QUALIFYING HISTORY
TrackDateRaceNameFinish 
Sunland Park12/7/20134Sunland Park Winter Derby Trial4Chart

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.
 Iris Alvarez
Owner

Iris Alvarez is from Gardendale, Texas.


PEDIGREE
Elisas Secret - b.f. No Secrets Here-Ali Cartel by Corona Cartel

Race Record: 5-3-1-0 $9,700
Qualifying time: :21.275

Race record: Ricky Ramirez rode Elisas Secret to a fourth place finish in the eighth trial behind Point Break Dash, Tayte Me Down and Vancouver Moon. Elisas Secret broke her maiden on first asking last year at Ruidoso, and since then has never finished off the board while starting only in futurity and derby trials. Elisas Secret came into the Derby trials off a layoff extending to September 2012, when she finished second in the Dash For Cash Futurity (G1) trials at Lone Star Park in Texas.

Breeder: Elisas Secret is bred by Don S. Apodaca of Mesilla, New Mexico. From 63 starters, Apodaca has bred stakes winners Hail Corona and Newarco, 33 other winners and the earners of more than $687,000.

Pedigree: Elisas Secret is by All American Futurity (G1) winner and sophomore sire No Secrets Here ($1,637,095). A 9-year-old son of First Down Dash, No Secrets Here has sired five stakes winners, 47 other winners and the earners of more than $1.47 million from 103 starters.

Elisas Secret is out of the unraced Corona Cartel mare Ali Cartel, a 12-year-old mare that is a full sister to graded-stakes winner Hail Corona ($56,184), who has sired the earners of more than $1.73 million, and a half-sibling to the stakes-winning Go Go By Yawl stallion Newarco ($62,539).

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