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Congratulations to owner Richard Shearer and First Corona Call

First Corona Call Qualifies for 2010 All American Derby trial with a :21.187. First Corona Call was the only New Mexico-bred to qualify!


TWO $15,000 WOODLAND STAKES TOPPED THIS WEEKEND’S RACES AT SAM HOUSTON RACE PARK
Thereaintnobugsonme & Toast To Deefirst Win Their Respective Stakes Races on Saturday, August 7, 2010

HOUSTON (Saturday, August 7, 2010)—Sam Houston Race Park hosted two $15,000 Woodland Stakes races on Saturday, August 7, 2010. Both stakes races were for 3-year-old Quarter horses racing a distance of 870 yards on the dirt track.

Race 8 was the second Woodlands Stakes of the night and featured 7 horses. Favored horse A Classic Jess rallied on the rail, but was beat out by Toast To Deefirst. The 3-year-old sorrel colt is trained and owned by Fernando S. Velazquez and was ridden by jockey Juan M. Torres. Toast To Deefirst broke sharp from the starting gate, set the pace for the field and drew clear at the finish for an upset win in a time of :46.64.

Toast To Deefirst was a longshot, therefore paying his betting fans nicely with $32.40 for the win. The colt also reached a reputable speed index of 87.


Genuine Strawfly Fillies Run 1-2 in $75,000
Four Corners Senora Stakes on Sunday

FARMINGTON, NM—APRIL 25, 2010—A pair of Genuine Strawfly fillies ran 1-2 in the $75,000 Four Corners Senora Stakes for New Mexico-bred fillies and mares on Sunday afternoon at the SunRay Park .

Carl Draper saddled a home-bred filly belonging to his wife Fredda to a ½ length victory. Jenuine Joy, a gray 4-year-old daughter of Genuine Strawfly broke in at the start but got up to complete the course in :19.380 seconds to earn a 99 speed index.

Ricky Ramirez rode the winner to picking up a paycheck of $45,000. She is out of the Super Duper Couper mare Super Perla Negra.

Edilberto Estrada's Flicka de Fly settled for the second place money of $16,500. Bred by Ray Willis by Genuine Strawfly out of a Coup de Kas mare, the sorrel 6-year-old is trained by Abraham Jaquez and was ridden by Alonso Rivera.

A nose back in third was Bill Price's Bp Shes Southern by Southern Cartel. Fred Danley saddles the hard-knocking home-bred who earned $7,500. Alejandro Medellin was aboard.

Completing the field were Blushing Cartel, My Box Of Chocolate and Southern Discomfort. -courtesy stallionesearch.com


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.”


Dr. Leonard Blach Inducted into
Ruidoso Hall of Fame 2010


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.



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MINE THAT BIRD
Rocks Kentucky!
New Mexico owners Mark Allen and Leonard Blach, DVM
Score huge upset winning the 135 kentucky derby!

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Mine That Bird and Calvin Borel make Derby history.
Order This Photo Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt

 



"Mine That Bird Triple Crown Journey"
by Pete Herrera/ SureBet July issue 2009
(printable pdf)

 

Mine That Bird back in New Mexico

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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2010
Stallion Roster

SOUTHERN CORONA

GENUINE STRAWFLY

DEEFIRST

METALLIC LION

BAY HEAD KING (TB)

SO LONG BIRDIE (TB)
1/2 Brother to Birdstone
Sire of 
135th winner of the Kentucky Derby
"Mine That Bird"

2009 Belmont winner
Summer Bird