Sunday, June 13, 2010
Here Kittykittykitty, a sorrel gelding by Genuine Strawfly racing for Jay and Mary Lou Standefer, recorded his second career stakes victory in the $75,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes (R) for state-bred 3-year-olds at SunRay Park on Saturday.
Ridden by Esgar Ramirez for trainer Wes Giles, Here Kittykittykitty made his 400-yard trip in :19.277, aided by a 20-mph tail wind as reported by Equibase. He earned a lifetime-best 102 speed index as the 5-1 third choice, and his margin of victory was one length from 13-10 favorite Corona Memory Crest.
Here Kittykittykitty was bred by the Standefers, residents of Roswell, New Mexico, and the gelding is one of eight stakes winners from five crops sired by Genuine Strawfly, an 11-year-old son of the Special Effort stallion Strawfly Special whose four wins included the 2002 All American (G1) and Ruidoso (G2) derbies.
A half brother to Grade 3 winner Corona High, Genuine Strawfly has sired the earners of more than $3.5 million from 137 starters, including One Diamond Kitty, a stakes-winning 4-year-old gelding who most recently ran second to Jess You And I in the 440-yard, $250,000 Remington Park Invitational Championship (G1) in Oklahoma. He stands for a $2,500 fee at Dr. Leonard Blach’s Buena Suerte Equine in Roswell.
Here Kittykittykitty’s dam, One Diamond Cat, is an unraced 9-year-old mare by champion Now I Know who has produced three winners from as many starters, including One Diamond Kitty, the winner of the 2008 New Mexico Spring Fling Stakes (R) at Sunland Park and last year’s New Mexico region high-point sophomore gelding.
Here Kittykittykitty’s second dam, the Shoot No mare No Billi Jo, won the New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque in 1997, and she was a finalist against open company in the ’98 Mile High Derby (G2) at Arapahoe Park near Denver.
Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, Here Kittykittykitty has earned $246,746 from three wins in nine outs. The gelding broke his maiden by three-quarters of a length in a New Mexican Spring Futurity (RG1) trial at Sunland Park last year, but he didn’t race in the final. His stakes record includes a win in last year’s 400-yard, $335,885 New Mexico Cup Futurity (RG1) at Zia Park, and he was a finalist in the Zia Futurity (RG1) at Ruidoso Downs.
The New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes represented Here Kittykittykitty’s first start since November 29, when he ran fifth, two lengths behind champion Runnning Brook Gal, in the Grade 1, $305,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship Stakes at Zia Park.
Sixy Chamisa, the 7-5 second choice, ran third, 1 ½ lengths behind Here Kittykittykitty, and was followed by Sixy N Hot, Rances Reason, Littlesouthernswing, and The Gap.
Runner-up Corona Memory Crest was coming off of a four-race win streak that started back on June 28, 2009, when the brown Corona Caliente gelding took a 350-yard maiden sprint at Ruidoso Downs. A homebred racing for Desiree Mooring of Bosque, New Mexico, Corona Memory Crest earned $16,500 to push his bankroll to $60,128.
Sixy Chamisa is a gray daughter of Sixes Royal racing for SM Cattle Export Co. of Socorro, Texas. Sixy Chamisa has earned $223,913 from 11 races, and her seven victories include the April 17, $75,000 Sunburst Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred fillies at Sunland Park, and last season’s 350-yard, $150,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Futurity (RG2) at SunRay.