{"id":4460,"date":"2010-06-10T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2010-06-10T23:26:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T04:26:24","slug":"runaway-winner-american-runaway-goes-for-first-leg-of-triple-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4460","title":{"rendered":"Runaway winner American Runaway goes for first leg of Triple Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4461\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4461\" title=\"americanrunaway_RFT\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/americanrunaway_RFT.jpg\" alt=\"American Runaway\" width=\"260\" height=\"174\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Runaway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He won his Ruidoso Futurity trial two weeks ago by nearly five lengths &#8211; the only 2-year-old to ever post a faster time for 350 yards at Ruidoso Downs was champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=210\">Heartswideopen<\/a>, his dam&#8217;s half-sister.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, June 13, at Ruidoso Downs, American Runaway, trained by Paul Jones, will go to post in the G1 $500,000 Ruidoso Futurity, the first leg of Quarter racing&#8217;s Triple Crown. His qualifying time of 17.138 seconds is an all-time trial record for the race. If he wins, he will be eligible for a $4 million bonus, contingent on victories in the Rainbow Futurity and All-American Futurity, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Jones claimed his third All American Futurity win last year with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1945\">Runnning Brook Gal<\/a>, but has yet to win the Ruidoso Futurity. This year, in addition to American Runaway, he will also send out Royally Sandra, the second-fastest qualifier with 17.455 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>American Runaway, by Ocean Runaway, was runner-up by a nose to Llano Teller in the G1 Remington Park Futurity in April with co-owner Sammy Martinez as trainer. The Ruidoso Futurity trial was his first start for Jones and his first win from 4 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez owns Runaway American in partnership with Johnny Martinez and Bobby Cox.<\/p>\n<p>Royally Sandra, also trained by Jones, was the second-fastest qualifier to the Ruidoso Futurity with a 3-length trial win in 17.455. The Royal Quick Dash daughter is co-owned by R.D. Hubbard and her breeder Barry Thompson. Her dam, Lady McDiva, is a full sister to 2005 Ruidoso Futurity winner Leading Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He won his Ruidoso Futurity trial two weeks ago by nearly five lengths &#8211; the&#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-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","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=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}