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All American Juvenile
EYE WORK FOR YOU
by Michael Cusortelli
Sent to post at odds of nearly 8-1 in a full field of 10, Jose E. Guzman’s Eye Work For You earned his second career stakes win in the $200,000, 440-yard All American Juvenile at Ruidoso Downs on Sept. 7.
Eye Work For You covered his quarter-mile trip in :21.613 while racing against a 9-mph head wind, and his margin of victory was a neck over 3-1 second choice Dulce Sin Tacha.
James Flores rode Eye Work For You, a gelded son of the Corona Cartel stallion Coronas Leaving You, for conditioner Jaime Hernandez.
According to Flores, Eye Work For You out- worked his nine rivals through a tight stretch- long battle.”That was a horse race,” said Flores, who has ridden Eye Work For You in all six of the gelding’s starts. “We were head-to-head all the way down through there.
”It was so close that a space never opened up, so I knew it would come down to the wire,” he added. “I knew we had won once we crossed the
Ruidoso Downs
$200,000 • 440 yards :21.613 • si 90
Corona Cartel si 97
Bred by: Robert Etchandy Raced to 3 • $557,142 14-6(3)-3-0
1,950 f., 181 SW • $63,822,583
Bred by: Jose Acosta
Raced to 2 $465,466 6-4(2)-0-1
Coronas Leaving You
si 103
Bred by: Andria Armer Raced to 3 • $278,358 13-9(2)-1(1)-0
608 f., 23 SW • $11,718,150
Lil Bit Rusty si 103
Bred by: Henry Shaw Raced to 5 • $ 215,394 47-15(6)-11(7)-5(5)
26 f., 4 SW • $1,959,333
Eye Love It
si 91
Bred by: Walter Merrick Raced to 4 • $15,063 8-2-1-2
8 f., 1 SW • $643,465
Mr Eye Opener si 106
Bred by: Joe Kirk Fulton Raced to 3 • $202,978 15-9(2)-1(1)-4(1)
2,027 f., 95 SW • $28,253,823
Sweetly Special si 101
Bred by: Merrick/Allen Joint Venture
Raced to 4 • $16,863 14-3-2-3
12 f., 0 SW • $105,879
Eye Work For You and jockey James Flores win the $200,000 All American Juvenile Right: Ernesto Guzman receives trophy for Jose Guzman
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EYE WORK FOR YOU, 18-g.