Monday, February 14, 2011
Paul B. Thomason's Quiet Again, a homebred 6-year-old gelding by Real Quiet, scored a wire-to-wire, one-length victory in the $50,000 Curribot Stakes at Sunland Park on Sunday.
Ridden by Ken Tohill for trainer Jimmie Claridge, Quiet Again covered 1 1/16 miles in 1:47.42, after setting fractions of :25.29, :49.54, and 1:12.96. The $30,000 winner's share of the purse increased his earnings to $431,918.
Quiet Again was bred in Texas, and he is one of 15 stakes winners from 373 starters sired by Real Quiet, a 16-year-old son of the Fappiano stallion Quiet American and winner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1), the first two legs of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown. The sport's champion 3-year-old colt that year, Real Quiet has sired the earners of more than $18.7 million from nine crops, including his top earner, two-time Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) winner Midnight Lute. He died last September in a paddock accident at Penn Ridge Farm near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Quiet Again's dam, Wild Time, is a winning daughter of the Timeless Moment stallion Gilded Time. Now 12, Wild Time has foaled two starters.
Quiet Again's third dam, the Florida-bred Singular mare Fraulein Lieber, won the 1987 Moment To Buy Handicap (R) on the turf at Golden Gate Fields and ran third in the '88 Bewitch Stakes (G3) on the turf at Keeneland Racecourse. A 1984 foal, Fraulein Lieber produced five winners from as many starters.
Quiet Again has been campaigned at eight different tracks in three states, and his 12 wins in 35 starts include last year's 6 1/2-furlong, $50,000 Bill Thomas Memorial Stakes at Sunland Park and 1 1/16-mile, $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Championship. The Curribot marked Quiet Again's first out since January 22, when he ran second in the $100,000 Star of Texas Stakes (R) for Texas-breds at Sam Houston Race Park.
Red Lead, the 6-5 favorite, ran second and was followed by Imco Spirit (IRE), Vamoose, and Dandy's Legacy.
A 5-year-old gelding by Red Bullet racing for Frontier Stables LLC, Red Lead was coming off of a second-place finish to Black Hills in the January 8 Winsham Lad Stakes at Sunland. Red Lead has earned $460,370 from seven wins in 21 starts, and his three stakes scores include last year's 1 1/8-mile, $114,400 Sunland Park Handicap.
Imco Spirit is a 5-year-old bay gelding by Invincible Spirit (IRE) who has won five of 22 races and has banked $224,667, of which $184,116 has been earned since August 29, when he was claimed for $12,500 at Del Mar by J. Kirk Robison and trainer Henry Dominguez. Imco Spirit's stakes resume includes a victory in the December 5, $218,800 Zia Park Distance Championship.