RUIDOSO DOWNS, NM—AUGUST 19, 2017—Trainer Wes Giles saddled the two fastest qualifiers to the Grade 1, $3-million All American Futurity — including Grade 1, $1-million Ruidoso Futurity winner Uptown Dynasty — while Eagle Jazz dominated his trial and did not qualify for the All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Saturday afternoon.

Eagle Jazz does not have the opportunity to race for the $4-million All American Triple Crown Bonus. He could compete in the $200,000 All American Juvenile on Labor Day.

The bonus goes to any horse that can win the Ruidoso Futurity, the Grade 1, $1-million Rainbow Futurity and the All American Futurity. Eagle Jazz finished in a dead heat for the win with Uptown Dynasty in the Ruidoso Futurity and then won the Rainbow Futurity while Uptown Dynasty finished second.

Melvin Neugebauer’s Uptown Dynasty, with his impressive career resume, will be the probable favorite in the All American Futurity on Labor Day.

Uptown Dynasty quickly gained the lead and accelerated away from his competition to win by one-and-one-quarter lengths over Rainbow Futurity third-place finisher Starfield.

Cipriano Uscanga Vidana was up for the win in :21.802 for the 440 yards.

"He ran his best race ever," said Neugebauer."We X-rayed him after the Rainbow (Futurity) and he is perfect." The Mr Jess Perry-sired gelding has now won four of six starts with a pair of second-place runs.

"He’s been training really well," said Giles.

Sam Green bred Uptown Dynasty in Oklahoma from the FDD Dynasty mare Ms Southern Dynasty. Neugebauer paid $65,000 for the gelding at the Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City.

Challenging Uptown Dynasty for All American Futurity favoritism could be Giles other qualifier, Bigg Daddy, who turned in the afternoon’s quickest time of :21.611.

Too For Two’s Bigg Daddy destroyed his rivals by two-and-three-quarter lengths under all-time everything jockey G.R. Carter Jr.

"Wow," said Carter."I didn’t even turn the whip around until 150 yards from the finish. I could tell that he was just eating up ground."

New Mexico-bred Bigg Daddy’s All American Futurity trial is his only start against open company and not restricted to New Mexico-breds.

The gelded son of Big Daddy Cartel and champion Alice K White won the $371,000 Zia Futurity in his previous start and also has a third-place finish in the $393,000 Mountain Top Futurity. Each of those stakes are contested at Ruidoso Downs.

Owner Too For Two is comprised of a partnership of nine people, including Neugebauer. MJ Farms bred Bigg Daddy from the champion First Down Dash mare Alice K White.

Bobby Cox’s homebred Hawkeye set the standard in the first trial when he won by three quarters of a length in :21.807, which stood up as the day’s third fastest mark. Rodrigo Sigala Vallejo was the jockey.

Hawkeye, a son of One Dashing Eagle trained by James Padgett II, is three-for-three and makes his stakes debut in the All American Futurity. Hawkeye is out of Cox's multiple stakes producing Runaway Winner mare No Fees.

Owned by the well-established partnership of friends R.D. Hubbard, Johnny Cope, Ray Willis and Butch Southway, Hotstepper scored a convincing two-length win in his trial as the 7-10 favorite. Cody Jensen guided Hotstepper over the quarter mile in :21.827.

The Sleepy Gilbreath-trained Hotstepper, a $63,000 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale purchase, won his Rainbow Futurity trial and qualified for the futurity. He reared at the start and lost his chance for a top finish, settling for eighth.

Fulton Quien Sabe Ranches LP bred the One Famous Eagle gelding from the Tres Seis mare Pandorum.

Padgett also saddled the fifth fastest qualifier on Day 2, Fly Baby Fly, a daughtger of One Famous Eagle out of champion Higher Fire by Walk Thru Fire. Racing for the Fly Baby Fly Partnership, the sorrel filly entered the trials off a fourth place finish in the Grade 1 Rainbow Futurity last month at Ruidoso Downs.

Julianna Hawn Holt bred the $180,000 Ruidoso Select Sale graduate. She has earned $85,200.

For a complete list of All American Futurity(G1) qualifiers, including times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.

For a list of the second ten-fastest from both days trials, who are preferred invites to the aforementioned All American Juvenile CLICK HERE.

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