Monday, December 06, 2010
Jannas Pride, a Desert God gelding campaigned by Charles W. Hunter and Dale Taylor, pushed his winning streak to three following his convincing victory in Sunday’s $129,845 New Mexico Eddy County Stakes (R) for state-bred 2-year-olds at Zia Park.
Prepped by Todd Fincher and ridden by Juan Ochoa, Jannas Pride covered one mile in 1:39.13 after closing on the fractions of :24.26 and :47.79 set by River Grade Trick, and his margin of victory was 3 ¾ lengths from Beau Wizer. The winner’s share of the purse pushed his earnings to $115,350.
Jannas Pride was bred by Hunter, a resident of Blanco, Texas, and the gelding became the 14th stakes winner from 121 starters sired by Desert God, a unraced 19-year-old son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Fappiano and half brother to three stakes winners. Desert God has sired 15 crops and the earners of more than $6.4 million, including his top earner, Peppers Pride, a mare who won 19 consecutive races – including 14 stakes – from 2005-08. He is owned by Joe Allen and Ron Allen, and he stood the 2010 season for a $6,000 fee at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A & A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
Jannas Pride’s dam, Janna, is a winning daughter of the Yukon stallion Candi’s Gold. Now 15, Janna has foaled three winners from four starters, including Janna’s Gold, a half sister to Jannas Pride who ran second in the 2004 Sierra Starlet Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs and ’05 Carlos Salazar Stakes (R) at The Downs at Albuquerque.
Jannas Pride’s second dam, the Shanekite mare Frans Lass, won two stakes at Santa Anita in ’93, including the $111,650 California Breeders’ Champion Stakes (R) for state-breds. Frans Lass has produced six winners from seven starters, including the late French Lass, a filly by French Deputy who ran second in the 2002 Bayou City Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park.
Frans Lass is a full sister to two stakes winners – the late Irishkite, the winner of the 1988 Bustles & Bows Stakes during the Los Angeles County Fair meet at Fairplex Park, and the late Shanes Lass, a filly who won three stakes in Northern California from 1990-91. A half sister to Frans Lass, the Tricky Creek filly Unique Creek, won two stakes at Louisiana Downs and Sam Houston Race Park from 1999-2000.
Jannas Pride traces back to her fourth dam, the winning and stakes-placed Montparnasse II mare Metropo Miss. A 1970 California-bred foal, Metropo Miss produced four-time stakes winner Elegant Bargain and Bourbon And Blues, a colt by Olympiad King who won three stakes in New Mexico from 1984-86, including the ’86 E.T. Springer Handicap at Albuquerque.
All told, Jannas Pride has won three of five starts, including a one-mile entry level allowance race at Zia Park on November 16. The 2-1 favorite, the gelding returned a $6.60 win mutuel, and he and runner-up Beau Wizer combined for an ($2) exacta payoff of $31.80.
Texas Silver ran third and was followed by Deity, River Grade Trick, Keddy Kaufaye, Running Squall, Mysticalundertones, and Numberoneson.
Beau Wizer banked $28,490 to push his earnings to $79,149 for his owners, Mike and Suzanne Carson and Leach Racing LLC. The homebred gelding by Premeditation was coming off of a third-place finish in the October 31, $152,690 New Mexico Cup Juvenile Colts & Geldings Stakes (R) at Zia Park. Beau Wizer also checked in third, four lengths behind winner Verny, in the colts and geldings division of the $125,162 Copper Top Futurity (R) at Sunland Park on April 17.
A $25,000 buy at the ’09 New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale at Ruidoso Downs, Texas Silver has earned $98,280 from eight starts for his owner, J. Kirk Robison. The gray colt by Silver Season has won two races, and his stakes resume includes a runner-up finish to Red Rock Springs in the 5-furlong, $136,221 Mountain Top Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs on June 26, and a third-place finish in the Rio Grande Senor Futurity (R) at Ruidoso on July 31.