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Favorite Jesse Lane Gets Up In $202,547 New Mexico Classic Cup Derby(RG2)
Jesse Lane, under jockey Alonso Rivera, gets up to win the $202,547 New Mexico Classic Cup Derby(RG2) Sunday at Zia Park.

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Favorite Jesse Lane Gets Up In $202,547 New Mexico Classic Cup Derby(RG2)

HOBBS, NM—NOVEMBER 4, 2018—After a light bump at the start, Jesse Lane got up at the wire by head over Hollywoodcrown in the $202,547 New Mexico Classic Cup Derby(RG2) Sunday afternoon at Zia Park.

Ridden by jockey Alonso Rivera, posttime favorite Jesse Lane rolled over the 440 yards in :21.734 seconds, a 96 speed index into a 16 mph headwind, to get his third consecutive win. The $97,224 winners' purse boosted his career mark to $297,496.

Trainer James Padgett, II conditions the New Mexico homebred son of Jesse James Jr for owner/breeders MJ Farms. Out of the Lanes Leinster mare Champagne Lane, Jess Lane has compiled an (11) 5-3-0 record that includes winning the All American Juvenile and finishing second in the RG1 Zia Futurity at Ruidoso Downs last year.

The winning connections of Jesse Lane accept the New Mexico Classic Derby stakes trophy on Sunday at Zia Park. © Coady Photography
Racing for owner-trainer and breeder Fred Danley, Hollywoodcrown led early but was out-finished by the winner. Jockey Porfirio Cano rode the daughter of champion sire Heza Motor Scooter from the thoroughbred mare Hollywood Gone by Gone Hollywood.

The $34,408 runner-up check brings multiple stakes-placed Hollywoodcrown's earnings mark to $ 160,933.

Bouncing off a fourth-place effort in the October 14th trials, Ginuwine Buzz finished 1-¼ lengths off the leaders to collect $16,710 for third. Beatriz Sanchez conditions the daughter of Genuine Strawfly for owner Pedro Carrillo.

Bred by Jill Giles, from the Corona For Me mare Reacorona, Ginuwine Buzz has banked $73,518. Joseph Belloc, Jr. was up.