New Mexico Fillies and Mares Spotlighted This Weekend In $50,000 Vista Distaff Stakes

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2025

New Mexico fillies and mares are featured this weekend in the $50,000 Vista Distaff Stakes for three-year-olds and up on Saturday at Ruidoso Downs.

Over Da Edge and jockey Jordy Soto Muniz is the 5/2 morning line favorite for owners Miguel and Mauricio Gallegos and trainer Marco Flores. The four-year-old mare has five career wins and career earnings of $227,776 and is number eight in the featured tenth race.

Fine Am Eye and jockey Noe Garcia Jr., number one, returns to the same stakes race that the five-year-old filly won last year on July 4th at Ruidoso Downs. She is 10-1 on the morning line for Backdoor Thoroughbreds and Chuck Sonnenberg, and has eight career wins with earnings of $225,821.

The rest of the weekend’s races features various maiden, claiming and allowance events. There are ten races scheduled with first post each day set for 1 p.m.

Also, Billy the Kid Casino is having a cowboy boot giveaway promotion Friday and Saturday nights in the casino at 8 p.m. One patron will win a $500 gift certificate for a pair of R. Watson Boots from Boots & Jeans. To participate in the giveaway patrons earn drawing tickets with their Rewards Club card in the casino. You must be present to win, and complete rules of the promotion are available at the Reward’s Club information booth.

This weekend the racing office will accept entries for the next set of Triple Crown trial races, the $1 million Rainbow Futurity, $600,000 Rainbow Derby and $400,000 Rainbow Oaks. Futurity trials will be held Friday and Saturday, June 27-28 while Derby/Oaks trials will be held on Sunday, June 29. Post times for next weekend’s trial races will be announced on Friday.