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Eye Work For You’s connections include owner Jose Guzman, trainer Jaime Hernandez and jockey James Flores
finish line, but one more jump and things might have been different.”
The All American Juvenile was restricted
to 2 year olds who competed in one of 32 All American Futurity-G1 trials at Ruidoso Downs on Aug. 21-22, and Eye Work For You ran third, a neck behind winner A Dangerous Flash, in the 10th of 16 heats on Aug. 21.
Raced in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Eye Work For You has won four of six starts, and the $84,000 winner’s share of the $200,000 All American Juvenile purse increased his earnings to $465,466.
At Remington Park during that track’s spring meet, Eye Work For You won his first three career starts, and his resume there included a nose victory as the second-fastest overall qualifier in the 330-yard $891,900 Remington Park Futurity-RG1 for Oklahoma- bred 2 year olds.
The gelding also ran fifth as the 7-10 favor- ite, 1 1/2-lengths behind winner Facing The Fire, in the 350-yard $45,000 Easy Jet Stakes for Oklahoma-breds on May 30.
The gelding was bred in Oklahoma by Jose Acosta, and he is out of Eye Love It, a winning daughter of the Dash For Cash stallion Mr Eye Opener bred and raced by American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Walter Merrick.
Eye Love It has produced seven winners from eight starters, including Gabanelli, a winning half-sister to Eye Work For You who ran third
in the 2016 Grants Pass Firecracker Futurity in Oregon, and Copper Oaks, a winning half-sister to Eye Work For You who was a finalist in the 2014 Remington Park Derby-RG3.
Eye Work For You’s second dam, Sweetly Special, was a homebred winning daughter of 1981 World Champion Special Effort. A 1992 foal, Sweetly Special foaled 11 starters, including Royalty First, a half- brother to Eye Love It, who was a finalist in the 2002 Manor Downs Futurity-G2, and Sweetly Royal, a half-sister to Eye Love It, who was a finalist in the ‘03 Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity-G3 at Canterbury Park.
Eye Work For You traces back to his third dam, Sweet Illusion, a homebred Easy Jet mare who won two stakes in Oklahoma from 1987-88.
Runner-up Dulce Sin Tacha (Jess Good Candy-Prissy Sin Tacha) banked the $36,000 runner-up share of the purse for owners Bob and Jerry Gaston. Heath Taylor prepped and Rodrigo Vallejo rode the homebred sorrel colt, who has won three of his four races and was coming off of a 1 1/4-length victory in the sixth All American Futurity trial on Aug. 21.
Relentless Rose (Hes Relentless-First Caroline Rose) ran third, 1 1/4-lengths behind Eye Work For You, for owner Garlyn O. Shelton. Benito Baca rode the brown Oklahoma-bred filly for trainer John Stinebaugh.
Candy Blood (Apollitical Blood-Ranch Candy) finished fourth and was followed by Apollitical Redflash (Apollitical Jess-Chalala), Separate Sentence (Seperate Interest-Remember The Cartel), A Dangerous Flash (First Moonflash-Flame N Flash), 5-2 favorite Seven (Kiss My Hocks-Higher Fling), Misscandymountain (Jess Good Candy- Eyesa Little Cuervo) and Mane Street (Favorite Cartel-Enjoy The Walk).