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the books. He looked at them and said he liked that filly.”
Willie gave approval to go to six figures, and they were able to get her for $65,000. Now an earner of $769,062, she was definitely a bargain.
While Dark NME likes her owners, Willie says she doesn’t have much use for other horses. “She has no friends,” he said. “We can’t even put her on the walker. It’s great—you can tell in the races that she doesn’t want anyone around her.”
Dark NME is by Champion Hes Relentless and out of winner Quions, a full sister to stakes
winner Spit Like Jagger and a half-sister to stakes winners CR Tuckernuck and Fast Prize Tacita. Quions has produced two winners in three starters, including 2019 Black Gold 350 Championship Futurity winner Mr Dillard.
One Valiant Love (One Valiant Hero-Echoes Of Love) and Trane Station V (Favorite Cartel- Attack The Cartel) dead-heated for second. Owned by Dunn Ranch, trained by Monty Arrossa, and ridden by Armando Cervantes, One Valiant Love earlier this year won the Heritage Place Juvenile Stakes. Carrizales also trains Trane
Station V, and Everardo Rodriguez rode the colt for owner Valeriano Racing Stables. Trane Station V won his Rainbow trial and ran second in his trial for the Ruidoso Futurity.
Completing the field were Wired 440 (Tempting Dash-Time For Jess), Midnight Politics (Apollitical Jess-Midnight Sunlight), Mitey Relentless (Hes Relentless-Mitey Moon), Scream Machine (Favorite Cartel-Babe On The Fly), Asscher (FDD Dynasty-Astica), and Rayenare (Apollitical Jess-Mongoose Jet Eye). King Apache was scratched.
Owner Willie Garcia and his wife, Nancy, from whom Dark NME hails her name.
Jockey Francisco Calderon with his son, Lorenzo.
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John Bachelor IV, Speedhorse
John Bachelor IV, Speedhorse
John Bachelor IV, Speedhorse