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Hialeah Sophomore invitational Stakes
FAST n FuRRiouS
by Tracy Gantz
Fast N Furrious gets his name from the female side of his family, a line of swift horses named for felines. He lived up to his
moniker when he won the Dec. 31 Hialeah Sophomore Invitational Stakes at 440 yards.
As the gate opened, One Famous Cookie, just outside of Fast N Furrious, got away slowly. Fast N Furrious bore out into the space vacated by One Famous Cookie. Once jockey Alex Baldillez Jr.
straightened him out, Fast
N Furrious zoomed to the front and won easily by 1 3/4 lengths in :21.401 for a 104 speed index. The trainers
of One Famous Cookie and Or Black Warrior, who drew the rail, claimed foul against the winner, but the stewards made no change.
Fast N Furrious broke his maiden at Hialeah a year previously. He added two
more victories later in the season in his native Oklahoma before finishing third in his Hialeah Derby trial. Though he did not qualify for
the final, he was easily best in the Sophomore Invitational for trainer Guillermo Valdivia.
Richard Joneson, who with his wife, Lisa, owns Joneson Ranch in Shawnee, Oklahoma, bred and owns Fast N Furrious. The Cheetah, dam of Fast N Furrious, earned $210,688
and won five stakes. She has produced three winners from four starters. Second dam Long Gone Kitty is a half- sister to Speedhorse Gold & Silver Cup Derby-RG3 win- ner Beeline Feline, the dam of graded winners Furrtreeous and Sophastacat. Furrtreeous stands at Joneson.
Troy Crissup piloted Aquafina (First Down Dash- Runaway Wave) to second for owner-breeder Lucas Racing
Inc. and trainer Ron Raper. At Los Alamitos earlier in the year, the filly won the Adequan California Derby Challenge.
Raymond Petty’s Drill Baby Drill (Gold Medal Jess-Lady Dee Vee Em), trained by Brian Muse, finished third with Jesus Salazar aboard. At the 2010-11 Hialeah meeting, Drill Baby Drill won the South Florida Derby.
Completing the field were Special
Ela (Special Leader-Ocean Memories),
Ruby Sonnet (Streakin Sixes-Hand Me A Seven), Mr Beduino Lookaway (Dashin
Zee Vee-Beaucoups Of Chicks), Or Black Warrior (Special Red Warrior-Jetset Legacy), Paintyourownwagon (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Jessica Ravin), One Famous Cookie (Separatist-One Quick Cookie), and No Yellow Snow (Snowbound-TB-Time To Come Clean).
Hialeah Park $20,000 • 440 yards :21.401 • si 104
Chicks Beduino
Country Chicks Man
Country Zevi
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Pure D Dash
The Cheetah
Long Gone Kitty
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Holiday Handicap
KoBe
by Tracy Gantz
When Kobe was a baby, breeders Mark and Mary Parsons enjoyed visiting him at the Double Bar S Ranch in Moreno Valley, California. Mark would get into the paddock with the young colt, and the two would race each other, causing Mary to joke that Mark taught Kobe how to run.
Since then, Kobe has certainly learned his lessons, with help from trainer Paul Jones, as he proved in win-
ning the Jan. 1 Holiday
Handicap at Los Alamitos.
Breaking from the outside,
Kobe had to contend with
Check My Thoughts, who
came out of post posi-
tion two. The pair battled
throughout the 350 yards,
with Kobe edging away in
the final strides to win by a
half-length in :17.640.
Ramon Sanchez, who scored his 1,500th career
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winner earlier on the card, rode Kobe. Sanchez was also aboard when Kobe won a trial to the Kindergarten Futurity-G1 and in a Nov. 4 allowance victory. Kobe, who missed the Kindergarten final due to a sore tibia and was away from the races for six months, now has two wins in three starts.
Jones trained Rubiate, the dam of Kobe, for the Parsons family after they obtained her from
breeder Blane Schvaneveldt. Rubiate finished second in the 2004 La Pacifica Handicap and the 2005 California Breeders’ Matron Stakes-RG3. She has produced two starters, both winners. A yearling half- sister to Kobe named Merari, by Separatist, sold for $18,000 at the 2011 Los Alamitos Equine Sale.
Dr. Ed Allred’s home- bred Check My Thoughts (Check Him Out-Just Think)
finished second for jockey Eulices Gomez and trainer James Glenn Jr. Check My Thoughts won the 2011 Golden State Juvenile and California Breeders Freshman Stakes and fin- ished third in the Ed Burke Memorial Juvenile.
Eye For FDD (First Down Dash-Eye For Corona) was a nose back in third, with Cesar DeAlba in the saddle. Jose Flores trains the gelding for the Deleyco Race Team Corp. Eye For FDD won a maiden race in August and finished second in a futurity trial.
Rounding out the field were Testing The Ice (Stoli-Streakin La Tac), Personal Mission (Special Leader-Tantalizing Eyes), Properly Snowbound (Snowbound-TB-Properly),
BF Farm Girl (First Down Dash-Shirleys Strawfly), Red Dirt Bono (Bono Jazz-Red Dirt Girl), and Our Kinda Magic (TR Dasher-Go Magically).
Los Alamitos $20,000 • 350 yards :17.640 • si 85
Dash For Cash
Mr Eye Opener
Bedawee
KOBE, c.
Red-TB
Rubiate
First Down Macarena
los Alamitos
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