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DOWNS AT ALBUQUERQUE
Casino At The Downs Derby (R)
Photos by Coady Photography
Mr. Trieste
Old Trieste
Angel’s Tearlet
Scared Money
Carson City
Triple Bright
CORRINA CORRINA
The lone filly in a field of seven New Mexico-bred 3-year-old Thoroughbreds, Derrick W. Jenkins’ Corrina Corrina won the September 4, $100,000 Casino at The Downs Derby (R) at Albuquerque Downs.
Corrina Corrina covered her 1-mile trip in 1:35.87, missing by just 30/100ths of a second the track record of 1:35.57 set by Curve Ball in the 2003 Camino Real Mile Handicap. Joree Scriver rode the dark bay or brown daughter of Mr. Trieste for trainer Gary Cross.
Corrina Corrina is one of 30 winners from 47 starters sired by Mr. Trieste, a 21-year-old Kentucky- bred son of the A.P. Indy stallion Old Trieste. Campaigned in five states from 2003-12, Mr. Trieste banked $605,474 from 39 races, and he won nine stakes, including the 2005 Zia Park Distance Championship and 2006 Sunland Park Handicap.
Mr. Trieste has sired the earners of more than $2.1 million from a dozen crops, including Motivare, the winner of the 2012 Oklahoma Classics Lassie Stakes (R) at Remington Park, and Jet N G, the winner of last year’s Rocky Gulch New Mexico Cup Championship Stakes (R) at Zia Park. A half-brother to multiple graded stakes winner Nate’s Mineshaft, the stallion is owned by Derrick Jenkins, and he stands at his farm north of Hobbs, New Mexico.
Corrina Corrina is also one of three winners from as many starters produced by Scared
Money, a winning New York-bred daughter of the Mr. Prospector stallion Carson City. The filly’s third dam, the unplaced Lord Durham mare Finally Found, foaled five winners from five starters, including Stolen Beauty, the winner of the 1991 Demoiselle Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct, and Finality, the winner of the 2002 Jamaica Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park.
Corrina Corrina traces back to her fourth dam, Bon Debarras, an unraced daughter of the Graustark stallion Ruritania who produced three stakes winners, including Eternal Search, a Northern Answer filly who won 15 stakes in Canada from 1980-83, and five-time stakes winner Gone To Royalty.
Corrina Corrina was stretching out in distance off of her second-place finish in a 6 1/2-furlong, $46,000 open-condition allowance race for state-bred distaffers on August 7.
All told, the filly has won four of 11 races
-- including two of three at the eight-furlong distance -- and the $60,000 winner’s share of the purse from her second stakes score increased her bankroll to $265,370, of which $249,420 has been pocketed from eight outs this season.
Corrina Corrina’s season resume includes a three-quarter length victory in the 6 1/2-furlong, $100,000 Dine Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred sophomores at SunRay Park on May 29.
I Think I’m Here ran second, 7 3/4 lengths behind Corrina Corrina. Bodie Got Gold, Prairie Warrior, Lonzo Who, Massive Roar and Diabolical Storm completed the order of finish.
I Think I’m Here earned the $20,000 runner-up share of the purse for his owner, Charles Dunleavy III. A homebred son of the Bernardini stallion Marking and the winning Summer Bird mare Limeade, the chestnut gelding has won one of six races and has banked $43,040.
Bodie Got Gold is a homebred gray or roan son of the Midnight Lute stallion Holy Lute and the unraced Bodemeister mare Bodie’s Gold racing for Brian Mundell, and the $10,000 third-place share of the Casino at the Downs Derby purse bumped his earnings to $74,438. The gelding has won two of 10 outs, all in New Mexico.
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Corrina Corrina’s winning connections include owner Derrick W. Jenkins, trainer Gary Cross and jockey Joree Scriver.