All American Trials 2010

The trials for the All American Futurity were held on Thursday, August 19th at Ruidoso Downs. We had 10 horses entered in the 20 trials. We drew trials 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, 18, and 20. And this is how it went with the wind. Trials 1 through 12 had anywhere between a 4 to 10 mph head wind. The wind decided to switch directions during trial 13 to a 3 mph tail wind, there was no wind during trials 14 and 15, trial 16 there was a 3 mph head wind, trial 17 there was a 5 mph head wind, trial 18 had no wind, trial 19 there was a 4 mph head wind, and a slight head wind in trial 20.

Our horses ran really good for the most part. We had 3 second place finishes with Arizona Hottie, owned by Melvin and Mary Neugebauer, in trial 3, with Brookstone Flash, owned by Jay and Mary Lou Standefer, in trial 4, and with Goose Perry, owned by Dennis Jensen, in trial 15. We had 4 third place finishes with The Mentalist, owned by Dennis Jensen, Randy Young, Johnny Lee and Jill Giles, in trial 1, with Wonderous Woman, owned by Mary Lovey Wood, in trial 5, with Seises Royal, owned by Darian Burt, in trial 6, and with First Valentine, owned by David and Ross Hinkins, in trial 9. We had 1 fourth place finish with Dp Desi Diamond, owned by Dan and Patricia Baker, in trial 18. Standy, owned by Jim and Michele Laird, finished 9th in trial 20 after getting bumped and squashed out of the race. And unfortunately, Seperate Heart, owned by Preston Cloud and Karen and Tuggle, C.E., was unable to finish the race in trial 8 and we feel really bad about that. Sorry for your loss.

Goose Perry ran a close 2nd in a time of 21.581 after slipping coming out of the gates in trial 15 and just missed qualifying for the Futurity. However, he did qualify 2nd fastest for the All American Juvenile Invitational.

The 10 qualifiers for the Futurity all came out of trials 12 through 17 with the exception of 1 that came out of trial 3. There were a lot of horses that were expected to qualify for the finals that didn't. It was kind of a wierd day. I guess you never know when there are 20 trials. Our horses ran good, what more can you ask for other than qualifying for the finals. Maybe if he we had run in the better part of the day after the wind switched directions then maybe we could have qualified. Awww.....what could have been. I guess you just get over it and move on to the next race.

The All American Derby trials were held on Friday, August 20th and the day went about the same with horses that were expected to qualify for the finals but didn't. Another wierd day. We had 2 horses entered in the 7 trials. Jess Good, owned by Johnny Lee and Jill Giles, got bumped and squashed out of trial 1 and ended up running 6th. Spotmeacorona, owned by Clifford and Justin Johnson, ran a good first part of the race but in the end ran back in the last trial. Neither qualified for the finals.

Congratulations to those whos horse's ran great. The trials all contained really tough horses and you should be proud of the way your horse(s) ran. And Congratulations and Good Luck to Dennis Jensen! We will see you back in Ruidoso on September 6th for the finals of the All American Juvenile Invitational.