REPOST/ HOBBS AMERICA FUTURITY AND DERBY TRIALS THIS SAT.

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HOBBS, NM—SEPTEMBER 24, 2007—It will be an afternoon of feature races when some of the premier Quarter Horses in the Southwest race in the trials to the $260,000 Hobbs America Futurity and trials to the $137,000 Hobbs America Derby on Saturday afternoon at Zia Park.
The 10-fastest qualifiers from each set of trials qualify to race in their respective finals on Oct. 14.

The 400-yard Hobbs America Futurity trials will be held as the fifth through the ninth races and the 440-yard Hobbs America Derby trials are contested as the third and the fourth races.

First post time for the 11-race program is 1:15 p.m.

The futurity trials shape up as some wide-open races filled with aspiring juveniles.

All American Juvenile winner White Or Wrong makes her first appearance since that 3/4-length win on September 3. The Mr Eye Opener filly raced the 440 yards in :21.35 for her first career victory.

Ruidoso Juvenile third-place finisher Rock Solid Jess, a Mr Jess Perry colt, races in the seventh race, Ruidoso Futurity finalist Shake Securely, a Moon Shake gelding, is in the eighth race and Rainbow Futurity finalist Fear This Feature, a gelding by Feature Mr Jess, faces White Or Wrong in the ninth race.

The derby trials are deep in each of the two races.

In the first trial, the Paul Jones-trained Twoforthedough looks to qualify for his third derby. The First Down Dash colt raced in the finals of the Grade 1, $220,000 Ruidoso Derby and the Grade 1, $448,000 Rainbow Derby. He scored his most important win when he defeated a genuine Already Rude in their Rainbow Derby trial.

In the second trial, Jones will be represented by The Crawfish, a Mr Jess Perry colt who ran third in the Rainbow Derby and was a finalist in two $1 million races at Los Alamitos Race Course in Southern California last year.

Trainer Carl Draper, has three horses in the second trial, headed by Hobbs America Futurity winner Run Perry Run. The Mr Jess Perry gelding defeated the top Grade 1 winners Okey Dokey Fantasy and the Remember Me Rose in their All American Derby trial two starts ago.