Monday, December 20, 2010
Jenuine Joy, a homebred 4-year-old mare racing for Fredda Draper of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, led at every call en route to a win in the Lou Wooten Handicap (RG2) for state-bred distaffers at Sunland Park on Sunday.
Saddled by Draper’s husband, Carl Draper, and ridden by Larry Payne, Jenuine Joy covered 400 yards in :18.907 to earn a 99 speed index. Her margin of victory was a half of a length from Lethal Delight, and the winner’s share of the $120,000 purse boosted her bankroll to $179,400.
Blazin N Shakin, the 6-5 favorite, finished third, three-quarters of a length behind the winner.
Jenuine Joy 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, Genuine Strawfly won the All American (G1) and Ruidoso (G2) derbies in 2002, and his 154 starters have earned more than $4.07 million and include his top earner, two-time Grade 1 winner One Diamond Kitty. Genuine Strawfly stands for a $2,500 fee at Dr. Leonard Blach’s Buena Suerte Equine at 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 half brother, the Desirio gelding CD Frontier Justice, was a finalist in this year’s $569,143 Ruidoso Derby (G1) at Ruidoso Downs.
Jenuine Joy’s second dam, the winning Young Beduino mare Red Tag Sale, ran third in the 1993 Zia Freshman Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs. Her third dam, Real Easy Surprise, was a daughter of the Real Easy Jet stallion Realeasy Chick who won the 1989 Prescott Downs Derby (R) in Arizona and was a finalist in that season’s Grade 2, $74,120 West Texas Derby at Sunland Park.
Real Easy Surprise’s four winners from six starters included Real Easy Celadon, a daughter of Celadon who won two stakes in New Mexico from 1999-2000 and was the New Mexico region high-point sophomore filly in ’99. Real Easy Surprise was a half sister to two stakes-placed runners – Loose On The Lead, a Young Beduino gelding who ran second in the 1992 Hard Twist Stakes (R) at The Downs at Albuquerque, and Andy Andrew, a gelding by Celadon who ran second in the ’98 Hard Twist Stakes.
Racing exclusively in New Mexico, Jenuine Joy has won five of seven races, including the April 25, $75,000 Four Corners Senora Stakes (R) for state-bred fillies and mares at SunRay Park. On November 27, the mare ran fourth, two lengths behind winner Blazin N Shakin, in the 400-yard, $150,460 New Mexico Fillies & Mares Championship (RG2) at Zia Park.
My Box Of Chocolate, Rime Has A Chick, Ms Regard, BP Shes Southern, Woody Dungarees, and Blushing Daisy completed the order of finish.
Lethal Delight is a homebred 4-year-old mare by champion Dean Miracle who was coming off of a second-place finish in the New Mexico Fillies & Mares Championship. Campaigned by P.K. Thomas, Lethal Delight has won eight of 18 races and has earned $425,663, and her stakes record includes a victory in the 400-yard, $334,257 Shue Fly Stakes (RG1) at Sunland Park in ’09.
Blazin N Shakin banked $12,000 to push her bankroll to $635,335 for her owner and breeder, Mike Abraham of Las Vegas, Nevada. The 5-year-old gray daughter of Chicks A Blazin has won 10 of 16 races, and her seven career stakes scores include the 2009 Lou Wooten Handicap.