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Girl With A Plan Looks to Rebound in Jimmy Drake Stakes
Girl With A Plan heads a strong field of New Mexico-breds in Sunday’s 400-yard, $50,000 Jimmy Drake Stakes (RG3) at SunRay Park.

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Girl With A Plan Looks to Rebound in Jimmy Drake Stakes

FARMINGTON, NM—MAY 11, 2021—Girl With A Plan, a graded stakes winning 4-year-old daughter of Big Daddy Cartel owned by Pedro Zubiate, will look to get back on the winning track in Sunday’s 400-yard, $50,000 Jimmy Drake Stakes (RG3) for New Mexico-breds at SunRay Park.

Girl With A Plan is coming off of a ninth-place finish in a 350-yard, $36,000 allowance dash for New Mexico-breds at SunRay Park on April 24. However, the mare ended her 3-year-old season with a third-place finish, a head behind winner Diamond And A Half, in the 400-yard, $30,000 New Mexico Filly & Mare Championship (RG1) on December 7.

Girl With A Plan earned $152,550 from eight outs during her sophomore campaign, and her four wins included a half-length victory at odds of 25-1 in the November 9, $248,000 New Mexico Cup Derby (RG2). The mare drew post 4 and will be ridden by Christian Ramos for trainer Carlos Alvidrez.

Other contenders include Edilberto Estrada Cano’s Wisho, a graded stakes placed 3-year-old daughter of the Time Bandit (TB) stallion Next Bandit (TB) trained by Ivan Tafoya. An earner of $20,147 from four races, the filly is coming off of a second-place finish, a half of a length behind winner Ell Valentino, in the 400-yard, $57,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Stakes (RG3) for state-bred 3-year-olds on April 25.

Wisho drew post 7 and will be ridden by Alonso Rivera.

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

  1. HS Paul Walker (Jose D. Ruiz)
  2. Marcus Medallion (Adrian Ramos)
  3. Colby James (Mario Delgado)
  4. Girl With A Plan (Christian Ramos)
  5. Cartel Drunk Playboy (Alejandro Medellin)
  6. Running Zulu (Kevin Enriquez-Arenivas)
  7. Wisho (Alonso Rivera)
  8. Wahene Version (Hector Aldrete)
  9. Burn One Down For Me (Sergio Becerra Jr.)
  10. Blazinberryberryfast (Jimmy Ray Coates)
  11. Big Spurs (Joseph Belloc Jr.)

All SunRay Park races can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.

Courtesy New Mexico Horse Breeders' Association.