Triple Crown Report - Fri, June 28, 2024
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Friday, June 28, 2024 tkeithley@raceruidoso.com
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FAVORITE FIRE V IMPRESSES WITH DAY-1 WIN TO QUALIFY FOR $1 MILLION RAINBOW FUTURITY AT RUIDOSO DOWNS RACE TRACK
(Ruidoso Downs, NM) Favorite Fire V, a two-year-old filly in just her second career start, broke on top and held on by a neck to win the eighth trial race today and qualify for the $1 million Rainbow Futurity.
“She’s such a small filly that I was concerned she might get caught,” jockey Francisco Calderon said. “She left running and really kept her head down and did a nice job.”
The filly ran the 400-yards in 19.480 seconds just in front of Ohana Spirit who also qualified for the final to be run on Sunday, July 14. The other quarter horses to qualify include Aguilla Rapida, Little Vaquero and Space Cowwboyy, all winners in their respective trial races.
Favorite Fire V is owned by Sammy Valeriano and trained by Heath Taylor. It was a maiden win for the filly
that paid $9.00, $5.20 and $2.60.
Racing continues at Ruidoso Downs on Saturday with seventeen races for day-2 of the Rainbow Futurity trials with first post at 11 a.m.
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