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PROSPECT TO THE TOP si 106, $648,650, Ntr Champion Three-Year-Old Colt
Breeder: Sue H. May
Owner: Joel Tavarez
Trainer: Ralph Muniz
Jockeys: Jacky Martin, Roman
Chapa, Oscar Rincon and Freddie
Martinez
2011 Record: 10-3(2)-4(1)-1(0),
$413,320, 1st Hobbs America Derby-G2, West Texas Derby-G3, 2nd All American Derby-G1, 5th Ruidoso Derby-G1, fnl. Zia Park Championship-G1
Prospect To The Top is one of those horses that quietly goes about his business, win- ning races and making money without
much fanfare. He never receives the hype lav- ished on some other horses; He isn’t always the favorite. But at the end of the year, you look
up and realize he has put together a campaign worthy of a championship. And that’s just what he did in 2011, winning two graded stakes
to top all three-year-old colts and take home championship honors for owner Joel Tavarez, of Odessa, Texas.
Trained by Ralph Muniz, Prospect To The Top was selectively started as a two-year-old, making just seven outs. But those races included the All American Futurity-G1 (seventh), the Hobbs America Futurity-G2 (first), and the Southwest Juvenile Championship-G1 (third). It wasn’t a bad debut for a two-year-old colt.
The next year, in 2011, Prospect To
The Top went to the track 10 times. In his age division, he won the Hobbs America Derby-G1 and the West Texas Derby-G3, and was second in the All American Derby-G1 and fifth in the Ruidoso Derby-G1. In win- ning the Hobbs America Derby, he became the only horse to win both the Hobbs America Futurity and Derby. He also faced older horses, finishing seventh to eventual World Champion Cold Cash 123 in The Championship at Sunland Park-G1.
“This horse is such a gentleman,” trainer Ralph Muniz said of Prospect To The Top, who is standing his first season at stud in 2012. “He’s really good-minded, and he does every- thing you ask of him. He’s very cooperative.”
Prospect To The Top is the first Champion for his sire, Coronas Prospect. He is the sole stakes winner for his dam, the stakes-placed mare Cream To The Top. Bred by Sue May
in Texas, Prospect To The Top hails from the female family of stakes winners Hey Sailor, Saloon, Shanghai Girl and Miss Oyster Bar, and stakes-placed runners Boracho Station and Fantastic Station.
Corona Cartel
Coronas Prospect
Fantastic Polly
Holland Ease
Corona Chick
Fantastic Native
Miss Polly Pistol
First Down Dash
Easy Henryetta
Chicks Beduino
Sizzling Lil
Dancing Dervish TB
Fanny Deck
Pistol Bar
Polly’s Wonder
Dash For Cash First Prize Rose Easy Jet
Babys Henryetta Beduino TB
A Classy Chick Sizzle Te Lilsalady TB Native Dancer Mumtaz
Top Expense Betty Badger Three Bars TB Black Princess C Thin Man
Black Polly
Moon Deck Miss Night Bar Three Bars
Lena Valenti Misty Flight Traffic Dream British Romam Nasrulline Eternal Bull Beedee Question Mark Rainy Hancock Equestrian River Boat Midnight Charge Garcia Girl
Rocket Wrangler Find A Buyer TB Gallant Jet Rose Bug
Jet Deck Lena’s Bar TB Lanovay
Baby Steel TB Romany Royal Jo-Ann-Cat Chick’s Deck Mayshego TB Azure Te TB Jet’s Fair Lady Reb’s Policy Here’s To Lil Polynesian Geisha Mahmoud Motto
Top Deck TB Gray Helen Grey Badger II Black Bonnie 14 Percentage Myrtle Dee Prince Vic TB Unknown Mare Midnight Jr Myrna Loy Polymelian Black Queen
Top Deck TB Moonlight Night Barred
Belle Of Midnight Percentage Myrtle Dee
Gray Dream Perhobo Princequillo Grey Flight Traffic Judge Delphic Dream Endeavour II Flying Roman Nasrullah
Her Call
Bull Dog
Rose Eternal Bimelech Columbia Girk Plaudit
Pepito 1
Rainy Day Triangle 13 Equipoise
Frilette
Chicaro
Last Boat
Depth Charge TB Sugar Babe Garcia Band Play Jr Tosca
PROSPECT TO THE TOP, ‘08 c.
Jet Deck
Easily Smashed
Cream To The Top
Hey Sailor
Easy Jet
Smash It TB
Savannah Jr
Lower Deck
Lena’s Bar TB
Foggy Road
Wembley Blue
Everett Jr. TB
Savannah Gray
Top Deck TB
My Tosca Charge
46 SPEEDHORSE, February 3, 2012
Prospect To The Top wins the Grade 2 Hobbs America Derby by 1 1/4-lengths at Zia Park.
Lori Ritz/Coady Photography