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THE DOWNS AT ALBUQUERQUE
New Mexico State Fair Sophomore S. (R)
Photos by Coady Photography
Eye Am King
Mr Jess Perry
Eye For Corona
Start Somethin Bad
Pappasito
Letsgetitstarted
DOIN SOMETHING RIGHT
Doin Something Right, a son of Eye Am King campaigned by Empire Racing and Pavon Racing LLC, scored his first stakes victory in the October 15, $60,000 New Mexico State Fair Sophomore Stakes (R) for state-bred 3-year-olds at Albuquerque Downs.
Trained by Marco Flores, Doin Something Right covered 400 yards in :19.514, and his winning margin was a head from Flashtoglory. Sergio Becerra Jr. rode the gelding, who earned the $34,800 winner’s share of the purse.
Doin Something Right was bred by Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico, and he was purchased as
a yearling for $37,000 at the 2021 New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs. The gelding’s sire, Eye Am King, is an 8-year- old son of 1994 AQHA champion 2-year- old Mr Jess Perry and the Grade 1-winning Corona Cartel mare Eye For Corona.
From two crops, Eye Am King has sired the earners of more than $3.6 million, including graded stakes winners Bella De Ball and Vintage Bourdeaux. The stallion is owned by and stands at MJ Farms.
Doin Something Right is out of Start Somethin Bad, a 9-year-old Pappasito mare who won the 2017 La Primera del Ano Derby (G3) at Los Alamitos, and he is a half-brother to graded stakes winner and 2022 All American Futurity (G1) finalist Doing Something Good, and stakes winner Wood Be Bad. The gelding’s second dam, Letsgetitstarted, is a daughter of the Tolltac stallion Splash Bac.
Doin Something Right’s third dam, Shirleys Signature, was an unplaced daughter of The Signature who produced stakes winner Just Wanna Be Me, a half- sister to Letsgetitstarted and the dam of stakes winner Tortuga Tony.
Raced exclusively in New Mexico, Doin Something Right has won five of 16 starts and he has earned $121,399. During his 2-year-old season, the gelding was a finalist in the New Mexican Spring Futurity
(RG2) at Sunland Park, and he ran third in the New Mexico State Fair Juvenile Stakes (R) at Albuquerque Downs.
Eye A Allstar ran third, a neck behind Doin Something Right. Deans Daddy, Doing Something Good, Dontmesswiththelady,
Jesses Wish, Flash Divine and Firenze completed the order of finish.
Flashtoglory is a homebred daughter
of champion First Moonflash owned
by David Meridyth. The black filly has won three of 14 races, and the $12,000 runner-up share of the New Mexico State Fair Sophomore Stakes purse increased her bankroll to $126,111.
Eye A Allstar races for Haskell E. and Jacque M. Rich. A $32,000 yearling purchase at the 2021 New Mexico-Bred Sale, the Eye Am King gelding has won two of 14 outs and has earned $54,348.
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