Page 112 - New Mexico Horse Breeders 2019 Stallion Register

ZIA PARK
by Michael Cusortelli
Rocky Gulch NM Cup Championship (R)
Dome
Storm Cat
She’s Tops
Lauren Lynn
Hadif
Soiree
THUNDER DOME
Thunder Dome was a prompt 7-5 favorite in the Nov. 4, $180,000 Rocky Gulch New Mexico Cup Championship (R) at Zia Park.
Ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr., Thunder Dome covered 1 mile in 1:37.17 - less than one second off of the track record of 1:36.25 set
by Tiz True in 2011 - and his winning margin was a clear 3 1/4 lengths from 5-1 third choice Shining Source. Dallas Barton prepped the gelding for owners W.D. Carson Sr., M.H. Carson, and Leach Racing LLC.
Thunder Dome was bred by Frank Richardson and Mooring, and he is one of seven black-type stakes winners from 14 crops sired by Dome, an unraced Kentucky-bred son of Storm Cat and a 1/2-brother to multiple Grade 1 win- ner Dixie Union. Dome has sired the earners of more than $6.3 million from 197 Thoroughbred starters, including multiple stakes winners Glory Be Mine and ZZ Dome, and 2008 AQHA Champion Distance Horse High On Cat.
Dome is owned by a partnership, and he will stand the 2019 season for a $2,000 fee at W.L. and Dee Mooring’s Double LL Farm.
Thunder Dome is also one of 5 winners from 7 starters produced by Lauren Lynn, who ran 2nd in the ’03 Valor Farm Stakes (R) at Lone Star Park and Yellow Rose Stakes (R)
at Sam Houston Race Park. Lauren Lynn has foaled the earners of more than $706,000, including If I Had A Bull, a 1/2-brother to Thunder Dome and winner of the 2010 Sierra Starlet Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs.
Thunder Dome’s second dam, the Full Choke mare Soiree, won 3 stakes in New Mexico from 1996-98, including the ’96 Kachina Stakes at Ruidoso Downs. Soiree is
a full sister to stakes winners: B.G.’s Drone, a 3-time stakes winner in New Mexico from 1991- 94; 4-time stakes winner Talent Connection, who won the $50,000 Texas Derby at Bandera Downs in ’91; and Flying Drone, the winner of the 1994 New Mexican Stakes (R) at Santa Fe Downs and Rio Grande Futurity (R) at Ruidoso.
Thunder Dome has won eight of 25 starts, and the $108,000 winner’s share of the Rocky Gulch New Mexico Cup Champ. purse - the richest of the eight Thoroughbred stakes on
the New Mexico Cup program - increased his earnings to $478,263. His three stakes victories include the 7-furlong, O.D. McDonald Stakes (R) at Albuquerque Downs on June 30, and the 2016 Rio Grande Senor Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs.
Go For A Stroll finished 3rd and was followed by Streaks Bro, Hute, Hit A Lick,
Dom Strait, Gold Boundry, G M Gage, Boomer Who, Mr. Digger, and Kris Who. Runner-up Shining Source races for Barton Ranch Stables LLC and Blake Rust. A 7-year-old gelding by the Montbrook stallion Source, Shining Source has won 11 of 43 races, including five stakes, and the $39,600 runner-up share of the purse pushed his bankroll to $498,558.
Go For A Stroll, the 2-1 second choice, is owned by R.D. Hubbard, who also bred the 4-year-old gelding who has earned $301,013 from 21 outs. He also had a neck victory in the 7 1/2-furlong, Land of Enchantment Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs on July 29.
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