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ALL AMERICAN FUTURITY • RUIDOSO DOWNS, NEW MEXICO
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HES JUDGEANDJURY si 95, $174,400
Race record: 5-3-0-1(1) • Day 1, Trial #1, 1st • Hes Judgeandjury duels for the victory and is the best by a neck at the finish line for the third fastest qualifying time.
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PAIGE si 93, $23,550
Race record: 4-1-2-0 • Day 1, Trial #1, 2nd • Paige briefly held the lead in her trial but finished second by a neck as the fourth fastest qualifier.
Hes Judgeandjury is the richest money earner and is stakes placed com- ing into the All American Futurity. The sorrel gelding broke his maiden in his first out in the May 28 trials to the Ruidoso Futurity. He was the ninth fastest qualifier from two days of trials to the $1,000,000 Grade 1 event. In those, he hopped at the start and was out of the 4-gate in sixth. He steadily rallied and finished third. Next were the Rainbow Futurity trials in which he broke on top, was briefly headed, and won evenly by 3/4-lengths as the second overall qualifier from two days of trials. In the $1,000,000 Grade 1 finals, the gelding had a lackluster start and finished fifth.
Under rider Rodrigo Vallejo, Hes Judgeandjury entered the 5-hole for the All American Futurity trials. The gates popped
and he was out on top. He briefly relinquished his lead at the
first call but was back in the lead at the top of the stretch and he scored a neck victory as the third fastest qualifier. Hes Judgeandjury is bred and owned by Jeff D. Jones and Steve A. Holt in
Oklahoma. M. Heath Taylor has been his trainer in all
his starts and Rodrigo Vallejo has ridden the gelding in three of his starts.
Paige made her first start at Remington Park on April 9 in a 300-yard maiden race. She broke well and raced in second place throughout, finishing in second place by just a neck after dueling between foes. In her next start, the sorrel filly went wire-to-wire in her trial to the Heritage Place Futurity, winning the event pulling away
by 1 1/4-lengths. The effort was good enough to qualify her to the $100,000 Heritage Place Juvenile, in which she finished fourth after again being in tight quarters.
Her next start was in the All American Futurity trials. She broke third from the 1-gate and was in the lead at the first call. However, she was overtaken in the final strides and finished second by a neck. The filly was 3 1/2-lengths ahead of the third-place finisher. Paige was bred by Carol
S. Smith in Oklahoma, and the filly is owned by CNN Breeding (Carver Farms, Connie & Mike Nobles and Jeremy & Casey Newton). Paige has been trained by Clinton Crawford in all her races, and jockey Jorge Torres has ridden her in three of her four outs.
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