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Rainbow Futurity-G1
MM FOURINTHEMORNING
by Tracy Gantz
Mark and Annette McCloy received good reports all winter from trainer Blane Wood about their homebred 2-year-old MM
Fourinthemorning. They weren’t surprised to discover he had talent once he started racing.
But they never figured he could win a mil- lion-dollar race like the Rainbow Futurity-G1 at Ruidoso Downs on July 22, let alone do it as impressively as he did. When the gate opened, MM Fourinthemorning broke outwardly from post 10, worrying his connections.
“When you break from that 10 hole, you don’t know how far out they’re going to go,” said Mark.
Jockey Ricky Ramirez, who chose MM Fourinthemorning of the three horses that he qualified for Wood to the final, never panicked.
“Ricky got him straightened out really quick,” said Mark. “Then he asked him to go. From the stands where we were watching, it looked like they were all just about even. And then it was just like he was shot out of a rocket. He was gone from there.”
MM Fourinthemorning powered under the wire 3/4-length on top. He stopped the timer in :19.537 for 400 yards.
“To win it by that much really surprised me,” said Mark. “Those are the best horses at Ruidoso Downs.”
The $420,000 winner’s share of the purse boosted his total lifetime earnings to $424,800 and he has now won two of his three starts.
The gelding had run sev- enth in his debut, the trials for the Ruidoso Futurity-G1, and then won his July 6 Rainbow trial by 1-length for the fifth overall fastest qualifying time.
“He was a little green, but he really came on,” stated Ramirez.
The McCloys ranch and raise cattle in Tatum, New Mexico, about 120 miles from Lubbock, Texas, where Wood head- quarters. Mark was able to observe MM Fourinthemorning’s early preparation.
“He never did do anything wrong,” Mark said. “I watched him work with three or four other horses. He didn’t blow anything out of there, but he was always right there.”
The McCloys bred MM Fourinthemorning out of two-time winner Easeful Dinastia. She has produced 100% money earners from four starters. MM Fourinthemorning is her first stakes winner and top money earner.
They purchased Easeful Dinastia for $100,000 at the 2014 Heritage Place Winter
Mixed Sale from Atwood Ranches Inc. By Corona Cartel, the mare is out of Grade 1 winner Dinastia Toll BRZ.
Easeful Dinastia cataloged as a half-sister
to Champion and success- ful sire FDD Dynasty and to stakes winners Fishers Destiny and Chaotic Cartel.
Dinastia Toll BRZ has continued to turn out stakes winners since then.
“I wasn’t even there. Blane bought her for me,” said Mark. “I liked her. She had a Walk Thru Fire baby in her.”
Easeful Dinastia produced a Walk Thru Fire colt that year, and the McCloys sold him at auction.
Since then, they have bred the mare to such stallions as Mr Jess Perry (the sire of MM Fourinthemorning), Apollitical Jess, and One Famous Eagle. Easeful Dinastia has produced two winners in four starters.
McCloy said they have a Mr Jess Perry and a One Famous Eagle due out of Easeful Dinastia next year.
He also noted that they have entered Easeful Dinastia’s yearling by One Famous
Ruidoso Downs $1,000,000 • 400 yards :19.537 • si 98
Streakin La Jolla
Mr Jess Perry
Scoopie Fein
MM FOURINTHEMORNING, ‘16-g.
Corona Cartel
Easeful Dinastia
Dinastia Toll BRZ
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MM Fourinthemorning & Ricky Ramirez drive clear for a 3/4-length win in the $1,000,000 Rainbow Futurity-G1
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