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Ritz/ Coady Photography / story by - Michael Cusortelli for SureBet
Send Me A Candy Tree Scores in
Southwest Juvenile Championship
Hobbs, NM Nov. 27, 2011 - A sharp break from her rail post helped
Send Me A Candy Tree win Sunday's 440-yard, $255,000 Southwest
Juvenile Championship Stakes (G1) for 2-year-old Quarter Horses at
Zia Park.
Ridden by Tony Bennett for owner and breeder Carl C. Pevehouse and
trainer Clinton Crawford, Send Me A Candy Tree made her quarter-mile
trip in :21.336, earning a 96 speed index and defeating Lethal Volt
by a nose. The finish was so close that the runner-up also earned a
running time of :21.336.
Send Me A Candy Tree was bred in Oklahoma. The filly's sire, Oak
Tree Special, was American Quarter Horse racing's world champion in
2003, and his top runners include Cold Cash 123, an earner of
$661,446 this season and recent winner of the $372,544 Texas Classic
Derby (G1) at Lone Star Park, and Furrtreeous, the winner of the
2007 Speedhorse Gold & Silver Cup Futurity (RG2) at Fair Meadows at
Tulsa.
Oak Tree Special is owned by Raul Rubalcava, and he stands for a
$5,000 fee at Jude and Regina Robicheaux's Robicheaux Ranch at
Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
Send Me A Candy Tree's dam, Send Me The Candy, is a 17-year-old
daughter of Leaving Memories who won the 1996 Remington Park
Futurity (G1). The mare has produced 12 winners from 13 starters,
including This Candys Special, a half sister to Send Me A Candy Tree
who won three Grade 3 stakes at Prairie Meadows in Iowa from
2003-04.
Send Me A Candy Tree was coming off of a 1 1/2-length victory as the
2-1 favorite in the 400-yard, $93,968 Texas Classic Futurity
Consolation Stakes at Lone Star Park on November 12. The filly has
won five of her seven starts, and the $115,200 winner's share of the
Southwest Juvenile Championship purse pushed her bankroll to
$259,078.
VGC Moon Walk finished third, 1 ˝ lengths behind Lethal Volt. Denver
Pass, Cypress City, Find Me A Hero, Lalia, Folly Del Rey, Back In
The Pack, Zoomin Hearts and Pink Cartel completed the order of
finish.
A bay gelding campaigned by Dan Adams, Gene White, and breeder P.K.
Thomas, Lethal Volt earned $40,800 to increase his bankroll to
$174,900 from seven outs. Lethal Volt was coming off of a victory in
a September 24 Dash For Cash Futurity (G1) at Lone Star Park.
VGC Moon Walk has earned $73,896 from seven races for his owner,
Valle Guadiana Corporation. The sorrel colt by Walk Thru Fire ran
second, a half of a length behind winner Feature Mr Bojangles, in
the $259,943 Hobbs America Futurity (G2) at Zia Park on October 9.
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