{"id":1480,"date":"2009-07-02T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2009-07-09T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:18:53","slug":"love-samba-tops-rainbow-futurity-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Love Samba tops Rainbow Futurity trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2009\/Love Samba.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Love Samba kept trainer Blane Wood&#8217;s hot streak alive with the fastest qualifying time from 19 trials for the $625,000 Rainbow Futurity. The Corona Cartel-sired filly covered 400 yards in :19.542 today at Ruidoso Downs, under jockey Ricky Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by Jim Pitt, who purchased her for $160,000 at last year\u2019s Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale, Love Samba finished second in her only other start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been taking our time with her because we\u2019ve been pointing to the All American Futurity all along,&#8221; said Wood, who sent out runner-up Shake Em Money Pop, also owned by Pitt, and third-place finisher Sir Seth in the $500,000 Ruidoso Futurity on June 7.\u00a0 Wood won the 2005 Rainbow Futurity with Leading Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Leading Quarter Horse trainer Paul Jones won six of the 19 Rainbow Futurity trials and had four qualifiers \u2013 Stepenos, Running Brook Gal, Brooks Midnight and Favorite Cartel.<\/p>\n<p>Running Brook Gal, who clocked the fastest qualifying time for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1361\">Ruidoso Futurity <\/a>in her career debut, won the ninth trial by one length in :19.659, the third fastest time.<\/p>\n<p>Horses with the 10 fastest times qualified for the Rainbow Futurity, to be run on\u00a0 July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the qualifiers:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"500\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Horse<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Trial #<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Trainer<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Jockey<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Wind<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Love Samba<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Blane Wood<\/td>\n<td>Ricky Ramirez<\/td>\n<td>9t<\/td>\n<td>19.542<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stepenos<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>Paul Jones<\/td>\n<td>Cody Jensen<\/td>\n<td>9t<\/td>\n<td>19.632<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Runnning Brook Gal<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Paul Jones<\/td>\n<td>Ramon Sanchez<\/td>\n<td>12t<\/td>\n<td>19.659<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Zoomin With Ease<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>John Buchanan<\/td>\n<td>Russel Hadley<\/td>\n<td>9t<\/td>\n<td>19.662<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brooks Midnight<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Paul Jones<\/td>\n<td>Cody Jensen<\/td>\n<td>6t<\/td>\n<td>19.709<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Delightfully Tres<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>John Bassett<\/td>\n<td>JR Ramirez<\/td>\n<td>11t<\/td>\n<td>19.743<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Conspicuous Corona<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Russell Harris<\/td>\n<td>Cody Jensen<\/td>\n<td>3t<\/td>\n<td>19.744<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Winners Cartel<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Tony Sedillo<\/td>\n<td>Mark A Villa<\/td>\n<td>4t<\/td>\n<td>19.750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Favorite Cartel<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>Paul Jones<\/td>\n<td>Cody Jensen<\/td>\n<td>3t<\/td>\n<td>19.752<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jess Good<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>Wesley Giles<\/td>\n<td>Freddie Martinez<\/td>\n<td>9t<\/td>\n<td>19.765<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Samba kept trainer Blane Wood&#8217;s hot streak alive with the fastest qualifying time from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}