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New Mexico Classic Cup Derby (G2)
A 25-1 longshot, seventh-fastest qualifier Girl With A Plan scored a half-length victory in the Nov. 9 New Mexico Cup Derby (RG2) for state-bred Quarter Horses at Zia Park.
Girl With A Plan went 400 yards in :19.790 under jockey Jaime Parga Leos. Jaime Aldavaz Sr. trained the sorrel daughter of Big Daddy Cartel for owner Pedro Zubiate.
Girl With a Plan was bred by Bauer Farm LLC. Her sire, 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.
A half-brother to stakes winner Racy La Jolla, Big Daddy Cartel has sired the earners of more than $9.1 million from 5 crops, including mul- tiple stakes graded stakes winner and 2017 All American Futurity (G1) runner-up Big Daddy, and multiple graded stakes winners Donelli, Cat Daddys Lil Girl, and Mamacita Cartel.
Girl With a Plan’s dam, Thirty Fourth Street, is a homebred winning daughter of 1996 AQHA champion aged stallion Dean Miracle. Her second dam, the winning Dash Ta Fame mare Dash for Davis, was a finalist in the 1996 Sunland Park Fall Futurity (G2).
Girl With a Plan’s third dam, the winning Scout Leader (TB) mare Scouts
Melody, ran second in the ‘88 Shue Fly Stakes (R) at Sunland Park. The filly traces back to her fourth dam, Melody’s Boone, a winning daughter of the Rebel Cause stal- lion Johnny Boone who finished third in the 1975 New Mexico State Fair Futurity at Albuquerque.
Raced exclusively in New Mexico,
Girl With a Plan has won four of 12 starts, including a 350-yard, and the $121,390 winner’s share of the $247,735 New Mexico Cup Derby purse increased her earnings
to $156,222, of which $149,630 has been banked from seven outs this season.
The filly was a finalist in last year’s New Mexico State Fair Futurity (RG3) at Albuquerque Downs.
Girl With A Plan returned a $52.60 win mutuel. Amandas Flashy finished second and was followed officially by fastest qualifier Colby James, Perrys Regard, Donelli, Big Big Love, Anakena, Close to Crazy, Javys Brown Sugar, and First Flashin.
Amandas Flashy, the fifth-fastest quali- fier, is a homebred daughter of Champion Aged Stallion First Moonflash, and the sorrel filly has banked $89,923 for owners Bob and Sissie McClure. Amandas Flashy
has won four of 12 starts, including two of seven this season, and she was a finalist in last year’s New Mexico Cup Futurity (RG2) at Zia Park.
Colby James crossed the wire
3/4-length behind Girl With A Plan and pocketed the $24,773 third-place share of the New Mexico Cup Derby purse for owner Rex Wells. A $15,000 yearling purchase by Wells at the 2018 New Mexico-Bred Sale
at Ruidoso Downs, the sorrel Jesse James Jr gelding has earned $364,787 from 11 races, and his five wins include last year’s $404,357 Mountain Top Futurity (RG2)
at Ruidoso.
Story by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Coady Photography
ZIA PARK
Big Daddy Cartel
Corona Cartel
Miss Racy Eyes
Thirty Fourth Street
Dean Miracle
Dash For Davis
GIRL WITH A PLAN
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