Willard Burbach’s Verny remained undefeated following his victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Totah Stakes (R) for New Mexico-bred 2-year-old colts and geldings at SunRay Park.

Prepped by Greg Green and ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr., Verny covered 4 ½ furlongs in :50.94 while recording his third win in as many races. The chestnut gelding’s margin of victory was a nose from Russian Lane, and he returned an $6.60 win mutuel as the 2-1 favorite.

Verny was bred by Burbach, a resident of Greeley, Colorado, and the gelding is one of 19 stakes winners from 381 starters sired by Gold Case. A 16-year-old son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Forty Niner, Gold Case won two stakes during his 2-year-old season at Fair Grounds Racecourse in New Orleans. Gold Case has sired the earners of $19.09 million from 10 crops, including Randaroo, a six-time graded stakes winner from 2002-03 in New York, Maryland, and Florida. He stands for a $5,000 fee at Dr. Truman Smith’s Mesa Vista Stud at Raton, New Mexico.

Verny’s dam, Hunka, is a winning daughter of the Halo stallion Present Value who has produced three winners from four starters. Now 11, Hunka is a half sister to two stakes winners – Folsum, a gelding by Twining who won the 2007 Daylight Sprint Stakes at Ruidoso Downs, and CK Jett, a Cobra King gelding who won the ’03 Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders’ Futurity (R) at Arapahoe Park near Denver.

Verny’s third dam, the Washington-bred Knights Choice mare Knight Traker, won the 1987 Autumn Days Stakes at Canterbury Downs in Minnesota.

Verny’s stakes resume includes a nose victory in the colts and geldings division of the 4 ½-furlong, $125,162 Copper Top Futurity (R) at Sunland Park on April 17. The $45,000 winner’s share of the Totah Stakes purse increased his lifetime earnings to $113,581.

Running Squall ran third and was followed by Mesh, River Grade Trick, Runaway Hennessy, Elijah’s Elite, Harry And Lloyd, Ting, and Brittany Boy.

Russian Lane earned $15,000 for his owner, Marjorie A. Martin of El Paso, Texas. A $9,700 buy at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale in Ruidoso Downs, the chestnut colt by Devon Lane broke his maiden by 3 ½ lengths in his career debut on May 31.

Running Squall was coming off of a 1 ¼-length victory in a 4 ½-furlong maiden claiming sprint at Ruidoso Downs on June 11. A homebred gelding by Squall racing for W.T. Stradley of Hobbs, New Mexico, banked $7,500 for his third-place finish, and he has earned $13,220 from five starts.