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SUNLAND PARK
NMHBA Stakes (RG2)
Photos by Coady Photography
Woodbridge
Dash Ta Fame
Champagne Lane
Indi Storm
Jesse James Jr
Brickyard Lane
WOODYS STORM
Kenia Pinela Marioni’s Woodys Storm outran her 13-1 odds to win the April 1, 400- yard New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association Stakes (RG2) for state-bred 3-year-old Quarter Horses at Sunland Park.
Ridden by Luis Martinez, Woodys Storm recorded a 99 speed index while defeating 11-10 favorite KJ Daddys Money by a neck in :19.547. Jorge Sanchez Jr. prepped the sorrel daughter of Woodbridge, who banked the $60,000 winner’s share of a $100,000 purse.
Woodys Storm was bred by Meluking Ranch LLC. The filly’s sire, Woodbridge, is an unraced 24-year-old son of the First Down Dash stallion Dash Ta Fame and the multiple graded stakes winning Lanes Leinster mare Champagne
Lane. A half-brother to 2009 AQHA champion sophomore filly Alice K White, Woodbridge has from 14 crops sired the earners of more than $5.1 million, including multiple graded stakes winner and 2019 All American Futurity (G1) runner-up Mister Riptide, and multiple graded stakes winners Woodys Gold and Carson City Girl.
Woodbridge is owned by and stands for a $4,500 fee at Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico.
Woodys Storm is out of Indi Storm, a 9-year-old daughter of the Mr Jess Perry stallion Jesse James Jr. Her second dam, Brickyard Lane (TB), is a winning daughter of the Storm Cat stallion Devon Lane.
Woodys Storm’s third dam, the unraced Kentucky-bred A.P. Indy mare Indicate, foaled four winners from
four Thoroughbred starters, including Indication N M, a half-brother to Brickyard Lane who won the 2012 Governor’s Cup Stakes at Zia Park and ran second in that season’s $140,720 New Mexico Cup Juvenile Championship (R), also at Zia Park.
Woodys Storm traces back to her fourth dam, Dixie Daylight, a Kentucky-bred Dixieland Band mare who won the 1998 Cumberland Stakes (R) at Laurel Racetrack. A 1994 foal, Dixie Daylight produced Dana My Love, a multiple stakes winner in Puerto Rico in 2008 and a half-sister to Indicate.
Raced exclusively in New Mexico, Woodys Storm has won three of 11 races, including a 400-yard dash for maiden claimers ($12,500) at Zia Park on December 14, and she has earned $98,321, of which $82,680 has been banked from three starts this season.
Wood Dee Queen ran third, a head behind runner-up KJ Daddys Money, and was followed by J Y Jaaziel, Kings Touch, Jessie Jones Flash, My Heart Jess Runs, Jess A Response, RC Jessa Flashn and Doin Something Right.
KJ Daddys Money banked the $20,000 runner-up share of the NMHBA Stakes for
her owners, John Lee, Kathy Lee and Ruben Mares. A homebred daughter of the Corona Cartel stallion Big Daddy Cartel, the bay filly has earned $265,642 from eight races
-- all in New Mexico -- and her three wins include last year’s 400-yard, $379,527 Zia Futurity (RG1) at Ruidoso Downs, and the March 4, $100,000 Sunburst Stakes (RG3) at Sunland Park.
Wood Dee Queen is a multiple graded stakes placed Eye Am King filly racing for
J & SM Inc., Don Reynolds and M. Lane Reynolds. A $34,000 yearling purchase
at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs, Wood Dee Queen has won two of nine starts, and the $10,000 third- place share of the NMHBA Stakes purse pushed her bankroll to $156,500.
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