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Red Cell Lone Star Distance Challenge
ALL AbOuT LARRY
by Michael Compton
Six runners paraded to the post for the $34,830 Red Cell Lone Star Distance Challenge at Lone Star Park on Sept. 28, but All About Larry turned the 870-yard test into a one-horse race.
Away alertly under L.S. Martinez, All About Larry, the odds-on choice in the wager- ing, dueled for the early lead and then abruptly drew off from his competition. He crossed the wire with complete authority
nine lengths in front of the
runner-up Kite Flyer, stop-
ping the clock in a new track
record time of :44.206. The
winning time bested the pre-
vious track record of :44.247
recorded in 2005 by Friends
Rare Form. The impressive
win earned All About Larry a
speed index of 113.
Crushing opponents is nothing new to All About Larry. The 5-year-old gelding
earned a speed index of 106 in winning his prior start in the Master Salls Handicap
at Ruidoso Downs by 8 3/4 lengths. Bred
in Arizona by Las Vegas Ranch, All About Larry races in the colors of Diane Heath and is conditioned by John Stinebaugh.
With his latest victory, All About Larry improved his lifetime record to nine wins from 20 starts and boosted his bankroll to $98,934.
It was the third stakes win
for the son of Heza Motor Scooter. In addition to the Red Cell Lone Star Distance Challenge and the Master Salls, All About Larry also captured the Sunray Park Marathon Handicap. All of his stakes victories have come at the distance of 870 yards. His dam, Come Hell Or Hiwater, has also produced stakes winner A Splash Of Hell, an earner of $75,436. His second
dam is stakes-placed All Hell Is Loose, a sister to graded stakes winner Rush Fora First Down.
Kite Flyer, the second choice in the race, finished a game second while no match for the winner. Ridden by jockey Santos Carrizales, Kite Flyer (Royal Quick Dash-Cymbidiam) races for the Dark Horse Partnership and is trained by Ryan Basham.
Eyeontheline (Eye Yin You-Bobbie Lou-TB) and jockey Danny Lavergne chased three-wide around the turn and finished
third. Bred in Texas by William Reeder, Eyeontheline is owned by Sunset Racing Stable and trained by Kenny Roberts Sr.
Checking in behind the top three were Kudos For Quick Dash (Royal Quick Dash- Kudos For Sweets-TB), Keep On Wishing (Shazoom-Wicked Wish), and Icy Valentine (Mr Jess Perry-Icy Morn-TB).
Lone Star Park $34,830 • 870 yards :44.206 • si 113 • Ntr
Heza Fast Man
Heza Motor Scooter
Hot Tin Lizzie
ALL ABOUT LARRY, ’07-g.
Shoot Yeah
Come Hell Or Hiwater
All Hell Is Loose
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Merial Lone Star Distaff Challenge
bERTHA VENATION
by Michael Compton
bertha Venation redeemed herself from a second-place finish in the 2011 Merial Lone Star Distaff Challenge at Lone Star Park
at Grand Prairie, winning this year’s renewal on Sept. 28 in a brave effort under Rodrigo Vallejo. Sent off as the 2-1 favorite in the field of 11, Bertha Venation battled for the lead through the 400 yards and prevailed on the line, defeating Endless Ocean by a nose. The 5-year-old mare’s time for the
distance was :19.742, earning her a speed index of 89.
The win was the fifth stakes score and third straight for the Jose Luis Salazar colorbearer trained by Eusevio Huitron. Bertha Venation owns wins in the 2009 Gillespie County
Fair Futurity-G3, the 2010 Firecracker Derby at Delta Downs, and additional 2012 stakes victories in the Selma
Stakes (1st Division) and the King William Handicap, both at Retama Park. She has also placed in five stakes races. The $19,210 win- ner’s share of the Lone Star Distaff Challenge lifted her career bankroll to $168,091.
Bertha Venation, who was bred by Corner K Quarter Horses, is the leading earner produced from the Texigo Star mare Dash To Glory. A multiple stakes winner, Dash To Glory won
14 of 49 races in her career, with three stakes win and nine stakes placings, and earned $82,618. The Texas-bred mare has also foaled stakes- placed Rampage, an earner
of $74,001, and graded stakes finalist Glory Flies.
In a game effort, runner- up Endless Ocean (Ocean Runaway-Debs Cartel) just missed after racing head and head with the winner through- out. Owned by Ebelyn Rojas,
Endless Ocean toted the largest bankroll into the race, having earned $232,570 on winning five of 18 in her career. Fructuoso Huitron trains the mare, who was ridden by Raul Ramirez Jr.
Rudy Ivan Sierra’s Painted Desires (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Fast Flyin Prize) finished third with Luis Vivanco in the saddle for trainer Eusevio Huitron. This was the 3-year- old filly’s first stakes appearance.
Completing the order of finish were Awe Contraire (Corona Cartel-Special Crys), Allure Sr (Make It Anywhere-Lilli Call
Me), Differently (Mr Jess Perry-Daring Difference), Cartels Jess (Teller Cartel-Jess Dash On), Jess Sippin (Mr Jess Perry-Sippin Corona), Valiant Jess (Valiant Hero-Jess Sass Me), Eyeline Runaway (Ocean Runaway-Ms Eyelene), and High Class Jet (Easy Winning Jet-High Class Secret).
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Lone Star Park $41,760 • 400 yards :19.742 • si 89
First Down Dash
Corona Caliente
Corona Chick
BERTHA VENATION, ’07-m.
Texigo Star
Dash To Glory
Easy Buy
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