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Mine That
Bird Honored In Style Santa Fe, NM (February
12, 2010) – On Friday, Rep. Candy Spence Ezzell (Chaves), dressed in
a black cowboy hat, boots, and tuxedo pantsuit, recognized Mine That
Bird as, “New Mexico
Horse of the Year for 2009.” The memorial passed the New Mexico
House of
Representatives unanimously by a vote of 70-0.
“We were going to take the horse up to the podium and have him say a
few words,”
Rep. Spence Ezzell said in jest. “After all, he does live in my district.”
TIME FOR A CIGAR AQHA CHAMPION 3-YEAR-OLD GELDING 2009 Time For A Cigar (Corona Cartel-Time
For A Goddess by Timeto Thinkrich) won six of eight starts and
earned $318,334 for owners Mark Allen et al’s Double Eagle Ranch and
Dr. Leonard Blach’s Buena Suerte Equine
of Roswell, New Mexico, the same connections who own Kentucky Derby
winner Mine That Bird (TB). Time For A Cigar won the Ruidoso Derby
(G1) and Sunland Park Winter Derby (G2). He was bred by
Abigail Kawananakoa of Nuevo, California, trained by Tony Sedillo
and ridden in his races by Mark Villa, Freddie Martinez and Casey
Lambert.
read complete story and list of this year's winners....
CONGRATULATION NMHBA STATE-BRED CHAMPIONS January 29, 2010 –
Reigning AQHA champion aged stallion First Moonflash was
among the 12 state-bred horses honored during the New Mexico
Horse Breeders’ Association Zia Awards banquet
in Albuquerque on Thursday.
Left
to right – Dr. Leonard P. Blach, Calvin and Lisa Borel and Mike
Cadotte, President NMHB Association
FYI: Birdstone's Fee Upped to $30,000 -
(Saturday, November 14, 2009) Birdstone , sire of two of the
three United States classic winners this year, will stand in 2010 for $30,000,
up from $10,000, at the Beck family’s Gainesway Farm near Lexington. Birdstone’s
son Mine That Bird won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).
Another son, Summer Bird, took the Belmont Stakes (gr. I). Birdstone's half
brother So Long Birdie stands at Buena Suerte Equine in
Roswell, NM.
Roswell, NM (Nov. 14, 2009) Kentucky Derby
winner Mine That Bird has returned to his New
Mexico base and is getting some time off
following his ninth-place finish in last
weekend's $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic. He
is settled in at a Roswell training center
facility (Double
Eagle Training Center) owned by Mark Allen,
who races Mine That Bird in partnership with Dr.
Leonard Blach (Buena
Suerte Equine).
"He's home at Double Eagle, turned out," said
Chip Woolley, who trains Mine That Bird. "We're
going to rest him for a while, probably get him
back up the first of the year."
Woolley said Mine That Bird's campaign for
2010 will begin to be mapped out when he resumes
training. The plan is to keep the horse on dirt,
on which he won the Kentucky Derby and also
finished second in the Preakness and third in
the Belmont Stakes.
Mine That Bird, a winner of more than $2
million, earned a Beyer Figure of 95 in the
Breeders' Cup Classic, which was run over Santa
Anita's Pro-Ride.
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