Copper Top Winner I Play Dirty Heads Mountain Top Thoroughbred Futurity

RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (June 23, 2011) – The Todd Fincher-trained Copper Top Futurity winner I Play Dirty joins trial-winning stable-mate Scootonover in the $136,426 Mountain Top New Mexico-Bred Thoroughbred Futurity on Sunday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.

First post time for the 9-race program is 1 p.m. with the 5-furlong Mountain Top Futurity running as the eighth race. There is always free parking and free general admission at Ruidoso Downs.

Joe Dee Brooks’ I Play Dirty, a $1,200 Ruidoso Yearling Sale purchase, earned the bulk of his $61,294 in earnings when he won the Copper Top Futurity at Sunland Park on April 16. The gelded son of Roll Hennessy Roll stalked the leaders and then gamely raced to the neck win.

I Play Dirty backed up that stakes win with an easy win in his Mountain Top Futurity trial. He went to the front soon after the start and steadily increased his lead to win by more than four lengths.

Juan Ochoa was aboard for the trial win and rides with the inside post position in the Mountain Top Futurity.

Scootonover shoots for his third win from three starts in the Mountain Top Futurity. He followed his maiden score at Sunland Park with a neck victory in his Mountain Top Futurity trial. He showed his grit by prevailing by a neck when he was threatened in the stretch.

Dusty Shepherd rides Scootonover with the second post position.

My Homey could gain the favorite’s role after a devastating 11-length win in his Mountain Top Futurity trial. The Papis Hermenegildo-trained gelding was the even-money favorite in that trial after finishing third to I Play Dirty as the 2-1 favorite in the Copper Top Futurity.

Jorge Martin Bourdieu has ridden My Homey in each of his four starts and retains the mount with the seventh post position.