No White Flags assumed the early lead and led the field narrowly at the half-mile marker. Two Rivers Over, making his first start against stakes company, was never far back behind a moderate pace under Luis Fuentes. In all, the three days saw more than 20 stakes races with purses totaling over $3.5 million being held at Zia Park. The Tuesday card, which spotlighted many of the Southwest’s best racehorses, was the final act of a three-day weekend of racing that featured New Mexico’s best thoroughbreds and quarter horses. HOBBS – Sent off as the second-longest shot in the seven horse field, Todd Cady and Ty Leatherman’s Two Rivers Over inched clear in the final yards to post an upset win in the $300,000 Zia Park Derby, the headline event of a massive stakes program for open thoroughbreds Tuesday at Zia Park Racetrack and Casino.
