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RUIDOSO DOWNS, NEW MEXICO
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broke well just a step behind Dash For Stone, who sprinted to the front. Under mild urging, Mr Secret Glory got up to win by a neck as the favorite, stopping the timer in :21.854. His time was the fifth-fastest of the day. The Ruidoso Triple Crown has been the focus of Mr Secret Glory’s career, though the All American Futurity will mark the first time he’ll go postward in the finals of a stakes race. He contested the trials of the Ruidoso and Rainbow futurities, finishing first and third, respectively. Bred by his owner, Johnny Trotter, Mr Secret Glory is by Hez Our Secret and out of Eye Of Glory si 98 ($177,830), who was second in the Grade 1 Rainbow Derby in her racing career. Mr Secret Glory is a 1/2-brother to Jess Glory si 98 ($49,514), a stakes winner and graded stakes finalist, and a full brother to Bay Eagle Glory si 95 ($223,553), a Grade 1 stakes-placed winner now standing at stud. Eye Of Glory is a full sister to Eye Yin You si 99 ($193,489) and a 1/2-sister to graded stakes-placed winner Takin The High Road si 115 ($98,192), among others.
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Mr Secret Glory & Ricky Ramirez are up for a neck victory Race record: 3-2-0-1
Day 1, Race #14
Mr Secret Glory won the 14th and last trial on the first day of All American Futurity qualifying heats. The win was the second of his career, and his first qualifying effort. Trainer Trey Wood gave a leg up to Ricky Ramirez, who piloted Mr Secret Glory from the seven hole in the nine- horse field. The gray gelding
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Fly Baby Fly & Rodrigo Vallejo close well for a 1-length victory
Race record: 4-2-0-1 Day 2, Race #4
Owned by the Fly Baby Fly Partnership, of which Bennie & Teresa Jeter are a part, Fly Baby Fly secured
the final qualifying spot on the 2nd day of trials with a :21.902 win in the 4th heat. She will be 1 of 2 All Ameri- can Futurity starters on Labor Day for trainer James Padgett II, who also saddled Hawkeye. With Rodrigo Vallejo up, Fly
Baby Fly persevered through tight quarters at the start of her trial as she left the 8 post. She benefited from being on the outside of A Passion For Flashn, who bore in from the 5-hole and was later DQ’d from 2nd to 5th. In the meantime, Fly Baby Fly chased after A Passion For Flashn & Paint On Can- vas, then held off a game challenge by Hierarchy to find the finish line first. Her 1-length win as the heavy favorite was the 2nd of her career. Previously trained by Judd Kearl, Fly Baby Fly ran 3rd in a trial to the Grade 1 Ruidoso F. in her debut. She returned for the Rainbow F.-G1, winning her trial con- vincingly before gaining ground to finish 4th in the finals. Bred by Julianna Hawn Holt in Texas, Fly Baby Fly is by One Famous Eagle & out of the Walk Thru Fire daughter Higher Fire, who won the Ed Burke Million F.-G1 and Golden State Million F.-G1 the year she was named AQHA Champion 2 Year Old and 2-Year-Old Filly. She banked $1,314,742 and has produced several winners including Grade 1 finalist Highest Fire si 93 ($325,637).
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