Page 113 - NMHBA_Winter2022

ZIA PARK
New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile Champ. (R) Photos by Coady Photography SMARTSREALGOOD
Sway Away
Afleet Alex
Seattle Shimmer
Poised By Design
Montbrook
Poised To Pounce
Smartsrealgood outran his 10-1 odds to win the October 30, $125,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile Championship (R) for state-bred 2-year-old colts and geldings at Zia Park.
Racing for R. Dwain Yarbar, Duncan Hamlin, and trainer Greg Green, Smartsrealgood went 6 furlongs in 1:11.15, and his margin of victory was two lengths from 9-2 second choice Nostrangrtotherain. Francisco Amparan rode the bay son of Sway Away, who banked $72,600 from his first lifetime stakes score.
Smartsrealgood was bred by Greg Green
and R. Dwain Yarbar. The bay gelding became the first official black-type stakes winner sired by Sway Away, a winning Kentucky-bred son of 2005 Preakness Stakes (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Afleet Alex. From 2010-12, Sway Away won two of 10 races and earned $206,800, and his race record included runner-up finishes in the 2010 Best Pal Stakes (G2) at Del Mar, and the 2011 San Vicente Stakes (G2) and 2012 San Carlos Stakes (G2), both at Santa Anita Park.
Sway Away has sired 20 winners and the earners of more than $1.03 million from
27 starters. A half-brother to stakes winner Sandstone, the 14-year-old stallion is owned by the Hernandez Family Trust, and he stands at The Quarter Company at Chamberino, New Mexico.
Smartsrealgood is also one of five winners from eight starters produced by Poised By Design, a winning Maryland-bred daughter of the Buckaroo stallion Montbrook. His second dam, the winning Maryland-bred Smarten mare Poised To Pounce, foaled three stakes winners, all of whom are half-siblings to Poised By Design, including Poseidon’s Warrior, a Speightstown colt who won the 2012 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) at Saratoga, and Play Bingo, a multiple stakes winning Polish Numbers gelding.
Smartsrealgood broke his maiden with an off-the-pace 3 1/2-length victory in a 5-furlong, $30,000 maiden-special-weight sprint for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Albuquerque Downs on September 25. The gelding has won two of five races and has earned $99,575.
Musics My Vice finished third, 3 3/4 lengths behind Smartsrealgood. Beach Runner, New Mexico Jeremy, Sense of Urgency, Danjerus Storm, 2-5 favorite Storm Leader, Tatas Joe Mark and Rig It Right.
Runner-up Nostrangrtotherain was coming off of a neck victory in a 6-furlong, $44,000 open-condition allowance race for state-bred juveniles at Zia Park on October 10, and he
banked the $24,200 second-place share of New Mexico Classics Juvenile Challenge purse to bring his earnings to $137,125 from nine races for owners Jimmy and Rebecca Powers. The bay son of the Indian Charlie stallion Shame On Charlie has won three outs, including the 4 1/2-furlong, $100,000 C.O. “Ken” Kendrick Memorial Stakes (R) at SunRay Park in May.
Musics My Vice was coming off of a third- place finish, five lengths behind winner Better Believe, in the September 25, $330,000 New Mexico State Fair Futurity (R) at Albuquerque Downs. The gelded son of the Bernardini stallion Marking races for Joe Dee Brooks and R. Lee Lewis, and he has earned $59,194 from six starts.
New Mexico Classic Sophomore Stakes (R)
First Moonflash
First To Flash
Nagano Moon
EBW Pistol Annie
PYC Paint Your Wagon
EBW Obsession
EBW PISTOL PETE
EBW Pistol Pete, a homebred son of First Moonflash racing for Ernie and Brenda Wood, broke sharply from his rail post and held on to win the October 29, $40,000 New Mexico Classic Sophomore Stakes (R) for state-bred 3-year-old Quarter Horses at Zia Park.
Prepped by Chris Zamora, EBW Pistol Pete went 400 yards in :19.870, and his margin of victory was a short nose from Mr Chicks Blazin, who was clocked in :19.874. Christian Ramos rode the brown gelding, who banked $24,000 from his first lifetime stakes win.
EBW Pistol Pete was coming off of a fourth place run in one of three New Mexico Classic Derby (RG2) trials on October 9. The gelding’s sire, First Moonflash, was the AQHA champion aged stallion in 2009. Racing from 2007-09, the son of champion First To Flash won 14 of 25 starts -- including 10 stakes -- and he earned $969,828.
From 10 crops, First Moonflash has sired the earners of more than $24.8 million, including champions Handsome Jack Flash, Flash And Roll and Foxy Moonflash. The stallion died after a
battle with laminitis on May 29, 2019.
EBW Pistol Pete’s dam, EBW Pistol Annie, is
a homebred winning 10-year-old daughter
of PYC Paint Your Wagon. His second dam, the homebred Brimmerton mare EBW Obsession, won two stakes from 2009-11, including
the 2009 John Deere New Mexico Juvenile Challenge Stakes (G3) at Ruidoso Downs.
Unraced at 2, EBW Pistol Pete has won three of 10 races, and the winner’s share of the purse pushed his earnings to $45,209. The gelding’s season record includes an eighth-place finish in the 400-yard, $173,634 Zia Derby (RG2) for New Mexico-bred 3-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs on August 6.
Holland Rock, the even-money favorite in
the field of nine, ran third, a neck behind EBW Pistol Pete. Just de Vine, Long Pour, RZ Richy, Incitatus Moon, Jess E Wood and FS Power Maxx completed the order of finish.
Mr Chicks Blazin banked the $8,000 runner-up share of the New Mexico Classic Sophomore Stakes purse to bring his earnings to $23,020 from six outs
for his owner, Gregory E. Terrones. A homebred son of Feature Mr Jess stallion TF Featured Effort, the brown gelding was coming off a sixth-place finish in a New Mexico Cup Derby trial.
Holland Rock is a homebred son of Rock Solid Jess racing for Bob and Sissie McClure. The bay gelding has won two of 21 starts and has banked $130,929, and his resume includes a second-
place finish in last year’s New Mexico State Fair Futurity (RG3) at Albuquerque Downs.
WINTER 2022 111