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by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Jake Rogerss
Remington Distance Championship (G1)
Heza Motor Scooter
Heza Fast Man
Hot Tin Lizzie
Rabbits N Diamonds
Rabbits Rainbow
Shines Likea Diamond
WASCALLYWITTLEWABBIT
Wascallywittlewabbit, a 6-year-old Heza Motor Scooter gelding trained by Mike Joiner for owner Rogers Farms, led at every call en route to a 1 1/4-length victory in the May 29, 870-yard Remington Park Distance Championship (G1).
Ridden by Benito Baca, Wascallywittlewabbit stopped the timer in :44.873 while posting a 99 speed index. The gelding earned the $38,238 win- ner’s share of a $65,120 purse.
Wascallywittlewabbit was coming off of a half- length win in the April 1, 870-yard Pauls Valley Stakes (G2) at Remington Park.
The gelding was bred in New Mexico by Mike Weatherly. His sire, the Heza Fast Man stallion Heza Motor Scooter, earned $259,682 from 26 starts in New Mexico and California from 2000- 2002, and his seven wins included the 2001 El Primero del Ano Derby (G2) at Los Alamitos.
Heza Motor Scooter has sired the earners of more than $5.1 million from 16 crops, including 2012 AQHA Champion Aged Horse Rylees Boy and 2012 Champion Distance Horse All About Larry. Heza Motor Scooter died in 2015.
Wascallywittlewabbit is out of Rabbits N
Diamonds, an unraced daughter of the Yawls Rabbit stallion Rabbits Rainbow. His second dam, the Coup de Kas (TB) mare Shines Likea Diamond, won the 1998 KHEY/Y96 Handicap at Sunland Park and was a finalist in the 1999 Sunland Park Winter (G3) and West Texas (G3) derbies.
Wascallywittlewabbit traces back to his fourth dam, the stakes-winning Jet Smooth mare She’s My Doll.
Wascallywittlewabbit’s two graded stakes wins at the 870-yard distance unanimously earned the gelding distance horse of the meet honors during the 2021 Remington Park spring meet. All told, Wascallywittlewabbit has won eight of 18 races
-- including four stakes at the 870-yard trip -- and he has banked $167,453.
Holy Storm finished second and was fol- lowed by Ms Esther, Viva Le Don, Madewell, Why Buy The Cow, Illtakeyouforaride, and Let There Be Sound.
Holy Storm is a Minnesota-bred son of Red Storm Cat owned by Daniel Kjorsvik. A home- bred 5-year-old gelding, Holy Storm has won
seven of 36 outs and has earned $137,954, and his record includes a second-place finish in last year’s Grade 3, 870-yard Covered Bridges Stakes at Prairie Meadows.
Ms Esther races for Jordan D. Baumann of Sallisaw, Oklahoma. A 7-year-old daughter of the Smoke Glacken (TB) stallion Afrashad (TB), the Oklahoma-bred mare has won 10 of 25 starts and has banked $231,952, and her four stakes wins include the 2019 AQHA Remington Park Distance Challenge (G3).
Raced in New Mexico and Texas, My Boanerges has won seven of 11 starts, and the $45,000 winner’s share of the Grand Prairie Turf Sprint Stakes purse from his fourth stakes score increased his total bankroll to $273,670.
Share The Upside ran third, 1 1/4 lengths behind My Boanerges, and was followed by Seven Scents and Quarky.
A $300,000 purchase at the 2018 Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Two-Year-Old Sale, runner-up Archidust is a five-year-old son of Verrazano campaigned by Crawford Farms Racing. The stallion has won 10 of 22 outs, including six stakes, and he has earned $484,340.
Share The Upside is a six-year-old of MacLean’s Music owned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings Inc. and Windsor Boys Racing LLC. The gelding has banked $483,907 from 26 races, and his nine wins include last year’s 6-furlong $125,000 King Cotton Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
Grand Prairie Turf Sprint Stakes
Diabolical
Artax
Bonnie Byerly
Rules Like A Girl
Roman Ruler
Winsome
MY BOANERGES
My Boanerges, a New Mexico-bred five- year-old son of Diabolical, led at every call to win the June 27, $75,000 Grand Prairie Turf Sprint Stakes at Lone Star Park.
Trained by Dallas Keen for owner Nancy L. Lock, My Boanerges broke second from the 2-gate and covered 5 furlongs on the turf in :55.68 after setting early fractions of :21.62 and :43.91.
Rodolfo Guerra rode the homebred chestnut gelding, whose margin of victory was three-quarters of a length from odds-on favorite Archidust.
My Boanerges was coming off of a 3/4-length win on a sloppy and sealed track in the 5-furlong $100,000 Chamberlain Bridge Stakes, a race that was taken off the turf on June 27.
The gelding is one of 126 winners from 152 starters sired by Diabolical, a multiple graded stakes winning son of the Marquetry stallion Artax.
Racing from 2005-2009, Diabolical won nine of 31 starts and banked $1,404,772,
and his five stakes victories included the 2007 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G2) at Saratoga.
Diabolical has sired 13 stakes winners and the earners of more than $9.3 million from nine crops, including multiple stakes winner Diabolical Dame.
Diabolical is owned by Fred Alexander and J. Kirk Robison, and he stands at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
My Boanerges’ dam, the unraced Roman Ruler mare Rules Like A Girl, has foaled three winners from as many starters.
His second dam, the War Chant mare Winsome, won the 2005 Cellars Shiraz Stakes on the turf at Gulfstream Park near Miami, Florida.
My Boanerges traces back to his third dam, Blushing Heiress, a daughter of the Blushing Groom (TB) stallion Blushing John who won the ‘97 Wilshire Handicap (G2)
on the turf at Hollywood Park and Palomar Handicap (G3) on the turf at Del Mar.
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