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KR Dragonfly Scores in Lubbock Stakes

Hobbs, NM – Oct. 1, 2011 - KR Dragonfly, a homebred 4-year-old daughter of Separatist racing for Dave and Sally Kidd, let at every call en route to a half-length victory in Saturday's $55,000 Lubbock Stakes (G2) for fillies and mares at Zia Park.

Prepped by Mike Joiner and ridden by Salvador Martinez, KR Dragonfly went 400 yards in :19.137 to earn a 99 speed index and break by 9/100ths of a second the previous stakes record set by Shesa First Ratify in 2010. The victory also represented her first career stakes win.

KR Dragonfly is a Colorado-bred mare who was coming off of a half-length win in a 330-yard allowance-optional claiming race at Zia Park on September 11. Her sire, Separatist, was the AQHA champion 2-year-old colt in 1999 and champion 3-year-old the following season.

Racing from 1999-2000, Separatist earned $889,044 from 24 starts at Los Alamitos, and his 16 wins included seven stakes victories. The stallion's top earners include AQHA champions and Grade 1 winners DM Shicago and Inseperable. He stands at Burns Ranch at Menifee, California.

KR Dragonfly is also one of five winners from six starters produced by her dam, the 16-year-old Sixarun mare Dreamers Wild Child. KR Dragonfly is a half sister to stakes winner Straw Fly Dreams.

All told, KR Dragonfly has won five of 11 races, and the $33,000 winner's share of the Lubbock Stakes purse pushed her earnings to $83,326. Two years ago, the mare ran third in the $101,640 Rocky Mountain Futurity at Arapahoe Park.

Personal Glory, Raise Ur Corona, 3-10 favorite Jenuine Joy, and Chains And Whips completed the order of finish.

A 3-year-old filly by Walk Thru Fire, Personal Glory races for Hugo Barron Sierra. Personal Glory has banked $171,554 from three wins in 12 starts, and she was coming off of a second-place finish to Raise Ur Corona in the September 5, $30,000 Manuel Lujan Stakes (G3) at The Downs at Albuquerque.

Personal Glory's stakes resume also includes a third-place finish in First Down Illusion's 2010 Ed Burke Million Futurity (G1) at Los Alamitos.

Raise Ur Corona is a 3-year-old Corona Casanova filly campaigned by Guillermo Rodriguez. The filly has won five of 11 races – including the Manuel Lujan Stakes and the June 19, $49,310 Lucille Rowe Derby (R) for Colorado-breds at Arapahoe Park – and she has earned $83,107.