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ZIA PARK
Photos by Coady Photography
New Mexico Classic Distaff Stakes (R)
First Moonflash
First To Flash
Nagano Moon
Mi Camila
Southern Halo
Lady Of Tralee
MI MOONFLASH
Sent to post as the 8-5 favorite in a full field of 10 state-bred fillies and mares, Mi Moonflash responded with a neck victory in the October 29, $40,000 New Mexico Classic Distaff Stakes (R) at Zia Park.
Mi Moonflash went 350 yards in :17.458 under jockey Alfredo Sigala. Todd Fincher trained the homebred 5-year-old First Moonflash mare for owners Pierre J. Amestoy Jr., Leslie Amestoy and Roger K. Beasley.
Mi Moonflash was coming off of a neck victory in the inaugural 350-yard, $55,000 Champagne Lane Stakes (R) for New Mexico- bred distaffers at Albuquerque Downs on October 1. The mare’s sire, First Moonflash, was a multiple graded stakes winning son of champion First To Flash and the stakes-placed Major Rime mare Nagano Moon. Racing from 2007-09, First Moonflash won 14 of
25 starts and earned $969,828, and he ended his racing career with a victory in the 2009 Championship at Sunland Park (G1).
First Moonflash was the AQHA champion aged stallion in 2009. From 10 crops, he has sired the earners of more than $24.8 million, including champions Flash And Roll, Handsome Jack Flash
and Foxy Moonflash. The stallion died after a battle with laminitis in May 2019.
Mi Moonflash is out of Mi Camila (TB),
a winning Kentucky-bred daughter of the
Halo stallion Southern Halo. A 1998 foal, Mi Camila produced four winners from as many Thoroughbred starters, including Bonndaddy’s, a multiple stakes winning B G’s Drone
gelding, and Mi Domscat, a stakes-winning Dominique’s Cat gelding.
Mi Moonflash traces back to her fourth dam, Cream Sauce, a winning daughter of Sauce Boat and a half-sister to European stakes winners Montelimar and L’Extra Honor.
Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, Mi Moonflash has won seven of 22 races, and the $24,000 winner’s share of the purse from her second lifetime stakes score pushed her earnings to $237,157. The mare began her 2022 season with a second-place finish, 1 1/4 lengths behind winner Cat Daddys
Lil Girl, in the January 15, $100,000 Lou Wooten/Sydney Valentini Handicap (RG2) at Sunland Park.
First Flashin ran second and was followed by Hearts Mystic Rime, Tina Katarina, Crown
N Royal Gal, La Bella Julia, Icy Morning Breeze, Streak Jess Memory, Eyes On Mollie and Osberryfast.
A 5-year-old First Moonflash mare owned by Victor Marroquin, First Flashin banked the $8,000 runner-up share of the purse. First Flashin has won three of 22 starts and has earned $94,279.
Hearts Mystic Rime is a 4-year-old daughter of the Dean Miracle stallion Hearts Miracle racing for Luis Perez. The sorrel mare has won three of 14 outs and has banked $68,929.
Mi Moonflash’s winning connections include owners Pierre Amestoy Jr., Leslie Amestoy and Roger Beasley, trainer Todd Fincher and jockey Alfredo Sigala.
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