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FAST PRIZE ZOOM FACES TEST IN SUNDAY’S RAINBOW FUTURITY
Fast Prize Zoom and G.R. Carter, Jr. return after breaking the 300 yard World Record for the second time.
Photo by Robert Edwards
Southwest Racing NewsRUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—JULY 17, 2008—World-record-holder Fast Prize Zoom could face the sternest test of her young career when she starts in the Grade 1, $625,000 Rainbow Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Sunday afternoon.
First post time for the 10-race card is 1 p.m. with the 400-yard Rainbow Futurity, the second leg of the track’s futurity triple crown, running as the ninth race.
The Wes Giles-trained Fast Prize Zoom has been sensational throughout her three-race career and is the leading two-year-old quarter horse filly in the nation. She started her career by setting a world record for 300 yards when she won her West Texas Futurity trial in :14.870. That two-length win came with negligible wind at Sunland Park near El Paso, Texas.
The daughter of Shazoom then lowered her world record at the distance to :14.678 when she sped to her first Grade 1 win in the $300,000 West Texas Futurity. She closed strongly over the 300 yards to win by an expanding half length.
Giles, along with owners Weetona Stanley and William Smith, elected to pass the Grade 1, $500,000 Ruidoso Futurity with Fast Prize Zoom and point the superlative filly at the Rainbow Futurity and the All American Futurity. That strategy paid off in the Rainbow Futurity trials when she won her Rainbow Futurity trial by a length and quarter in :19.499, the fastest time from 14 trials.
Fast Prize Zoom starts from the inside post position and national champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr., her regular jockey, will be aboard.
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 is 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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