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Namehimastreaker New Mexico Classic Cup Champ.-RG1
CINCO MENUDOS
by John Moorehouse
Thus far, the 2015 campaign has been the best yet in the career of Cinco Menudos and that trend continued on Nov. 1 at Zia Park. The 5-year-old gelding won the $170,480 Namehimastreaker New Mexico Classic Cup Championship-RG1 at that track, tallying the second stakes victory of his career.
Cinco Menudos now has 10 victories in 20 lifetime starts. The gelding
also claimed first place in the
2013 New Mexico Breeders’
Championship in Albuquerque. Cinco Menudos has won three straight races and five of his past six starts.
Cinco Menudos dueled with Jess Got Issues and Mad About The Moon for the duration of the 440 yards
in the Namehimastreaker New Mexico Classic Cup Championship-RG1. The gelding broke well from the
4-gate, was running third at the first call and then second entering the stretch.
Owner/breeder William McCarty collected a $102,000 payday for the victory, which also rep- resents more than 50 percent of his prior bankroll and improves his lifetime earnings to $323,387.
Hermenegildo Aldavaz trains Cinco Menudos, who had Hector Aldrete in the
irons for the stakes-winning trip. The gelding finished the race in :21.585, clocking a 95 speed index while running into a 5 mph headwind.
Cinco Menudos is out of Uno Menudo, a 2002 mare whom McCarty owns. Uno Menudo also holds black- type, winning the 2004 Zia Futurity. Seven of her 10
foals are starters, although 1/2-brother Quatro Menudos is the only other stakes winner in the brood.
Jess Got Issues (Jesse James Jr-Yo Mamma Got Issues) finished a game second under Ricky Ramirez for owners Debra and Joseph Meridyth Jr. and trainer Guadalupe Munoz Jr. Mad About The Moon (First Moonflash-Streaking Power) led most of the way but settled for third. Last year’s All American Futurity runner-up is owned by David Valdez and trained by Juan Gonzalez. Manuel Gutierrez was aboard.
Followed by Take The Spoon Man (Takin On Spoon Man-Frisco First), DM One Hot Charmer (Corona Caliente-DM Charmer), Hot Authorization (Corona Caliente-Authorized Love), Too Flash For You (First Moonflash- Rare Pie), Grant The Star (Attila’s Storm TB-Stardust Dash), Booyah Bay (Brookstone Bay-Jess Brenda) & SC Dustychampion (Chicks A Blazin-SF Finita Dash). Reckless Wind and Justified Chicks both scratched.
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Mr Jess Perry
Jesse James Jr
Loose Lips
CINCO MENUDOS, ‘10-g.
Dash Ta Fame
Uno Menudo
Shes A Hauler
RACING NEWS
New Mexico Classic Derby-RG2
MAJOR MOONFLASH
By Michael Cusortelli
Major Moonflash sprinted to a 1-length victory in the $199,621 New Mexico Cup Derby-RG2 for state-bred sophomores at
Zia Park on Nov. 1.
Racing for Pierre and Leslie Amestoy of
Albuquerque and prepped by Wes Giles, Major Moonflash covered 440 yards in :21.781 under jockey Adrian Ramos. The $95,819 winner’s share of the purse from the sorrel gelding’s first career stakes win increased
his bankroll to $178,514. Major Moonflash
recorded the fastest qualify- ing time to the New Mexico Cup Derby when he won the last of three trials by 3/4-length on Oct. 18. At two, he was a finalist in the $92,090 New Mexico State Fair Senor Futurity-RG3 at Albuquerque.
“He’s just been show- ing a little bit more physical
maturity every time out this year,” Giles said of Major Moonflash. “I think the talent and the intelligence has always been there, he’s just been getting a little stronger in all of his races.”
Major Moonflash was bred by Mike Abraham of Bosque, New Mexico. Raced exclusively in New Mexico, Major Moonflash has won three of 14 starts including a pair of
second-place finishes in the July 25 Zia Derby-RG2 at Ruidoso Downs and the Sept. 27 First Moonflash Stakes at The Downs at Albuquerque.
Major Moonflash is one of four winners from 11 start- ers produced by Prima LD, whose five stakes wins from 2003-04 included the Derby Challenge Championship-G1 at Los Alamitos. The
mare’s starters include LD Fire, a 1/2-sister to Major
Moonflash who won the ’09 Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1.
Dark Moonflash (First Moonflash-Seven Coronas), finished second for owners J. Patricia Gonzalez, Peter Gallegos, Sam Tanner, and William Meier. Trainer Juan M. Gonzalez gave
a leg up to jockey Ivan Carnero. Dungarees Version (Winners Version-Forty One Special) ran third for owners David Hinkins and Ross Hinkins. Esgar Ramirez rode the gelding for trainer Lori Chavez. Seeyalateralligator (Winners Version-Stars In My Eye), Jess Bordeaux (Jesse James Jr-Bridgette Bordeaux), DM Ada Kat (Gonna Ro Sham Bo-Kat Kora), First Governor (First Moonflash-Fresh Approach), Mr Mo Runaway (Sign To Be A Runaway-Miss Gettin Cash), Matchstick Man (National Threat-One And Onea), & Hit With Force (Hard Hitting- Forced To Win) completed the order of finish.
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First To Flash
First Moonflash
Nagano Moon
MAJOR MOONFLASH, ’12-g.
Jazzing Hi
Prima LD
Mito Suzy
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