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RUIDOSO DOWNS
Zia QH Derby (RG3)
Chicks Regard
Chicks Beduino
First Regard
Riverside Flash
First Moonflash
Riverside Eye Opener
RIVER FLASH
11 starts -- including four of five at Ruidoso -- and he has banked $259,185, of which $224,465 has been pocketed from eight races this season.
Mitey Keymeera finished third, 2
1/2 lengths behind River Flash, and was followed officially by Cowboy Zulu, Z Ya, Flashin Fire, Jess Ring The Bell, EBW Pistol Pete and Flashin The Ivory. Ninth- fastest qualifier Jaunt was listed by the Equibase chart as a trainer scratch.
Runner-up Classy Moon is a bay son
of 2009 AQHA champion aged stallion First Moonflash racing for Bob and Sissie McClure. The runner-up in last year’s 440-yard, $100,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship Stakes (G2) at Zia Park, the gelding has won three of 13 starts, and the $31,974 second-place share of the Zia Derby purse boosted his earnings to $93,744, of which $64,509 has been banked from seven outs this season.
Mitey Keymeera races for Charles and Dixie Patterson. A daughter of 2016 AQHA champion 2-year-old colt A Revenant, the filly has won three of 10 outs, and the $17,763 third-place share of the Zia Derby purse pushed her bankroll to $73,372.
River Flash, a gray son of Chicks Regard owned by Robert M. Driggers and Ben
Lee Ivey, extended his win streak to five with a wire-to-wire victory in the August
6, $173,634 Zia Quarter Horse Derby (RG2) for New Mexico-bred 3-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs.
Ridden by Adrian Ramos for trainer
Wes Giles and aided by a reported 12-mph tail wind, River flash covered 400 yards in :19.403, and his winning margin was 1 3/4 lengths from Classy Moon. The gelding earned a 102 speed index while banking the $74,605 winner’s share of the purse from his second lifetime graded stakes score.
River Flash was sent to post as the
3-5 favorite in the field of nine. The
fastest qualifier, he was coming off of a 1 3/4-length win in the first of five Zia Derby trials on July 16. River Flash was bred by Ivey Cattle Co. His sire, Chicks Regard, is
a stakes-winning son of the Beduino (TB) stallion Chicks Beduino.
Racing in New Mexico and California from 2001-03, Chicks Regard banked $52,783 from 13 starts, and his six wins included a three-quarter length victory in the 2003 Head Pin Handicap at the Sonoma
County Fair in Santa Rosa, California,
in his final career out. From 15 crops,
the stallion has sired the earners of more than $8.2 million, including graded stakes winners Regard With Respect, You N How Many More and A Streak Regard.
Chicks Regard is owned by K. Humberto Lopez Gaxiola, and he stands for a $2,800 fee at Robert and Del Rae Driggers’ Bar Y Equine in Berino, New Mexico.
River Flash is out of Riverside Flash, a homebred winning daughter of 2009 AQHA champion aged stallion First Moonflash
and a finalist in the 2017 Zia (RG1), New Mexico Cup (RG2) and New Mexico State Fair (R) futurities. The gelding’s second dam, the homebred winning Mr Eye Opener mare Riverside Eye Opener, ran second in Regal Fly’s 2004 La Mariposa Handicap (G3) at Albuquerque Downs.
River Flash’s win streak began with a three-quarter length victory at odds of 13-1 in the 400-yard, $100,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes (RG3) at SunRay Park
on April 24, and it includes a 1 1/2-length score in the 350-yard, $163,000 Mountain Top Derby (R) at Ruidoso Downs on June 18. All told, the gelding has won seven of
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Bailey Ivey, Ruidoso Downs