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RUIDOSO DOWNS
Zia QH Futurity (RG1)
Big Daddy Cartel
Corona Cartel
Miss Racy Eyes
KJ Kiss Me Goodbye
First Moonflash
Tres Veses
KJ DADDYS MONEY
Doing Something Good crossed the wire second but was disqualified and placed third after a stewards’ inquiry. Pick Your Pour was placed second and was followed officially
by Doing Something Good, Codex, fastest qualifier Reef Ridge, Elisas Esperance, Demi Leigh, Verstappen and Jess A Response. Seventh-fastest qualifier Fine Am Eye was listed by the Equibase chart as a gate scratch.
Runner-up Pick Your Pour is a sorrel Jesse James Jr gelding owned by Orlando Granillo, Azucena Mendoza and Rene Mendoza. A $25,000 purchase at last year’s Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale, Pick Your Pour has banked $223,974 from four starts, and his three wins include a two-length victory in the Mountain Top Futurity.
Doing Something Good was purchased by owner J & SM Inc. of Fort Stockton, Texas, for $110,000 at last year’s Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale. The bay son of Big Daddy Cartel and 2017 La Primera del Ano Derby (G3) winner Start Somethin Bad has won two of six races and has earned $57,501, and the gelding was a finalist in the April
3, $313,000 New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG2) at Sunland Park.
A sharp break from her rail post helped KJ Daddys Money score a wire-to-wire, three- quarter length win in the August 7, 400-yard Zia Futurity (RG1) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs.
Prepped by Wes Giles for owners John Lee, Kathy Lee and Ruben Mares, KJ Daddys Money earned a 93 speed index while tripping the electronic timer in :19.724. Cordarelton Benn rode the bay daughter of Big Daddy Cartel.
“She put the pedal to the metal,” said Benn, referring to KJ Daddys Money’s performance. “She was a little edgy in the gates, but when they opened she was focused and had plenty of speed to get the job done.”
KJ Daddys Money was bred by John
Lee and Kathy Lee. The filly’s sire, Big Daddy Cartel, is a 13-year-old son of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel. Racing exclusively at Ruidoso Downs in 2011, Big Daddy Cartel banked $121,800 from five outs, and he was a finalist in the Grade 1 All American and Rainbow futurities.
Big Daddy Cartel has sired the earners of more than $14.5 million from seven crops, including multiple graded stakes winners
Bigg Daddy, 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 $5,500 fee at Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico.
KJ Daddys Money is out of KJ Kiss Me Goodbye, an unplaced 6-year-old daughter of 2009 AQHA champion aged stallion First Moonflash. The filly’s third dam, Runaway Kate, a Runaway Winner mare who won
the 1995 AQHA Texas Juvenile Challenge Stakes at Manor Downs.
The sixth-fastest qualifier, KJ Daddys Money was coming off of a second-place finish, a head behind fifth-fastest qualifier Elisas Esperance, in one of a dozen Zia Futurity trials on July 15. The filly has won two of six races, and the $163,070 winner’s share of the $379,527 purse increased his bankroll to $185,642. Her record includes a third-place finish, one length behind winner Cartel Racer, in the April 3, $50,000 New Mexican Spring Futurity (R) at Sunland Park. She also was a finalist in the June 19, $342,000 Mountain Top Futurity (RG2) at Ruidoso Downs.
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Bailey Ivey, Ruidoso Downs