Quiet Again is Favored in Veteran Stakes

Hobbs, NM – Oct. 2, 2011 - Paul B. Thomason's Quiet Again leads a field of seven older runners in Saturday's 1 1/16-mile, $55,000 Veteran Stakes at Zia Park.

A homebred 6-year-old gelding by 1998 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Real Quiet trained by Jimmie Claridge, Quiet Again has won four stakes this season, including the 1 1/16-mile, $50,000 Curribot Stakes at Sunland Park on February 13. Quiet Again drew post 2 and will be ridden by Ken Tohill.

Quiet Again has won 15 of 42 races and has earned $540,918.

Quiet Again's six opponents include Frontier Stables LLC's Red Lead, a 5-year-old gelding by Red Bullet trained by Chris Hartman. Red Lead ran second, three-quarters of a length behind winner Skip A Smile, in the 1 1/8-mile, $100,000 Governor's Cup Stakes at Remington Park on August 20.

The complete field, in post position order including jockey and weight assignments and morning-line odds – Red Lead (Ry Eikleberry, 117), 5-2; Quiet Again (Ken Tohill, 123), 2-1; Vamoose (Enrique Gomez, 123), 12-1; Infinite Resource (Alfredo Juarez Jr., 123), 12-1; Imco Spirit (IRE) (Miguel Perez, 119), 9-2; Black Hills (Miguel Hernandez, 123), 6-1; and McKenna's Justice (Alejandro Medellin, 119), 5-1.