Monday, September 06, 2010
Quiet Again was a prompt 4-5 favorite in the $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Championship at Ruidoso Downs on Monday.
Ridden by Isaias Enriquez for owner Paul B. Thomason of Anthony, New Mexico, and trainer Jimmie Claridge, Quiet Again went 1 1/16 miles in 1:46.27, and he defeated 3-1 second choice Hezamazing by 2 ¼ lengths. The 5-year-old gelding’s victory was his 10th in 30 races, and the $30,000 winner’s share of the purse boosted his earnings to $357,868.
A homebred, Quiet Again is one of 15 stakes winners from eight crops sired by Real Quiet, a 15-year-old son of the Fappiano stallion Quiet American and the winner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby (G1). Real Quiet has sired the earners of more than $18.06 million from 362 starters, including Midnight Lute, a two-time winner of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint Stakes (G1) and the 2007 champion sprinter. He stands for a $6,000 fee at Penn Ridge Farm at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Quiet Again is also one of two starters produced by the winning Gilded Time mare Wild Time. Now 11, Wild Time is one of three winners from three starters foaled by the unraced Wild Again mare Forever Wild Again.
Quiet Again’s third dam, the 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) at Keeneland Racecourse.
Quiet Again has made 28 of his 30 starts in New Mexico. The gelding’s three blacktype victories include the March 13, $50,000 Bill Thomas Memorial Stakes at Sunland Park, and the $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Derby two years ago.
Earlier this season, Quiet Again ran second, 2 ¼ lengths behind winner Red Lead, in the $100,000 Sunland Park Handicap, and third in both the 1 1/8-mile, $100,000 San Juan County Commissioners Handicap at SunRay Park and the 6-furlong, $50,000 Carter McGregor Jr. Memorial Stakes (R) for Texas-breds at Lone Star Park.
Hezamazing ran second and was followed by Dunscombe, Regatta Tone, Summertime Sal, and Fullofenergy.
A 5-year-old gelding by the A.P. Indy stallion Indy Film, Hezamazing earned $11,000 to increase his bankroll to $120,827 for owner Carlyle Rollins. Hezamazing has won six of 22 races, including the $50,000 Arapahoe Park Classic Stakes on August 15.
Dunscombe is campaigned by T.J. Munson and trainer Ray Ashford, who claimed the 6-year-old Graeme Hall gelding from Maggi Moss for $12,500 at Prairie Meadows on July 2. Dunscombe has earned $176,260 from 12 wins in 40 outs.