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Mountain Top Juvenile (R)
by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Jake Rogerss
Jesse James JR
Mr Jess Perry
Loose Lips
Ofashionsoutherngirl
Southern Corona
Cowgirl Cadilac
BAD KOMPANY
Bad Kompany, a homebred son of Jesse James Jr owned and trained by Fred Danley, broke his maiden with a neck victory in the $50,000 Mountain Top Juvenile Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs on June 26.
Under jockey Jose Enrique Ortiz, Bad Kompany went 350 yards in :17.820. The sor- rel gelding banked $21,483 from his first win in two starts.
Bad Kompany was sent to post at 9-1 odds in the field of nine competitors and returned a $20.40 win mutuel. The gelding broke third from the 7-gate and quickly took the lead. Bad Kompany had a head margin by the first call and held on to win by a neck.
The gelding’s sire, the Mr Jess Perry stal- lion Jesse James Jr, earned $167,275 from 21 races in New Mexico and California from 2003-2006, and his five wins included the 2005 First Down Dash Handicap at Los Alamitos Race Course.
Jesse James Jr has sired the earners of more than $19.9 million from 11 crops, includ-
ing 2015 AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Filly Astica and multiple graded stakes winners Major Bites and Osbaldo. The stallion died from laminitis in August 2018.
Bad Kompany is out of Ofashionsoutherngirl, a homebred 11-year- old daughter of the Corona Cartel stallion Southern Corona who won two graded stakes in New Mexico from 2013-14, including the 2013 New Mexico State Fair Derby (RG3) at Albuquerque Downs.
The gelding’s second dam, the homebred Celadon mare Cowgirl Cadilac, won three graded futurities in 1998, including the Zia Futurity (RG2).
Bad Kompany made his debut with a third-place finish in the sixth of 11 Mountain Top Futurity (RG2) trials on June 4.
All told, the gelding has earned $22,083 with the addition of the $21,483 winners’s share of the Mountain Top Juvenile purse.
Daddys Mony finished in second place and was followed by Ms Flashin Ivory, Josiahs Bay, JM Money Maker, Wine Dont Lie, 3-1 favorite Daddys Last Straw, Daddies Wish, and Wish Bigg.
A sorrel Big Daddy Cartel filly and a $34,500 yearling purchase at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale, Daddys Mony banked $9,207 for owners Julie A. Schoenhofer and Maricela Vasquez. Daddys Mony is a half- sister to 2019 New Mexican Spring Futurity
(RG2) winner Honky Tonk Daddy, and she has earned $9,807 from two outs. Daddys Mony made her career debut with a third- place finish in the ninth Mountain Top Futurity trial.
Ms Flashin Ivory made her debut with a fifth-place run in the sixth Mountain Top Futurity trial. The filly races for La Feliz Montana Ranch LLC, which purchased the brown daughter of Champion First Moonflash for $38,000 at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale. A full sister to 2019 Mountain Top Futurity (RG2) third-place finisher Dark Moon, Ms Flashin Ivory has banked $5,295 from two starts.
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