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LONE STAR PARK & RUIDOSO DOWNS
Chamberlain Bridge Stakes
by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Jake Rogerss
Diabolical
Artax
Bonnie Byerly
Rules Like A Girl
Roman Ruler
Winsome
MY BOANERGES
scheduled to be run on the Lone Star Park turf course, but the stakes was taken off the turf and contested on the sloppy main track.
Texas Wedge finished third to complete a $1 trifecta dividend of $63.80.
Seven Scents ran fourth and was followed by Chaos Theory, Tempt Fate, and Shangroyal.
Share The Upside is a 6-year-old son of the Distorted Humor stallion Maclean’s Music owned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings Inc. and Windsor Boys Racing LLC. The Kentucky-bred gelding has banked $483,907 from 26 outs in seven states, and his nine wins include a victory in last year’s King Cotton Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Texas Wedge races for Altamira Racing Stable, Rafter JR Ranch LLC, STD Racing Stable, and Andrew Miller. A Kentucky-bred son of the Tiznow stallion Colonel John and a $30,000 purchase at the 2017 Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Two-Year-Old Sale in Florida, the 6-year-old gelding has won six of 23 races including Joe Hernandez Stakes (G2) on the turf at Santa Anita Park and he has earned $482,615.
Runner-up Amandas Flashy has won five of 16 outs and has earned $107,065 for owners Bob and Sissie McClure, who also bred the 4-year-old First Moonflash mare. Amandas Flashy ended her 3-year-old season with a second-place finish in the November 9, 400- yard New Mexico Cup Derby (RG2).
Tina Katarina races for Edilberto Estrada, who purchased the 3-year-old First Moonflash filly for $5,000 at the 2019 New Mexico-Bred Sale. Tina Katarina has won two of five starts and has banked $24,020.
My Boanerges, a 5-year-old son of Diabolical campaigned by Nancy L. Lock, earned his first stakes win outside New Mexico in the May 31, $100,000 Chamberlain Bridge Stakes at Lone Star Park near Dallas, Texas.
Ridden by Rodolfo Guerra, My Boanerges covered 5 furlongs on a sloppy and sealed track in :57.34, and his margin of victory was 3/4-ength from 2-1 favorite Share The Upside.
My Boanerges broke on top from the 7-gate, briefly dropped to second and then took the lead at the top of the stetch before crossing the finish line on top for the victory.
Dallas Keen trained the homebred chestnut gelding, who banked $60,000 from his third career stakes score.
My Boanerges was bred in New Mexico, and he was coming off of a second-place finish in a 5-furlong, $39,000 open-condition allowance dash on the turf at Lone Star Park on May 7.
The gelding is one of 13 official black-type stakes winners sired by Diabolical, an 18-year-old son of the Marquetry stallion Artax. Racing on three continents between 2005-2009, Diabolical
won nine of 31 starts and earned $1,404,772, and his five stakes victories included the 2007 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G2) at Saratoga and Maryland Breeders’ Cup Sprint Handicap (G3) at Pimlico.
Diabolical has sired the earners of more than $9.3 million from nine crops, including multiple stakes winners Diabolical Dame, Fast Gator, and Liberty Lover. A half-brother to Grade 3 winner What A Name (IRE), the stallion is owned by Fred A. Alexander and J. Kirk Robison, and
he stands for a $3,500 fee at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Ranch.
My Boanerges is one of three winners from as many starters produced by Rules Like A Girl, an unraced daughter of the Fusaichi Pegasus stallion Roman Ruler. His second dam, the War Chant mare Winsome, won the 2005 Cellars Shiraz Stakes at Gulfstream Park near Miami, Florida.
My Boanerges has won six of 10 races, includ- ing the 2019 Road Runner Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs and Dine Stakes (R) at SunRay Park. He has earned a total of $228,670.
The Chamberlain Bridge was originally
Rita Danley Distaff Stakes (R)
First Moonflash
First To Flash
Nagano Moon
Cuz Shez Famous
One Famous Eagle
Cuz Shez Crazy
DIAMOND AND A HALF
Antonio Gomez’s Diamond And A Half was successful in her return to New Mexico, as the 5-year-old daughter of Champion First Moonflash scored a wire-to-wire victory in the June 26, $25,000 Rita Danley Distaff Stakes (R) for state-bred fillies and mares at Ruidoso Downs.
Ridden by Raul Ramirez Jr. for trainer Jorge Luis Hernandez and aided by a reported 11-mph tail wind, Diamond And A Half defeated Amandas Flashy by a neck while going 350 yards in :17.285. The brown mare earned a 103 speed index and the $15,000 winner’s share of the purse.
Diamond And A Half was bred by Mark and Annette McCloy. The mare’s sire, the First To Flash stallion First Moonflash, was the AQHA Champion Aged Stallion in 2009. Racing from 2007-2009, First Moonflash won 14 of 25 starts -- including 10 graded stakes
-- and he earned $969,828.
First Moonflash has sired the earners of more than $21.1 million from nine crops, including AQHA Champions Flash And Roll, Handsome Jack Flash, and Foxy Moonflash,
and he was the number-two ranked stallion in progeny earnings in 2018. A half-brother to four stakes winners, the stallion died after a battle with laminitis in May 2019.
Diamond And A Half is out of Cuz Shez Famous, a winning daughter of 2008 AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Colt One Famous Eagle. The mare traces back to her fourth dam, Etta Chick, a stakes-winning daughter of the Deep Sun (TB) stallion Ettabo who ran second in the 1978 El Primero del Ano Derby at Los Alamitos.
Diamond And A Half was coming off of a Remington Park spring campaign during which she ran third in the March 20, 350- yard Decketta Stakes (G2). All told, the mare has won seven of 21 starts -- including three stakes -- and she has banked $163,099. She ended her 4-year-old season with a victory in the December 7, 400-yard New Mexico Filly and Mare Championship (RG3) at Zia Park.
Tina Katarina ran third and was followed by Famous Julia, Fireball Flash, Jess To Reel, Kellys First Moon, Daddies Lil Darlin, Girl With A Plan, and Knockout Chick.
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