Sent to post as the 6-5 favorite, Jenuine Joy ran her win streak to four following a half-length victory in Sunday’s Four Corners Senora Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred fillies and mares at SunRay Park.

Sunday’s 10-race program at SunRay went off without a hitch after a jockey’s strike forced cancellation of the track’s scheduled 10-race card on Saturday. According to a report in the Farmington Daily Times, the track planned to run the cancelled program in its entirety on Friday. One of the races cancelled was the 6 ½-furlong, $75,000 Russell and Helen Foutz Distaff Handicap for state-bred distaffers.

Jenuine Joy was ridden by Ricky Ramirez for owner Fredda Draper of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, and trainer Carl Draper. The 4-year-old gray daughter of Genuine Strawfly covered 400 yards in :19.37 and earned a 99 speed index.

A homebred mare, Jenuine Joy became the eighth stakes winners from five crops sired by Genuine Strawfly, a son of the Special Effort stallion Strawfly Special who won the 2002 All American Derby (G1). Now 11, Genuine Strawfly is a half brother to Grade 3 winner Corona High, and his 131 starters have banked more than $3.4 million and include Genuine Streaker. He stands for a $2,500 fee at Dr. Leonard Blach’s Buena Suerte Equine in Roswell, New Mexico.

Jenuine Joy is also one of two winners from three starters produced by Super Perla Negra, a winning 13-year-old daughter of the Coup de Kas (TB) stallion Super Duper Couper. Jenuine Joy’s second dam, Red Tag Sale, was a winning daughter of the Beduino (TB) stallion Young Beduino who ran third in the ’93 Zia Freshman Handicap (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs.

Jenuine Joy traces back to her third dam, Real Easy Surprise, a daughter of the Real Easy Jet stallion Realeasy Chick who won the 1989 Prescott Downs Derby in Arizona and was a finalist in that season’s West Texas Derby (G2) at Sunland Park. Real Easy Surprise foaled four winners from six starters, including Real Easy Celadon, the winner of two stakes at The Downs at Albuquerque in 1999 and that season’s New Mexico region high-point 3-year-old filly.

Real Easy Surprise is a half sister to Loose On The Lead, a gelding by Young Beduino who ran second in the ’92 Hard Twist Stakes (R) at Albuquerque.

Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, Jenuine Joy has won four of five races, and the $45,000 winner’s share of the Four Corners Senora purse increased her bankroll to $101,400. After running ninth as the 19-10 favorite in her career debut at Ruidoso Downs in June 2008, the mare returned to win three consecutive races from January 5-April 3 at Sunland Park.

Flicka de Fly ran second and was followed by BP Shes Southern, Blushing Cartel, My Box Of Chocolate, and Southern Discomfort.

Flicka de Fly earned $16,500 for her owner, Edilberto Estrada of Albuquerque. The 6-year-old mare by Genuine Strawfly was 19 days removed from a second-place finish as a 42-1 longshot in a 350-yard, $15,000 claiming sprint at Sunland Park, and her stakes resume includes a runner-up effort in the $72,050 Pelican Stakes (RG3) for state-bred sophomore fillies at The Downs at Albuquerque in 2007.

The 9-5 second choice, BP Shes Southern banked $7,500 for Bill B. Price of Thackerville, Oklahoma, who bred the 4-year-old sorrel daughter of Southern Cartel. BP Shes Southern has earned $252,166 from six wins in 26 starts, and she’s won two stakes: last year’s 400-yard, $125,000 New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association Stakes (RG2) at Sunland, and the 400-yard, $97,778 New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) at Albuquerque. BP Shes Southern was also last year’s New Mexico region high-point sophomore filly.