Ruidoso Derby Champ FDD Dreams Races in Rainbow Trials This Weekend
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025
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Javier Rodriguez, owner of Ruidoso Derby champion FDD Dreams, is hoping that another racehorse will step up and hook his gelding Sunday afternoon.
“I don’t think we’ve seen his best yet,” Javier said this week at the barn in preparation for FDD Dreams attempting to make the finals of the $700,000 Rainbow Derby this weekend.
“I’ve been watching his race videos and it seems like when he gets out in front he’s looking around for another horse to challenge him,” Javier said. “He needs to show us what he’s capable of doing and I believe it’s more than what we’ve seen thus far.”
FDD Dreams and jockey Luis Martinez will be number-nine in Sunday’s sixth race as the 2-1 morning line favorite during trials for the Rainbow Derby. The three-year-old quarter horses that record the ten fastest times at 440-yards will advance to the finals on Saturday, July 12.
FDD Dreams is currently on a four-race win streak having won two major stakes events, the Ruidoso Derby June 7 and the Texas Classic at Lone Star Park on Nov. 16. The gelding has seven career wins and earnings exceeding $1.2 million.
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“He’s such a smart horse,” trainer Xavier Rodriguez said. “He’s always interested in what’s next. He’s very unique—for instance we’ll catch him dancing in his stall and fans have watched that online. He’s a happy horse that likes what he does.”
Meanwhile, trials will also be held on Sunday for the $550,000 Rainbow Oaks for three-year-old fillies at 440-yards. The final of the Oaks will also be run on Saturday, July 12.
Invader Shaken Goin On and jockey Justine Klaiber, number-six in the second race, is the 2-1 morning line favorite. The filly is trained by Rodolfo Valles and owned by James Sills and Abel Flores, who paid a $40,000 supplement fee to enter the oaks trials.
Shaken Goin On won the $430,000 Los Alamitos Oaks on March 22 in California and has seven career wins with earnings of $312,000.
There will be six derby and five oaks trial races on Sunday with first post at 1 p.m.