Zia Park’s final weekend of live racing will feature four stakes, three for Thoroughbreds and one for Quarter Horses.

Three of Zia Park’s final stakes – the 440-yard, $150,000 Zia Park Quarter Horse Championship (G1), the 1-mile, $120,000 New Mexico Eddy County Stakes (R) for state-bred 2-year-olds, and the 1 1/8-mile, $200,000 Zia Park Distance Championship – will be run as part of an 11-race card on Sunday. The other stakes, the 1 1/16-mile, $150,000 Zia Park Derby, is scheduled as the 10th race of an 11-race program on Saturday.

The Zia Park Derby has attracted a field of nine 3-year-olds, including New Mexico-bred Spinning Touch. A homebred colt by Touchdown Ky racing for Michael and Jeanne Fuhs and John Kozelski, Spinning Touch has won two races this year, including the $40,000-added New Mexico State Fair Breeders’ Derby (R) at The Downs at Albuquerque on September 26.

Morning-line favorite Stachys is coming off of a third-place finish in the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park on October 10. Racing for Al Ulwelling and Bill Ulwelling from the barn of Michael Biehler, Stachys campaigned at Canterbury Park in Minnesota last summer, where the bay gelding by Candy Ride won the 1 mile, $35,000 Dean Kutz Stakes on the turf. He also won the August 2, $75,000 Manitoba Derby at Assinboia Downs in Winnipeg.

All horses in the Zia Park Derby will tote 122 pounds. The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds – Saratoga Yankee (Luis Quinonez), 7-2; Raven Hawk (Ken Tohill), 9-2; Spinning Touch (J. Martin Bourdieu), 12-1; Skip A Smile (Juan Ochoa), 10-1; Sightlines (Jimmy Ray Coates), 20-1; Dandy’s Legacy (Justin Shepherd), 15-1; Stephen’s Got Hope (Alejandro Medellin), 4-1; Hot Fusion (Enrique Garcia), 8-1; and Stachys (Eddie Martin Jr.), 5-2.

The Zia Park Quarter Horse Championship kicks off the track’s stakes tripleheader on Sunday. Noconi, the 2-1 morning-line choice, drew post 2 in the full field of 10. The AQHA champion 3-year-old gelding two years ago, Noconi races for R.D. Hubbard and John T. L. Jones and is trained by eight-time AQHA champion trainer Paul Jones, and he needs just $12,837 to reach the $1-million mark in earnings.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey and weight assignments and morning-line odds – Special Highnoon (Jose Montoya, 126), 30-1; Noconi (Jacky Martin, 126), 2-1; Double Out (Felipe Garcia-Luna, 126), 25-1; Fishin CR (Berkley Packer, 124), 12-1; King Brimmerton (Russel Hadley, 126), 7-2; Strike It Quick (Freddie Martinez, 126), 6-1; Honor Me Good (Oscar Rincon, 126), 4-1; Special Celebrate (Esgar Ramirez, 126), 15-1; Dash Back Perry (Saul Ramirez Jr., 124), 15-1; and Double Chiseled (Jeremy Garcia, 126), 20-1.

Jannas Pride, a gelding by Desert God racing for breeder Charles W. Hunter and Dale Taylor and trained by Todd Fincher, is the 2-1 morning-line favorite for the New Mexico Eddy County Stakes, which has drawn a field of 10 2-year-olds. Jannas Pride has won two consecutive races, including a 1-mile entry level allowance race for state-breds at Zia Park on November 16.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey and weight assignments and morning-line odds – Mysticalundertones (Vicente Grajeda, 122), 25-1; River Grade Trick (Alejandro Medellin, 122), 4-1; Deity (Joe Martinez, 122), 20-1; Beau Wizer (Casey Lambert, 122), 6-1; Jannas Pride (Juan Ochoa, 122), 2-1; Coeur (Alfonso Perez, 119), 30-1; Numberoneson (Agapito Delgadillo, 122), 7-2; Texas Silver (Ramsey Zimmerman, 122), 12-1; Running Squall (Carlos Madeira, 122), 8-1; and Keddy Kaufaye (Vernon Scantling, 122), 15-1.

A field of nine is entered in the Zia Park Distance Championship, including Zayat Stables LLC’s Soul Warrior, a 4-year-old chestnut colt by Lion Heart from the barn of leading trainer Steve Asmussen. Soul Warrior has earned $640,120 from nine starts, and his three wins include last year’s $750,000 West Virginia Derby (G3) against a field that included 2009 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mine That Bird.

Another contender, Six-S Racing Stable’s Quindici Man, won last year’s Zia Park Derby on a sloppy track. The roan 4-year-old colt by Came Home won the October 17, $50,000 Bull Dog Stakes at the Fresno District Fair meet in California.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey and weight assignments and morning-line odds – Quindici Man (Patrick Valenzuela, 118), 7-2; Soul Warrior (Justin Shepherd, 119), 5-2; Schramsberg (Ramsey Zimmerman, 116), 8-1; Jardim (BRZ) (Jon Court, 117), 9-2; Double Shuffle (Vicky Baze, 115), 10-1; Tricky Causeway (Juan Ochoa, 113), 15-1; Andiotis (Luis Quinonez, 114), 15-1; Imco Spirit (IRE) (Alejandro Medellin, 114), 12-1; and Sunday Sunrise (Ken Tohill, 117), 5-1.

Zia Park’s meet ends with an 11-race program on Tuesday, December 7. After that, live racing in New Mexico will move to Sunland Park, which opens its 77-day season on December 10.