Making just her second start of the season, Mike Abraham’s Blazin N Shakin won Saturday’s $150,460 New Mexico Quarter Horse Fillies & Mares Championship at Zia Park.

Blazin N Shakin covered 400 yards in :19.211, earning a 99 speed index and defeating runner-up Lethal Delight by a nose. Chris Zamora rode the homebred 5-year-old gray mare by Chicks A Blazin for trainer Jamie Zamora.

Blazin N Shakin is one of 19 stakes winners from 405 starters sired by Chicks A Blazin, a winning 17-year-old stallion by Chicks Beduino. The runner-up in the 1995 West Texas Sun Country Futurity (G1) at Sunland Park, Chicks A Blazin has sired 12 crops and the earners of more than $10.2 million, and Blazin N Shakin represents his top earner to date. He stands for a $2,000 fee at W.L. Mooring’s Double LL Ranch at Bosque, New Mexico.

Blazin N Shakin is also one of four winners from as many starters foaled by Runaway Shaker, a 13-year-old daughter of the Beduino (TB) stallion Runaway Winner. The mare’s full brother, Mr Runaway Shaker, won the inaugural running of the New Mexico Cup Quarter Horse Derby (R) at Zia Park in 2005.

Blazin N Shakin’s second dam, the winning Raise Your Glass (TB) mare Shaken Not Stirred, ran third in the ’82 Rainbow Futurity at Ruidoso Downs. A 1980 Texas-bred foal, Shaken Not Stirred produced seven winners from 10 starters, including three stakes winners, all of whom are half siblings to Runaway Shaker. One of Shaken Not Stirred’s stakes winners, the Dash For Cash colt Reckless Dash, won three stakes from 1989-91, including the Grade 2, $273,700 Remington Park Derby in Oklahoma.

All told, Blazin N Shakin has won 10 of 15 races, including four of her last five and six of her last eight. The $90,000 winner’s share of the Fillies & Mares Championship purse increased her earnings to $623,335.

Blazin N Shakin has collected seven stakes victories, including last year’s New Mexico Quarter Horse Fillies & Mares Championship. Her stakes resume also includes last year’s 400-yard, $125,000 Lou Wooten Handicap (RG2) at Sunland Park and 400-yard, $81,378 Four Corners Senora Stakes (R) at SunRay Park.

In 2008, Blazin N Shakin won the 400-yard, $125,000 New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association Stakes (RG2) at Sunland Park in a then world-record :18.865.

Blazin N Shakin was sent to post at odds of nearly 9-2 and returned a $10.80 win mutuel. The mare teamed with Lethal Delight for a $65.40 ($2) exacta. My Box Of Chocolate, a 43-1 longshot, ran third to complete a $646.40 ($1) trifecta.
Jenuine Joy, the 3-1 second choice, ran third and was followed by Kate Of Spades, BP Shes Southern, Niftys Royal Flush, three-time stakes winner Woody Dungarees, 2-1 favorite Rime Has A Chick, and Six Royal Alibis.

A homebred 4-year-old daughter of champion Dean Miracle racing for P.K. Thomas of Weatherford, Texas, Lethal Delight earned $33,000 to bring her bankroll to $400,463. The mare has won eight of her 17 outs, including last year’s $334,257 Shue Fly Stakes (RG1) at Sunland Park, and she ran second in both the 2008 Dash For Cash Futurity (G1) at Lone Star Park in Texas and Southwest Juvenile Championship (G1) at Zia Park.

My Box Of Chocolate has earned $93,467 for her owners, Elmer Criswell of Plainview, Texas, and Fredda Draper of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico. The 4-year-old Genuine Strawfly mare has won three of 16 races, and she ran second, a neck behind longshot winner Bridgelei, in last year’s $50,000 Sunburst Handicap (R) for state-bred 3-year-old fillies at Sunland Park. My Box Of Chocolate also was a finalist in the 2009 New Mexico Cup (RG2) and Zia (RG2) derbies.