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RUIDOSO DOWNS
Zia QH Juvenile
Jess A Chicks
Chicks A Blazin
Jess Satin
Pops Lil Princess
Sixes Royal
Total Miracle
GEMOLOGIST
Jose Aguilar Mendoza’s Gemologist was a prompt 7-2 favorite in the August 7, $50,000 Zia Juvenile Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year- old Quarter Horses at Ruidoso Downs.
Ridden by Luis Martinez, Gemologist covered 400 yards in :19.776 while defeating 14-1 longshot JM Jazzlynn by a half of a length. Eloy Navarro saddled the bay son of Jess A Chicks, who earned a 91 speed index and his first stakes win.
Gemologist was bred by Mikkelson Racing LLC, and he was purchased by Mendoza as a yearling for $9,000 at last year’s New Mexico- Bred Sale. The gelding’s sire, Jess A Chicks, is a graded stakes winning son of Chicks A Blazin. Campaigned from 2009-10, Jess A Chicks banked $175,537 from eight races, and his four wins included the 2009 Zia Futurity (RG1).
Jess A Chicks has sired the earners of more than $3.7 million from eight crops, including multiple graded stakes winner
Jess Fire Chick and graded stakes winners Chickaloni and Hot Indy Chick. The stallion is owned by the partnership of Mooring, McClintic, and Abraham, and he stands
for a $3,000 fee at W.L. and Dee Mooring’s Double LL Farm at Bosque, New Mexico.
Gemologist is out of Pops Lil Princess, a homebred 8-year-old daughter of Sixes Royal. His second dam, Total Miracle is a winning and graded stakes placed Dean Miracle mare. Total Miracle produced two graded stakes winners, both of whom are half siblings to Pops Lil Princess: Princess Jesse, a multiple graded stakes winning Jesse James Jr mare, and Mr Innovator, the winner of last year’s Mountain Top Futurity (RG2) at Ruidoso Downs.
Gemologist traces back to his third dam, Reckless Coin, an unraced daughter of Reckless Dash who foaled multiple graded stakes winner Roll A Miracle and stakes winner Power Connection. The gelding has won three of six outs, and the $21,000 winner’s share of the purse from his first stakes score bumped his earnings to $47,789.
White Lightenin finished third and was followed by Mr Tres Effort, Wood Dee Queen, Jess Emotions, Jenavi, Dash Flash, Sissys Passion and Owens Wee Beastie completed the order of finish.
Runner-up JM Jazzlynn earned $9,000
for her owner, Ventura M Ranch LLC. The sorrel daughter of the Walk Thru stallion JM Specialwynn has won one of four races and has banked $17,800.
A sorrel son of the Mr Jess Perry stallion Eye Am King racing for Denis and Julie Schoenhofer, White Lightenin was a $32,000 yearling purchase at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale. The gelding has won one of four outs and has earned $25,400.
Road Runner Stakes (R)
The Way Home
Giant’s Causeway
Homewrecker
Final Attack
Hadif
On Final
MAJORWAYHOME
Sent to post at odds of 8-1 -- the longest odds in the field of four New Mexico-bred sophomores -- Majorwayhome rallied to win the August 7, 2022 $50,000 Road Runner Stakes (R) at Ruidoso Downs.
Majorwayhome covered 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:04.41 and his margin of victory was three- quarters of a length from Go Red Rascal. Francisco Amparan rode the homebred dark bay or brown son of The Way Home for owners Roger D. Holland and Melissa Holland and trainer Guadalupe Munoz Jr.
Majorwayhome was coming off of a 1 1/2-length win in a 5 1/2-furlong race for New Mexico-bred non-winners-of-two $7,500 claimers. The gelding is one of 61 winners from 88 starters sired by The Way Home, an unraced 18-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway.
A full brother to Grade 3 winner Giant Wrecker and a half-brother to three graded stakes winners, including Grade 1 winner Prenup, The Way Home has sired five stakes winners and the earners of more than $4.3 million from 10 crops, including stakes winners Way To Go Gerda, Western Way and E Bar Way.
The Way Home was sold and was moved to Lost Creek Ranch in Jonesboro, Arkansas, for the 2021 breeding season.
Majorwayhome is also one of five winners from seven starters produced by Final Attack,
a winning daughter of the Clever Trick stallion Hadif. His second dam, the winning Mr. Prospector mare On Final, foaled nine winners from 10 starters, including First Final, a full sister to Final Attack who won the 1999 Friendship Stakes (R) at Louisiana Downs and the stakes- placed runners On Radar and Radar Trap.
Majorwayhome traces back to his third dam, Girlie, a stakes-winning and multiple graded stakes placed daughter of the Sailor stallion Crewman. A 1979 Kentucky-bred foal, Girlie produced multiple stakes winner Trickey Crew and stakes winner Brick Crew, both half- brothers to On Final.
Majorwayhome has won three of 15 races, and the $30,500 winner’s share of the purse from his first stakes score increased his bankroll to $62,685.
Bye Bye Matty P, the 2-5 favorite, finished third, 2 3/4 lengths behind
Majorwayhome and was followed by Life Jacket.
Runner-up Go Red Rascal pocketed $11,000 to bring his earnings to $42,645 from seven races for owner Esteban Morales, who also bred the gelded son of the Dehere stallion Shooter.
Bye Bye Matty P was making his first start since January 9, when he won the 6-furlong, 100,000 Corralito Steak House Stakes (R) at Sunland Park. A gelded son of Attila’s Storm owned by B4 Farms LLC, Bye Bye Matty P has won three of six outs and has banked $130,175.
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