Freddie Martinez rode One Diamond Kitty to victory in Saturday’s $120,000 Jess Burner Memorial Handicap (RG1) for New Mexico-breds at Sunland Park.

Prepped by Paul Jones for Albert and Chad Richard’s A & C Racing and Roping of Roosevelt, Utah, One Diamond Kitty went 400 yards in :19.048 while earning a 95 speed index and posting the third-fastest winning time in the stakes’ 14-year history. The 4-year-old gelding’s margin of victory was a nose from his full brother, Here Kittykittykitty, and the $72,000 winner’s share of the purse increased his bankroll to $492,622.

One Diamond Kitty was bred by Jay and Mary Lou Standefer of Roswell, New Mexico, and the gelding 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 and winner of the 2002 All American (G1) and Ruidoso (G2) derbies. A half brother to Grade 3 winner Corona High and 2005 Lou Wooten Handicap (RG1) runner-up Forsentimentlreasons, Genuine Strawfly has sired 154 starters and the earners of more than $3.9 million, and One Diamond Kitty represents his top earner. He stands at Dr. Leonard Blach’s Buena Suerte Equine at Roswell.

One Diamond Kitty is one of three winners from as many starters produced by One Diamond Cat, an unraced 9-year-old daughter of champion Now I Know also bred by the Standefers. The gelding’s second dam, No Billi Jo, is a homebred daughter of the Coup de Kas (TB) stallion Shoot No who won the ’97 New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque.

Now 15, No Billi Jo has foaled three winners from three starters, including 2006 Zia Derby (RG2) finalist Tick Talk Jo and ’06 Zia Futurity (RG1) qualifier BJ Strawfly.

One Diamond Kitty’s third dam, the unraced Barnstormin Tornado, is a 1988 foal by the Dash For Cash stallion Cash The Chips whose five winners from eight starters include two stakes-placed runners who are full siblings to No Billi Jo – 1995 Shue Fly Stakes (R) runner-up Wednesdays Tornado and ’97 New Mexico State Fair Breeders’ Derby (RG3) third-place finisher Shoot Nos Best.

One Diamond Kitty has won seven of 24 races, and his three stakes scores include the October 31, $177,115 Namehimastreaker New Mexico Cup Championship (RG1) at Zia Park, and the 2008 New Mexican Spring Fling Stakes (R) at Sunland Park. Last spring, the gelding faced open company at Remington Park in Oklahoma, finishing third in the 300-yard, $54,000 Bob Moore Memorial Stakes (G2), and second, a nose behind two-time AQHA champion Jess You And I, in the 440-yard, $250,000 Remington Park Invitational Championship (G1).

To date, One Diamond Kitty has won at four different distances – 300, 350, 400, and 440 yards.

Sent to post as the 5-2 favorite, One Diamond Kitty returned a $7.40 win mutuel and teamed with Here Kittykittykitty for a $25.60 ($2) exacta return. Corona Memory Crest ran third, a neck behind the winner, to complete a ($2) trifecta payoff of $64.20.

A First Caller, CP Lawman, Dueling Juan, In Famous Caper, ICU Cash, and Dustys Alibi completed the order of finish.

Bred and raced by the Standefers, Here Kittykittykitty has earned $265,924 from four wins in 14 outs. The 3-year-old sorrel gelding by Genuine Strawfly has won two stakes this season – the 400-yard, $126,924 Zia Derby (RG2) at Ruidoso Downs, and the June 12, $75,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes (R) at SunRay Park. Here Kittykitty was coming off of a runner-up finish in the $194,054 New Mexico Cup Derby (RG2) at Zia Park on October 31.

Corona Memory Crest is a homebred Corona Caliente gelding campaigned by Desiree Mooring of Bosque, New Mexico, and Ramon Gonzalez Jr. of Edgewood, New Mexico. The 3-year-old banked $12,000 to push his earnings to $196,850, and his seven victories in 14 starts include the October 31 New Mexico Cup Derby (RG2).