Sedillo Barn Gears Up for a Big Zia Trial Weekend; Fire Powwer, S Super King, Alamos All Favorites to Win

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2025

Coady Media

Veteran Trainer Tony Sedillo hopes to dominate trials this weekend for the Zia Futurity and Zia Derby Friday and Saturday at Ruidoso Downs.

This weekend’s trials are for two and three-year-old New Mexico-bred quarter horses going 400-yards. There are twelve futurity trials on Friday and four derby trials on Saturday with first post time at 1 p.m. both days.

“Our horses are ready,” Sedillo said this week. “We’ve been very fortunate with our state-breds so far this year. We’ll just need some racing luck.”

Two of Sedillo’s fastest two-year-old youngsters, S Super King and Fire Powwer, finished one-two in the $216,000 New Mexico Breeder’s Futurity at Sunray Park May 24. The photo finish camera determined S Super King beat out his stablemate by a nose.

“It was an exciting race,” Sedillo recalled. “Fire Powwer was closing fast and just missed. I was very pleased with both horses. I would think that Fire Powwer is going to like the extra distance of 400-yards this weekend.”

Fire Powwer and jockey Luis Martinez will be number-seven in the second race at 2-1 on the morning line, while S Super King and jockey Omar Iturralde is the 5/2 morning line pick as number-four in race ten. Both horses are owned by CHR Racing’s Juan Ramos and will be making their first local start of the season.

Sedillo is just as hopeful for Saturday’s Zia Derby trials as the horse to catch appears to be Alamos, winner of the $202,000 Mountain Top Derby at Ruidoso Downs June 14. The gelding has won three of four local starts for Tungsten Racing’s Marcelino Gonzalez and is 2-1 on the morningline. Alamos is number-five in race five.

“It’s a quick turn-around after winning the Mountain Top,” Tony said, “but the horse is telling us he’s in great form. It was a nice stakes win and this horse has developed into a nice three-year-old.”

A former All American champion trainer, Tony says the strength of his barn this season has been with state-bred competition. “Sometimes that’s just the way it works out,” he said. “We’ve had years when the barn has done well with open horses too. But for now, we’re having success with the breeds.”