Isaias Enriquez rode 8-5 favorite Lefty Who to a come-from-behind victory in the $50,000 Sierra Blanca Handicap (R) for New Mexico-breds at Ruidoso Downs on Sunday.

In front of a Fourth of July holiday crowd announced at 6,077, Lefty Who covered 5 ½ furlongs on a track labeled “good” in 1:03. Joel Marr saddled the homebred 4-year-old Quinton’s Gold gelding for owner Sam E. Stevens of La Mesa, Texas.

Lefty Who is one of two stakes winners from 14 starters sired by Quinton’s Gold, a 13-year-old son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Carson City who won the 6-furlong, $100,000 Phoenix Gold Cup at Turf Paradise in 2002. The Kentucky-bred stallion has sired the earners of more than $1.07 million from three crops, and he stands for a $3,500 fee at Steve Prather’s Doubletree Farm near Hobbs, New Mexico.

Lefty Who is also one of two winners from three starters foaled by his dam, the winning 16-year-old Fortunate Prospect mare Fortunate Kate. The gelding’s third dam, Yukon Katie, was a daughter of the Royal Charger stallion Mongo who produced nine winners from 10 starters, including Kodiack, a colt by Run For Nurse who won the 1979 Ben Ali Handicap (G3) at Keeneland Racecourse in Kentucky and ran second in Clev Er Tell’s 1977 Arkansas Derby (G2) at Oaklawn Park.

Lefty Who’s fourth dam, Klondike Kate, was a winning daughter of Mark-Ye-Well who produced Fair Ye Well, a filly by Ridan who won the 1970 Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs.

All told, Lefty Who has won 10 of 16 races, including all four of his outs at Ruidoso Downs. The $30,000 winner’s share of the Sierra Blanca purse increased his earnings to $551,854, making the gelding his sire’s top money earner. Lefty Who has won seven stakes, including last year’s 5 ½-furlong, $50,000 Road Runner Handicap (R) at Ruidoso Downs and 6-furlong, $75,000 Dine Stakes (R) at SunRay Park.

In 2008, Lefty Who began his career with a five-race win streak that included the Rio Grande Senor Futurity (R) at Ruidoso Downs, the New Mexico Cup Colts & Geldings Stakes (R) and New Mexico Eddy County Stakes (R) at Zia Park, and Red Hedeman Mile Stakes (R) at Sunland Park.

Lefty Who was sent to post as the 8-5 favorite and returned a $5.20 win mutuel, and his margin of victory was a neck from Smarty Ghost. Lesters Secret, the 9-5 second choice, ran third, three lengths behind the winner. Gulchrunssweet, Double Smart, Cattleman Prospect, Bewild Hennessy, and Tricky Odds completed the order of finish.

A 6-year-old gelding by Ghostly Moves racing for Ramon O. Gonzalez Jr. of Edgewood, New Mexico, Smarty Ghost earned $11,000 to boost his bankroll to $93,053. Ghostly Moves was claimed by Gonzalez for $10,000 at Sunland Park on April 20, and he was coming off of a second-place finish as the 2-1 favorite in a June 18, 6 ½-furlong allowance race at SunRay Park.

Lesters Secret is a 4-year-old Lesters Boy gelding campaigned by Simply The Best Thoroughbreds of Temecula, California, and trainer Henry Dominguez. Lesters Secret banked $5,000 to push his earnings to $367,564 from six wins in 20 starts. The gelding’s stakes resume includes a victory in the one-mile, $125,000 New Mexico State University Handicap (R) for state-breds at Sunland Park on March 21.