Sunday, November 14, 2010
David Bloomer’s Posies Woodette won Sunday’s $40,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Quarter Horse Championship (RG3), as The Downs at Albuquerque ended its 2010 meet in front of a closing-day crowd of 1,276.
Trained by Benajmin Villegas and ridden by Porfirio Cano, Posies Woodette covered 440 yards in :20.708, earning a career-best 118 speed index and breaking by 29/100ths of a second the previous track record set by reigning AQHA champion aged stallion First Moonflash in last year’s New Mexico Breeders’ Championship. The 3-year-old filly was sent to post as the 7-2 second choice, and her margin of victory was a half of a length from Lohah.
Miracle Snow, the 4-5 favorite, ran third, 1 ½ lengths behind the winner.
Posies Woodette was bred by Bloomer, a resident of Grants, New Mexico, and the filly became the fourth stakes winner from 48 starters sired by Woodbridge, an unraced son of the First Down Dash stallion Dash Ta Fame. Now 11, Woodbridge is a half brother to 2009 AQHA champion 3-year-old filly Alice K White and a half to Grade 1 winner and one-time 440-yard world-record holder Kendall Jackson.
Woodbridge has sired five crops and the earners of more than $817,000 million, including Woody Dungarees, a three-time stakes winner in New Mexico this season. The stallion stood the 2010 season for a $1,000 fee at Mac Murray and Janis Spencer Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico.
Posies Woodette’s dam, the Calyx mare Posies, ran third in the 1991 PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity (RG2) at Los Alamitos. Now 21, Posies has foaled seven winners from nine starters, including Posies First Thought, a half sister to Posies Woodette who was a finalist in this year’s $70,769 New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3).
Posies Woodette’s second dam, the winning Beduino (TB) mare Thats Bubbles, has produced 11 starters. Her eight winners include two stakes winners – Copper Buff, a colt by all-time leading sire First Down Dash who won the 2000 Kindergarten (G1) and Governor’s Cup (RG1) futurities at Los Alamitos and was a finalist in that season’s All American Futurity (G1); and Hawks Halo, a filly by champion Hawkinson who won two stakes in Canada from 2008-09, including the 2008 Canada Cup Derby (RG3) at Lethbridge, Alberta.
Posies Woodette traces back to her third dam, Bubbles La Rue, a winning daughter of the Three Bars (TB) stallion Don Bar. A 1969 California-bred foal, Bubbles La Rue foaled 12 winners from 13 starters, including the late Beau La Rue, a gelding by Ettabo who won the 1980 Governor’s Cup Futurity (R) at Fresno, California.
Bubbles La Rue was a half sister to 1965 Rainbow Futurity winner Talent Bar.
Posies Woodette has raced exclusively in New Mexico, and the filly has earned $43,823 from three wins in nine outs. The New Mexico Breeders’ Quarter Horse Championship represented her first start since September 26, when she ran second to Woody Dungarees in the 400-yard, $55,188 New Mexico State Fair Breeders’ Derby (R) at Albuquerque.
A winner of one of her three starts as a 2-year-old, Posies Woodette was a finalist in the $71,750 New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3).
Runner-up Lohah banked $8,000 to push her earnings to $30,463 for owner Armando Medina. The 5-year-old brown Corona Caliente gelding and one-time $10,000 claimer has won two of 13 races, and the New Mexico Breeders’ Quarter Horse Championship marked her first stakes start.
A homebred 6-year-old gelding racing for Melvin and Mary Neugebauer, Miracle Snow has earned $318,580 from 34 outs, and his nine wins include the 400-yard, $40,000 Lineage Championship Stakes (RG3) at Albuquerque on August 22. All told, Miracle Snow has won two stakes, including the 2007 Hard Twist Stakes (RG3) for New Mexico-bred 3-year-olds, and his stakes resume includes a second-place finish to PB And Crackers in the August 1, $50,000 Zia Handicap (RG2) at Ruidoso Downs.
Dueling Juan, Strawflyin Leader, Cala Me Debonaire, Shez Mighty Pfind, and Famous Lord Shezadi completed the order of finish.