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New Mexico Classic Cup Derby Champ. (R)
A 14-1 longshot, Brian Mundell’s Bodie Got Gold rallied to win the October 30, $125,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Derby Championship (R) for state-bred 3-year-old colts and geldings.
Bodie Got Gold covered 6 furlongs in 1:09.92 after closing on early fractions of :22.23 and :45.07 set by Go Red Rascal and 13-10 favorite Diabolical Storm. Enrique Gomez rode the homebred son of Holy Lute for trainer Bart Hone.
Bodie Got Gold was coming off of a seventh- place finish, 11 lengths behind winner Go Red Rascal, in a 6-furlong, $40,000 non-winners- of-three allowance race for New Mexico-breds
at Zia Park on October 4. The gray or roan gelding became the first official black-type stakes winners from three starters sired by Holy Lute, a Kentucky-bred son of two-time Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner Midnight Lute and the stakes-placed Holy Bull mare Holy Christmas.
Racing in three states from 2013-16, Holy Lute earned $517,677 from 29 outs, and his
six wins included the second division of the 2016 Eddie D. Stakes (G3) at Hollywood Park. The stallion is owned by and stands at A & R Stables LLC at Anthony, New Mexico.
Bodie Got Gold is also the first starter foaled by Bodie’s Gold, an unraced Kentucky- bred 8-year-old daughter 2012 Arkansas Derby (G1) winner and Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up Bodemeister. His second dam, the
A.P. Indy mare Useewhatimsaying, produced Fool’s Paradise, a half-sister to Bodie’s Gold who won the 2020 Lone Star Park Turf Stakes.
Bodie Got Gold’s third dam, the winning Red Ransom mare Lucinda K., ran second in the 1997 Tropical Park Oaks at Calder Racecourse near Miami, Florida. A 1994 Kentucky-bred foal, Lucinda K. foaled Thatswhatimean, a half- sister to Useewhatimsaying who won the 2005 China Doll Stakes at Santa Anita Park and ran second in that season’s Honeymoon Breeders’ Cup Handicap (G2) at Hollywood Park.
Bodie Got Gold traces back to his fifth dam, Woodlake Princess, a daughter of the Northern Dancer stallion Champagne Charlie who produced Code Princess, a listed stakes winner in Italy in 1996.
Raced exclusively in New Mexico, Bodie Got Gold has won three of 12 starts, and the $73,800 winner’s share of the purse from his first lifetime stakes victory pushed his earnings to $148,238, of which $126,638 has been pocketed from 10 outs this season. The gelding’s summer resume includes a third-place finish, eight lengths behind winner Corrina Corrina, in the September 4, 1-mile Casino at The Downs Derby (R) at Albuquerque Downs.
Diabolical Storm finished second, a neck behind Bodie Got Gold, and was followed
by I Think I’m Here, Massive Roar, Go Red Rascal, Bye Bye Matty P, Majorwayhome and Zenfully Zesty.
A homebred son of Attila’s Storm and
the multiple stakes winning Diabolical mare Diabolical Dame, Diabolical Storm earned $24,600 to bring his bankroll to $277,700 from starts for his owners, Joe Dee Brooks, Scott Bryant and Derrol Hubbard. The gray or roan gelding has won four races, including the 1 1/16-mile, $250,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Derby (R) at Sunland Park, and the open 6-furlong, $50,000 Duke City Sprint Stakes at Albuquerque Downs.
I Think I’m Here is a homebred son of the Bernardini stallion Marking owned by Charles Dunleavy III. Unraced at 2, the chestnut gelding has earned $62,600 from eight races, and his record includes a head victory in his career debut on February 1, a 6-furlong, $26,000 maiden- special-weight race for state-bred 3-year-olds at Sunland Park.
Bodie Got Gold’s winning connections include owner Brian Mundell, trainer Bart Hone and jockey Enrique Gomez.
Photos by Coady Photography
ZIA PARK
Holy Lute
Midnight Lute
Holy Christmas
Bodie’s Gold
Bodemeister
Useewhatimsaying
BODIE GOT GOLD
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