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Photography / story by Michael Cusortelli for SureBet
Ethics Aside Scores Easily in Roble Rojo Bonus
Challenge
Hialeah, Fl. Feb. 12, 2012 - Jeremy Garcia rode Ethics Aside to a
1 1/4-length victory in Sunday's $22,000 Roble Rojo Bonus Challenge
Stakes at Hialeah Park.
Owned and trained by Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Ethics Aside went 300
yards in :15.171, earning a 105 speed index and missing by just
57/100ths of a second the track record set by Real Fast Dasher in an
allowance-optional claiming race on January 21, 2011. Sent to post
at odds of 7-1, the 6-year-old stallion returned a $16.40 win
mutuel.
Ethics Aside was bred in Texas by longtime breeder Joe Kirk Fulton
of Lubbock. The gelding's sire, Mr Jess Perry, is a 20-year-old son
of the Streakin Six stallion Streakin La Jolla and the AQHA champion
2-year-old in 1994.
Mr Jess Perry's top runners include 2010 AQHA world champion
Apollitical Jess, two-time champion aged gelding Noconi, and '08
champion sophomore colt One Famous Eagle. The stallion is owned by a
syndicate and stands at 6666 Ranch at Guthrie, Texas.
Ethics Aside's dam, the 20-year-old Victory Dash mare Daring
Difference, won $527,238 Heritage Place Futurity (G1) at Remington
Park in 1994. The mare has produced 11 winners from 15 starters,
including Splendifferous, a full sister to Ethics Aside who ran
second in Stylish Jess BR's 2010 AQHA Los Alamitos Distaff Challenge
Stakes (G3).
Ethics Aside's second dam, the Beduino (TB) mare Bedawee, was a
two-time allowance winner at Bay Meadows in '79.
The $13,200 winner's share of the Roble Rojo Bonus Challenge purse
increased Ethics Aside's earnings to $50,869. The stallion has won
four of 22 starts, including a 220-yard, $16,000 allowance sprint at
Hialeah on December 11.
Jess Phenomenal ran second and was followed by Jess On A High, Oh My
Gol Sis, 9-5 favorite Bold Badon, Aquafina, and Speed Smith.
A 7-year-old Feature Mr Jess gelding racing for Alejandro Medina,
Jess Phenomenal was coming off of a nose victory in the January 22,
250-yard Banyan Tree Stakes at Hialeah. The one-time $5,000 claimer
has won four of 21 races and has banked $46,174.
Jess On A High is a homebred 4-year-old gelding by Fly Jess Fly
owned and trained by David Eastwood. A one-time $10,000 claimer,
Jess On A High has earned $23,077 from 15 outs.
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