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CONTENTS N OV e M B e R 2014 • VO L. 8 N O. 11 Cover photo courtesy of Santa Anita Race Park Bayern, Martin Garcia up, noses out the competition to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Race Park.

Cover Story: Bayern edges a strong field for the Breeders’ Cup Classic Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Feature Stories: Grade 1 winner Eye For Corona tops Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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It’s in the blood

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2014 LQHA Fall Mixed Sale

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Moonist tops racing poll; NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll Nov. 3; Canterbury Park seeks 70-day racing season in 2015; Officials named for Del Mar’s “Bing Crosby Season” meeting; Barrett Sales shifts to Del Mar Fairgrounds starting in 2015; $1 Million Delta Downs Jackpot nominations close as overflow list of 2-year-olds aim for a huge payday; Fair Grounds to host DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship qualifier Dec. 20; OTB Challenge scheduled for Nov. 8; Two Grade 1 juvenile events highlight upcoming Los Alamitos Winter Thoroughbred Meet Stakes schedule; Quarter Horse rescued out of infield lake at Los Alamitos Race Course; Retired school teacher owns Wild West winner at Los Alamitos; Northlands Park celebrates successful Thoroughbred season; Race to Whip Cancer, New Mexico Cup highlight big weekend at Zia Park

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Race Recaps: Quarter Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Results from Los Alamitos Race Course; The Downs at Albuquerque; Zia Park; Portland Meadows; Lone Star Park Thoroughbred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Results from Delta Downs, The Downs at Albuquerque; Zia Park; Remington Park; Portland Meadows

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COVER STORY

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Recap from Santa Anita Park “His brilliance is his weapon,” trainer Bob Baffert said of Bayern after Kaleem Shah’s 3-year-old Offlee Wild colt led every step from gate to wire to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic. “You’ve got to flaunt your speed.”

Bayern certainly did, maintaining a lead of a length or more into the stretch as he took the field through a half in :46.44 and a mile in 1:34.16. Toast of

Bayern edges a strong field for the Breeders’ Cup Classic championship

New York, tenaciously running second throughout, was a game challenger in the final furlong and narrowed Bayern’s margin to a nose at the finish. California Chrome was a neck back in third.

The final time for the 1 1/4 mile race was 1:59.88.

Three other 3-year-olds rounded out the top six, with 5-2 post-time favorite Shared Belief coming in fourth following a troubled start in which he

was bumped after the winner veered sharply to the left.

Following an inquiry, the stewards ruled that the incident did not affect the order of finish.

The win was a first for Baffert in the Classic. “This has been so long in the making,” said the trainer, who won his first Breeders’ Cup race in 1992. Bayern’s victory was also the first Classic win for rider Martin Garcia.

Eye For Corona tops Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale

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ye For Corona, a Grade 1-winning 9-year-old daughter of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel, sold for $132,000 to top the Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale, held Oct. 31 Nov. 1 in Oklahoma City.

Eye For Corona (Hip No. 188) was consigned by Julianna Hawn Holt of Blanco, Texas, and acquired by Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms of Veguita, New Mexico. The mare’s dam, Eye For The Sixes, is a daughter of Mr Eye Opener who ran third in champion Significant Speed’s 2000 Rainbow Derby (Grade 1) at Ruidoso Downs.

Racing at Los Alamitos from 2007-08, Eye For Corona earned $1,100,121 from 13 starts, and her four wins included a victory in the $1,157,700 Golden State Futurity (Grade 1) during her 2-year-old campaign. The mare also ran second in the Los Alamitos Two-Million (Grade 1) and Ed Burke Million (Grade 1) futurities.

Eye For Corona’s nine starters to date include Ultimate Wave, a colt by champion Wave Carver who won the 2012 AQHA Arapahoe Park Derby Challenge , and Eye For FDD, a stakes-placed gelded son of First Down Dash who was a finalist in the 2012 Golden State (Grade 1) and Los Alamitos Winter (Grade 1) derbies. The mare was bred on March 26 and is believed to be in foal to champion Mr Jess Perry.

Jabuti Eagle SA (Hip No. 383), a 4-year-old graded stakes winning stallion by champion One Famous Eagle, was acquired

by Salome Gallegos for $95,000. Consigned by Lazy E Ranch LLC as agent for Splenda LLC/Sonia Samaja, Jabuti Eagle SA won last year’s $160,850 Southern California Derby (Grade 1)

at Los Alamitos, and the stallion is a half brother to two stakes winners, including 2011 champion aged horse Good Reason SA. The third-highest seller, Send A Candy Guy (Hip No. 411), was purchased for $75,000 by Marshal S. Wier of Ericson, Nebraska, from consignor Lea Stodart, agent for the estate of Carl C. Pevehouse. A stakes-winning 4-year-old stallion by PYC Paint Your Wagon, Send A Candy Guy has earned $132,352 from 19 outs in Oklahoma, Texas, and Iowa.

Mr Barbosa (Hip No. 1) was the top-selling yearling. Consigned by S & E Prepping, the sorrel colt by champion Tempting Dash and half brother to Grade 2 winner Paint Me Perry was acquired for $55,000 by brothers Tom Maher and Bill Maher.

A total of 546 head were offered in the sale, of which 439 sold for a gross of $4,198,200. The sale average was $9,563, and the median price was $5,700, 41 percent higher than last year’s median of $4,050.

Darling Farms/Darling Oil of Lamont, Oklahoma, was the sale’s leading buyer with 10 purchases for a total of $144,500.

6666 Ranch of Guthrie, Texas, was the top consignor with 23 head selling for $326,100.

The sale was preceded by a “Night of Legends” presentation on Oct. 30, which honored longtime horsemen Denny Ekins, Russell Harris, James McArthur, Mike Robbins, Eddie Willis, and Blane Wood.

For more information on the sale, including complete results, visit the Heritage Place website at www.heritageplace. com, or call (405) 682-4551.

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It’s in the blood

He shoots, he scores... again

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By Ty Wyant

wner/breeder and AQHA past president Jerry Windham, a former Texas A&M basketball player, has scored again.

Windham’s mare, Veva Jean, has impacted Grade 1 stakes this year more than any other mare. Her daughter, William Smith’s Trendi, won the Grade 1, $900,000 Rainbow Futurity back in July and her son, homebred Stimulus, won the Grade 1, $350,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship on Oct. 18.

Windham and Veva Jean have produced big scores in the past. Windham’s homebred Stolis Winner, a full brother to Trendi, was the world champion at two when he won the Grade 1, $1.9 million All American Futurity, Grade 1, $625,000 Rainbow Futurity and the Grade 1, $1,084,194 Heritage Place Futurity. The Stimulus winning Bank of America gelding retired with Challenge Championship. earnings of $2,235,161, Photo courtesy of Coady Photography second only to Ochoa’s earnings of $2,781,365.

Stolis Winner and Trendi are each sired by Stoli while Stimulus is sired by Mr Jess Perry.

Windham was one of the first horsemen outside of California to pay attention to Beduino (TB), who was standing at Vessels Stallion Farm next to Los Alamitos Race Course at the time. He went to the 1983 PCQHRA Yearling Sale and found a Beduino (TB) filly named Indigo Illusion.

Indigo Illusion turned out to be pure speed and earned $476,890 on her way to induction into the AQHA Hall of Fame. The highlight of her career came in the 1984 Faberge Special Effort Futurity. She raced the 440-yards in :21.26 for the fastest quarter mile ever by a two-year-old at the time. Finishing second was Rise N High and third was future (1984) world champion Dashs Dream.

The time approached the legendary :21.17 track record sent by Dash For Cash in the 1976 Champion of Champions. Each of those times were set during daytime racing at Los Alamitos.

Windham went to all the major sales and farms looking for correct offspring of Beduino (TB). He found a colt named Runaway Winner, the sire of Veva Jean.

Runaway Winner won the 1987 Grade 1, $436,172 Kindergarten at Los Alamitos and then the 1988 Grade 1, $222,780 El Primero Del Ano Derby when it was run at Bay Meadows for several years.

Runaway Winner became a leading sire when he hit the breeding barn. He sired champions Deceptively and Treacherously among his 65 stakes winners and 103 stakes-placed competitors.

One of those stakes-placed horses was Veva Jean, who ran second in the Grade 3 Barnmaster Sprint Stakes.

Then Windham took his affection for Beduino (TB) breeding one step further by line breeding the stallion. This line breeding produced Stolis Winner and Trendi.

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Stoli, the sire of Stolis Winner and Trendi, is by First Down Dash and out of Strawberry Silk. The Beduino (TB) sired Strawberry Silk won the 1989 Grade 1, $2 million All American Futurity.

She became a champion producer when Stoli was named 2001 champion 3-year-old. She produced three other stakes winners and is a member of the Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame.

Therefore, Stolis Winner and Trendi are bred 3S x 3D to Beduino (TB) with each cross through champion producers.

Stimulus’ pedigree also shows line breeding, but to Streakin Six instead of Beduino (TB). The gelding is bred 3 s x 3d to Streakin Six, a son of Easy Six. The Easy Jet-sired Easy Six won the Sun Country Futurity and the Kansas Derby for trainer Don Farris. Sandy Farris, Don’s wife, said Easy Six would get so excited during the races that his groom put cotton in his ears to help calm the studdy colt. He had to be ponied with an exercise rider or jockey up.

Easy Six was on his way to making an historic impact in quarter horse racing before he died when he was six-years-old in 1978. The summer after he died, Streakin Six and the Easy Six-sired Sages Belle Star ran one-two in the Grade 1, $422,815 Rainbow Futurity and then Streakin Six finished second in the Grade 1, $1 million All American Futurity. Also in that All American Futurity, Sages Belle Star was fifth and the Easy Six-sired Easy Azuree was seventh. (Denim N Diamonds finished between them.)

Streakin Six, Sages Belle Star and Easy Azuree were from Easy Six’s first crop. His second crop included All American Futurity finalist Six Fols, who defeated eventual All American Futurity winner Higheasterjet in their All American Futurity trial.

Easy Six sired 146 starters, 109 winners and 14 stakes winners.

Easy Six was owned by a syndicate when he died. However he raced for the S.B. Burnett Estate (Anne Tandy, et al). With the backing of the Burnett Estate/6666 Ranch and the other syndicate members, Easy Six could have become a most influential sire.

Stimulus is sired by Mr Jess Perry, one of the top-three alltime leading sires of money earners. Mr Jess Perry is sired by the Streakin Six son Streakin La Jolla.

Veva Jean is out of the Streakin Six daughter Swing Step Sue, who produced the graded stakes-placed Racing Zone, in addition to Veva Jean.

Veva Jean is climbing up the list of all-time leading producers of money earners. She currently fourth with her offsprings’ earnings nearing the $3 million mark. One of the mares ahead of her, in second position, is the Runaway Winner daughter Runaway Wave.

Trendi will return to Ruidoso Downs next summer when the three Grade 1 derbies are projected to make total purses of more than $4 million. Stimulus is now a Grade 1 winner and the gelding is eligible to the Grade 1, $600,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos in December. He then will continue to race under Windham’s astute management.

Windham is ready to shoot and add to his totals in the box score.

Ty Wyant has been covering racing since 1976. He is currently the media relations director for Ruidoso Downs and Zia Park, and the curator of the Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame.

2014 LQHBA Fall Mixed Sale

Quality offerings for breeding, racing and more

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By Martha Claussen

he Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association (LQHBA) will present its 2014 Fall Mixed Sale on Saturday, Nov. 8. The action begins at 10 a.m. at the Equine Sales of Louisiana, LLC sale pavilion in Opelousas, Louisiana.

The catalog lists 142 horses with a wide range of offerings from weanlings and yearlings, to broodmares and horses of racing age. Since 1986, the sale has offered consignors an opportunity to close out their year with quality sales and buyers one more chance to spot a future racing and breeding prospect.

New venue in Opelousas selected for this year’s Fall Mixed Sale

2014 LQHBA Fall Mixed Sale Saturday, Nov. 9 • 10 a.m.

Equine Sales of Louisiana, LLC 372 Harry Guilbeau Road Opelousas, LA 70570 Free and open to the public Sale catalog available at lqhba.com or by calling (318) 487-9506

The 2014 event will have a change of venue from Kinder to the Equine Sales of Louisiana, LLC sale pavilion in Opelousas, Louisiana. The company was founded and owned by horsemen with the goal of promoting both the Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred equine industry in Louisiana. They held their first Yearling sale in 2012, and will be easily accessible for the horsemen currently running at Evangeline Downs.

“We are thoroughly excited to welcome the Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association to our facility,” said Foster Bridewell of Equine Sales of Louisiana. “We have added four new barns adjacent to the sale pavilion, which will be very convenient for the horsemen.”

“Our Nov. 8 date is the morning after trials for the LQHBA Breeders’ Futurity,” said Ryan Robicheaux, a Louisiana horseman and LQHBA board member. “This new location is less than five miles from Evangeline Downs, so we hope that the owners and breeders attending the trials will make it to the Fall Mixed Sale this year.”

The annual LQHBA Yearling Sale will remain at the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, Louisiana in August.

“Our board of directors chose to move the Fall Mixed Sale to Opelousas,” said Tony Patterson, executive director of the LQHBA. “We are fortunate to have two quality venues to host our annual Yearling and Fall Mixed Sales.”

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Consignors preparing their stock More than 60 consignors in Louisiana are making final preparations to send their horses to Opelousas. Chris Blanchet, who owns Blanchet Farms in Ville Platte, plans to send 32 prospects to the Fall Mixed Sale. He is hoping to attract buyers for a wide range of offerings, from broodmares in foal to weanlings to older horses that are no longer viable racehorses, but have potential as barrel or rodeo prospects.

“The Mixed Sale is important to Louisiana horsemen in many ways,” explains Blanchet. “We have quality mares enrolled in breeding programs and we want to keep them here. The young horses that pass through the sale ring help us promote our stallion program and might encourage horsemen to breed to Louisiana stallions. There are some older horses that haven’t been successful on the racetrack, but could become an excellent barrel horse.”

Natalie Montgomery and her husband, Jim are prepping four weanlings and three mares for the 2014 Mixed Sale.

“This is a good way to wrap up the season and get ready for foaling,” said Montgomery. “Equine Sales of Louisiana has a very nice facility. We hope for a good turnout at the sale.”

Robicheaux Ranch, LLC is another major consignor and has several quality yearlings in the catalog.

“Some of our babies were just not ready for the August Yearling Sale,” states Ryan Robicheaux. “We look at it that they would have been small fish in a big pond, but should get their fair share of attention in the Fall Mixed Sale.”

Majority of weanlings & yearlings eligible for the $1 Million LQHBA Breeders’ Futurity Horsemen who make a winning bid on one of the weanlings or yearlings in the Fall Mixed Sale are in luck as the majority of the young horses in the sale are currently eligible for the LQHBA Breeders’ Futurity. The race, held at the end of November at Evangeline Downs, is the only seven-figure futurity in Louisiana.

Each of the yearlings that pass through the annual LQHBA Yearling Sale are eligible to run in trials for the million dollar LQHBA Breeders’ Futurity.

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However, the Fall Mixed Sale catalog has 17 weanlings listed and the owners of 16 have made the first payment for the 2016 LQHBA Breeders’ Futurity. Of the 49 yearlings, payments are up to date for 33 for next year’s event.

“This is another opportunity for horsemen to spot the next major Louisiana champion,” adds Patterson. “The majority of young horses that will pass through the sale ring are paid to date for the richest state-bred futurity in the country.”

Potential racing prospects spotted in 2013 The sale topper in the 2013 Fall Mixed Sale was Lils Little Snow who sold for $37,000, but the majority of horses passing through the ring went for very affordable prices; some for under $1,000.

While many of the graduates were purchased exclusively for breeding, there were several excellent racing prospects as well. Most notably was Hubert Vestal’s purchase of Embrujo Star, a daughter of Embrujo Fg out of the Toast to Dash mare Allas Toast for just $5,000. Trained by Trey Ellis, the talented filly won the $286,280 Lassie Futurity at Delta Downs and ran third in the $645,645 Lee Berwick Futurity on July 12. Her current earnings stand at $222,424.

Noe R. Sanchez signed a $6,700 ticket for Party With Braxton, a colt by Swingin Jess. He qualified for futurities at Louisiana Downs and Fair Grounds and has already earned $73,394 in six career starts.

“The Mixed Fall Sale is a great way to pick up a quality futurity prospect,” states Blanchet. “Some yearlings need time to mature and do not get the attention they deserve at the LQHBA Yearling Sale in August.”

Live streaming of the 2014 Fall Mixed Sale will be available on the Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association website: www.lqhba.com.

Martha Claussen served as publicity director at Sam Houston Race Park for ten years. She continues to be active in writing, fan education and Quarter Horse racing publicity in Texas, Louisiana and other regions in North America.

Moonist tops racing poll

American Quarter Horse Association

Moonist, a winner in nine of 10 starts this year and one of the fastest sophomores on the West Coast, now can call himself the No. Moonist, Cesar De Alba up, was the best in this 1-ranked runner in year’s Golden State Derby at Los Alamitos. the AQHA RacingPhoto courtesy of Los Alamitos Race Course Horseplayernow. major change to the rankings com Poll. The patient pollsters this week. Also note that DM had been weighing Moonist’s resume in recent weeks, as the Streakn Thru Fire snuck back son of Separatist inched closer into the poll this week at No. 10, to the top. This week, he earned the only newcomer compared a single point more than reign- to a week ago.

The race for the top of ing top-ranked older horse Bon Accord, 94-93, to reach the the 2-year-old rankings also remains tight, with Kiss My highest perch. It was the only

NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll - Nov. 3

Week 29 of the FINAL 2014 NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll conducted by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), covering racing performances through Nov. 2. Current Horse of the Year ranking of the Top Thoroughbred on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-1 basis with first place votes in parentheses, 2014 record and total points. Poll concluded Monday, Nov. 3. A-S: Age-Sex, Sex: C-colt, G-gelding, Hhorse, F-filly, M-mare, R-ridgling.

HORSE 1 Main Sequence (20) 2 Bayern (13) 3 California Chrome (5) 4 Untapable (4) 5 Shared Belief (1) 6 Wise Dan (5) 7 Goldencents 8 Tonalist 9 Palace Malice 10 Work All Week

A-S 5-G 3-C 3-C 3-F 3-G 7-G 4-C 3-C 4-C 5-G

STATS 4-4-0-0 10-6-1-1 8-5-0-1 7-6-0-0 5-4-0-0 4-4-0-0 5-2-3-0 8-4-2-1 5-4-0-0 6-5-1-0

PTS 418 385 331 327 295 283 172 103 59 39

PVS 5 6 4 7 1 2 11 3 10 -

Other horses receiving votes: Dayatthespa (33), Judy The Beauty (31), Toast Of New York (30), Beholder (29), Close Hatches (23), Texas Red (18), Lady Eli (11), American Pharoah (9), Don’t Tell Sophia (9), Tapiture (7), Game On Dude (6), Karakontie (5), Bobby’s Kitten (4), Moreno (4), Will Take Charge (4), Stopchargingmaria (3), Candy Boy (2)

Hocks pacing the standings this week just ahead of a rising Heza Dasha Fire. This week, the latter supplanted All American Futurity (Grade 1) winner JM Miracle in the No. 2 spot by a single point in the balloting, 92-91, for the first time.

nouncer/handicapper) Ben Hudson (TRACK Magazine Owner/Publisher) Mike Joyce (TVGanalyst) Jeremy Plonk (Night School cofounder/host) Jerry Shottenkirk (Horseplayernow. com, handicapper/oddsmaker) Terry Turrell (Horseplayernow.com National rankings, 2-year-olds handicapper) 1. KISS MY HOCKS (100) Ty Wyant (writer, Daily Racing Form 2. HEZA DASHA FIRE (92) and AQHA)

3. JM MIRACLE (91) 4. TRENDI (74) 5. MAD ABOUT THE MOON (58) 6. LOVETHEWAYYOULIE (41) 7. BF FARM BOSS (39) 8. RATTLE N BATTLE (31) 9. PAINT ME PERRY (26) 10. OLD GIRL (13) Sam Crow (8), Bodacious Eagle (7), AJs High (7), Hezadashinbye (5), Takiana Romanova B (5), Apollitical Blood (5), Cartels Fire (2), BV Travelin Soldier (1)

AQHA News and information is a service of the American Quarter Horse Association. For more news and information, follow @ AQHARacing on Twitter, watch the AQHA Racing Newscast and visit www.aqharacing.com.

Canterbury Park, Shakopee, MN National rankings, 3-year-olds & older Canterbury Park seeks 1. MOONIST (94) 70-day racing season 2. BON ACCORD (93) in 2015

3. TOO FLASH FOR YOU (79) 4. HOUDINI (73) 5. A TOSS UP (66) 6. STIMULUS (44) 7. FAR NIENTE (33) 8. FIVE BAR CARTEL (24) 9. NELLIE DELANEY (21) 10. DM STREAKN THRU FIRE (18) Last To Fire (17), Rock You (10), Viva Mi Corazon (6), Significant Heart (5), Llano Cartel (5), Hes Relentless (3), JRC Callas First (3), One Valiant Hero (3), Dashin For A Prize (1), TF Featured Effort (1)

Canterbury Park officials submitted a request to the Minnesota Racing Commission seeking approval for a 70-day horse racing season in 2015.

The proposed race meet would begin May 15 and conclude Sept. 12, making the 2015 season the longest since 1992 when 87 days were conducted.

The 2014 season, which concluded Sept. 13, consisted of 68 days. The MRC is expected to consider the request next month.

“Horse racing and breedThe 11 voters are: Ed Burgart (Los Alamitos announc- ing in Minnesota is as strong and popular as any period in er/handicapper) recent history and I expect the Martha Claussen (Q-Racing Ace, writer/handicapper) popularity to continue to grow,” Mike Cusortelli (writer/handicapper) Canterbury Park President Randy Sampson said. “We have Tom Dawson (Network television producer) found a schedule that works very well and look forward to Dale Day (Remington Park anSureBet RacingNews.com • November 2014 • Vol. 8 No. 11 9

running a 70-day meet in 2015, the longest since we reopened the racetrack in 1995.”

Horsemen purses at the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack, more than $13 million, were at an all-time high in 2014 and are expected to increase another 5 percent next season due to a cooperative marketing and purse enhancement agreement reached in 2012 with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community that will supplement those purses by $75 million over 10 years.

“Breeding increased as purses increased which means more horses in Minnesota in the coming years,” Sampson said. “We also saw trainers and owners that had not raced at Canterbury coming here and experiencing success. There will be more new faces in 2015 and with those new faces come more jobs in the industry.”

The success of the cooperative marketing agreement with SMSC led to a broader marketing coalition unveiled earlier this year. Canterbury Park, in a joint public-private collaboration, joined forces with Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Valleyfair, Minnesota Renaissance Festival, SMSC, and the cities of Shakopee and Prior Lake to promote the premier entertainment opportunities that exist in the southwest Twin Cities, naming the collaboration RiverSouth, Land of Big Fun. “Canterbury Park is an integral part of this community, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors to the area each summer,” Sampson said. “All businesses and residents in the area benefit from the strength and success of the entertainment venues that comprise RiverSouth. This new unity of public and private entities will pay off for everyone.”

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holiday racing beginning at 12:45 p.m. Select Saturdays will have special evening racing.

More information is available at www.canterburypark. com.

Del Mar, CA Officials named for Del Mar’s “Bing Crosby Season” meeting

Del Mar Thoroughbred Club will present its first “Bing Crosby Season” starting next Friday (Nov. 7) led by a veteran team of racing officials. The 15-day stand, which carries through to Sunday, Nov. 30, fills in a notable portion of the racing dates that previously were run at the now-shuttered Hollywood Park.

Leading the Del Mar officials’ crew is DMTC’s executive vice president for racing and industry relations, Tom Robbins, serving his 34th year at the seaside oval. Robbins, who is widely considered to be one of the foremost racing officials in the world, oversees a staff of more than 100 in putting on the racing show at the track Bing Crosby founded in 1937.

Robbins’ right-hand man in the process is Del Mar’s new racing secretary, David Jerkens.

The youthful veteran, who came to Del Mar after working in, or running, racing offices in New York and San Francisco, came on board for his first summer at Del Mar this year and now will get his initial sampling of fall racing at the beach.

Chief aides in the racing department again will be Zachary Soto (24 years at Del Mar), as assistant racing secretary and stakes coordinator, and Tora Yamaguchi (12 years), assistant racing secretary and

placing judge.

The track’s Board of Stewards all have done tours at Del Mar before. They are Scott Chaney (nine years at Del Mar), Tom Ward (sixth year) and Luis Jauregui, who was a full steward at the track for the first time this past summer.

Placing judges will be Robert Moreno, Merry Young and Yamaguchi. Patrol judges will be Sue Brent and Ruben Hernandez. Karen Denovel will serve as paddock judge.

Overseeing the jockeys’ room once more will be clerk of scales Charles McCaul, assisted

by Chris Merz.

Other officials for the four week season will include Bridget Crawford, paymaster of purses; Melanie Stubblefield, clerk of the course; Dianne Piper, horse identifier; Russell Hudak, morning line maker; John Lies, timer; Victor Tovar, horseshoe identifier; Tim Grande, D.V.M., official veterinarian, and Dana Stead, D.V.M., racing veterinarian.

The track will have a new head starter in Jay Slender, who is also the head starter at Santa Anita. Jay Slender is the son of Tucker Slender, the veteran starter who was Del Mar’s head man starting in 1985 until his retirement in 1997.

First post at Del Mar throughout November will be at 12:30 p.m. for all Thursday and Friday programs, then at 12 noon for all Saturday and Sunday cards.

Barrett Sales shifts to Del Mar Fairgrounds starting in 2015 Barrett Sales, which has conducted Thoroughbred auctions at Fairplex in Pomona since its inception in 1990, will shift its primary sales location to the Del Mar Fairgrounds starting in 2015.

Kim Lloyd, Barretts’ general manager, said a deal has been

agreed to with representatives of the 22nd District Agricultural Association – the state arm that operates Del Mar Fairgrounds – to move Barretts’ operations south approximately 100 miles following the group’s final sale at Fairplex in February, 2015. He noted that while the location of the business will change, the ownership will remain with the Los Angeles County Fair Association at Fairplex.

Lloyd further indicated that the sales company will employ Del Mar’s covered, 100,000-square-foot Del Mar Arena, home to several major horse shows throughout the year, as their primary location for its sales. The facility offers seating for 3,500 with the floor capacity to hold an additional 5,000. Barretts also will conduct some of its sales in the paddock of the adjacent Del Mar racetrack, which sits on the 350-acre Del Mar Fairgrounds and now conducts annual race meetings in the summer and the fall.

“We’re delighted with this arrangement at Del Mar and look forward to the flexibility and new options it will afford us,” said Lloyd. “The new location is ideal for the industry as a whole. We’ve had a fine run in Pomona, but now we’re moving ahead.”

“Barretts will have new business offices in Del Mar and a satellite office in Arcadia, “Lloyd added, “and we expect to continue to provide the exceptional service and integrity that our sellers and buyers have come to expect of us.”

Tim Fennell, CEO of the Del Mar Fairgounds, said the facility welcomed the impending arrival of the Barretts group.

“Our mission statement notes an agricultural emphasis in all we do here,” said Fennell, “and Barretts and their horse sales are a natural fit.

They go nicely alongside our world-class Thoroughbred race

Pletcher, Steve Asmussen, Bob Baffert, Mark Casse, Dale Romans, Kenneth McPeek, Larry Jones and Tom Amoss, who scored the richest win of his career in last year’s edition of the race with Rise Up. One spot in the starting meetings and they come with a gate has already been reserved first-class reputation for doing as Golden Actor received first good business. We look forward preference for the race followto a collaborative relationship Delta Downs, Vinton, LA ing his dominant performance with them.”

Barretts will conduct their $1 Million Delta Downs in last week’s $200,000 Jean Lafitte Stakes. The Ignacio final two sessions at Fairplex in Jackpot nominations Roncancio trainee scored a 4 2015 with a January Mixed Sale close as overflow list of ¼-length victory in the local on Monday, Jan. 26, then the 2-year-olds aim for a prep race and will now spend Barretts Select 2-Year-Old Sale the next four weeks on the huge payday on Monday, Feb. 23.

Delta Downs’ backside leading Their first sale at Del Mar $600,000 top prize and 10 up to the biggest test of his will be the May 2-Year-Old points toward the Kentucky career. The son of Curlin broke in Training Sale in the Arena Derby go to the winner his maiden in his second career on Wednesday, May 27. Next Nominations for the 12th start at the Gulfstream Park comes The July Paddock Sale running of the $1,000,000 West meeting in south Florida on Sunday, July 19, the opening Delta Downs Jackpot (Grade before shipping in for the Jean weekend of Del Mar’s summer 3) closed last weekend and Lafitte. race meeting. A Yearling Select the list is once again overThe nominees for the Sale will follow in August in the flowing with possible start$1,000,000 Delta Downs Arena, then an Open Yearling ers for the Saturday, Nov. 22 Jackpot will be pared down on Sale is scheduled for the same showdown for 2-year-olds. A Tuesday, Nov. 11 when prelocation in October. total of 282 nominations were entries are taken in the track’s Barretts has put a 2016 racing office. Late nominations received by the racing office sales plan into place as follows: with a maximum of 10 startwill be accepted until preJanuary Mixed Sale (Wed., entries close on the same date. ers allowed for the 1 1/16Jan. 27); Barretts Select 2-Year- mile event contested over a The supplemental nominaOld Sale (Wed., Feb. 25); May tion fee is $10,000. To make a dirt surface. For a complete 2-Year-Old Training Sale (Wed., list of nominees go to www. supplemental nomination to May 25); The July Paddock Sale equibase.com/premium/ the race, contact racing secre(Sun., July 17); Yearling Select tary John Simon or his assistant eqbHorsemenAreaDownload.

Sale (August), and Open YearMohamed Ali Khan at 1-800cfm?track=DED&area=USA ling Sale (October).

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Joe Harper, president and The $1,000,000 Delta the list of possible starters for CEO of Del Mar Thoroughbred Downs Jackpot is part of the this year’s $1,000,000 Delta Club, the entity that operates ‘Road to the Kentucky Derby’ Downs Jackpot,” said Steve the race meetings at Del Mar, series, which includes 35 stakes Kuypers, Vice President and saw nothing but good around leading up to next year’s big General Manager of Delta the arrival of Barretts on the Del Downs Racetrack Casino & race at Churchill Downs on Mar Fairgrounds.

Hotel. “Horse racing’s top train- Saturday, May 2. The top four “They’re a first-rate outfit ers nominate to our signature finishers in this year’s Jackpot and the best sales company will be awarded points on a 10event annually and this year’s in the west,” he said. “They 4-2-1 scale toward a possible list of nominees appears to mix nicely with what we do starting position in the first leg be better than ever. Our team here and will add luster to the of the 2015 Triple Crown. is looking forward to another special horse environment that tremendous day of racing next In all, the Jackpot Day is promoted on these grounds. month.” program will feature 11 races They are surely welcome.” including eight stakes and Prominent trainers that Del Mar’s upcoming 15-day have nominated horses to over $2.3 million in total purse race meet, dubbed the “Bing money. The card will have a the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Crosby Season” as a salute to special first post time of 1:15 Jackpot this year include Todd the track’s founder, will open next Friday, Nov. 7 and continue through to Nov. 30.

pm CT with the feature going off at 4:15 p.m.

Fans can follow developments for this year’s $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot online at the website www.deltadownsjackpot.com . They can also keep up with the race and the current Delta Downs season through social media with Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook page to ‘LIKE’ is ‘Delta Downs Racing’, and the Twitter account to follow is @deltaracing.

Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans, LA Fair Grounds to host DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship qualifier Dec. 20; OTB Challenge scheduled for Nov. 8 Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots will play host to the Fair Grounds Championship handicapping tournament on Dec. 20, that will offer two paid berths into the DRF/ NTRA National Handicapping Championship. The 16th annual NHC is scheduled for Jan. 23-25 at Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas.

Contest entries will cost $200 per entry, with a maximum of three entries per person. A $50 NHC Tour registration fee will be required of any player wishing to be eligible to win one of the two available NHC berths; players already registered for the NHC Tour will be exempt from the additional $50 fee. A complimentary lunch, race day program and Daily Racing Form will be included in the entry fee.

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in each of the 15 races which will include a mix of mandatory and optional races. The final ten races on the Fair Grounds card on Dec. 20 will be considered mandatory races, and players will be able to select any five races of their choice from the last five live races at Gulfstream Park and the last five races at Aqueduct as their optional plays. Players may mix races from Gulfstream Park and Aqueduct as they see fit to reach their maximum five optional plays.

A cap will be placed on all payoffs. The win cap is 20/1 ($42), and the place cap is 10/1 ($22). Players do not have to place all 15 wagers to be eligible to win, but should a player elect not to make a wager on any of the races, the $4 for that race will still be deducted from their account. All wagers are fictional and only contest account credit is accrued from winning wagers; no money is paid on contest wagers.

The top two finishers will receive a paid berth into the DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas Jan. 23-25, along with a four night hotel stay at Treasure Island Casino and a $400 travel voucher. Third place will receive $750 cash, and both the fourth and fifth-place finishers will receive $400. Additional cash prizes may be available based on the total number of contest entries.

Pre-registration for the Fair Grounds Championship begins Nov. 20. Walk-up registrations will be taken until one hour before the post time of the first contest race on Dec. 20. Players can pre-register by calling Katherine at (504) 948-1230 or Lindsay at (504) 948-1171 beginning at 11 a.m. on Nov. 20.

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Fair Grounds OTB Challenge Grounds OTB Challenge begins

The Fair Grounds OTB Challenge is scheduled for Nov. 8 and offers two players the opportunity to gain free entry into the Fair Grounds Championship ($250 value).

The entry fee for the Fair Grounds OTB Challenge is $10 with a maximum of three entries per player. Players are eligible to compete at any of the 11 Fair Grounds off-track betting facilities and at the Fair Grounds OTB. The contest format will mirror that of the Fair Grounds Championship, but with ten races and a $40 mythical bankroll. Players will be required to “wager” $2 to win $2 to place on one horse in each of the 10 races which will include a mix of mandatory and optional races.

The final six races from Churchill Downs will be considered mandatory races, and players may select any four races of their choice from the last four live races at Gulfstream Park West and the last four races at Aqueduct. Players may mix races from Gulfstream Park West and Aqueduct as they see fit to reach their maximum four optional plays. The payoff caps and rules regarding fictional wagers applied in the Fair Grounds Championship will also apply in the OTB Challenge.

The first-place finisher will receive a paid berth into the Fair Grounds Championship along with 60 percent of entry fees collected, and the second-place finisher will receive a paid berth into the Fair Grounds Championship along with 20 percent of entry fees collected. Third place receives 10 percent of entry fees collected, and both the fourth and fifth-place finishers will each receive 5 percent of entry fees collected.

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A daughter of the leading sire Giant’s Causeway, Take Charge Brandi has now earned more than $1,170,000 in her career and a victory in The Starlet at Los Alamitos would earn the filly important points toward a starting berth in the 2015 Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks to be run over Kentucky Derby weekend in Kentucky.

While The Starlet will certainly take center stage in the thoroughbred world on Dec. 13, the biggest 2-year-old race of the upcoming winter season will be the $500,000 Los Alamitos Futurity. Set for the final Saturday of the Los Alamitos Race 12-day winter season, the Los Course, Cypress, CA Alamitos Futurity is written for 2-year-olds at a distance of 1 Two Grade 1 juvenile 1/16th miles and Lukas could events highlight once again wheel out a recent upcoming Los Alamitos Breeders Cup standout in the Winter Thoroughbred race.

Meet Stakes schedule The Lukas-trained colt Mr. Two Grade 1 juvenile Z finished fifth in the $2 million stakes, the $500,000 Los Alami- Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. tos Futurity and the $350,000 1 at Santa Anita and the promStarlet, highlight the stakes ising young runner is also one schedule for the upcoming of the original nominees to 2014 Los Alamitos winter the Los Alamitos Futurity. Mr. Thoroughbred season and Z came into the Breeders Cup Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Juvenile with impressive creLukas holds a very strong dentials after finishing second hand in both events with in both the Grade 1 Breeders’ young runners who recently Futurity at Keeneland and the distinguished themselves at Grade 2 Saratoga Special this this year’s Breeders Cup World summer in New York.

Championship.

Another Breeders Cup Lukas, the only trainer Juvenile participant who could inducted into both the Thorbe looking at the Los Alamitos oughbred and Quarter Horse Futurity is the Bob BaffertHall of Fames, could be espetrained colt One Lucky Dane. cially dangerous in The Starlet, A son of Lookin At Lucky, One a 1 mile and 1/16th event for Lucky Dane was sixth in the 2-year-old fillies set for SaturBreeders’ Cup Juvenile and he day, Dec. 13 at Los Alamitos, is also an original nominee to with his Breeders Cup Juvenile the Los Alamitos Futurity.

Fillies winner Take Charge The Los Alamitos FutuBrandi. Currently nominated to rity carries important points The Starlet, Take Charge Brandi toward a starting berth in shocked the racing world on the Kentucky Derby, another Nov. 1 when she bounded incentive for both Lukas and home a winner at odds of 61-1 Baffert. in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup This upcoming Los AlamiJuvenile Fillies. tos winter season will be a Sunday, Nov. 2 at 11 a.m. at any Fair Grounds OTB and at the Fair Grounds Race Course OTB and continues until one hour before post time of the first contest race on Nov. 8.

Complete rules and additional information for the Fair Grounds Championship and the Fair Grounds OTB Challenge can be found at www.fgno. com.

Quarter Horse rescued out of infield lake at Los Alamitos Race Course A 2-year-old Quarter Horse named Walk The Dog was rescued out of one of the infield lakes at Los Alamitos Race Course after he broke through the gate, ran loose around the track, bolted into the infield, and then went for an unintentional swim prior to the start of the seventh race on Sunday night at the Orange County oval.

The gelding was one of two horses that broke through the starting gate before the start of the 330-yard race. One of those horses, the filly Feel Wanted, was captured shortly after breaking loose, but Walk The Dog proved to be far more elusive. After going into the infield he ran into the water and swam for several minutes. Outrider Eric Najduch jumped into the water and was able to corral Walk The Dog before grabbing a hold of the horse.

Track veterinarian Ashley Troncatty, DVM sedated the horse and track surface superintendent Rick Hughes used a truck loader to bring the horse out of the lake.

The starting gate crew and other track personnel were also on hand to help in the successful rescue effort. Once the horse was on land, Dr. Troncatty remained next to Walk The Dog to make sure that he was safe and in good physical shape to stand up under his own power once he was ready to do so. The true showcase for the future stars of thoroughbred racing. Joining the Los Alamitos Futurity and The Starlet on the winter stakes schedule will be two major California-bred juvenile stakes, the $200,000 Soviet Problem on Dec. 7 and the $200,000 King Glorious to be run on Dec. 14 over the Los Alamitos one-mile oval.

Last year the King Glorious proved to be a real springboard for greatness when Kentucky Derby California Chrome used the event to score his

horse was given all the time necessary to relax and feel comfortable before he was walked inside the horse ambulance in order to transport him back to the barn of his trainer, Lin Melton.

Dr. Troncatty was filling in for track veterinarian Becky Fitzgerald, DVM, who just a few hours earlier had given birth to a boy. Dr. Fitzgerald is married to Quarter Horse jockey Cesar De Alba.

“This was just my third day at Los Alamitos,” Dr. Troncatty said. “The whole crew did a great job. Eric was the one that jumped in the water to get him.

The horse was getting exhausted from the swimming. It takes a lot of out of them.”

Najduch has only worked as the night outrider for around two

second career stakes win.

Kicking off the Los Alamitos winter stakes calendar will be the $200,000 GII Bayakoa Stakes, a race for older fillies and mares set for a Dec. 6 running.

The 2014 Los Alamitos winter thoroughbred season will open on Thursday, Dec. 4 and will run through Dec. 21 with racing every Thursday through Sunday afternoon.

First post for the Thoroughbred meeting will be 12:30 p.m. every racing day.

months at Cypress track. He’s been filling in for outrider and trainer Keith Craigmyle, who is recovering from a broken leg suffered during a training mishap.

“My job is to do anything that I can to keep the horses and jockeys safe,” Najduch said. “I was just doing my job. The water was pretty cold. I’m just happy that I still got my wedding ring on. I didn’t lose it in the lake so it’s all good. Everyone did their job today. The horse looks okay so I’m very happy about that.”

Najduch also gallops horses in the morning for trainer Patricia Visscher at Los Alamitos.

2014 Los Alamitos Winter Thoroughbred Meet Stakes Schedule

Top left, Walk The Dog out of the water; at left, Eric Najduch.

Photos courtesy of Los Alamitos Race Course

(Grade 1); $500,000; 2 yo; 1 1/16th

Retired school teacher

12/6 Bayakoa Stakes (Grade 2); $200,000; Fillies,mares 3&up; owns Wild West winner at Los Alamitos 1 1/16th Reed Pierson was an 12/7 Soviet Problem Stakes; elementary school teacher for $200,000; Cal-bred fillies 2yo; more than 32 years in his home 1 mile state of Utah.

“I taught mostly fifth 12/13 The Starlet (Grade 1); graders and that was a lot of $350,000; Fillies 2yo; 1 1/16th fun,” said Pierson, who owned 12/14 King Glorious Stakes; 2011 Champion of Champions $200,000; Cal-bred 2yo; 1 mile runner-up Sparky E Boy. 12/20 Los Alamitos Futurity The former teacher had SureBet RacingNews.com • November 2014 • Vol. 8 No. 11 13

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to like the way that his young 2-year-old pupil, Cartels Fire, performed in the $141,800 Wild West Futurity. Ridden by Eduardo Nicasio for trainer Paul Jones, the son of Teller Cartel flew out of the gate and under solid left-hand urging went on to score a ¾ length victory in a time of :17.910.

“I really liked the way he ran in the Wild West trials (on Oct. 6),” Nicasio said. “He won his trial from the outside post so I was really happy when I saw that he had the outside number 10 post in the final.”

Cartels Fire was never trailed in the Wild West final.

He had a big lead right from the start and was ahead by as much as 1 ¼ lengths. Nicasio put away the whip in the final 50 yards, as Cartels Fire cruised across the finish line. Bred by Legacy Ranch, Cartels Fire earned $59,556 for the win.

“That’s not bad for a horse

we bought for $5,500 (at the Los Alamitos Equine Sale),” Pierson said.

Pierson, who was accompanied in the winner’s circle by his son, Wesley, and grandson, Hunter, took Cartels Fire home to Utah.

“We hooked him to a chariot and trained him on one of them for about a month,” Pierson said.

“They bump around a little bit, but it gets them used to it,” Wesley added.

“He didn’t race him in anything highly competitive,” Pierson said. “We did that in January and then we sent him to Idaho. We ran him in two different trials and he made the final. He came here to run in trials and he also made the finals.

When he made the finals to the Wild West that made it four out of four. He didn’t have much luck in the first three final, but he picked the right race to win

in terms of money.”

“Having some races at Los Alamitos under his belt helped him,” Jones said. “Getting him here early enough was nice.”

Cartels Fire was fourth in the trials to the John Deere California Juvenile Challenge and fourth in the John Deere California Challenge final. The connections will now start thinking about perhaps nominating him to the Los Alamitos Winter Derby.

“I think he’s earned that right,” Jones said.

The Piersons will now head home.

“I farm a couple of hundred acres with Wes’ help,” Pierson added.

“He still farms a little,” Wesley added. “He raised his hay for his horses.”

Pierson’s stock includes one broodmare and a couple of Hawkinson yearlings.

“They’re both full brothers to Sparky E Boy,” the owner added. “One of them looks a lot like Sparky. We’ll see how they do next year.”

Jorge Navarro’s Cybil made a huge late run to go from ninth at the start to second place at the wire. Saddled by Dean Frey, Cybil earned $24,106 for running second. Steve Berry’s Gunnin For Doe earned $17,016 for finishing third.

Steinway Ivory, the favorite and fastest qualifier, bumped at the start and had to settle for running fourth. Azhecansee, Cr Proud Prince, As Needed, Koolist, Juicy Walk, and Five Bar Sassy completed the field.

Northlands Park, edmonton, AB Northlands Park celebrates successful Thoroughbred season The 2014 Thoroughbred

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racing season at Northlands Park Racetrack & Casino concluded today with wagering increasing across the board.

The average daily on-track handle was up 11.3 per cent ($85, 742) over last year and all source handle increased by 19.5 per cent ($274,940) over the corresponding number in 2013. In addition, the 73-day meet saw export sales increase by 27.1 per cent ($158,795).

“This is our best race meet in many years and we’re excited by the continued momentum,” said Tim Reid, President and CEO of Northlands. “On behalf of the entire Northlands family, I want to express my appreciation to our tremendous horsepeople and most importantly to the loyal fans that are the lifeblood of this business.”

Each year Northlands Park Racetrack and Casino celebrates the leading jockeys and trainers of the season. This year’s Leading Jockey Award went to Rico Walcott for his 141 wins, 71 wins ahead of the next competitor and the Leading Trainer Award was presented to Greg Tracy with 92 wins, 49 victories ahead of the second place competitor. Northlands was also pleased to celebrate trainer Joan Petrowski who reached the training milestone of 1,000 victories earlier this month.

Northlands Park also proudly hosted and produced several events including the Canadian Derby. On August 16, Rico Walcott rode Edison to victory in the 85th running of the Canadian Derby. This was Rico’s second consecutive Canadian Derby championship following last year’s victory on Broadway Empire. Trainer Robertino Diodoro and owners Fouad El Kardy, Bob Butz and Rick Running Rabbit watched as Edison, from several of same connections as last year’s winner Broadway Empire, delighted fans by conquering the Derby field at 5-2

odds. The last six editions of the Canadian Derby have broken the $1-million wagering mark.

This year, wagering reached $1,257,544.

Zia Park, Hobbs, NM Race to Whip Cancer, New Mexico Cup highlight big weekend at Zia Park A successful fundraising event, the crowning of statebred champions, and big business numbers posted on and off-track highlighted a busy weekend at Zia Park in Hobbs, New Mexico.

“Race to Whip Cancer Day” on Saturday, Oct. 25, featured all jockeys wearing pink silks as part of a full day of fundraising for breast cancer awareness and research efforts. Donations, which are still being collected, along with pink t-shirt and memorabilia sales, have generated $3,200 so far for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, according to the event’s organizer Jamie Zamora.

“It’s overwhelming,” Zamora said. “After getting a chance to take a breath after going through my diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer, this became my way of power of having control over the disease.

It’s so heartwarming to see that the event has taken on a life of its own, ” she added.

Zamora inaugurated Race to Whip Cancer Day at Zia Park in 2009 and has subsequently spread the event to other New Mexico racetracks. “I never dreamed it would turn into this,” Zamora said. “This was our 16th event, and it has grown by leaps and bounds.”

The next day, Sunday, Oct.

Above, all jockeys wore pink silks as part of a day of fundraising to benefit breast cancer awareness and research efforts during the Race to Whip Cancer Day at Zia Park on Saturday, Oct. 25. At left, Prince Bob and jockey Carlos Madeira win a pink photo finish in the seventh race. Below left, the break from starting gate in eighth race; and below, jockey Sergio Becerra Jr. Photos courtesy of Coady Photography

26, a total of $753,444 was wagered on the twelve New Mexico Cup races, restricted to horses bred in the state, the second highest in the ten-year series behind the $1,019,999 recorded in 2008. This year’s New Mexico Cup handle was up 36 percent from 2013 and has helped raise Zia Park’s average daily handle for the 2014 season to $503,055, a 40-percent increase from the same point in 2013.

“There was a great cause and great racing on display at Zia Park this weekend,” said Zia Park Director of Racing

Operations Fred Hutton. “We hope the momentum can carry through for the rest of the season,” he added.

Hutton is scheduled travel to the Breeders’ Cup in Southern California from this Wednesday to Saturday to prepare for the next marquee day of the season, Land of Enchantment Day on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, Nov. 26. Hutton will meet with horsemen about potential horses that will ship to Zia for the day’s seven stakes races worth $1.1 million.

Land of Enchantment Day will be highlighted by the

$300,000 Zia Park Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles, the $200,000 Zia Park Derby for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles, and the $150,000 Zia Park Championship for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles. Those races will conclude the season-long, nationwide $5 million Penn Gaming Racing Challenge launched this year. They will receive national television exposure through HRTV and TVG along with the Thanksgiving Eve Racing Festival that night at Zia Park’s sister racetrack, Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania.

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Los Alamitos Race Course, Cypress, CA October 25 The Sunol Grade wins second stakes at 870 yards

Cal West Racing kicked off Saturday’s southern California racing action by winning the first race at Santa Anita Park with Backwoods Bell. The racing operation ended it with a win by the former $2,500 claimer The Sunol Grade in the $16,000 Gold Rush Handicap in the ninth and final race on the Los Alamitos card.

Ridden by Ramon Guce for trainer Lorenzo Ruiz, The Sunol Grade was picking up his fifth win in 11 career starts, while earning $8,800 in the Gold Rush at 870 yards. The win was his second stakes victory around the turn for the son of Onebadshark following his win in the Snowbound Superstar earlier this year.

“It was good to see him come back with this type of a race,” said Mick Fessler of Cal West Racing. “We had to scratch him out of his last start because of an abscess.

We had to wait for the infection to heal. He was quick at the start and I knew that he was going to be tough at the end.”

The Sunol Grade won the distance race by 1 ¼ lengths over recent El Ocho Setenta Handicap winner Magoo.

Fessler of Huntington Beach has been involved in racing since 1982. He took several years off from racehorse ownership, but he’s been a very active participant in the sport with his horse’s racing for trainer Ruiz and Justin Clark.

“My office used to be across the street from Los Alamitos,” Fessler said. “I came to a yearling sale at Los Alamitos and bought my first horse. The next year I attended an owner’s seminar and I met some great people like Charlie Bloomquist, Guy Matlock and several others.”

Fessler’s first standout was Tough Guys, which he purchased for $3,000.

Tough Guys went on to win over $100,000.

A year after Tough Guys, Fessler bought his next horse for $1,400. The runner went on to earn over $57,000.

The owner has enjoyed some recent

success as well. In addition to The Sunol Grade’s wins this season, Fessler and trainer Justin Clark combined to win seven races in a row last year.

“I’ve own 40 to 50 horses over the years,” he added. “Horse racing is what I love to do.”

Gary Boag piloted Magoo to second place finish for trainer Keith Craigmyle.

Owned by Lewis Greenspan, Magoo earned $3,600 for running second. Changing Karma, Mi Agave, Aerial Artist, Secret Lass, Follow The Dream and Time For A Royal Dip completed the field.

October 24 Joe Legacy’s win in John Ward Handicap is nice highlight for connections

Jere Brinkerhoff smiled when he was asked how long he had been training horses.

“I started when I was five,” said the 65-year-old native of Fillmore, Utah.

Brinkerhoff has learned his lessons well in the six decades since, as proven by the results of his second visit to Los Alamitos following his first arrival here in 2013. Landing at the Orange County with a stable of seven runners, Brinkerhoff has won three races from his seven starters this season, a nice patch that was culminated

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“I’ve been training for 30 years,” Brinkerhoff clarified.

“It’s gone well here. A few of my horses have been claimed, but I still have four of them right now. I’ll be going back to Utah soon. My dad past away recently so I have some things that I need to take care of. I do want to come back to Los Alamitos again next year. I’d like to come back, buy a house, and train some horses here.”

Owned by Greg Torgerson, Joe Legacy had a gritty performance in the John Ward, as he battled a strong cast of Intermountain and Northwest runners before coming out on top in the final strides with 19-year-old jockey Jesus Canales aboard. The victory was an early birthday present for the rider.

“He’ll be 20 this Sunday,” Brinkerhoff said. “Jesus started riding three years ago. He’s done great out here.”

Last but not too far behind in the field of six at the start, Joe Legacy was all guts in the 400-yard dash, as he was facing a strong field headed by two-time Blane Schvaneveldt Handicap winner PF Flyair and defending John Ward winner Margaritas N Coronas. The son of Brookstone Bay made up ground with each stride and he was best in the final jumps while posting a neck victory over Mike Harrigfeld’s Balata Joe Now. Sent off at odds of 8-1, Joe Legacy covered the distance in :20.001. The victory was his fourth in 14 career starts. This was his first win in two outings at Los Alamitos. He ran third in the Oct. 3 Kip Didericksen Handicap. Joe Legacy earned $8,250 for this win.

Ridden by Carlos Huerta for trainer Bret Vickery, Balata Joe Now earned $3,375 for running second. PF Flyair, Tlm Dreams, Margaritas N Coronas, and Hes

Chillin completed the field.

October 19 Heza Dasha Fire remains unbeaten while posting top time to Golden State Million Futurity

S-Quarter K LLC’s Heza Dasha Fire had another stellar performance, this time while posting the fastest time during a full night of trials to the $1,031,100 Golden State Million Futurity at Los Alamitos.

Ridden by Cruz Mendez for trainer Lindolfo Diaz, Heza Dasha Fire covered the 400 yards in :19.496 while posting a ¾ length victory in the seventh of 10 trials. Heza Dasha Fire will lead the field to the Golden State Million final to be held on Sunday, November 2. Bred in Washington by Don, Kathy and Shawn Meneely, the gelded son of Walk Thru Fire also improved his record to a perfect four wins in as many starts. This was his first outing since his highly impressive 1 ¼ length victory in the Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity back on June 22. Heza Dasha Fire’s other two outings have resulted in wins by large margins as well. He broke his maiden by 2 ¾ lengths and won his Ed Burke Million trial by 1 ¼ lengths.

“We are extremely pleased with this race,” Don Meneely said. “We were just hoping to qualify because we didn’t know how he would do after a long layoff. The bottom line is that this horse is pretty talented. He was very impressive and we hope he stays this way. This horse is as sound now as he was before his very first race.”

By qualifying to the Golden State Million, Heza Dasha Fire remains eligible to win the $1,000,000 Los Alamitos Cash Bonanza. The sorrel gelding will win the rich bonus if he goes on to win the

Golden State Million final and then the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity in addition to his aforementioned win in the Ed Burke Million. Heza Dasha Fire had to remain focused on the task at hand prior to the start of the race. That’s because one of his rivals in this trial, Flying Porsche Girl, broke through the gate while the horses were awaiting the start. After she was scratched, the horses were reloaded in the gate and at the start Heza Dasha Fire broke okay.

“He didn’t break awesome,” Meneely added. “But he was quick into stride and a few moments later he looked like the horse we’d seen in June. We were a little worried because he was facing some nice horses that were very fit because they had been racing. Heza Dasha Fire kept his focus when the horse broke through the gate. That made us nervous because you don’t know what the horse is thinking when they have to go out of the gate and go back in.”

Heza Dasha Fire kept his mind on running with a powerful performance.

“We put a patch on the inside of his left leg because we realized that he hit himself there during the running of the Ed Burke Million,” the owner added. “His shoes were also done differently. We had to take care of that because if they keep hitting themselves during the running of a race

it might make them stop running. Hopefully it helped him.”

The complete list of a qualifiers to the Golden State Million Futurity is as follows: Heza Dasha Fire (:19.496), Corona The Cat (:19.563), Apollitical Blood (:19.582), Luv Supreme (:19.63), Streakin Regard (:19.654), Oneapolliticalflight (:19.696), Runaway Fire (:19.796), Chicanery (:19.871), Princess Pily (:19.894), and Straw Dawg (:19.897).

October 18 A Toss Up earns Champion of Champions berth after Los Alamos Invitational win

It’s a sure thing that James Sills and Abelardo Flores’ A Toss Up will rise in the national Quarter Horse racing poll next week following his impressive win against a field that included 2013 World Champion Last To Fire and current top ranked sprinter Bon Accord in the Grade 1 $150,000 Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship on Saturday night.

Ridden by Carlos Huerta for trainer Eddie Willis, A Toss Up was always in command of the Los Alamitos Invitational after breaking sharply from post number seven. The gelding by Sweet First Down kept to his task from there, as he crossed the finish line three-quarter lengths ahead of Last To Fire

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to post the fifth stakes win of his 24-race career. A Toss Up, winner of the Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby, Eastex Handicap and Sooner State Stakes in 2012 and the Black Gold Futurity in 2011, earned $75,000 for his victory on Saturday while booking a berth to the prestigious $600,000 Champion of Champions.

In the Champion of Champions, A Toss Up will face Bon Accord once again, as well as Los Alamitos Invitational sixth place finisher Nellie Delaney.

Stimulus, who booked his berth to the Champion of Champions about 15 minutes earlier on Saturday after winning the Bank of America Challenge Championship, DM Streakin Thru Fire, Significant Heart, Far Niente, and Too Flash For You have also qualified to the Champion of Champions.

“They’re in trouble,” said Willis with a smile referring to A Toss Up’s rivals in the Champion of Champions. “If he runs in the Champion of Champions like he did tonight, he’ll be very tough on December 13. With a talented horse like this one, I just have leave him alone.

We’ve never operated on him, I’ve never even had to x-ray him. We did give him some time off after the All American Gold Cup last year because he had bad feet. We let his feet heal and now here he is.”

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Willis’ favorite. After all, A Toss Up grew up at Willis’ farm in Caney, Oklahoma.

“This horse has never been off my place other than the racetrack,” Willis said.

“I needed a Los Al race to get him in the Invitational so we went in an allowance race (on September 26). He won the race and that help earn him a berth to this race. He’s been a good horse. He qualified to the All American Derby in 2012, but he had abscess in his chest and we had to scratch him. He had dead-heated for first with (champion) Hez Our Secret in the All American Derby trials. It was tough that we couldn’t run him back in the All American Derby final.”

A Toss Up’s sire, Sweet First Down, and his mother, Shake Cartel, were campaigned by Flores and Sills.

They also own Shake Cartel’s mother, Shake N Quack.

“I called them one day and told them that I had just bought them a mare,” Willis said. “That was Shake N Quack, while Sweet First Down was the first horse that we bought for $100,000. Sweet First Down is a full brother to Dashin Bye, who was a really good racehorse and a very nice stallion.”

Flores and his wife, Olivia, traveled from their home in Texas to root on A Toss Up at Los Alamitos.

“I’m glad that we came,” said Abelardo Flores, a contrac-

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tor in San Antonio. “This is a dream for me. Eddie has been training for me for 20 years.

He also trained for James Sills of Cedar Hills, Texas. We met through Eddie Willis trained horses for the two of us. My dad owned horses back in Mexico so this is in my blood.”

A horse’s heart is often credited following an important victory.

In the Los Alamitos Invitational Championship, it was Abelardo Flores’ heart that became a topic of conversation.

“I’ve had three heart attacks already,” said the 57-year-old horse owner. “I’ve had open heart surgery. I have four stents right now. I have so many that I have some for sale.

My dad passed away from a heart attack when he was 49. I have four brothers and we’ve all had open heart surgery. It just runs in the family. I don’t think about it. I believe that if you worry about being sick that you just make it worse.

When God is ready, he’ll take me. That’s what I believe.”

Abelardo’s wife believes that owning horses is the best thing for Abelardo’s health.

“The horses take his stress away,” Olivia said. “He’s happy when he’s with his horses.”

“I work hard every day and even though I’ve had three heart attacks, I’m still going strong like nothing has happened,” he said.

Next for the couple is to start planning for a return trip to Los Alamitos for the Champion of Champions.

“This was the first time I had been to Los Alamitos since I came to see (champion) Kool Kue Baby,” Flores added. “She was owned by a good friend of mine and we came to watch her run at Los Alamitos.”

Last To Fire, the winner of the 2013 Champion of Champions, earned $25,500 for finishing second. Owned by Jesus

Avila and Jesus Cuevas, the son of Walk Thru Fire has now earned $1,136,744. He’s hit the board in 17 of 23 career starts.

Last To Fire had previously finished second to Bon Accord in the Go Man Go Handicap.

Last To Fire’s last opportunity to qualify to the Champion of Champions will be the Z. Wayne Griffin Directors Trials on Sunday, November 16. Ramon Sanchez rode Last To Fire for Paul Jones.

Owned by J. Garvan Kelly, Nancy Yearsley and Vinewood Farms, Bon Accord earned $15,000 for running third.

The Shazoom gelding broke slow, but finished strong to earn third place. Juan Aleman saddled the winner of the Remington Park Invitational Championship. Cesar De Alba was aboard. Once Over, Dynasty Red, Nellie Delaney, Seperate Interest, Jess Being Valiant, Forrest Fire and One Valiant Hero completed the field.

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The Downs at Albuquerque, NM October 11 Corona Southern Form posts upset victory in New Mexico QH Breeders Championship

Corona Southern Form outran his odds of nearly 9-1 to win Saturday’s 440-yard, $60,000 New Mexico Quarter Horse Breeders’ Championship (RG3) at The Downs at Albuquerque.

Trained by Martin Perez for his 15-year-old son, Alexis Perez of Albuquerque, Corona Southern Form covered his

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quarter-mile trip in :21.242 under jockey Manuel Gutierrez while earning a 103 speed index and his second career stakes victory. The $36,000 winner’s share of the purse pushed his bankroll to $81,950, all of which has been earned in New Mexico.

Corona Southern Form was bred by Richard and Patricia Shearer, longtime breeders and residents of Portales, N.M. The 4-year-old gelding’s sire, the Corona Cartel stallion Southern Corona, ran second in the 870-yard Woodlands Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park during his sophomore season in 2004.

Corona Southern Form’s dam, the Rare Form mare Pass The Form, won two futurities in New Mexico in 2000, including the $138,977 Sunland Park Winter Futurity. The gelding’s third dam, Miss Heart Throb, was a daughter of the Top Deck stallion Speck Deck who won a futurity at Centennial Racetrack near Denver in 1970.

All told, Corona Southern Form has won four of 15 outs, including last year’s 400-yard, $37,000 Hard Twist Stakes (RG3) for New Mexico-bred 3-year-olds at Albuquerque.

The gelding, who has won three of his five starts at Albuquerque, was coming off of a

fourth-place finish in a 350yard, $21,700 allowance dash at Albuquerque on Sept. 17.

Corona Southern Form returned a $19.80 win mutuel.

Sandia Fria, the 5-2 favorite in the full field of 10, overcame a stumble at the start and ran second, one length behind the winner, to complete a $79.40 ($2) exacta.

You Sexy Fame, Think Rich Brook, My Big Chief, Osbaldo, Seacrest Out, Ofashionsoutherngirl, Caught On Tape, and Bigtyme completed the order of finish.

Sandia Fria earned $12,000 for his owner, Pedro Carrillo, who claimed the 3-year-old Jesse James Jr gelding for $8,000 at SunRay Park on May 2. Sandia Fria has won three of eight outs – including two of four since the claim – and he has earned $55,896, of which $53,300 has been banked since the claim.

You Sexy Fame is campaigned by Olivas Racing. A 4-year-old son of the late Dash Ta Fame, the gelding has won one of nine starts and has earned $30,300, and his season record includes a third-place finish, three-quarters of a length behind winner Miracle Snow, in the 400-yard, $63,500 Lineage Quarter Horse Championship (RG3) on August 24.

Zia Park, Hobbs, NM October 26 Mad About the Moon top finisher to New Mexico Classic Futurity

Mad About the Moon solidified his reputation as one of the top 2-year-old Quarter Horses in New Mexico by following up his second-place finish in the $2.6 million All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs in September with wins in the trials and finals of the 400-yard, $289,728 Restricted Grade 2 New Mexico Classic Futurity. The Gene Burden-trainee ridden by Sergio Becerra Jr. captured Sunday’s finals by a half-length in 19.297 seconds for 400 yards. Montauk finished second, snapping a four-race win streak.

“He ran really well, but I actually thought he ran better in the trials,” Becerra Jr. said. “He still has more. [Montauk] outbroke me, and he had to make up some ground.”

In the 440-yard, $207,482 Restricted Grade 2 New Mexico Classic Derby, fastest qualifier Foxy Moonflash won by a half-

length in 21.522 seconds ridden by G.R. Carter Jr. for trainer Dwayne “Sleepy” Gilbreath. The classy 3-year-old filly defeated 2014 All American Derby winner Too Flash for You and 2013 All American Futurity winner Handsome Jack Flash in the quality field.

“She beat a really good field,” Carter said. “I couldn’t be more proud to win for a guy like Sleepy.”

The $200,000 Zia Park Derby, to which Marr said he would point Proceed, will be one of seven stakes races worth a total of $1.1 million to be held at Zia Park on Land of Enchantment Day on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, Nov. 26.

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the top honors in the $35,400 Far West Futurity Final at Portland Meadows on Sunday. Sent off as the even money favorite in the field of nine, Bh Lisas Boy got out-broke by Secret Mountain Pass out of the gate. But jockey Javier Matias wasn’t worried as he methodically came up alongside Secret Mountain Pass as they separated themselves from the rest of the field with a hundred yards to go. Bh Lisas Boy just had more of a kick late though and he edged away in the final yards to win by a neck. Secret Mountain Pass was second and it was three and a quarter lengths back to Chicks R Gone who finished in third.

Bh Lisas Boy was bred in Idaho by her owner/trainer Bill Hoburg. Bh Lisas Boy stopped the clock in 17.807 seconds.

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career starts for Bh Lisas Boy by a length and three quarters. and his career earnings jumped Eyes Movin held on for second up to $21,665. while Chanac ran on for third.

Seis Royale was bred, October 26 owned and trained by Ronald Seis Royale rallies to win Raley and it was the 5th win the Halloween Handicap from 27 career starts for Seis It isn’t quite Halloween yet, Royale.

The first two races on the but Seis Royale got a big treat card were trials for the Portland when he took home the top honors in the $9,750 Halloween Meadows Fall Derby which Handicap at Portland Meadows. will be run in two weeks. Eagle B Gone won the first trial as Sent off as the 9/2 third he broke on top and graduchoice in the field of five, Seis Royale sat third early on as Cas- ally stretched his lead out to cade Dynamite and Eyes Movin a length winning margin for Javier Matias. They completed went out and battled early on. the 400 yards in 20.457. Thinkin As they hit the homestretch, those two leaders were almost of Girls and Jose Zunino took home the top honors in the three lengths ahead of Seis 2nd trial posting the fastRoyale. But as they passed the eighth pole, Cascade Dynamite est qualifying time of 20.278 seconds. and Eyes Movin began to tire Here is the full list and and Seis Royale and jockey Luis times of the qualifiers for the Gonzalez hit their best stride Portland Meadows Fall Derby. and blew on by to get the win 1. Thinkin of Girls 20.278 2. Eagle B Gone 20.457 3. Sneakin TR 20.457 4. Angel Eyez 20.518 5. CM Undertainfluence 20.570 6. Bh Country Chrome 20.625 7. CM Jess Ta Dandy 20.663 8. Ocean Beaches 20.702 9. Annie Dean 20.770 10. Countess Aluerdine 20.841

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October 19 Bh Lisas Boy tops Far West Futurity Qualifiers

Thirty-one of the top two year old Quarter Horses in the Northwest competed in four trials on Sunday at Portland Meadows, all trying to earn their spot in the $12,500 added Far West Futurity on Sunday Nov. 2. Ten horses earned a birth in the final for the Far West Futurity. Bh Lisas Boy topped the qualifiers with a huge two and three quarter length victory in the second qualifier, stopping the clock in 17.843 seconds. The qualifying time was over three tenths faster than the next fastest qualifier, which was Secret Mountain Pass, who won the third qualifying trial in a time of 18.170.

The 350 yard trials kicked off with Lil Touch of Dixie who scored an impressive length and a half score in a time of 18.196. Lil Touch of Dixie was the lone qualifier from the first trial to make the field in the final. Bh Lisas Boy’s big performance led the second qualifier, a race that produced five qualifiers for the final. Cops R Zoomin, Hes a Bugin, Fierce Dymand, and Little Blitzen ran second through fifth in that trial, with only half a length separating the four of them.

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Secret Mountain Pass put up the second fastest qualifying time in trial three, scoring a hard fought neck win over Chicks R Gone. Those two were the only qualifiers from the third trial. L Bar D Sweet Fantsy scored a victory in the fourth and final trial, holding off a hard charging Im Flirtin With Fire to win by a neck, stopping the clock in 18.250 seconds, which was the 5th fastest time overall.

Im Flirtin With Fire also qualified, but as they were three lengths clear of the third place finisher, they were the only two qualifiers from trial number four to make the final.

The $12,500 added Far West Futurity Final will be run on Sunday Nov. 2.

The ten fastest qualifiers for the Far West Futurity Final: 1. Bh Lisas Boy 17.843 2. Secret Mountain Pass 18.170 3. Lil Touch of Dixie 18.196 4. Chicks R Gone 18.219 5. L Bar D Sweet Fantsy 18.250 6. Cops R Zoomin 18.265 7. Hes a Bugin 18.266 8. Im Flirtin With Fire 18.281 9. Fierce Dymand 18.289 10. Little Blitzen 18.327 Qualifiers for the Far West Futurity Consolation 1. Beduin Flights 18.384 2. Diva B Gone 18.454

3. Elis Dashing Boot 18.497 4. Klassic Secret Br 18.533 5. Eye Opening Attitude 18.612 6. Lebron 6 18.626 7. Steens Wild 18.719 8. True Corona 18.776 9. Cousin Wheelz 18.908 10. Silvies 18.924

TEXAS

Lone Star Park, Grand Prairie, TX November 1 Jrc Callas First demolishes field in 17th running of the B. F. Phillips, Jr. Stakes

In what was the most impressive performance at the meet, Jrc Callas First blew away the field in the 17th running of the $ 25,000 B. F. Phillips, Jr. Stakes (RG3) at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie Saturday.

Owned by Dana L. & Brian Stroud and trained

by Brian Stroud, the four-year-old Texas bred gelding by Winners Award

October 25 Final field set for Nov. 15 running of the Grade 1 Texas Classic Futurity

out of Calla Missy Jane, by Dirty Coup, broke sharp and got straight down to the business of putting some distance between himself and the rest of the field in the 400 yard contest.

Jrc Callas First stopped the timer in 19.579 seconds, crossing the wire an astounding two and one half lengths in front of the rest. The track was labeled fast.

Mutuel investments on the winner returned $3.40, $3.20 and $2.10. If I Were Famous got up for place and returned $10.80 and $5.80. Jetblack Gold Moment was third returning $2.60. Pyro, Viva Sin Tacha, Sparrow Contender, Charal Kid and Rootbeerandtwinkies completed the order of finish.

With the winner’s share of the purse, Jrc Callas First’s total bankroll is now $116,914 and his record reads 16-10-1-2. He also became the first horse in Lone Star Park history to win both the Grade 1 Refrigerator Handicap and the RG3 B. F. Phillips, Jr. stakes in a single season or any season.

The final field for the $860,519 Grade 1 Texas Classic Futurity, to be held on Saturday, Nov. 15, was decided tonight at Lone Star Park. 114 two-yearolds, separated into 12 trial races at 400 yards, competed against the clock and each other with the fastest 10 advancing to the Futurity final.

The fastest qualifier of the night came from the ninth race and was Cc Kachina Eagle ridden by Jorge Bourdieu. The filly by One Famous Eagle out of Cassandra Crest, by Holland Ease, clocked the 400 yards in 19.599 seconds on a fast track. She is owned by Melvin Neugebauer and trained by Jill Giles.

Again, the Texas Classic Futurity final, the $291,868 Grade 1 Texas Classic Derby and the $69,771 Texas Classic Futurity Consolation will all be contested here on Saturday, Nov. 15, closing night of the 2014 Fall Meeting of Champions Season.

Additional notes: Luis Vivanco has yet to relinquish the lead in the rider standings. With 20 wins, he is still holding off Damien Martinez with 17 wins.

Brian Stroud and Toby Keeton share the lead in the trainer standings with 12 wins each.

Owners Bennie & Terri Jeter and Bobby D. Cox share the top honors with 3 wins each.

Additional Notes: JockeyLuis Vivanco leads the rider standings with 19 wins over Damien Martinez with 16. It is a twoway tie in the trainer standings between Judd Kearl and Brian Stroud, both have 10 wins.

Bennie & Terri Jeter have joined Bobby Cox at the top of the owner standings with three wins.

Top qualifiers for the Grade 1 Texas Classic Futurity, Nov. 15 Horse Cc Kachina Eagle Lethal Strike Racy Casanova On the Wagon Bay Eagle Glory Follys Regards Justmakeit Jolie Torts On Fire Moonstruck Love Cosmo Traffic

Time 19.599 19.603 19.626 19.636 19.641 19.676 19.706 19.733 19.734 19.740

Jockey Jorge Bourdieu Raul Gutierrez Cody Smith Martin Rubalcava Jorge Lopez Jimmy Brooks Jesse Levario Ricky Ramirez Joe Badilla, Jr. Raul Ramirez

Trainer Trial # Jill B. Giles 9 C. Dwayne Gilbreath 7 Jason Olmstead 11 Isidro Flores 8 Manuel Gutierrez 7 Eddie Willis 8 Joaquin Lopez 8 Trey Wood 7 Paul C. Jones 2 Angel Sanchez 2

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Delta Downs, Vinton, LA November 1 Sunbean sets new stakes record while taking his second straight Gold Cup at Delta Downs Brittlyn Stable Inc’s Sunbean got back to his winning ways at Delta Downs on Saturday night as he scored an ultra-impressive victory in the $100,000 Gold Cup under jockey Richard Eramia. The Ron Faucheux trainee finished an uncharacteristic fifth in his previous out at Remington Park in August before Saturday night’s triumph back in his home state.

Sent to the gate as the heavy favorite in a field of six, Sunbean got the perfect trip in the Gold Cup sitting right behind a speed dual that developed early between Masters Degree and Ide Be Cool. The two speedsters ran side by side through fractions of 22.52, 45.91 and 1:11.04 before giving way turning for home. At that point Sunbean cruised past the tired pacesetters and went on to a 4-3/4 length win over Louisiana Flyboy. Masters Degree hung on for third, another length behind the runner-up.

Sunbean’s final time in the race restricted to 3-year-olds and upward bred in Louisiana was 1:37.49 over a fast track.

The clocking established a new stakes record, beating the old mark of 1:38.33 set

by Snug in 2010.

Sunbean has now won 11 of 18 career starts overall. His $60,000 first place paycheck on Saturday night raised his bankroll up to $760,150. The bay gelding is a perfect three-for-three at Delta Downs as he also won last year’s Gold Cup and the Louisiana Premier Night Championship in February.

Bred in Louisiana by his owner, Sunbean is 4-year-old gelding by Brahms, out of the Malagra mare X Strawdnair.

Fans who backed Sunbean at the wagering windows received payoffs of $3.40 to win, $2.20 to place and $2.10 to show.

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and $4 to show.

Masters Degree paid $4.40 to show.

Delta Downs beings its fourth week of racing on Wednesday night with another 11race program that begins at 5:50 pm CT. Delta Downs Racetrack Casino and Hotel, a property of Boyd Gaming Corporation (NYSE:BYD), Sunbean winning connections features exciting casino action, live Diego Saenz while earning $60,000 and horse racing and fun dining experiences. raising her career bankroll to $728,290.

Delta Downs is located in Vinton, Louisiana, on Delta Downs Drive. From Lake Little Ms Protocol broke alertly and Charles, take Exit 7 and from Texas, take was well placed while saving ground early Exit 4. in the one mile test for older Louisianabred fillies and mares. As the field of October 31 nine turned for home Saenz called on his Little Ms Protocol exudes her mount and she responded by running down Blessed Immaculata in the stretch class in the Magnolia Stakes at and drawing clear to a 3-1/4 length win. I Delta Downs Dazzled reported home third, just a neck Delta Downs hosted the 12th running of the Magnolia Stakes and it was the back of Blessed Immaculata.

The final running time for Little Ms class of Coteau Grove Farms LLC’s Little Ms Protocol over a fast track was 1:39.74, just Protocol that proved to be the determining factor. The Patrick Devereaux, Jr. train- .17 seconds off the stakes record set by ee cruised to an easy victory under jockey Lawyer Tiffany in 2011.

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The victory by Little Ms Protocol was the ninth of her 29-race career. She also has seven seconds and five thirds to her credit. Delta Downs has been her favorite racetrack over the years as she has now won six of 11 starts in Vinton, Louisiana.

Little Ms Protocol is a 5-year-old chestnut mare by El Corredor, out of the Coronado’s Quest mare Character Builder. She was bred in Louisiana by her owner.

Sent to the gate at odds of 5.9-1, Little Ms Protocol returned $13.80 to win, $7.20 to place and $4.40 to show.

Blessed Immaculata was worth $9 to place and $4.40 to show.

I Dazzle paid $2.80 to show.

October 25 Golden Actor plays the role of winner in this year’s $200,000 Jean Lafitte Stakes Delta Downs hosted the $200,000 Jean Lafitte Stakes Saturday night and it was Thoroughbred Champion Training Center’s Golden Actor who won the race with jockey Jose Gallego in the saddle for trainer Ignacio Roncancio. The victory gave Golden Actor an automatic berth into the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot (Grade 3) on Nov. 22.

After breaking from the inside post position in a field of eight, Golden Actor settled

behind the leaders while saving ground around both turns. At the midway point of the far turn Golden Actor launched a strong bid for the lead and got clear of pacesetter Control Stake who could not keep pace. At the finish line Golden Actor was 4-1/4 lengths to the good of Control Stake who finished second while Incremental would up another 6-3/4 length back in third.

Golden Actor, who was a late supplement to the Jean Lafitte, covered the eight furlongs over a fast track in 1:39.82.

The win by Golden Actor came in his stake debut. He broke his maiden at Gulfstream Park West in his most recent start on October 13 after finishing a fast-closing second in his career debut at Gulfstream Park just nine days earlier. Saturday’s victory placed $120,000 into his bankroll which now stands at $148,800.

Golden Actor is a 2-yearold chestnut son of Curlin, out of the Theatrical (IRE) mare Clever Actress. The $20,000 Keeneland sales purchase was bred in Kentucky by Catherine Parke, Susan Knoll & Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC.

Sent to the gate at odds of 3-1, Golden Actor returned $8.20 to win, $4.40 to place and $3.40 to show. Control Stake was worth $4.20 to place and $3.80 to show. Incremental paid $3.60 to show.

The favorite in the Jean Lafitte field was Big Big Easy, who left the gate at odds of 2-1 and finished fifth.

October 24 Vivian Da Bling sparkles in the $100,000 My Trusty Cat at Delta Downs Delta Downs hosted the ninth running of the $100,000 My Trusty Cat Stakes on Friday night and it was JRita Young Thoroughbred LLC’s Vivian Da Bling who dominated her competition. The W. Bret Calhoun trainee recorded an eight-length victory while earning an automatic berth into the $400,000 Delta Downs Princess (Grade 3) on Nov. 22.

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well clear of Zelda Can Dance who was second. Pitcher rallied from well behind to grab the show spot another length behind the runner-up.

Vivian Da Bling covered the seven furlongs of the My Trusty Cat in 1:27.86 over a fast track.

The victory by Vivian Da Bling marked the third out of four overall starts. She began her career with easy maiden win at Lone Star Park before taking the $100,000 TTA Sales Futurity at the same racetrack.

She was then sent to Saratoga where she finished fourth in the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes. The gray runner earned $60,000 for her win Friday night and has now banked a total of $140,740.

Vivian Da Bling is a 2-yearold filly by Too Much Bling, out of the Mountain Cat mare Midnight Lightning. She was bred in Louisiana by Channon Farm LLC and was purchased for $40,000 as a yearling at sale in Texas in 2013.

Sent to the gate as an odds on favorite, Vivian Da Bling returned $3.40 to win, $2.40 to place and $2.40 to show. Zelda Can Dance was worth $10.20 to place and $5.80 to show. Pitcher paid $15.60 to show.

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NEW MEXICO

graded stakes winning 13-yearold son of the Gone West stallion Grand Slam. A half brother to 2005 UAE Derby (Grade 2) winner Blues And Royals, Limehouse has sired the earners of more than $14.6 million from 262 starters.

Alsono is also one of five winners from six starters foaled The Downs at

by Miss Blue Grass, a winning Albuquerque, NM 16-year-old mare by the Pleasant Colony stallion St. Jovite.

October 26 The colt’s half brother, the City Alsono extends win Zip colt Gig Harbor, won two streak, narrowly stakes at Golden Gate Fields misses track record in from 2001-12.

Albuquerque’s Charles Alsono’s second dam, the Taylor Derby Bellypha (IRE) mare Daloma Alsono extended his win(FR), won two stakes in southning streak to three races in ern California in ’89, including Sunday’s $50,000 Charles Taylor the $75,000 A Gleam Handicap Derby at The Downs at Albu(Grade 3) at Hollywood Park. querque.

Campaigned in Kentucky, Ridden by Alejandro MeNew Mexico, and Colorado, dellin for owner Tony Penning- Alsono has won eight of 15 ton and trainer Justin Evans, starts – including six of eight Alsono covered his 1-mile this season – and the $30,000 trip in 1:36.12 while defeating winner’s share of the Charles stablemate and even-money Taylor Derby purse pushed his favorite Rebranded by a neck. earnings to $246,630, of which The colt’s clocking missed by $160,760 has been banked this just 55/100ths of a second the season. track record set by Curve Ball All told, Alsono has won in the 2003 Camino Real Mile six stakes, and his win streak Handicap. includes victories in the 5 Alsono was bred in Ken1/2-furlong, $50,000 Duke City tucky by Ann Marie Farm. The Sprint Stakes at The Downs at colt is one of 19 stakes winners Albuquerque on August 30, sired by Limehouse, a multiple and the 6-furlong, $40,000 Nor-

gor Derby at Ruidoso Downs in June.

Alsono was sent to post as the 13-10 second choice in the field of six and returned a $4.60 win mutuel. Rebranded completed a $2 exacta payoff of $6.60. Zooks, a 14-1 longshot, finished third, 9 1/4 lengths behind the winner, to round out a $45.40 ($2) trifecta.

Grand And Great, Ima Happy Strike, and Bridlewood Angel completed the order of finish.

Rebranded, who also races for Pennington and is trained

by Evans, was coming off of a wire-to-wire, 12 3/4-length victory in the 1 1/16-mile, $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Derby on August 31. A $350,000 buy at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale, the Kentuckybred Tiznow colt has won four of 14 starts and has earned $241,010, and his three career stakes wins include last year’s $104,800 Riley Allison Futurity at Sunland Park.

Zooks has banked $28,630 from 14 outs for Two The Max Investments LLC, who also bred the gelded Idaho-bred son of the Halo’s Image stallion Southern Image. Zooks broke his maiden in a 4 1/2-furlong, $11,500 maiden special weight sprint at SunRay Park on May 27.

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Bayerd

Beau Wizer. The 6-year-old bay gelding also won the race in 2012 and 2013.

“He just seems to show up when it counts,” trainer Joel Marr said. “A lot like the last two Zia Park, years, he likes to run fresh. We Hobbs, NM train him hard. His races are few October 26 and far between for his best efNew Mexico Cup forts. We try not to change that.

He likes the track here.” runnethover with topMarr’s Proceed is now class performances a perfect four-for-four after Attitude E Racer’s historic returning from an eight-month third win in the New Mexico layoff with a 2 1/2-length vicCup Sprint Championship, and tory in the 6-furlong, $140,000 a comeback victory by the undefeated Proceed in the 3-Year- 3-Year-Old Championship Old Championship highlighted in 1:09.55 ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr. Proceed’s other the 10th New Mexico Cup stakes victories have come in Day at Zia Park in Hobbs, New the Red Hedeman Mile and Mexico on Sunday. All Amerithe Mine That Bird Derby at can Futurity runner-up Mad Sunland Park.

About the Moon triumphed “He showed a lot of class in the New Mexico Classic to me and what I wanted to see Futurity, and Foxy Moonflash in how he made up ground,” defeated All American FutuMarr said. “There is definitely rity and Derby winners in the room for improvement because New Mexico Classic Derby as part of 12 stakes races for New he made the lead and started to put his ears up. If he comes Mexico-bred Thoroughbreds back well and everything works and Quarter Horses worth a total of $2 million. out right, we’ll give him a try in No horse had ever won the Zia Park Derby.” the same New Mexico Cup race Marr won four New Mexico three times before Attitude E Cup races on Sunday and now Racer and jockey Ken Tohill pre- leads all trainers with 21 career vailed in the final strides by a victories on the richest day neck in 1:09.63 in the 6-furlong, of state-bred stakes racing in $170,000 Sprint Championthe United States. His other ship over Devons Ca Ching and victories on Sunday were with

That’s Who in the one-mile, $180,000 Rocky Gulch New Mexico Cup Championship and with Zasha in the one-mile, $170,000 Peppers Pride New Mexico Cup Fillies and Mares Championship. Peppers Pride, who Marr trained, leads all horses with four New Mexico Cup victories that took place in three different series races from 2005 to 2008.

Marr is now four victories away from 1,000 in his career.

Juarez also won four New Mexico Cup races on Sunday with Proceed, That’s Who, Twixy Roll in the $140,000 New Mexico Cup Juvenile Fillies, and Little Vidalia in the $130,000 New Mexico Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Championship.

OKLAHOMA

Remington Park, Oklahoma City, OK November 4 Clever Trevor Stakes features rematch of stakes winners

Bayerd and Shotgun Kowboy, a pair of impressive local stakes winners this season at

Remington Park, are joined by six others in the field for Friday’s $100,000 Clever Trevor Stakes.

The seven-furlong race is the second leg of the Remington Park 2-year-old triple series of stakes races.

Bayerd was the winner of the $75,000 Kip Deville Stakes in late September, which started the 2-year-old triple series. Shotgun Kowboy was third in the Kip Deville, before romping to an easy score in the Oklahoma Classics Juvenile on Oct. 17.

Owned by Clark Brewster of Tulsa, Okla. and trained by Steve Asmussen, Bayerd rolled to an 11-length win in breaking his maiden status at Saratoga in upstate New York in August before his win here on the Oklahoma Derby undercard in the Kip Deville on Sept. 28. Bayerd won the Kip Deville by one length and the colt by Speightstown has put in three local works since his last triumph to prepare for his Clever Trevor attempt. Ricardo Santana, Jr. has been named to ride Friday.

Bayerd has been tabbed as the heavy 4-5 odds morningline favorite by Remington Park odds-maker Rick Lee. Shotgun Kowboy is second in the morning line at 5-2 odds.

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in the Kip Deville to annihilate his Oklahoma-bred competition in the Classics Juvenile.

Owned and trained by C.R. Trout of Edmond, Okla., the Kodiak Kowboy gelding pulled away to score by an easy 6-1/2 length win. He had finished 1-3/4 lengths behind Bayerd in the Kip Deville. Jockey Luis Quinonez will have his regular mount on Shotgun Kowboy in the Clever Trevor Stakes.

There is one filly entered in the field of eight as the undefeated Strawberry Baby, victorious by 7-1/4 lengths in the Prairie Gold Lassie at Prairie Meadows in Iowa this July, makes her return after 3-1/2 months. Owned by Brad and Judy Miller of Owasso, Okla., Strawberry Baby is trained by J.R. Caldwell and will be ridden in the Clever Trevor by Dakota Wood.

In addition to Strawberry Baby, Caldwell has two others entered in the Clever Trevor Stakes in Super Stroke and Sky Full Of Stars. Both recently broke their maiden status at Remington Park.

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2. Shotgun Kowboy: C.R. Trout, Luis Quinonez, 5-2

een feature was the Witches’ Brew Purse, a $38,250 allowance for older Oklahoma-bred 3. Runaway Bling: Danele fillies and mares at 1-1/16 miles Durham, Ramon Vazquez, over the turf. Zeta Zody was 30-1 bottled up in traffic for much 4. Super Stroke: J.R. Caldwell, of the race but burst free to a Jake Barton, 20-1 5-1/2 length win once clear.

Owned by Al and Bill 5. Bayerd: Steve Asmussen, Ulwelling of Elk River, Minn.

Ricardo Santana, 4-5 and trained by Michael Biehler, 6. Lord Tyrion: Ian Wilkes, Zeta Zody was ridden by Luis Chris Landeros, 15-1 Quinonez. She was stuck with little running room around the 7. Strawberry Baby: J.R. Caldwell, Dakota Wood, 4-1 final turn and into the stretch.

With just over a furlong left in 8. Sky Full Of Stars: J.R. the race, Zeta Zody found some Caldwell, Jareth Loveberry, clear space and shot through 20-1 the opening to the lead and The Clever Trevor Stakes is victory. She handled the named in honor of the first win- measure over the firm course in ner of the Oklahoma Derby at 1:44.23.

Remington Park in 1989. Clever Away at 5-1 odds, Zeta Trevor continues to enjoy his Zody paid $12.80 to win, $5.40 retirement at Robin’s Nest Farm to place and $5.80 to show. Sis in Piedmont, Okla., home of his Boom Bah was second and paid $49.20 to place and $25.40 to trainer Donnie Von Hemel, at show. Nancy Nightingale was the age of 28. a nose behind the runner-up The Clever Trevor Stakes for third and paid $24 to show. is the eighth of nine races on Whimiscal Miss was fourth Friday at Remington Park. The first race is set for 7pm with the as the beaten 5-2 wagering favorite.

Clever Trevor approximately The win for Zeta Zody scheduled for at 10:16pm was her third from 12 career beginning. attempts and her first score over turf. A daughter of October 31 Omega Code from the DeviPatience pays off for ous Course mare The Penguin, Zeta Zody Zeta Zody made $21,768 for Remington Park’s Hallowthe win to run her lifetime

earnings to $48,718.

October 30 Tiu gets win two on season, scoring Thursday turf feature Tiu has won two consecutive races at Remington Park this season, handling a muddy main track for the first victory on Oct. 11 and then a firm turf course for the second score tonight.

Owned by Danny Keene of Greenville, Texas and trained by Allen Milligan, Tiu was ridden

by Cliff Berry. The 4-year-old colt followed the pace-setting Papa Anjo into the stretch of the 1-1/16 miles turf race, managing to pull even in the final sixteenth of a mile. Under a full drive, Tiu put his head in front in the final strides for victory in 1:43.16. Papa Anjo held second with Perihelion finishing third as the beaten 3-2 wagering favorite.

Away at 4-1 odds in the betting, Tiu paid $11.20 to win, $6.80 to place and $4.40 to show. Papa Anjo returned $12 to place and $8 to show. Perihelion paid $2.80 to show.

A Kentucky-bred by Afleet Alex from the Saint Ballado mare Song Of The Saints, Tiu earned $17,643 for his initial turf race and triumph. A winner of three races from 16 total

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attempts, Tiu has now made $69,825.

Ramon Vazquez, the leading jockey this season at Remington Park with 61 wins, picked up another riding triple Thursday. He won with Sunday Prohibition ($6.40 to win) in the opening race, Bernstein’s Dream ($4.60) in the sixth race and Tiny Stitches ($8.60) in race eight.

October 29 Lion of Loan Oak roars to powerful victory

Oklahoma-breds, 3-yearsold and older, were featured in a $38,250 allowance at Remington Park. Lion Of Lone Oak rallied with a strong and wide move into the stretch, pulling clear to triumph.

Owned by Danny Caldwell of Poteau, Okla. and trained

by Federico Villafranco, Lion Of Lone Oak was ridden by Ramon Vazquez. A 4-year-old gelding, Lion Of Lone Oak moved around rivals coming off the lone turn of the 6-1/2 furlongs, rolling by the battling front-runners before crossing the finish in 1:16.65 over a fast track. Johnmack Daddy closed from the back of the field of 10 to gain second, defeated by 1-1/2 lengths. Stormtoremember grabbed the lead briefly at the top of the stretch before

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settling for third.

At 5-2 odds in the wagering, Lion Of Lone Oak paid $7 to win, $4.40 to place and $2.40 to show. Johnmack Daddy returned $16.80 to place and $5.40 to show. Stormtoremember, the beaten 8-5 wagering favorite, paid $2.60 to show.

The win was the second from 13 career attempts for Lion Of Lone Oak, a son of Lion Heart from the Broad Brush mare Cedar Knolls. Both career wins have taken place this season at Remington Park with Wednesday’s effort worth $21,870. Lion Of Lone Oak has now earned $90,759.

The win aboard Lion Of Lone Oak was one of three on the night for Vazquez. He also scored with Express Delivery ($24 to win) in the seventh and in a dead-heat victory in race nine on Choose Easy ($5.20).

The hat trick in successive races put the season total for Vazquez at 58 wins which leads the jockey standings. Jareth Loveberry is second with 44 wins while Cliff Berry is third with 42 wins.

Remington Park’s Thoroughbred season continues Thursday thru Saturday, Oct. 30 thru Nov. 1. The first race is at 7pm nightly, except for a special 1:30pm start on Saturday, Nov. 1 when Remington Park races early with the simulcast of

the Breeders’ Cup World Championships featured throughout the afternoon.

Remington Park is open daily at 10:30am for simulcast racing and casino gaming, featuring the Bricktown Brewery on the casino floor.

Admission, general parking and valet parking are always free at Remington Park, the home of the $250,000 Springboard Mile on Sunday, Dec. 14.

October 25 Daybreak Dreamer extends win streak at Remington Park Daybreak Dreamer’s last two racing attempts happened to fall on nights when there was a delay in the action

at Remington Park. On both occasions, the 4-year-old has been victorious. A score in Saturday’s $34,125 allowance event moved his winning streak to two.

Owned by Gary Dean of Oklahoma City and trained

by Kari Craddock, Daybreak Dreamer has been ridden in both wins by Cliff Berry. On Oct. 10, Remington Park endured a severe thunderstorm with heavy lightning targeting the racetrack property that caused a delay just prior to a Daybreak Dreamer victory. Saturday night, the track lighting system was reluctant to illuminate after the first race had been conducted. After a 35-minute delay, the lights came on and the race card continued.

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Daybreak Dreamer didn’t race until the seventh event of the night but was ready to run when he was led to the starting gate to go 5-1/2 furlongs. Sitting 3-1/2 lengths behind the pace-setting and even-money wagering favorite Hawks Nest, Daybreak Dreamer progressed to the lead in the final 100 yards. He passed Hawks Nest with ease while going on to win by 3-1/4 lengths in 1:02.88 over a fast track.

Away at 2-1 odds in the betting, Daybreak Dreamer paid $6.20 to win, $2.80 to place and $2.10 to show. The Rock Rolls rallied for second to pay $3.80 to place and $2.20 to show. Hawks Nest faded to third and paid $2.10 to show.

The victory was the fourth from seven career attempts for Daybreak Dreamer, an Oklahoma-bred son of Woke Up Dreamin from the Stop The Music mare Balalaika. The second consecutive win was worth $22,074 for Daybreak Dreamer who has now earned $79,107 overall.

Remington Park’s Thoroughbred season continues Wednesday thru Saturday, Oct. 29 thru Nov. 1. The first race is at 7pm nightly, except for a special 1:30pm start on Saturday, Nov. 1 when Remington Park races early with the simulcast of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships featured throughout the afternoon.

Remington Park is open daily at 10:30am for simulcast racing and casino gaming, featuring the Bricktown Brewery on the casino floor.

Admission, general parking and valet parking are always free at Remington Park, the home of the $250,000 Springboard Mile on Sunday, Dec. 14.

October 24 Seriously Silver pulls upset in Gaylord Memorial

Bling It On Baby was the heavy wagering favorite at 1-5 odds for the $50,000 E.L. Gaylord Memorial Stakes at Remington Park. However, the 6-1/2 furlong event for 2-yearold fillies did not belong to the favorite as she was unable to get an easy lead and gave way to pressure which allowed Seriously Silver to take upset advantage.

Owned and trained by C.R. Trout of Edmond, Okla., jockey Alex Birzer rode Seriously Silver to her second consecutive victory. The gray filly sat outside of Bling It On Baby and Beau’s Angel who battled on the front end. The fractions were :22.67 seconds for a quarter-mile and :45.49 for a half-mile.

“She was able to break and settle, then creep up on them when she started to run in the stretch,” Birzer said.

Off the turn, Seriously Silver was three-wide into the stretch, outside of the frontrunners, with had plenty of run.

Bling It On Baby could never shake the pesky Beau’s Angel while Seriously Silver made steady progress for the lead, capturing the front in the final yards to win by a half-length while crossing the finish in

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1:17.19 over a fast track.

Away at odds of 9-1, Seriously Silver paid $20.20 to win, $3.80 to place and $2.80 to show. Bling It On Baby held second to pay $2.10 to place and $2.10 to show. Beau’s Angel was a neck behind the runnerup, paying $3.40 to show.

The Gaylord Memorial win was the second from three starts, all this season at Remington Park for Seriously Silver.

Bred in Kentucky by Turner Breeders, Seriously Silver is by Zensational from the Glitterman mare Silent Treatment.

She earned $30,000 to run her career total money to $52,060.

The E.L. Gaylord Memorial is named in honor of the late publisher of The Oklahoman and ardent supporter of Remington Park in the track’s infancy.

Copper Flash rebounds with sharp victory Copper Flash didn’t get

the chance to finish her last race, falling after contact with a rival and throwing jockey Cliff Berry to the track surface. Just three weeks later, the 3-yearfilly was back in action with Berry aboard. This time, the pair finished what they started in sharp fashion.

Berry guided Copper Flash wide through the lone turn of Wednesday’s eighth race, a seven-furlong event for Oklahomabred fillies and mares in search of their second career wins. The $7,500-level claiming race had a field of 13 with Copper Flash positioned in post number 13.

The number was not unlucky as Copper Flash had plenty of energy. She handled her wide trip to take the lead near the top of the stretch, drawing off to win by four lengths in 1:25.84 over a muddy main track.

The result was the extreme opposite of what happened with Copper Flash and Berry on Oct. 1. Then, the pair moved

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for the lead going into the final turn of a one-mile race when an inside rival bumped into them, creating the contact and the subsequent fall. While Berry was propelled to the racetrack, Copper Flash tumbled and regained her feet. Both rider and horse walked away from the incident under their own power, fortunate to avoid serious injury.

After inspection and resumption of morning conditioning, trainer Roger Engel had Copper Flash back in action with Berry, Remington Park’s all-time leading jockey, up once again. There was no rival contact to hinder their opportunity on a rainy Wednesday evening as they cruised home, much the best, for owner Greg Frye of Tulsa, Okla.

Copper Flash was 5-2 in the wagering and paid $7.40 to win, $4.60 to place and $3 to show. Miss Minnie rallied for second to return $7.40 to place and $3.60 to show. Mrs McLintock was third as the 2-1 betting favorite, paying $3.20 to show.

The win was the second from six career starts for Copper Flash, a daughter of Save Big Money from the Brunswick mare Eternal Optimism.

The winner’s share of $6,967 increased her total earnings to $21,600.

Oh Derek

October 23 Quick Dagger is too sharp in turf feature

in Kentucky by his owner, Quick Dagger is by Northern Afleet from the Tactical Cat mare Dagger. Picking up $17,745 for Earlier this month, Quick the win, Quick Dagger now has Dagger led in a five-furlong turf total earnings of $63,690. sprint at Remington Park only Quick Dagger gave Von to be caught in the final yards Hemel his second win of the to lose by a neck. There would night. He also saddled Conbe no repeat of that effort on solidation ($6.40 to win) to a Thursday night as the 3-yeartriumph over the turf in the old gelding rolled to an impresfourth race of the night. sive 5-1/4 length score in the $32,475 featured turf sprint.

Owned by Toby Keith’s Dream Walkin Farms of Norman, Okla. and trained by Kelly Von Hemel, Quick Dagger made sure no rival would catch him this time as he took control leaving the turn. Jockey Glenn Corbett had Quick Dagger pulling clear as soon as he hit the Portland Meadows, top of the stretch while the rest Portland, OR could only chase. Quick Dagger handled five furlongs over firm November 1 turf in :56.38 seconds.

Hastings shippers T Sparks was the runnerup while Boardwalk Baron was dominate stakes at third. Insideondoutside was the Portland Meadows Trainer Sylvea Gregory beaten 7-5 wagering favorite, running ninth in the field of 10. arrived at Portland Meadows yesterday with two horses in Away at 3-1 odds, Quick tow and plans on taking some Dagger returned $8 to win, big money back to her native $4 to place and $3 to show.

Vancouver, British Columbia.

T Sparks paid $22.20 to place and $11.60 to show. Boardwalk The plan worked to perfection as her 2 year old Oh Derek Baron paid $5 to show.

The win was the third from and her four year old filly Lady Henrietta each took home 11 career starts for Quick Dagtop honors in their respective ger and his first over turf. Bred

Oregon

$20,000 stakes races.

Oh Derek lived up to his billing as the even money favorite as he dominated his six foes in the $20,300 Willamette River Stakes. Sent to post as the even-money favorite, Oh Derek stayed off the pace early on and then burst through a seam turning for home before drawing away to win by four and a half lengths. Gilly Gone finished up in second while Iwannabeadivatoo ran third. The win on Oh Derek was the first career stakes win for jockey Sahin Civaci.

Civaci didn’t have to wait long for his second career stakes win as he guided Lady Henrietta to a rail skimming win in the $21,700 Mt. St. Helens Stakes. Lady Henrietta went off as the slight 3/1 favorite in the field of eleven and was fourth early on as Ms. Sutherland went out to set a fast pace. Ms. Sutherland turned for home in front but Civaci spotted an opening down on the rail and exploded through to take the lead and hold off a late charge from Society Girl to win by a neck. Both Oh Derek and Lady Henrietta are owned by David Gregory.

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Sylvea Gregory. “It was both their first times on this track and the weather was a bit off, but they ran great.”

When asked about using jockey Sahin Civaci, Gregory was quick to compliment his abilities.

“He’s been working with former jockey Chad Hoverson

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the last mornth or so and has showed tremendous improvement and ability,” she said.

“He’s from Turkey and just came to Hastings at the end of the meet, but he’s a very talented rider.”

Memphis Mobster finished up the stakes action with an impressive wire

to wire score under jockey Leonel Camacho-Flores in the $22,050 Mt. Hood Stakes.

Memphis Mobster ($9.40) got right to the lead and sped through an opening quarter in 21.89 seconds. Memphis Mobster opened up on the far turn and when they straightened away, the Rigoberto

Velasquez trainee exploded away from the competition, winning by three and one quarter lengths and stopping the clock in 1:10.49 for the six furlongs. Red Defense came roaring from the back to finish up in second while Spot of Salt finished third as the favorite.

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