Second-fastest qualifier W R Carver, a homebred Wave Carver gelding racing for Rose Webb, broke his maiden with a neck victory in Saturday’s 350-yard, $100,800 Four Corners Futurity (G3) at SunRay Park.

Ridden by Bonifacio Perez for trainer Wes Giles, W R Carver stopped the timer in :17.359, the stakes’ fourth-fastest winning clocking since the distance was shortened from 400 to 350 yards in 1993. The winner’s share of the stakes-record purse increased the gelding’s earnings to $60,626.

W R Carver became the second stakes winner from 50 starters sired by freshman sire Wave Carver, a 7-year-old son of all-time leading sire First Down Dash and the sport’s 2006 world champion. A full brother to two Grade 1 winners, including champion Ocean Runaway, Wave Carver has sired the earners of more than $225,000. He stands at Vaughn Cook’s Royal Vista Ranches at Wayne, Oklahoma.

A half brother to 2006 New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) winner Lady La Dash, W R Carver is also one of three winners from as many starters produced by the winning Lucky Aces N Eights mare La Cassia. Now 13, La Cassia was a finalist in the 1999 Zia (RG2) and New Mexico State Fair Senorita (RG3) futurities.

W R Carver’s second dam, the winning Casady Casanova mare WR Cassia, ran third in Silver Medallion’s 1988 Four Corners Futurity at old San Juan Downs in Farmington. A 1986 foal, WR Cassia has produced 11 starters, including WR Red Ace, a full sister to La Cassia who won seven stakes from 2000-02 and was the New Mexico region’s high-point 3-year-old filly in ’01.

W R Carver’s third dam, the winning and stakes-placed Easy Jet mare Feedback, produced three winners from seven starters, including Maxfield, a stakes-placed Tiny’s Gay gelding who broke San Juan Downs’ 400-yard track record in 1985. His fourth dam, the late Pal’s Joann, was a stakes-winning daughter of the Joe Reed II stallion Joak who foaled two stakes winners, as well as Common Wealth, a colt by Loom (TB) who ran second in the ’78 Raton Futurity at La Mesa Park.

Campaigned exclusively in New Mexico, W R Carver has won one of five races, and his stakes resume includes a runner-up finish to Deepwater B in the 300-yard, $50,000 West Texas Juvenile Invitational Stakes at Sunland Park on April 17.

Rockin ran second, a neck in front of fastest qualifier and 9-5 favorite The Essentials. Reckless Jess Cee, Fishin Partner, Classy J, Sissys Corona, Fontanas Dash, Reasbrookstone, and My Special Rocket completed the order of finish.

A bay colt by the late Feature Mr Jess racing for SM Cattle Export Co. of Socorro, Texas, and Jaime Dominguez, Rockin earned $18,144 to push his bankroll to $21,762. Rockin is winless in five outs, and he ran ninth, 2 ½ lengths behind the winner, in the West Texas Juvenile Invitational Stakes.

The Essentials was coming off of a nose victory from W R Carver in the last of four Four Corners Futurity trials on June 3. For his third-place run in the final, the sorrel colt by world champion Special Leader banked $11,088 to increase his earnings to $16,212 for the Fun 4 Racing partnership, which includes trainer Bennie “Chip” Woolley Jr.