Trainer Dick Cappellucci has been on a roll and will attempt to keep his hot hand going Monday when he saddles Caprock Cutie in the $80,000 La Senora at Sunland Park. The race for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs is one of two New Mexico-bred stakes on the card. The $80,000 Corralito Steak House will be run at the same distance for 3-year-olds. The stakes figure to produce starters for the respective $100,000 Peppers Pride and $100,000 Red Hedeman Mile on the Sunland Derby undercard Feb. 15. Cappellucci recently hit a milestone of 1,000 career Thoroughbred training wins in North America. He’s also been on fire at Sunland. Through Thursday, he had won eight races from 18 starts for a 44 percent win rate at the young meet. Cappellucci, who won his first race in 1993 at Santa Fe, has compiled a career record of 1,039 wins from 5,610 starts, with a handful of his wins coming with Quarter Horses. His charges have earned more than $17 million. He also has been a perennial leading trainer in New Mexico and in recent years has made an impact on the standings while racing at Lone Star Park and Remington Park. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Caprock Cutie figures to go favored in the seven-horse La Senora. She was a 4 1/2-length winner of the $100,000 Lea County Stakes at Zia in her last start Dec. 16. She set the pace in the 6 1/2-furlong race and went on to a clear win over some of the same rivals she faces Monday. Alfredo Juarez Jr. has the mount from post 7 for Glen Robertson and Bobby McQueen. The chief threat could be Country Club Crush, who in November won the $150,000 New Mexico Cup Juvenile Fillies over Caprock Cutie. One start later, Country Club Crush finished third in the Lea County. Miguel Fuentes Jr. has the mount from post 2 for trainer Dallas Barton. Corralito Steak House Speed Merchant will start as a strong favorite in the eight-horse Corralito Steak House off his nine-length win in the $100,000 Hobbs Fall Classic on Dec. 16 at Zia Park. The Beyer Speed Figure of 76 that he earned is the best last-race and career number in the Corralito. Speed Merchant, who boasts a 4-for-5 record, also is a multiple stakes winner already, with a second such victory coming in the $312,000 New Mexico State Fair Futurity in September at the Downs at Albuquerque. Todd Fincher trains the son of Marking for Dale F. Taylor Racing. Luis Valenzuela has been aboard Speed Merchant for all of his starts and again has the mount Monday from post 6. Speed Merchant’s lone loss was a runner-up finish in the $150,000 New Mexico Cup Juvenile in November at Zia. One start prior, he had won the New Mexico State Fair Futurity over the New Mexico Cup winner, Bully Boy, who is not entered in the Corralito. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.