{"id":259,"date":"2007-08-18T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2007-08-18T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T20:59:10","slug":"separate-bet-fastest-qualifier-to-all-american-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Separate Bet fastest qualifier to All American Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/separate_bet_20070817.jpg\" \/>Separate Bet continued his dominance at Ruidoso Downs this summer by setting the fastest qualifying time of :20.994 on Friday afternoon, to the Grade 1, $500,000 All American Derby at Ruidoso Downs. The 10 fastest qualifiers from the four trials are eligible to compete in the All American Derby on Sunday, September 2.<\/p>\n<p>With Freddie Martinez aboard, Separate Bet defeated Dont Let Down by one-half of a length, while Valiant Hero finished third, another half-length back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was bumped and Freddie just hand rode him,&#8221; said Separate Bet&#8217;s co-owner Jimmy Harrel. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t want to push him.&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Separate Bet has been a tiger for trainer Paul Jones since returning to racing in June from a seven-month layoff. The Separatist-sired gelding has won each of his four starts, including the $448,000 Rainbow Derby. He also set a 400-yard track record of 19.18 while winning an allowance race by three lengths. He then won his Rainbow Derby trial by two-and-a-quarter lengths and the Rainbow Derby by nearly three lengths.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Cox-owned Dont Let Down and Valiant Hero, who followed Separate Bet over the finish line, had the second and third-fastest qualifying times. Dont Let Down won last fall&#8217;s Grade 1 Dash For Cash Futurity and was second in the Grade 1 Heritage Place Derby. Valiant Hero, a 2005 Ruidoso Horse Sale topper at $500,000, won the $1 million Texas Classic Futurity and the Heritage Place Derby.<\/p>\n<p>Three top contenders failed to qualify for the Derby field: All American Futurity winner No Secrets Here finished third in the second trial. His time of :21.349 was the 11th-fastest. Okey Dokey Fantasy, winner of last fall&#8217;s $300,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship\u00a0 clocked the 12th-fastest time, while Remember Me Rose, winner of the Grade\u00a0 I1 Rainbow Derby, had the 14th fastest time.<\/p>\n<p>2007 All American Derby Qualifiers:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"center\" border=\"1\">\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>Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Separate Bet<\/td>\n<td>1st<\/td>\n<td>Paul Jones<\/td>\n<td>Freddie Martinez<\/td>\n<td>20.994<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dont Let Down<\/td>\n<td>1st<\/td>\n<td>John Buchanan<\/td>\n<td>Juan Vasquez<\/td>\n<td>21.068<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Valiant Hero<\/td>\n<td>1st<\/td>\n<td>Mike Joiner<\/td>\n<td>G.R. Carter Jr.<\/td>\n<td>21.144<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Feature For You<\/td>\n<td>4th<\/td>\n<td>Sleepy Gilbreath<\/td>\n<td>Joe Martinez<\/td>\n<td>21.146<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Royce Rogers<\/td>\n<td>2nd<\/td>\n<td>Sleepy Gilbreath<\/td>\n<td>Joe Martinez<\/td>\n<td>21.172<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mightys First Call<\/td>\n<td>4th<\/td>\n<td>Blane Wood<\/td>\n<td>JJ Gonzales II<\/td>\n<td>21.175<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gus The Greek<\/td>\n<td>4th<\/td>\n<td>Wes Giles<\/td>\n<td>Tony Guymon<\/td>\n<td>21.219<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hiclass La Jolla<\/td>\n<td>2nd<\/td>\n<td>John Buchanan<\/td>\n<td>Juan Vasquez<\/td>\n<td>21.262<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ivory James<\/td>\n<td>4th<\/td>\n<td>John Buchanan<\/td>\n<td>Juan Vasquez<\/td>\n<td>21.274<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Run Perry Run<\/td>\n<td>3rd<\/td>\n<td>Carl Draper<\/td>\n<td>Bonifacio Perez<\/td>\n<td>21.311<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate Bet continued his dominance at Ruidoso Downs this summer by setting the fastest qualifying&#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-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}