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NM Cup Oaks Championship (R)
Susans Violette, campaigned by Steven D. Stewart of Albuquerque and trainer Bennie L. “Chip” Woolley Jr., sprinted to a wire-to-wire victory in the Nov. 7, $140,000 New Mexico Cup Oaks Championship (R) for state-bred 2-year-old fillies at Zia Park.
Sent to post as the 5-2 second choice in the field of eight, Susans Violette covered 6 fur- longs in 1:10.10 while defeating 9-10 favorite Fast Gator by 3/4-length. Enrique Gomez rode the gray or roan filly, who was scoring her first career stakes win.
Susans Violette was bred by Michael E. Malouff Jr. The filly became the first black- type stakes winner sired by Stellar Rain, an unraced Kentucky-bred son of Storm Cat and 3-time Grade 1 winner Stellar Jayne.
Stellar Rain has sired four winners from 10 starters and earners of more than $195,000.
He is owned by Wendy Davis and stands for a $1,500 fee at Terry and Nan Lane’s TNL Farm.
Susans Violette’s dam, the winning 15-year- old Proudest Romeo mare Bruisen Susan, ran third in the 2006 Manhattan Beach Stakes at Hollywood Park. Bruisen Susan has foaled two winners from as many starters.
Susans Violette’s third dam, the Darby Creek Road mare Cyard, won the $125,000
Kindergarten Stakes (R) for Ohio-breds at Beulah Park in ’86. Her fourth dam, the Cyane mare Benched, foaled a total of 2 stakes winners, including K.O. King, a 1/2-sister to Cyard and a 6-time stakes winner in Ohio from 1988-89.
Susans Violette prepped for the New Mexico Cup Oaks Championship with a wire-to-wire,
1 1/2-length win in a 6-furlong, $38,000 non-winners-of-three allowance for state-bred fillies and mares on Oct. 2. All told, the filly has won four of her five outs, and the $84,000 winner’s share of the Oaks Championship purse increased her earnings to $133,480, all of which has been pocketed this season.
Susans Violette returned a $7.60 win mutuel and teamed with Fast Gator for a $2 exacta divi- dend of $13.20. McGlorious, a 30-1 longshot, ran third, 3 1/4 lengths behind Susans Violettte, to complete a $47.70 ($1) trifecta.
Money Order crossed the wire fourth but was disqualified and placed sixth for coming in at the 7/16 pole and forcing Passion To Win to check. Wedding Dance was placed fourth and was followed officially by Passion To Win, Money Order, Comics Cashway, and Gone Shoppin.
Runner-up Fast Gator entered the Oaks Championship off of a 2-race win streak that included a wire-to-wire, 4-length score in the 5
1/2-furlong, $50,000 Sierra Starlet Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs on July 29. Campaigned by
J. Kirk and Judy Robison of El Paso, Texas, the homebred dark bay or brown Diabolical filly has won six of eight starts, including four stakes, and the $30,800 runner-up share of the purse pushed her earnings to $294,135, of which $204,785 was banked during her 2-year-old season.
A $6,500 claimer during the 2017-18 Sunland Park meet, McGlorious earned the $14,000 third-place share of the purse for her owner, Tom and Sandy McKenna’s Judge Lanier Racing. The homebred daughter of the Medgalia d’Oro stallion McKenna’s Justice has won two of 14 starts, and she has banked $48,817.
by Michael Cusortelli
ZIA PARK
Stellar Rain
Storm Cat
Stellar Jayne
Bruisen Susan
Proudest Romeo
Creme de Violette
SUSANS VIOLETTE
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