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RACING NEWS
Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity-G2
DOUBLE DOWN 123
by Tracy Gantz
If you want to win the Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity-G2 at Los Alamitos, partner with Randy Young, buy a yearling filly, and put Monty
Arrossa in charge of training. That formula has now succeeded for three consecutive years.
With Dennis Jensen, Young won the 2021 Futurity with Fire Fast Honey and the 2022 edition with Valiantli. This year Young and Taos River Ranch LLC won the $275,900 race with Double Down 123 on May 14.
“I’ve been blessed with these good horses and good partners,” said Young.
Second in her racing debut, Double Down 123 finished fourth in her trial for the Kindergarten Futurity, just making the qualifying list with the last clocking.
“In the trials we didn’t get much of a good break,” said Armando Cervantes, who has ridden Double Down 123 in all three of her races. “She was closing in, so I thought that if she broke that we would have a good shot in the race. That’s what she did.”
164 SPEEDHORSE June 2023
Double Down 123 wins the $275,900 Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity-G2 by a head at the wire.
Los Alamitos
$275,900 • 300 yards :15.436 • SI 96
DOUBLE DOWN 123, ‘21-f.
Bred by: Bob & Jerry Gaston
Raced to 2 $118,263 3-1(1)-1-0
FLYING COWBOY 123
SI 101
Bred by: Carolyn C. Bay Raced to 3 • $965,811 13-8(2)-1-2(2)
228 f., 1 SW • $415,324
APOLLITICAL JESS SI 107 Bred by: Juan Alberto Tirado Lizarraga
Raced to 3 • $1,399,831 14-8(2)-4(2)-0
1,245 f., 120 SW • $59,390,921
HOT CASH 123 SI 87
Bred by: T Bill Stables Inc. Raced to 2 • $1,303 7-0-0-2
16 f., 3 SW • $2,608,003
DOUBLE DOWN DARLING
SI 87
Bred by: Bob & Jerry Gaston Raced to 3 • $4,373
5-1-0-0
6 f., 2 SW • $617,218
FISHERS DASH SI 94
Bred by: Vessels Stallion Farm LLC
Raced to 3 • $123,495 8-3-1(1)-3(1)
830 f., 26 SW • $11,849,148
PAMPER ME SPECIAL
Bred by: Bob & Jerry Gaston Raced to 2 • $660
4-0-0-1
12 f., 1 SW • $1,269,118
Amber Mendez, Los Alamitos