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THE DOWNS AT ALBUQUERQUE
The First Moonflash QH Stakes (RG2)
by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Coady Photography
First Moonflash
First To Flash
Nagano Moon
Jess Satin
Mr Jess Perry
Send Me First
JESS A SATIN FLASH
Jess A Satin Flash, an eight-year-old son of First Moonflash campaigned by Bertha
S. Irigoyen, successfully defended his title in the September 5 First Moonflash Maturity (RG2) for New Mexico-bred Quarter Horses at Albuquerque Downs.
Trained by Rene Saucedo, Jess A Satin Flash went 440 yards in :21.362 while earning a 96 speed index and the $45,000 winner’s share of a $75,000 purse. Alejandro Medellin rode the sorrel gelding.
Jess A Satin Flash was bred by Mike Abraham. The gelding’s sire, the late First To Flash stallion First Moonflash, was the AQHA Champion Aged Stallion in 2009. Racing from 2007-2009, First Moonflash banked $969,828 from 25 outs, and his 10 graded stakes wins included the 2008 and 2009 Championship at Sunland Park (G1).
From nine crops, First Moonflash has sired the earners of more than $21.6 million, including AQHA Champions Flash And Roll, Handsome Jack Flash, and Foxy Moonflash, and 2021 Zia Futurity (RG1) winner Flashin Fire. The stallion died in May 2019 due to complications from laminitis.
Jess A Satin Flash is out of Jess Satin, a winning daughter of 1994 Champion Two- Year-Old Colt Mr Jess Perry who ran third in the 2004 Ruidoso Juvenile Invitational Stakes (RG3) and was a finalist in World Champion DM Shicago’s All American Futurity (G1). The gelding’s second dam, the First Down Dash mare Send Me First, won the 1996 Arizona QRA Turf Paradise Futurity (G3).
Jess A Satin Flash traces back to his third dam, Send Me Satin, who was a winning and graded stakes placed daughter of the Noholme II (TB) stallion The Signature.
Raced exclusively in New Mexico, the gelding has won 11 of 44 starts, and his three career stakes victories include last years’ First Moonflash Maturity and Zia Handicap (RG2).
Jess A Satin Flash has earned $296,052, of which $110,760 was pocketed from seven races last season.
A Flashin Blu finished second, three- quarters of a length behind Jess A Satin Flash. Outta Debt, Freedom Flash, Effortless Candy Cat, and J R Bordeaux completed the order of finish.
A Flashin Blu is a four-year-old First Moonflash filly racing for Felipe Flores Sr. An $8,000 yearling purchase at the 2018 New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs, A Flashin Blu has won two of nine outs and has earned $63,092.
Outta Debt races for Mario Dominguez. A four-year-old daughter of First Moonflash who sold as a yearling for $21,000 at the 2018 New Mexico-Bred Sale, the filly has won two of 16 starts and has pocketed $53,664, and she was a finalist in the 2019 New Mexico State Fair Futurity (RG3) at Albuquerque Downs.
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