Trio of sprint stakes Sunday at Sunland Park

Sunland Park will run three consecutive stakes from the seventh through ninth races on Sunday. The $65,000 Bold Ego is an open-company race for fillies and mares; the $85,000 La Senora is for New Mexico-bred 3-year-old fillies; and the $85,000 Four Rivers John Deere is restricted to 3-year-olds bred in New Mexico.

The La Senora opens the stakes trio, with the field of eight fillies led by Roll On Matilda. She is seeking to win her third straight race in the six-furlong stakes. She won an allowance race by seven lengths in October at Zia Park and the $140,000 New Mexico Cup Lassie by 5 3/4 lengths there Nov. 4.

Roll On Matilda earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 76 for the Lassie, the best number in the La Senora. Roimes Chirinos has the mount from post 6 for trainer Todd Fincher, who co-bred Roll On Matilda.

African Heat drew well in post 8. She was the runner-up in the Lassie. Jockey Ry Eikleberry, a five-time title winner at Sunland who recently won his 2,000th Thoroughbred race in North America, has the mount for trainer Henry Dominguez.

The Bold Ego at 5 1/2 furlongs is the second of the stakes, and the field of 11 includes Woman At the Well. She enters off a runner-up finish in the $100,000 Zia Park Distaff on Nov. 21. Alliford Bay won that six-furlong race in a blazing 1:08.05 for her fifth consecutive stakes win. Woman At the Well had entered the Zia Distaff off three straight victories, including the $50,000 Petticoat at The Downs at Albuquerque. Chirinos has the mount from post 11 for trainer Weston Martin.

Others making up the field include stakes winners Kell Paso, Fight to Glory, Kram, and Super Humor.

Hustle Up runs in the six-furlong Four Rivers. He went 6 for 8 last year, closing out his season with a win in the $145,000 Steve Prather on Dec. 10 at Zia Park. He is cutting back from two turns to one turn in the Four Rivers. He has won two stakes at one turn. Hustle Up won the first five races of his career last year. Shane Laviolette has the mount from the rail for Fincher.

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