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RUIDOSO DOWNS
Mountain Top Juvenile (R)
Jess A Chicks
Chicks A Blazin
Jess Satin
The Blues Girl
Corona Cartel
Run The Dash
JESS EMOTIONS
increased her earnings to $51,317. The filly’s record includes a third-place finish, a neck behind winner Major Game, in the May 22, $245,505 New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG3) at SunRay Park.
Doing Something Good finished third, 1 1/2 lengths behind Jess Emotions, and was followed by JM Jazzlynn, Drinking Champagne, Ima Alertly, The Panther King, CQ Featured First, Flashy Babe and Sun Harvest.
Runner-up Nine Walks is a sorrel son
of Big Daddy Cartel owned by Jay Glover and Gary Stallings. A $30,000 yearling buy at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale, the gelding has won one of two races and has banked $12,600.
Doing Something Good was purchased by J & SM Inc. for $110,000 at last year’s Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale. The Big Daddy Cartel gelding has earned $15,075 from four outs, and he was a finalist in the April 3, $313,030 New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) at Sunland Park.
Gustavo Cadena Jr.’s Jess Emotions broke her maiden in the June 19, $50,000 Mountain Top Juvenile Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds.
Ridden by Sergio Dominguez and sent to post as the 5-2 favorite in the full field
of 10, Jess Emotions went 350 yards in :17.602 while defeating Nine Walks by one length. David Gomez-Barraza saddled the bay daughter of the Chicks A Blazin stallion Jess A Chicks.
Jess Emotions was bred by Mike Abraham and the filly was purchased as a yearling by Cadena for $10,500 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs. Her sire, Jess A Chicks, won four of eight starts and earned $175,537 while racing in New Mexico from 2009-10, and his four wins included the 2009 Zia Futurity (RG1).
Jess A Chicks has sired the earners of more than $3.6 million from eight crops, including multiple graded stakes winner Jess Fire Chick and graded stakes winner Chickaloni. A half-brother to multiple
graded stakes winner Jess A Satin Flash, the stallion is owned by the partnership of Mooring, McClintic and Abraham, and he stands for a $3,000 fee at Double LL Farm at Bosque, New Mexico.
Jess Emotions is out of The Blues Girl,
a stakes-winning daughter of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel. The filly is a half-sister to a pair of graded stakes placed runners, including 2018 Zia Futurity (RG1) runner-up Midnite Blu.
Jess Emotions’ second dam, the winning and Grade 1-placed Sixarun mare Run The Dash, was the 2007 AQHA broodmare
of the year. Run The Dash produced five stakes winners, including Blues Girl Too, a full sister to The Blues Girl and the sport’s world champion in 2007, and Blues Man Too, a half-brother to The Blues Girl and the winner of the 2010 Vessels Maturity (G1) at Los Alamitos.
Jess Emotions has won one of six races, and the $21,000 winner’s share of the Mountain Top Juvenile Stakes purse
70 New Mexico Horse Breeder
Bailey Ivey, Ruidoso Downs