RUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—MAY 29, 2015— Lilly Is First destroyed her rivals by two lengths in the seventh of 10 trials to the $337,145 Mountain Top New Mexico-Bred Futurity at Ruidoso Downs and posted the top-qualifying time of :17.461 for 350 yards on Friday afternoon.

The horses with the 10-fastest times from the trials qualify for the futurity on June 13.

Owned by R.D. Hubbard, Paul Blanchard and Mike Abraham, Lilly Is First benefitted from a wind shift, however still showed her class with the dominating win. In the first six trials the head wind ranged up to 11 miles per hour, while Lilly Is First raced with an 11 mile-per-hour tail wind.

A $52,000 Ruidoso Downs New Mexico-Bred Sale purchase, the First Moonflash filly was making her career debut in the Mountain Top trials for trainer Mike Joiner. Bred by Mike Abraham, Lilly Is First is out of the Corona Cartel mare Lilly Cartel.

Joiner has been on a roll at the start of the Ruidoso Downs season. He qualified three horses to the Grade 1, $750,000 Ruidoso Futurity and two horses to the Grade 1, $815,000 Ruidoso Derby.

The horse with the quickest mark while facing a head wind was Yaneth Cabrera’s homebred Jess Cruzin On By, winner of the second trial while facing a 10 mile-per-hour breeze.

Jess Cruzin On By, a son of Jesse James Jr, was timed in :17.798 for the seventh-fastest qualifying time. He is out of the Woodbridge mare Woodbridge Ducess.

The Fernando Gamez-trained Jess Cruzin On By was the 1-9 favorite in his trial after winning the $229,860 New Mexican Spring Futurity in his prior start. The colt is now three-for-three over his career.

Another Jesse James Jr colt, Beerun posted the second fastest time for trainer G. Blane Wood following a 2 ½ length romp in the eighth trial. Owner's Terry and Irene Stennett purchased Beerun for $15,000 at the Ruidoso New Mexico-Bred Sale last August. Bred by Mary Towslee, the sorrel colt is out of Kim Crawford, by Tres Seis.

For the list of all 10 Mountain Top Futurity qualifiers with their times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.

The horses with the top 20 times to the $337,145 Mountain Top Futurity for New Mexico-breds, plus nine other trial participants, are being drug tested.

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