One of just two fillies in the field of eight, Robert and Barbara Bauer's Mary For Money scored her first career stakes win in Tuesday's $50,000 Getaway Stakes for 3-year-old Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds at Sunland Park.

Mary For Money went 870 yards in :44.860, and her margin of victory was 2 ½ lengths from 17-10 favorite Jess Snouping Around. The $30,000 winner's share of the purse increased the sorrel filly's earnings to $53,110. Vicente Grajeda rode Mary For Money for trainer H. Ray Ashford.

Bred in New Mexico by the Bauers, Mary For Money has won two of nine races, including both of her outs at the 870 distance. The filly's sire, Metallic Lion, is a 10-year-old son of the Falstaff (TB) stallion Apollo (TB) whose five wins in 16 starts included the $342,500 Governor's Cup Futurity (RG1) for California-breds at Los Alamitos in 2003.

Metallic Lion's starters include Beastly King, an earner of $123,931 to date and a finalist in the 2008 Los Alamitos Two-Million Futurity (G1). The stallion stands for a $2,000 fee at Dr. Leonard Blach's Buena Suerte Equine in Roswell, New Mexico.

Mary For Money's dam is the winning 7-year-old Dean Miracle mare Thirty Fourth Street. The filly was making her first start since February 19, when she made her 870 debut with a wire-to-wire, four-length victory against New Mexico-bred maidens. She was a finalist in last year's New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque.

Red Rock Springs (TB), the only Thoroughbred in the field, ran third, 1 ¾ lengths behind runner-up Jess Snouping Around. Caswell B, Magical Lion, El Gato Azul, Valentino De Lao, and Jennie Finch completed the order of finish.

Jess Snouping Around is a brown gelding by champion Jess Louisiana Blue racing for Mark Allen's Double Eagle Ranch at Roswell, New Mexico. Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, the Louisiana-bred has earned $46,760 from two wins in six races, and he has won one of his three starts at the 870-yard trip.

A dark bay colt by Your Eminence (TB) owned and trained by Tony Sedillo, Red Rock Springs was making his first start at 870. Red Rock Springs has banked $90,860 from 10 outs, and his two wins include last year's 5-furlong, $136,000 Mountain Top Thoroughbred Futurity (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-olds at Ruidoso Downs.