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Rainbow Juvenile
SHESA RELENTLESS GAL
by Michael Cusortelli
Shesa Relentless Gal, owned by MRB Racing LLC, broke her maiden in the $100,000 Rainbow Juvenile at Ruidoso Downs on July 25.
Ridden by Raul Herrera, Shesa Relentless Gal covered 400 yards in :19.689 on a sloppy and sealed track, and her margin of victory was a 1/2-length over Miss Beth Dutton. Manuel Rodolfo Rodriguez saddled the filly, who earned the $42,000 winner’s share of the purse.
Shesa Relentless Gal was coming off of a second-place finish, 3/4-lengths behind CC Hocks in a 400-yard Rainbow Futurity-G1 trial on July 9.
Campaigned in two states, Shesa Relentless Gal has won one of four starts and has earned $46,706.
The filly began her career with a second-place finish in a 330-yard Remington Park Futurity-RG1 trial on April 2.
Jack Rhoden Memorial
The filly was bred in Oklahoma by Flag Ranch LLC, and she was purchased by MRB Racing for $55,000 at last year’s Heritage Place Yearling Sale.
Shesa Relentless Gal is out of A Snowy Cartel, a 13-year-old daughter of Corona Cartel who won the 2010 Dash For Cash-G1 and Manor Downs-G1 futurities in Texas. The filly’s second dam, the winning This Snow Is Royal mare A
Snowy Fling, ran second in the 2004 AQR A Turf Paradise Open Derby-G3. Shesa Relentless Gal traces back to her third dam, Frisco Fling, an unplaced daughter of two-time World Champion Dash For Cash. A 1990 foal, Frisco Fling produced three stakes winners, all of whom were half siblings to A Snowy Fling, including 2002 Champion 3 Year Old
A Real Man and A Cartel Fling, the winner of the 2008
Oklahoma Horsemen’s Association Derby-RG3 at Fair Meadows at Tulsa.
Miss Beth Dutton (Kiss My Hocks-Time For Jess) banked the $18,000 runner-up share of the purse for her owners, Conda Maze and Judy Maze. The filly was ridden by Jorge Torres for trainer Clint Crawford.
Messynger (Corona Cartel-Shes Dashin First) finished third for owner Bobby D. Cox. Francisco Calderon rode the homebred filly for trainer Juan L. Vazquez.
Followed by KJ Brandy (Carters Cartel-Jess Wild), Apollitical J Legacy (Apollitical Jess-A Delightful Legacy), Tempting Dance (Tempting Dash-Watch Linda Ballet), Akurit (First
Down Dash-Celtic Emblem), The Big Favorite (Favorite Cartel-Classic Sassy Chic), El Painted Eagle (One Dashing Eagle-Royally Painted) & Hot Ivory Eyes (Ivory James-Eye Agree).
Gone in Oregon out of the Volcom mare Fergilicious, who won the 2014 Miss Quick Stakes for the breeders. Fergilicious has pro- duced two starters, both winners. The Corona Cartel stallion Coronado Cartel is the sire of Hold On Im Gone.
Damian Herrera owns and trains second- place Heza Southern Cartel (Carters Cartel-SS Southern Lady). Taylor Smith piloted the 5-year-old horse, an allowance winner at Grants Pass last year.
Okey Dokey Road (Okey Dokey Dale- Sissy Road), owned by Sig Aumueller and bred by Sig and Hilde Aumueller, finished third. Bryson Butterfly rode the 6-year-old gelding for trainer John Harris. Okey Dokey Road won the 2018 Portland Meadows Fall Derby.
Completing the field were L Bar D Genuine Red (Genuine Strawfly-Be First Rose), Maximo II (Concorde’s Appeal TB-Race To Riches), Warhock (Zoomin
For Bux-Copa Show Girl), Shesa Dashair (Dashair-Shesaspeedin Bullet), and High Flier (Foose-Jetsetter).
Ruidoso Downs
$100,000 • 400 yards :19.689 • si 95
One Famous Eagle
Hes Relentless
This Dreams Flying
SHESA RELENTLESS GAL, ‘19-f.
Corona Cartel
A Snowy Cartel
A Snowy Fling
RACING NEWS
HOLD ON IM GONE
by Tracy Gantz
The Crooked River Roundup began as a rodeo in 1945, with racing added in 1966. That year pre-printed betting tickets were sold through windows cut into the back of the grandstand. Sales had to be hand-counted by volunteers, and the tote board was actually a chalkboard used to calculate the odds.
The rodeo and the racing have come a long way since then. Although it didn’t make stakes, the biggest race of the 2021 Crooked River Roundup in Prineville
was the $11,400 Jack
Rhoden Memorial for 3 year
olds and up at a distance of
250 yards.
Hold On Im Gone, who began her racing career at Los Alamitos, captured the Jack Rhoden Memorial.
Eight lined up for the race, with multiple stakes- placed Warhock sent away as the 19-10 favorite. Hold On Im Gone, ridden by Jose
Figueroa, went off as the 6-1 fourth choice. When the gate opened, Hold On Im Gone
was out of the 6-hole in second place and immediately vied for the lead.
Battling throughout the contest, the bay filly stuck her nose out in front at the wire to win in :13.416 for a 95 speed index.
Roberto Herrera owns and trains Hold On Im Gone. The filly initially started five times at Los Alamitos when owned by Ruben
Magallanes, and she finished in second place three times and third once.
Hold On Im Gone broke her maiden at Grants Pass Downs in 2019 when making her first start at that track. She also finished fourth in the Baxter Andruss Oregon Bred Futurity. Herrera has campaigned Hold On Im Gone for the past two years.
Michael McKay and Pat Van Pelt bred Hold On Im
Crooked River Roundup
$11,400 • 250 yards :13.416 • si 95
Corona Cartel
Coronado Cartel
First Carolina
HOLD ON IM GONE, ‘17-f.
Volcom
Fergilicious
NJ Sonoma Rose
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