Monday, June 27, 2011
Sent to post at odds of 3-5, My Homey responded with a neck victory in Sunday's $136,426 Mountain Top Thoroughbred Futurity (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs.
My Homey led at every call under jockey J. Martin Bourdieu, as the chestnut gelding covered 5 furlongs in :59.84 while scoring his first career stakes win. My Homey races for Steve Prather, Bessie Prather, and trainer Hermenegildo “Papis” Aldavaz.
My Homey was bred by Steve Prather, and the gelding became the first stakes winner from four starters sired by The Way Home, an unraced 7-year-old stallion by Giant's Causeway whose third dam, the Promise Land mare House Of Cards, won the 1972 Del Mar Oaks in California.
To date, The Way Home has sired the earners of more than $118,200. He is owned by a partnership and stands for a $2,500 fee at Prather's Doubletree Farm at Eunice, New Mexico.
My Homey's dam, Spectacular Place, is a winning 12-year-old daughter of the Cox's Ridge stallion Out Of Place. The gelding traces back to his fourth dam, Sea Sister, a mare by Sea-Bird who won the 1973 Rare Treat Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York.
All told, My Homey has won three of five races, and the $68,213 winner's share of the Mountain Top Futurity purse pushed his earnings to $90,491. The gelding was coming off of an 11-length victory as the even-money choice in his Mountain Top trial, and his stakes resume includes a third-place finish in the colts and geldings division of the Copper Top Futurity (R) for state-breds at Sunland Park on April 16.
My Homey returned a $3.20 win mutuel and teamed with runner-up Gerda's Home, a 25-1 longshot, for a $78.20 ($2) exacta. Band Of Glory, a 22-1 longshot, ran third, 4 ½ lengths behind the winner, to complete a $442,20 ($2) trifecta.
I Do My Own Tricks, Hot For You, Miss Desert Freeze, Koufax, and Scootonover completed the order of finish. Finalists I Play Tricks and Roll Devil Roll were scratched.
Gerda's Home is a homebred chestnut filly by The Way Home who has earned $27,635 from two outs for her owner, Larry Strain. Gerda's Home was coming off of a third-place finish in her Mountain Top trial, which marked her career debut.
Band Of Glory earned $16,371 to increase his bankroll to $17,141 from two starts for owner Samuel F. Henderson, who acquired the bay Minister Eric colt for $6,000 at last year's New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale at Ruidoso Downs. Band Of Glory ran second, 4 ½ lengths behind stakes winner I Play Dirty, in his Mountain Top trial.