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DOWNS AT ALBUQUERQUE
New Mexico State Fair QH Futurity (RG3)
Photos by Coady Photography
Big Daddy Cartel
Corona Cartel
Miss Racy Eyes
Diamondia
Mr Jess Perry
Wild Vines
TALBOTT
Manuel Camacho’s Talbott, a gray son of Big Daddy Cartel and the fastest qualifier, broke sharply from post 10 and sprinted to a wire-to-wire victory in the September 25, 400- yard New Mexico State Fair Quarter Horse Futurity (RG3) for state-bred 2-year-olds at Albuquerque Downs.
Racing against a reported 20-mph head wind, Talbott stopped the timer in :19.679, and his winning margin was a half of a length from second-fastest qualifier White Lightenin. Carlos Guillen Chacon rode the gelding for trainer Juan Carlos Gonzalez.
Talbott set the fastest qualifying time from his half-length win in the ninth of 11 trials on September 9. The gelding was bred by Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico, and he was purchased as a yearling
by Camacho for $23,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs.
Talbott’s sire, Big Daddy Cartel, is a 13-year- old winning son of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel. Racing exclusively at Ruidoso Downs in 2011, Big Daddy Cartel earned $121,800 from five outs, and he was a finalist
in that season’s Grade 1 All American and Rainbow futurities.
Big Daddy Cartel has sired the earners of more than $15.6 million from seven crops, including multiple graded stakes winner and 2017 All American Futurity (G1) runner-up
Bigg Daddy, and multiple graded stakes winners Cat Daddys Lil Girl, Bigg Dee and Mamacita Cartel. A half-brother to stakes winner Racy La Jolla, the stallion is owned by and stands for a $7,000 fee at MJ Farms.
Talbott is out of Diamondia, a winning homebred daughter of 1994 AQHA champion 2-year-old colt Mr Jess Perry. His second dam, Wild Vines, is a winning homebred daughter
of the Noholme II (TB) stallion The Signature who was a finalist in the ‘03 Albuquerque Spring Derby (G3) at Albuquerque Downs. A 2000 foal, Wild Vines produced Wild Six, a half-sister to Diamondia who won the 2005 Rainbow (G1) and West Texas (G1) futurity and was a finalist in that season’s All American Futurity (G1), and Jenna James, a half-sister to Diamondia and
the dam of 2019 New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) winner Honky Tonk Daddy and stakes winner Daddys Mony.
Talbott’s third dam, the homebred Dash Ta Fame mare Famous Chapelle, won the 1997 Utah Classic Futurity (RG1) at Laurel Brown Racetrack near Salt Lake City. Raced exclusively in New Mexico, Talbott has won two of his six starts, and the $312,845 winner’s share of the stakes-record $625,689 New Mexico State Fair Futurity purse boosted his earnings to $317,905.
Wood Dee Queen ran third, a head behind runner-up White Lightenin, and was followed by Codex, Flashtoglory, Drinking Champane,
Blazin Chamisa, Shes So Salty, RC Jessa Flashin and Fine Am Eye.
White Lightenin is a daughter of the Mr Jess Perry stallion Eye Am King and 2009 AQHA champion sophomore filly Alice K White. Purchased as a yearling by Denis and Julie Schoenhofer for $32,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale, the sorrel filly has earned $152,138 from six outs, and her record includes a third place run in the 400-yard, $50,000 Zia Juvenile Stakes (R) at Ruidoso Downs on August 7.
Wood Dee Queen is a sorrel daughter of Eye Am King racing for J & SM Inc., Don Reynolds and M. Lane Reynolds. A $34,000 yearling buy at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale, the filly has won two of five races and has banked $86,923.
Talbott’s winning connections include owner Manuel Camacho, trainer Juan Carlos Gonzalez and jockey Carlos Guillen Chacon.
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