A STELLAR FIELD RUNNING ON SATURDAY AT ZIA PARK

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440-yard world-record holder A Long Goodbye will compete in the Lovington Stakes. Photo by Bill Pitt, Jr

Zia Park Post Time Change, Deep Lovington Field On Saturday

.HOBBS, NM—OCTOBER 30, 2007— A first post time change for the remainder of the meet and an exceptional field in the Grade 2, $55,000 Lovington Stakes head the Saturday program at Zia Park.
The new first post time is 12:15 p.m. for the rest of the season that continues through December 11. There are 11 races on Saturday afternoon with the Lovington Stakes running as the 10th race on the 11-race program. There is free parking and free grandstand admission.

Heading the Lovington is 440-yard world-record holder A Long Goodbye, the amazing mare Bullions N Garters, the sharp Look For Wranglers and the ultra-consistent A Special Shade.

The veteran 7-year-old Pure D Dash gelding, A Long Goodbye is still going strong and does his best work while racing in the daylight. He comes off two seconds in stakes races as the favorite after winning a hard-fought battle over Ketel Won in the Mr Jet Moore Stakes at Ruidoso Downs.

A Long Goodbye has the outside post position and Salvador Estrada Jr. aboard.

The 6-year-old Bully Bullion mare Bullions N Garters won two stakes at Prairie Meadows and then finished second, beaten by just a neck, in the Grade 1, $100,000 Refrigerator Handicap at Lone Star Park.

Regular rider Roy Brooks pilots Bullions N Garters with the ninth post position.

Look For Wranglers returned for a layoff at Ruidoso Downs to win an allowance race and that effort set him up for a head win in the James Issac Stakes on opening weekend at Zia Park. Bonifacio Perez handles the four-year-old Dashing Val colt from the fifth post position.

One Special Shade has 11 wins and three seconds from 15 career starts and is four-for-four this year. The Special Leader gelding's two stakes wins came this year in the Sunland Winter Derby and the West Texas Maturity, each at Sunland Park.

One Special Shade has the rail post position and veteran jockey Joe Martinez.

That'll be a good race

Did anyone watch the race?

From the results it sounds like A Long Goodbye wiped
out half the field and Bullions N Garters was right inside of him.

He took out about 4 horses to his inside after veering in sharply but then straightened up and was coming on at the end. Weird behavior from him. I watched it on that link I sent you.