Marr has powerful trio in Dominguez

The numbers are stacked in trainer Joel Marr’s favor in Sunday’s $85,000 Albert Dominguez Memorial Handicap at Sunland Park.

Marr has the top three choices on the track’s morning line – Proceed, That’s Who, and On Down the Road – among seven New Mexico-breds signed on for the 1 1/16-mile race.

The 3-year-old Proceed will be facing older horses for the first time. He sustained the first loss of his five-race career when he finished a distant third against open company in the Zia Park Derby in late November.

That’s Who, a two-time stakes winner this season, was fourth as the even-money favorite in last year’s Dominguez. On Down the Road won the 2012 running of this stakes and was third a year ago, 3 1/2 lengths ahead of stablemate That’s Who.

◗ The feature on the program is the $350,000 Championship at Sunland Park, a Grade 1, 400-yard stakes for Quarter Horses. The 4-year-old gelding Jrc Callas First, a winner of seven straight and 8 of 9 in 2014, is the horse to beat from post 10.

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KEY CONTENDERS

Proceed (Last 3 Beyers: 82-82-78)

◗ Makes the third start of his form cycle and returns to facing statebreds after losing for the first time a month ago.

◗ Alfredo Juarez Jr., the regular rider of both Proceed and That’s Who, has elected to ride Proceed in this spot.

That’s Who (Last 3 Beyers: 74-85-81)

◗ Fourth as the even-money favorite three weeks ago, this 5-year-old old stretches out from 6 1/2 furlongs for the third start of his form cycle. Marr is 5 for 26 (19 percent) with that angle the last five years, but 0 for 1 with this horse.

On Down the Road (Last 3 Beyers: 76-77-82)

◗ Enters this race following a layoff of 63 days, the precise break between races when he won this event two years ago.

◗ His lone win in 12 starts over the past two seasons came going 7 1/2 furlongs at Ruidoso in July.

Reaper (Last 3 Beyers: 80-69-74)

◗ Defeated That’s Who last time out, but that came in a sprint, where this 3-year-old excels. He is unproven going two turns, finishing a distant third each of the two times he tried a mile.