Jess Send Me - won the 16th trial with the fourth-fastest time of :21.302.
The Feature Mr Jess filly makes her stakes debut in the All American Futurity and has won two of her four Ruidoso Downs starts. Jess Send Me finished seventh in her first start, a May 27 trial for the Ruidoso Futurity (G1), broke her maiden against non-winners on June 12 and was third in her July 8 trial to the Rainbow Futurity (G1).
Jess Send Me's breeder, Ellis “Hank” Bird of Bryan, Texas, is a 30-year cumulative breeder. From 579 starters, Bird has bred 66 winners and five stakes winners who have earned more than $568,000. They include Restricted Grade 2 winner Quick Brew and Grade 3 winner A Run Run Runaway.
Sire Feature Mr Jess (1998, Mr Jess Perry-Brenda Feature by Truckle Feature) scored in the Grade 1 Rainbow Futurity and Derby, was second in the Dash For Cash Futurity (G1) and third in the Grade 1 Remington Park Futurity and All American Derby. With earnings of $539,327, he compiled a race record of 16-7-3-3. A son of champion and leading sire Mr Jess Perry, Feature Mr Jess died in 2009 at age 9. From 574 starters, Feature Mr Jess has sired 334 winners and the earners of more than $15.7 million, including four champions and 41 other stakes winners. Feature Mr Jess is the sire of champion Heartswideopen, who won the 2007 All American Futurity.With progeny earnings of $1,819,214 to date this year, Feature Mr Jess currently is the fourth-ranked sire of money earners in 2011.
Jess Send Me is one of seven winners from 11 starters out of the stakes-winning First Down Dash mare Send Me First ($32,221), who in 1996 won the AQRA Turf Paradise Futurity (G3) and finished second in the AQRA Lassie Stakes. Send Me First has produced the earners of $198,159, including the stakes-placed Mr Jess Perry mares Jess Satin and Send Me A Perry. An earner of $78,915, Jess Satin was third in the Ruidoso Juvenile Invitational (RG3) and finished sixth in DM Shicago’s All American Futurity (G1), and has produced the earners of $181,062, including Zia Futurity (RG1) winner Jess A Chicks ($175,537) by Chicks A Blazin. Send Me A Perry was third in last year’s Prairie Meadows Distaff Challenge and has earned $51,861. |