Page 10 - New Mexico Summer 2021

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dear Members:
Please mark your calendars to attend the Zia Festival at Ruidoso Downs on July 31st & August 1st! It will be a great weekend to showcase our New Mexico Breds. We will start everything off with our Town Hall Meeting at the Horse Sale Pavilion at 10:00 a.m. This will be a good time to discuss important topics with our Trustees. That evening there will be a dinner in the Turf Club after the races with the award ceremony
for our 2020 Champions. An invitation with all the details will be sent out to our mem- bers along with nominators, qualifiers, and our legislators. We will also have a booth set up at the grandstand, so be sure to stop by to say hello. Good luck to all the participants in the Zia Festival Stakes!
We are very excited about the New Mexico State Fair Quarter Horse Futurity. This race will be estimated at $1 million starting in 2023. The Downs At Albuquerque and the New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association plan to add $250,000 each for a total of $500,000 added! Be aware that the first payment will be due their weanling year on November 1. Both the 2022 and 2023 Nomination Blank that was just approved by the New Mexico Racing Commission is on one form so you will be nominating foals of 2020 for the 2022 Futu- rity and foals of 2021 for the 2023 Futurity on this same form. There are also two high dollar races for Thoroughbreds in the planning stages at Sunland Park.
The Board of Trustees voted to lower the late fee for our Export Broodmare program to $1,000 instead of $2,000 and there will
now be a ten-day grace period to get your forms into the office before a late fee will be charged. The due date is October 1 to submit the form to take your pregnant broodmare out of state to board and there is a $500 fee. After October 10, the fee is $1,000. Don’t forget! The broodmare must come back to New Mexico to foal and there is a Return Form that is required also. If you have any questions, please call our office. We will be happy to mail you the forms or you can find them on our website at www.nmhorsebreeders.com.
Welcome to our new Registrar Alicia Davenport! I think she will be a great addition to our team here at the breeders’ office and
I hope you all have a chance to meet her this Summer at some of our events.
Hope to see you at the races! Sincerely,
Mary M. Barber
Executive Director NMHBA
EVENTS & DEADLINES:
Dates & Locations are subject to change.
For more information, contact NMHBA at (505) 262-0224 or www.nmhorsebreeders.com.
July 22, 2021 ...........................New Mexico Racing Commission Meeting, 9:00 a.m. in the
Conference Room, 4900 Alameda Blvd – Albuquerque, Contact (505) 222-0700
July 31, 2021............................10:00 a.m. Town Hall Discussion, Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion,
Contact (505) 262-0224
July 31, 2021............................Zia Festival Jamboree Dinner And Awards Ceremony, RSVP
(505) 262-0224
July 31 & August 1, 2021 ........Zia Festival, Ruidoso Downs Racetrack, Contact (575) 378-4431
August 6, 2021 ........................Stall Applications due at Zia Park, Contact (575) 492-7000
August 14 –
September 19, 2021 .................Downs At Albuquerque / NM State
Fair, Running Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Plus Additional Days in September are 9/9, 9/13, 9/14, & 9/16, AQHA Challenge 10/23/21, Contact (505) 266-5555
August 19, 2021.......................New Mexico Racing Commission Meeting, 9:00 a.m. in the Conference
Room, 4900 Alameda Blvd – Albuquerque, Contact (505) 222-0700
August 20 & 21, 2021 .............NM Bred Thoroughbred & Quarter Horse Yearling Sale, Ruidoso Downs
Sales Pavilion, Contact (505) 262-0224
September 1, 2021 ...................New Broodmares in foal Registration Deadline (NM Bred foals do not
automatically go into the Broodmare & Stallion Registries), Contact (505) 262-0224
September 3, 4, & 5, 2021.......Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale, Ruidoso Downs Sales Pavilion,
Contact (575) 378-4474
September 9, 2021 ...................New Mexico Racing Commission Meeting, 9:00 a.m. in the Conference
Room, 4900 Alameda Blvd, Albuquerque, Contact (505) 222-0700
September 26 –
December 14, 2021..................Zia Park Racetrack, Racing Sunday,
Monday & Tuesday, Contact (575) 492-7000
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