RUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—SEPTEMBER 1, 2014—The two horses who have qualified for each of the three Grade 1 futurities at Ruidoso Downs – Jm Miracle and Bodacious Eagle – try to break through with a win against a very deep field in the Grade 1, $2.6 million All American Futurity today (Monday) at Ruidoso Downs.

First post time for the Labor Day card is 1 p.m.

Also on the Ruidoso Downs’ closing-day program is the $100,000 All American Juvenile and the $60,000 Ruidoso Downs Thoroughbred Championship.

The 440-yard All American Futurity carries the largest purse of any two-year-old race in North America and the winner earns $1.3 million. The $2.6 million purse equals the record purse set last year.

The finalists in the All American Futurity were determined from 28 trials held over two days, August 14-15, with 14 trials each day. The horses with the five-fastest times from each day advanced to the All American Futurity.

The post positions and jockeys will be named at a special All American draw on Thursday.

J&M Racing and Farm’s Jm Miracle raced to a second-place finish in the Grade 1, $700,000 Ruidoso Futurity in his second career start to mark him as one of the premier two-year-olds in the sport. Trainer Umberto Belloc brought him back for the Grade 1, $900,000 Rainbow Futurity and he had no chance of placing after he was on the receiving end of a hard bump and pinched back at the start. The Volcom-sired gelding finished eighth after not being urged when he was out of contention.

In his All American Futurity trial, Jm Miracle won by three quarters of a length and his time of :21.497 came through as the fourth-fastest time on the first trial day.

Johnny Trotter’s Bodacious Eagle, like Jm Miracle, has made all of his five starts at Ruidoso Downs. The One Famous Eagle gelding was third in the Ruidoso Futurity and then had trouble in the Rainbow Futurity, when he broke in at the start. Unlike Jm Miracle, Bodacious Eagle still had an opportunity and came through with a fourth-place finish, beaten by one-half length.

In his All American Futurity trial, Bodacious Eagle battled with Mad About The Moon and came out with the nose win. Bodacious Eagle had the second day’s fourth-fastest time of :21.436 while Mad About The Moon was clocked in the day’s fifth-fastest time of :21.442.

Mad About The Moon, by last year's leading first crop sire First Moonflash, is the only horse who did not win their trial and qualified for the All American Futurity.

Thunderball B raced to the fastest time on the first trial day while Exquisite Stride came through with the quickest mark on the second trial day. Each of them will make their stakes debut in the All American Futurity.

Owned by Pat Guthrie, Billy Smith, Paul Blanchard and Fred Grooms, Thunderball B made his third start in the All American trials and showed his is ready with a three-quarter-length win in :21.336. The FDD Dynasty gelding from the Mike Joiner barn won his maiden in his All American Futurity trial after finishing second in his Ruidoso Futurity trial and fourth in his Rainbow Futurity trial.

D&S Racing, LLC’s Exquisite Stride impressed in his trial, just his second start, when he drew away to a one-and-one-quarter-length win in :21.313. The Eddie Willis-trained son of Carters Cartel made his debut in the Rainbow Futurity trials and won by a nose over Tempting Destiny, who is in the All American Futurity with the fifth-fastest mark, :21.529, on the first day.

Dustin Cox’s Im A Fancy Pyc, who could have been favored in the All American Futurity, will be scratched from the All American Futurity after sustaining an injury while pulling up following a four-and-one-quarter length trial win. The Pyc Paint Your Wagon colt has been retired and will stand his first season at Dr. Joe Carter's Oklahoma Equine Reproductive Center in 2015 (see related story).

The $100,000 All American Juvenile at 440 yards is for horses who raced in the All American Futurity trials and did not qualify for the futurity. It features the two horses who had the sixth-fastest time on each trial day, Stone Cold Diamond and Cobalt Creek, and just missed making the All American Futurity field.

Santos Espinoza and Marc Jungers’ Stone Cold Diamond raced to his second straight win when he won his All American Futurity trial by one-half length in :21.443. The New Mexico-bred son of First Moonflash defeated state-breds in the $20,000 By By JJ Stakes in his previous start for trainer Joiner.

Vwp Jr. Inc.’s Cobalt Creek, a gelding by Walk Thru Fire, took his All American Futurity trial by one-half length in :21.537. He was fifth in the $50,000 Ruidoso Juvenile and then was a non-qualifying winner of his Rainbow Futurity trial.

The Ruidoso Thoroughbred Championship at one-and one-sixteenth mile is a rematch between J. Kirk and Judy Robison’s Isn’t He Clever and Sam and Sammy Stevens’ Ol Winedrinker Who, the top-two finishers in the $75,000 San Juan County Commission Handicap at SunRay Park in their latest starts. Ol Winedrinker Who rallied from a stalking position to get up at the wire and gain the head decision over Isn’t He Clever, who was trying to win with a gate-to-wire strategy.

The Joel Marr-trained Ol Winedrinker Who won the $55,000 Veteran Stakes and then the $167,000 Zia Park Championship last fall.

Isn’t He Clever, trained by Henry Dominguez, won the $75,000 Sunland Park Handicap three starts ago by a dominating nine-and-one-half lengths and then finished second in a $20,200 Ruidoso Downs allowance race at 1-5 odds.

MCM Racing LLC’s Plea Agreement tries for his fourth-straight win and third-consecutive stakes victory. The Weston Martin-trained horse won a $20,000 Ruidoso Downs’ allowance race and the $20,000 Mark Villa Memorial Stakes at Ruidoso Downs. He then went to Albuquerque to take the $50,000 Budweiser Special.

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