for $70,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs.
Ricanelo was purchased as a yearling by E. Gene Bradley and Tod Bradley for $90,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale. The gray Big Daddy Cartel gelding has won two of four races and has earned $83,975, and he was a finalist in the open 300-yard, $440,800 Oklahoma Futurity (G2) at Remington Park in March.
The Mountain Top Futurity began in 2010 when Peter and Marjorie Gallegos’ Streak Of Sixes earned the winner’s share of a $254,408 purse. It first gained Restricted Grade 3 status in 2013, and it was upgraded to a Restricted Grade 2 six years later.
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