Fred & Linda Alexander
1713 W. WASHINGTON | ANTHONY, NM 88021
915-539-2176 / 915-539-0040 | FAX: 575-882-1235 | EMAIL: AAHORSERANCH1@AOL.COM

NEWS
2025 MATING PLANS, PRESENTED ABY SPENDTHRIFT: STONESTREET FARM
TDN, 2/6/25
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'Born to run, raised to win' is the motto at Stonestreet Farm and as the 13-time leading North American breeder by gross
yearlings sales, it's evident that the farm's success in the sales ring translates onto the racetrack. Just last year, Stonestreet was responsible for the $5-million Keeneland September Sale topping Curlin colt out of Grade I winner and producer Cavorting (Bernardini). Stonestreet's John Moynihan shares mating plans for SLAMMED and more in the latest edition of TDN's 2025 Mating Plans series, presented by Spendthrift Farm.
SLAMMED (7, Marking--Hennesey Smash, by Roll Hennessy Roll) to be bred to Curlin We bought Grade II winner Slammed at last year's Fasig-Tipton Night of the Stars [for $1.1 million]. She was probably my favorite mare that we bought last year physically. A gorgeous, gorgeous mare and she's in foal to Nyquist. She's by Marking, who is a son of Bernardini. This mare was really, really fast on the racetrack. Going back to what we just discussed with Pauline's Pearl, Curlin has worked so well with Bernardini and the A.P. Indy line. With this mare being by a son of Bernardini, we think it's a great mating. With her speed I think it gives Curlin a great chance to have a really fast horse and it gives the mare a great chance going to Curlin.​​​​​​​​
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Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes winner and $1.1-million Fasig-Tipton November purchase Slammed will visit Curlin in 2025 | Coady
A & A SIRES TAKE THREE NM CLASSIC STAKES
11/21/2024
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NEW MEXICO CLASSIC DERBY STAKES
Purse, $150,000 — 6 1/2 furlongs
3-year-olds
WINNER: Tap Rock (G, Sporting Chance-Air Guitar by Five Star Day)
OWNERS: Leslie Amestoy, Pierre J. Amestoy Jr., and Roger K. Beasley
BREEDER: Brad King
TRAINER: Todd Fincher
JOCKEY: Alfredo Juarez Jr.
WINNING TIME: 1:17.06
WINNING MARGIN: head
ALSO RANS: Sidewinder Slick, Marking Canyon, Attila’s Ace, and Marked Cash.
NEW MEXICO CLASSIC OAKS STAKES
Purse, $150,000 — 6 1/2 furlongs
3-year-old fillies
WINNER: Payingoffmymarker (F, Marking-Domesday Gal by Dome)
OWNER AND BREEDER: Dustin Brooks
TRAINER: Todd Fincher
JOCKEY: Tracy Hebert
WINNING TIME: 1:17.63
WINNING MARGIN: 3 1/2 lengths
ALSO RAN: Scary Cherry, Storm In The Valle, Honky Tonk Honey, Mark The Winner, Mark It Down, Ms. Pounds, Empress In Front, Make Up A Story, and Trust Anabelle.
ROCKY GULCH NEW MEXICO CLASSIC STAKES
Purse, $200,000 — 1 1/16 miles
3-year-olds and older
WINNER: I Think I’m Here (5G, Marking-Limeade by Summer Bird)
OWNER: Charles Dunleavy III
BREEDERS: Chuck Dunleavy and Shawn Davis
TRAINER: Lillian Silva
JOCKEY: Alfredo Juarez Jr.
WINNING TIME: 1:43.49
WINNING MARGIN: 6 lengths
ALSO RANS: Spinning Black, Thunder Dome, Ancient Land, Bodie Got Gold, I’magambler, Jeeps Stride, Henry On The Run, Roll Penny Roll, Jet N G, George Who, and Farmer Fred R F.
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A & A'S Fred Alexander New Mexico Breeder of the Year - 2023
06/19/2024
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Fred Alexander to receive New Mexico Breeder of trhe Year at the 39th Annual Thoroughbred owners and Breeders Awards. The state breeders will be honored at a luncheon on Friday, September 6, 2024. TOBA will hold the National Awards Dinner at Fasig-Topton on Saturday, September 7, 2024.
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FIRST STAKES WINNER FOR SPORTING CHANCE
05/14/2024 | Blood-Horse
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A & A Ranch's grade 1 winner and second-crop sire Sporting Chance sired his first black-type winner May 11 when his son Higher Ed captured the Kendrick Stakes by 4 1/2 lengths at Sunray Park.
Higher Ed is a homebred for J. Kirk and Judy Robison. Trained by Todd Fincher, the gelding has not finished out of the money in six career starts. He won at first asking in June 2023 in a five-furlong trial for the Mountain Top Thoroughbred Futurity for New Mexico-breds. He ran third in the Mountain Top Futurity and went on to be runner-up in the Rio Grande Senor Thoroughbred Futurity.
The Robisons bred Higher Ed out of their homebred multiple stakes winner African Heat (Southwestern Heat). The mare's immediate family has produced graded stakes winners Ubiquity, Elaborate, and Yahilwa. Higher Ed is African Heat's first foal. The mare has a 2-year-old and a yearling by Sporting Chance.
Sporting Chance is a 9-year-old son of Tiznow out of the grade 1-placed stakes winner Wynning Ride. He was bred in Kentucky by Hunter Valley Farm. He sold as a weanling for $275,000 to Lapis Bloodstock, and then for $575,000 to William Mack and Robert Baker during the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Mack and Baker won the 2017 Hopeful Stakes (G1) with him and banked $409,790 for his career.
Sporting Chance stands at A & A Ranch for $5,000.
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A&A STALLIONS SIRE STAKES EXACTA AT SUNRAY
05/11/2024
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HIGHER ED by SPORTING CHANCE, a multiple stakes placed 2-year-old sat in second through the half and cleared the leader on the second turn to draw off in the drive and win the 6 1/2 furlong $75,000 stake for 3-year-olds, stopping the clock at 1:17.60. MARKING CANYON was steadied entering the first turn and bumped entering the second turn, closed to earn place 4 lengths ahead of the show horse.
Five NM sires have sired one stakes winner to date in 2024, led by MARKING the state's leader by winners (16), black type horses (4), and earnings $1,036,147.
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NM's champion sire Desert God, sire of PROCEED, and broodmare sire of $20,000,000 Saudi Cup winner Senor Buscador
02/24/2024 | Blood-Horse
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Joe Peacock Jr.'s Senor Buscador rallied from the clouds to top an international field while winning the world's richest race, the $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) at King Abdulaziz Racecourse Feb. 24. read more....
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KAYE BY PROCEED SCORES IN MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT
02/16/2024
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Second in her 2024 debut on Jan. 12, missing the win by ½ length at 5 ½ furlongs the bay daughter of Proceed stretched out to 6 furlongs at Sunland in a $34,000 maiden special weight. Pressing from the outside four wide into the turn Kaye dueled from the top of the stretch, inched away late. Bred by Teresa Kaye Marr, Kaye races for Ed Wright and Beedy Todd and is trained by Joel Marr, Ken Tohill was up for the win.
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NEW MEXICO CHAMPION SIRES
02/07/2024
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The New Mexico Horse Breeders' Association will honoring the 2023 New Mexico Racing Champions durinig the Zia Festival party being held at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack on july 20, 2024.
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MARKING will be honored as the Thoroughbred Stallion for the Year and SPORTING CHANCE will be recognized at the Leading Thoroughbred First Crop Sire of 2023
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Congratulations to all the breeders that helped our stallions reach this honor.
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