Page 100 - New Mexico Winter 2021

ZIA PARK
Story by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Coady Photography
Peppers Pride NM Cup F&M Champ. (R)
Marking
Bernardini
Seventh Street
Hennesey Smash
Roll Hennessy Roll
Some Smash
SLAMMED
Slammed continued her dominance of the state-bred distaff division, as the sophomore daugh- ter of Marking rolled to a 4 3/4-length victory in the October 31, 1-mile Peppers Pride New Mexico Cup Filly & Mare Championship (R) at Zia Park.
Sent to post as the 1-10 favorite in the field
of 10, Slammed covered her eight-furlong trip in 1:37.71. Tracy Hebert rode the bay filly for owners Fincher Racing LLC, Brad King, and Suzanne Kirby, and trainer Todd Fincher.
Slammed was stretching out in distance off of her 6 1/2-length win in the 6 1/2-furlong, $100,000 Petticoat Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 3-year- old fillies at Albuquerque Downs on September 11. The filly was bred by Brad King and Todd Fincher, and she is one of five stakes winners from 29 starters sired by Marking, a 9-year-old Kentucky-bred son of the A.P. Indy stallion Bernardini.
Racing from 2015-16, Marking earned $426,200 from eight outs, and his record included second-place finishes in Runhappy’s 2015 Malibu Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita, and the 2016 Belmont Sprint Championship (G3) at Belmont Park. The stallion has sired the earners of more than $1.1 million from two crops, including stakes winners Proofsinthepuddin and Mark’s Warrior.
Marking is owned by Fred Alexander and Todd Fincher, and he stands for a $3,500 fee
at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
Slammed is also one of four winners from as many starters produced by Hennesey Smash, a multiple stakes winning 12-year-old daughter of the Hennessy stallion Roll Hennessy Roll. The filly is a half-sister to Roll On Diabolical, a two-time stakes winning daughter of Diabolical.
Slammed’s second dam, the unraced Rare Brick mare Some Smash, foaled four other stakes winners, all of whom are half-siblings to Hennesey Smash, including 10-time stakes winner Star Smasher. The filly’s third dam, the Star de Nasrka mare A Smash, won two stakes at Albuquerque Downs and Sunland Park in 1985.
Slammed traces back to her fourth dam, Half Smash, a multiple stakes winning Binary mare and a half sister to Service Over and Smash It.
Slammed has won six of starts, and the $60,000 winner’s share of the purse from her fourth stakes victory boosted her earnings to $227,605, all of which has been pocketed this season. Her resume includes wins in the July 31, 5 1/2-furlong Sierra Starlet Stakes (R) at Ruidoso Downs, and August 22, 6 1/2-furlong Carlos Salazar Stakes (R) at Albuquerque Downs.
Our Time To Shine, a 42-1 longshot, ran second and was followed by Short Pockets, Movin
On, McWend, Autumn Touch, Dixie Jen, Passion Belle, Dancinstardustlady, and Shugs Charlie.
Our Time To Shine is a dark bay or brown daughter of the Distorted Humor stallion Laugh Track owned by Nancy Summers, Scott R. Bean and James D. Masek. A $7,000 yearling purchase at the 2019 New Mexico-Bred Sale, the filly has won two of seven races and has banked $54,071.
Short Pockets races for John Pinkerton,
who also bred the dark bay or brown 6-year-old Southwestern Heat mare. Short Pockets has won two of 20 outs and has earned $93,860, and he record includes a second-place run in last year’s Peppers Pride New Mexico Cup Filly & Mare Championship.
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