26 at Zia Park for owners Brian Goodwin and Chris Seed. Venus Avenue captured the 5 1/2-furlong race by a neck in 1:08. Bred in New Mexico by Richard and Connie Snyder, Venus Avenue is out of the winning High Brite mare Olympic Mettle and is a half-brother to stakes-placed Dome Shadows.

Do you enjoy the trickling stream on a mountainside? The sound of rain... and living here in New Mexico... the 'smell' of rain? Do you marvel at a sky lit up with a million stars? Do you stop and enjoy the sounds and smells of a walk in the deep of a wooded glen? Do you thrill as a cool breeze caresses your face? R.H. Grenville wrote a lovely poem ...