QUALIFYING HISTORY
TrackDateRaceNameFinish 
Ruidoso Downs8/9/20158 Master Salls H.6Chart

CONNECTIONS
 G Blane Wood
Trainer

Blane Wood has conditioned the earners of more than $14 million, including champions Leading Spirit ($811,413) and Haulin Pass ($178,855), and won last year’s Rainbow Futurity (G1) with Ms First Prize Rose ($543,595). Based in Lubbock, Texas, he and his son Trey have one of the most successful training operations in the industry. Last year, Trey in his own name sent out the earners of more than $2.4 million, and in his career since 2006 the earners of more than $8.43 million. With qualifiers Bodacious Eagle and Sam Crow in this year’s All American Futurity, Blane Wood is the son of Leo Wood, who in 1979 sent out champion Pie In The Sky to win the All American Futurity (G1).
 Ricky Ramirez
Jockey

Ricky Ramirez rode Bodacious Eagle on the second day of trials, after being the only rider other than champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr. to qualify a finalist on the first day. The sport’s third-leading rider in 2013, when he rode 104 winners and posted a career-best aboard the earners of $3,073,406, Ramirez since 2003 has ridden the earners of more than $18.37 million. He came into the trials with 33 winners from 281 mounts this year, with a career total of 44 stakes wins and 735 other wins from 4,721 starts. Riding first-call for the father-and-son training operation of Blane and Trey Wood, Ramirez won last year’s Rainbow Futurity (G1) aboard Ms First Prize Rose, the 2012 Heritage Place Futurity (G1) aboard BP Cartels Alibi and the 2010 Texas Classic Futurity (G1) aboard Bodacious Dash.
 Adams, D., Thomas, P. K., and White, G.
Owner

Lethal Volt is bred by P.K. Thomas, who races the gelding in partnership with two longtime friends, his brother-in-law Dan Adams and Gene White, D.V.M. “Lethal Volt is just now figuring it out,” Thomas says. “He’s still green and he’s still a little slow getting out of the gate. When he broke his maiden, he needed every bit of that 400 yards to get there. The farther he goes, the better he is.”

Thomas raises American Quarter Horses on his Circle T Ranch at Weatherford, Texas, and manages his family’s cow-calf operation (the Price Thomas Ranch, or PT Ranch) off the Caprock between Lubbock and Ralls, Texas.

PEDIGREE
Lethal Volt - Lethal Volt, who defeated Mr Ease 123 in the ninth trial, qualified with a :21.337 score by a neck for his second consecutive victory. The Volcom gelding finished third in his first two races, and broke his maiden on his third start, when he scored by half a length in an August 1 maiden event at Ruidoso.

Race Record: 4-2-0-2 $7,000

Lethal Volt is bred by P.K. Thomas who has bred three stakes winners, 33 other winners and the earners of $1,049,452 from 77 starters.

In addition to graded stakes winner The Hurricane ($91,037, by Rare Form), Thomas bred the stakes-winning Strawfly Special gelding Lethal Bay ($149,095, who ran in champion Ocean Runaway’s Grade 1 Los Alamitos Million Futurity). His most successful homebred to date is the Dean Miracle mare Lethal Delight, ($453,701), who won the Shue Fly Stakes (RG1) at Sunland Park and placed second in the Dash For Cash Futurity (G1) at Lone Star Park and the Southwest Juvenile Championship (G1) at Zia Park.

Lethal Bay is out of the maiden Tolltac mare Lethal Weapon; both Lethal Delight and Lethal Volt are out of Lethal Weapon’s daughter Miss Lethal, a maiden mare by Chicks Beduino.

“I’ve had one great mare in my life: Lethal Weapon,” Thomas says. “I bought her from Vessels (Stallion Farm) and now her descendants are everywhere – and it looks like they’re going to cross real well with Volcom.”

Lethal Volt is by freshman sire Volcom, an 8-year-old son of First Down Dash out of the Runaway Winner mare Runaway Vike, a maiden half sister to Restricted Grade 1 winner Miss Racy Eyes ($133,195, by Mr Eye Opener), who is the dam of qualifier Big Daddy Cartel. Bred by John Andreini, Volcom was acquired as a yearling by Thomas, who raced the stallion to a record of 23-11-1-1 and earnings of $430,433. Volcom scored in the Grade 1 El Primero Del Ano Derby and Los Alamitos Winter Championship, was second in the Los Alamitos Super Derby (G1) and third in the Governor’s Cup Futurity (RG1). Volcom so far has been represented by the earners of $123,785, including the stakes-placed Zack Of Hearts ($65,331) and Miss Kara ($15,936).

Miss Lethal has produced three winners from three starters, including stakes winner Lethal Delight.

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