Stakes winner Regal First Moon will head the $50,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes (RG2) for state-bred sophomores on Sunday at SunRay Park.

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FARMINGTON, NM—JULY 29, 2015—Regal First Moon, a stakes winning daughter of champion First Moonflash owned by Regal Racing Stables LLC, will make her first start in four months in Sunday’s 400-yard, $50,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes (RG2) for state-bred sophomores at SunRay Park.

Regal First Moon has won her last two outs, including the 350-yard, $85,000 Sunburst Stakes (RG3) at Sunland Park on March 29. The filly drew post 3 and will be ridden by Jesse Levario for trainer Ramon Rivera on Sunday.

Other contenders include Richard E. Ford’s First Power Flash, a sorrel filly by First Moonflash who will be making her season debut from post 1. Trained by Lonnie Vaughn, First Power Flash has earned $53,648 from seven outs, and her race record includes a second-place finish to Montauk in last year’s 400-yard New Mexico State Fair Senorita Futurity (RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque.

Albert Medrano will ride First Power Flash.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments--

1. First Power Flash (Albert Medrano)
2. Blazin Version (J. Martin Bourdieu)
3. Regal First Moon (Jesse Levario)
4. Officer Moonflash (Sergio Becerra Jr.)
5. La Estrella de Oro (Alonso Rivera)
6. American Gunslinger (Roberto Valero)
7. Dungarees Version (Esgar Ramirez).