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FAST PRIZE ZOOM HEADS RUIDOSO RAINBOW TRIALS ON THURSDAY Date Posted: 6/28/2008 9:42:23 PM Fast Prize Zoom returns after breaking her own World Record at Sunland Park. Photo by Robert Edwards / Southwest Racing NewsRUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—JUNE 28, 2008—West Texas Futurity winner and world-record holder Fast Prize Zoom makes her Ruidoso Downs’ debuts in the trials to the Grade 1, $625,000 Rainbow Futurity on Thursday (July 3) afternoon. The horses with the 10-fastest times qualify for the 400-yard finals on July 20. Fast Prize Zoom, bred by Weetona Stanley and owned by she and William Smith, vaulted to the top of the juvenile division with her Grade 1 futurity win while setting two World Records in her only two starts. The Wes Giles-trained Fast Prize Zoom set a 300-yard world record at Sunland Park in the West Texas Futurity trials, her first start. She raced the 300 yards in :14.87 with virtually no tailwind and then lowered that mark with help from a tailwind in the West Texas Futurity trials. In the finals, she pulled out to a half-length win in :14.67. Regular rider G.R. Carter Jr. rides the Shazoom filly with the third post position in the ninth trial. Bred in Oklahoma at Lady Bug Stallion Station, the filly is out of the 2002 Heritage Place Futurity winner(G1), Fast First Prize. The Heza Fast Man mare is a full sister Heza Fast Dash who is among the leading third year sires this season.
From five starters she has produced three winners including the World Record Holder and Grade 1 winner Fast Prize Zoom who is now earned $152,120 and is undefeated from two starts and Fast Prize Doll, an earner of $81,427 at 2 last season, finishing third in the Harrah's Entertainment Futurity and qualifying to the Remington Park Futurity(G1). Her other winner if a Corona Cartel filly, Fast Prize Corona, who won her debut at Remington Park on March 15 while recording a 100 speed index.
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