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DENVER PASS PREVAILS IN RAINBOW JUVENILE OVERNIGHT
Denver Pass (inside) gets his first stakes win in the Rainbow Juvenile at Ruidoso Downs on Monday.
Ruidoso Downs PhotoRUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—JULY 25, 201—Weetona Stanley and William Smith’s homebred Denver Pass prevailed at the wire over a late-charging Escort West to win the $20,000 Rainbow Juvenile Overnight Stakes on Monday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
The Rainbow Juvenile Overnight Stakes is for two-year-olds who raced in the Rainbow Futurity trials on July 8, but did not run fast enough time to qualify for the Grade 1, $700,000 Rainbow Futurity that was held on Sunday afternoon.
Ridden by Jacky Martin, who won the Rainbow Futurity on Feature Mr Bojangles, Denver Pass was timed in :19.899 to get the head win over Escort West. It was another three quarters of a length back to third-place finisher Lotta Love For Robyn.
A son of Corona Cartel and Heritage Place Futurity winner First Carolina, Denver Pass won his maiden in his first start at Remington Park and then finished third in a deep Rainbow Futurity trial in his Ruidoso Downs Debut. He finished behind Rainbow Futurity qualifiers Texas Rockstar and YM Quick in that trial. The $12,000 Juvenile purse pushed his earnings to $21,134.
Denver Pass , the 5-2 favorite in the Juvenile, is eligible to start in the trials to the Grade 1, $2.4-million All American Futurity. Those 440-yard trials will be held on Thursday, August 18 – the only Thursday racing program this summer at Ruidoso Downs.
The All American Futurity on Labor Day, closing day of the summer season, is North America’s richest race for two-year-olds regardless of breed.