Coming off a second-place finish in the G1 Bank of America Challenge Championship on October 23, No Mires A La Luna will head in Sunday’s Namehimastreaker New Mexico Cup Championship (RG1).

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A total of 114 New Mexico-breds — 74 Thoroughbreds and 40 Quarter Horses — have been entered, and $1,506,880 in purses will be offered. Following is a preview of all 12 stakes, listed in the order in which they will be run.

Below are the Quarter Horse stakes on Sunday's card.

NEW MEXICO CUP 870 CHAMPIONSHIP (RG3)
Purse, $100,000 — 870 yards
3-year-olds & older

Moonflash Cat, a 5-year-old First Moonflash gelding racing for Mario A. Ortega, is the morning-line favorite for Sunday’s $100,000 New Mexico Cup 870 Championship (RG3).

Moonflash Cat has won five of 25 races and has earned $144,526, and his four wins in 16 outs at the 870-yard distance include a 2-¾-length victory in last year’s New Mexico Cup 870 Championship. The gelding drew post 3 and will be ridden by Luis Negron for trainer Sherry Armstrong.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds:

1. El Tarasco 727 (Noe Garcia Jr.), 10-1
2. Call Me Kash (Hector Aldrete), 15-1
3. Moonflash Cat (Luis Negron), 9-5
4. Bigg Jack (Juan Carlos Rivas), 10-1
5. Mr Big (Miguel Perez), 15-1
6. Dan The Flashman (Alejandro Medellin), 9-2
7. Noreason Fordiamonds (Edgar Martinez) 6-1
8. Why Buy The Cow (Tracy Hebert), 5-2

NAMEHIMASTREAKER NEW MEXICO CUP
QUARTER HORSE CHAMPIONSHIP (RG1)
Purse, $100,000 — 440 yards
3-year-olds & older

No Mires A La Luna, a two-time graded stakes winner during the Ruidoso Downs summer meet, heads a field of 12 state-bred aged runners in Sunday’s Namehimastreaker New Mexico Cup Championship (RG1).

Trained by Marc Jungers for owner Byron Woodard, No Mires A La Luna is a homebred 5-year-old son of First Moonflash. The gelding is coming off of a wire-to-wire, half-length victory as the 2-1 favorite in the 400-yard, $50,000 Jess Burner Handicap (RG2) at Ruidoso Downs on September 4.

No Mires A La Luna has banked $514,065 from 25 races, and he won one of his three starts during the 2021 Remington Park spring meet. The gelding drew post 7 and will be ridden by Lucas Constantin.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds:

1. Marcus Medallion (Adrian Ramos), 6-1
2. Freedom Flash (Alfredo Sigala), 15-1
3. Effortless Candy Cat (Francisco Calderon), 10-1
4. Colby James (Mario Delgado), 9-2
5. Burn One Down For Me (Sergio Becerra Jr.), 8-1
6. Your Easy Jess (Edgar Martinez), 12-1
7. No Mires A La Luna (Lucas Constantin), 3-1
8. Flashing Moolah (Tanner Thedford), 4-1
9. Diamond And A Half (Alan Hernandez), 20-1
10. Don Chuy C (Manuel Gutierrez), 8-1

AE-Hatchi Zulu (Jose A. Alvarez), 15-1, AE-First Apollo Moon (Sergio Becerra Jr.), 20-1.

NEW MEXICO CUP QUARTER HORSE DERBY (RG2)
Purse, $205,940 — 400 yards
3-year-olds

Rex Wells’ Bigg Dee, a multiple stakes winning bay son of Big Daddy Cartel, drew post 8 for Sunday’s 400-yard, $205,940 New Mexico Cup Derby (RG2).

Jess A Chicks is coming off of a neck victory in the first of two trials on October 11.

Mallone (Raul Hernandez Jr.), 15-1