Monday, October 18, 2010
Quiet Again, a homebred 5-year-old gelding racing for Paul B. Thomason, sprinted to a three-quarter length victory in Sunday’s 6 ½-furlong, $30,000 Budweiser Special Stakes at The Downs at Albuquerque.
Trained by Jimmie Claridge and ridden by Glen Murphy, Quiet Again stopped the timer in 1:15.03 while posting his second consecutive win and 11th victory in 32 races. The $18,300 winner’s share of the purse increased his earnings to $376,168.
Quiet Again is one of 15 stakes winners from 364 starters sired by Real Quiet, a son of the Fappiano stallion Quiet American who won five Grade 1 stakes from 1997-99, including the ’98 Kentucky Derby (G1), and he was the champion 3-year-old colt that year. Real Quiet has sired the earners of more than $18.2 million from eight crops, including his top earner, two-time Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner and ’07 champion sprinter Midnight Lute. He died in a paddock accident at Penn Ridge Farm near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – where he had been standing – on September 27.
Quiet Again is also one of two starters produced by Wild Time, a winning 11-year-old daughter of the Timeless Moment stallion Gilded Time. The gelding’s third dam, Fraulein Lieber, was a stakes-winning daughter of Singular who ran third in the 1988 Bewitch Stakes (G3) on the turf at Keeneland.
Quiet Again has made 29 of his 31 starts in New Mexico, and his stakes resume includes victories in the 1 1/16-mile, $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Championship Stakes at Ruidoso Downs on September 6, and the 6 ½-furlong, $50,000 Bill Thomas Memorial Stakes at Sunland Park on March 13. The gelding also won the $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Derby two years ago.
Chimney Sweep ran second and was followed by Shivers Me and Hezamazing.
A 5-year-old gelding by Trippi racing for Class Racing Stable and Keith Johnston, Chimney Sweep has banked $63,878 from five wins in 10 outs. Chimney Sweep was coming off of a second-place finish in a 5 ½-furlong, $15,000 claiming sprint at Zia Park on September 13.
Shivers Me was three weeks removed from a nose victory in the 1 1/8-mile, $40,000 New Mexico State Fair Handicap at Albuquerque on September 26. The 4-year-old colt has won six of 13 races and has earned $86,751 for his owners, Jeff Haylett and Jason Haylett, and while racing at Arapahoe Park near Denver last summer, he won the 7-furlong Front Range Stakes on the Fourth of July.