Premiere Cup Handicap $100,000 Guaranteed Runs: Sunday, September 9 For: Three year olds and upward Distance: 6 Furlongs Nominations Close: August 31 James Isaac Hobbs (G2) $55,000 Guaranteed Runs: Saturday, September 15 For: Three Year Olds and Upwards Distance: 350 Yards. Nominations Close: Friday, Lubbock Stakes (G2) $55,000 Guaranteed Runs: Saturday, September 29 For: Fillies and Mares Three Year Olds and Upward Distance: 400 Yards [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Original story: www.drf.com By Mary Rampellini Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., closed out its 50-date mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses on Sunday with a double-digit increase in average daily handle on its live races. Patrons bet an average $397,076 a day on the track’s races from all sources, up 12 percent from the 53-date meet in 2010, [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Original story: Via www.nmhorsebreeders.com E Bar Way unleashed a strong stretch rally under jockey Duane Sterling to win the $129,860 New Mexico Eddy County Stakes (R) for state-bred 2-year-olds at Zia Park on Sunday. Trained by Jimmie Claridge for owner Donnell Echols, E Bar Way went one mile in 1:40.06, and his winning margin was a half [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Original story: www.drf.com Story by: Mary Rampellini` McKenna’s Justice won the richest Thoroughbred race of the Zia Park meet in a head bob on Sunday, when he edged Red Lead on the wire in the $200,000 Distance Championship. The 1 1/8-mile race was one of three stakes on the final card of the season, and all three produced double-digit winners. [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Original story: www.surebetracingnews.com Hobbs, NM – Dec. 4, 2011 – Rodney Christiansen’s Sir Seth scored an upset victory in Sunday’s Grade 1, $150,000 Zia Park Quarter Horse Championship Stakes. Saddled by John Stinebaugh and ridden by Salvador Martinez, Sir Seth led at every call en route to a neck victory over Celtic Classic. The homebred 4-year-old stallion by [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Original story: www.surebetracingnews.com– Dec. 3, 2011 – First Strike outran his 6-1 odds to win Saturday’s $150,000 Zia Park Derby for 3-year-olds at Zia Park Racetrack. Trained by Robertino Diodoro and ridden by Alfredo Juarez for owners Charles Garvey and TG Racing LLC, First Strike covered his 1 1/16-mile trip in 1:44.86 while defeating Thirtyfirststreet by 1 ¾ [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Barbaro Stakes winner Awesome Bet, already a veteran of 13 starts in less than a year’s time, will wrap up a long season when he leads a field of six in the $150,000 Zia Park Derby Dec. 3. The 3-year-old son of Awesome Again has logged plenty of miles in 2011 for owner Mike McCarty and trainer Steve Asmussen, starting 10 times [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Dirt has been a foreign surface to Thirtyfirststreet for some time now as he has been racing on either turf or synthetic tracks since March. But that will change Saturday in the $150,000 Zia Park Derby. Thirtyfirststreet will take on five others in the 1 1/16-mile dirt race at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. The stakes is [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Two graded Quarter Horse stakes worth more than $340,000 in purse money will be run at Zia Park this Thanksgiving weekend. Zia Park’s sprint stakes action gets underway on Saturday with the 400-yard, $140,000 New Mexico Fillies & Mares Championship (RG2) for state-bred distaffers, and it continues with Sunday’s 440-yard, $200,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship (G1) for [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., has moved into the final stretch of its mixed meet and will run five significant stakes before the close of the season Dec. 4. The first of those races is on Sunday, with 11 invited Quarter Horses making up the field for the Grade 1, $200,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship. The final week [read story]