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In The Open is a half-sister to El Primero Del Ano Derby-G2 winner Ocean Cartel and Hialeah La Nina Invitational winner Special Ela. Open Me A Corona’s third dam, stakes winner In The Curl TB, is the granddam of World Champion Wave Carver and three-time champion Ocean Runaway.
Logans Mountain (Panther Mountain- Logans Game) finished second by a neck under
jockey John Hamilton. Heath Taylor trains the colt for Armando Rivera Fernandez. At Delta Downs, Logans Mountain won the Louisiana Juvenile Stakes.
Gerald Libersat’s homebred Perrys Runaway (Sir Runaway Dash-Ms Perrys Money) ran third, also by a neck. Donald Watson rode the gelding for trainer Kevin Broussard. Perrys Runaway was coming off a three-race winning streak.
Completing the field were T Boy C (Sir Runaway Dash-Toast To Mallard), Heza Lucky Crown (Special Crown Royal-Sheza Lucky La Jolla), Dashin Gage (Oak Tree Special-Dash Lady Love), Heza Fast Snow (Heza Fast Dash- Mary Snow), Cougar Hill (Panther Mountain- Lovers Dash), and Special Fine Corona (Oak Tree Special-Miss Fine Corona). Bigtime Beau was scratched.
Co-owner Dr. Tommy Hayes, trainer Bobby Martinez and Open Me A Corona and David Alvarez scored a half-length victory in the co-owner Charlie Forbes Jr. $1,000,000 Grade 1 LQHBA Breeders’ Futurity at Evangeline Downs.
racing news
LQHBA Breeders’ Invitational Stakes
Beer And PeAnutS
by Tracy Gantz
Astumble at the start didn’t deter Beer And Peanuts. Despite the mishap, the gray Louisiana-bred gelding scored his first stakes victory in the Nov. 17 LQHBA Breeders’ Invitational Stakes at Evangeline Downs.
Starts have compromised Beer And Peanuts’ chances before. After a second and a first at Delta Downs, he broke outwardly in the Louisiana Bred Futurity-RG1 and could only finish seventh. Second
in his trial for the LQHBA
Breeders’ Futurity-RG1, he
didn’t qualify for the final.
The Invitational, however,
was his moment.
When the gate opened, Beer And Peanuts’ stumble shuffled him back to sev- enth. But champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr. was aboard, and he instantly put Beer And Peanuts back into the race. They came on with a
late surge to pass horses and win by a neck in :19.880 for the 400 yards.
Heath Taylor trains Beer And Peanuts
for owner Lionel Zapata. Darrell Williams bred the gelding, who went through the 2011 LQHBA Yearling Sale as part of the Fortune Farms consignments and was a $5,200 buy- back. He has now earned $52,321.
Streakin Attitude produced Beer And Peanuts, one of two winners
from three starters for the mare. Taylor trained Streakin Attitude for Williams, and she won three of 11 races,
her best stakes perfor-
mance a fourth in the 2004 Firecracker Futurity-G2. The second dam, Grade 1-placed Cash Attitude, is a full sister to two Grade 2 winners and also produced Harrahs’ Entertainment Futurity-G3 winner Streak N Attitude.
Jaime Torres’ Coltins Fast Dash (Heza Fast Dash-Six Streakin Salute) ran second under Raul Ramirez Jr. Fructuoso Huitron trains the gelding. At Delta Downs, Coltins Fast Dash won the Louisiana Laddie Futurity-RG2.
Miguel Rodriguez owns and trains Lets Play Yacht Sea (First N Kool-Yacht Sea), who held on for third for jockey Jerry Yoakum. In her only other stakes performance, the filly ran fourth in the Louisiana Lassie Futurity-RG2.
Rounding out the field were Jethro Almitey (Heza Fast Dash-Dash In The Wind), JCS Who (Heza Fast Dash-Special Rockette), Big Timer (Bigtime Favorite-Our Fancy Native), Ausmor Brees (Chick Happens-Ms Maggies First), Jettin For A Fortune (Jet Black Patriot- Osceolas Fortune), Built Perry Tough (First Prize Perry-Kiss My Caboose), and City Street (Game Patriot-Della Loom).
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Corona Cartel
Coronas Leaving You
Lil Bit Rusty
BEER AND PEANUTS, ’10-g.
Streakin La Jolla
Streakin Attitude
Cash Attitude
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