GOOD
REASON SA WINS THE GOLDEN STATE DERBY
- CYPRESS, CA…
AUGUST 28, 2010 - The last five racing
nights have been good for Brazilian
Quarter Horse owners at Los Alamitos
Race Course. On Friday, August 20, Benny
Rosset’s champion aged mare Stylish Jess
Br won the Merial California Distaff
Challenge only to be followed by Marcelo
Jorge’s The Goodbye Kisser’s victory in
the John Deere California Juvenile
Challenge this Friday night.
JESS
A RUNNER UPSETS BANK OF AMERICA PRAIRIE
MEADOWS CHALLENGE
- Altoona, IA
- August 28, 2010 - Jess A Runner, Acorn
and Believers Gathering each earned a
starting spot in the Bank of America
Challenge Championships after three
regional Challenge races were contested
at Prairie Meadows on Saturday evening.
Jack Coady / Coady
Photography
EVENING
REWARD RETURNS ON 8 DAYS TO WIN RED
EARTH STAKES IN UPSET
- OKLAHOMA
CITY – August 28, 2010 - Evening Reward
made his Remington Park seasonal debut
on Friday, Aug. 20 in a starter
allowance event over the turf at 7-1/2
furlongs, finishing second. The
7-year-old gelding returned to the turf
and same distance Saturday in the
$50,000 Red Earth Stakes and improved
his finishing position from his first
out of the meeting.
- Dustin Orona
Photography
Kineticat
Yankee Wins Free Spirit For Hot Trainer
and Top Jockey
-
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (August 28,
2010) – Leading jockey Juan Ochoa and
hot trainer Weston Martin teamed up to
take the $40,000 Free Spirit Handicap
with the promising Kineticat Yankee on
Saturday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
SAHALIE
BATTLES FOR FRONT THEN FENDS OFF
CHALLENGERS FOR TURF SCORE
- OKLAHOMA
CITY – August 27, 2010 - Remington
Park’s $29,500 turf allowance feature
Friday night had a field with plenty of
experience going a mile over grass.
However, it was a filly making her first
attempt at that distance on the lawn
that prevailed over more experienced
rivals.
- Dustin Orona Photography
SELECTIVE
KEEPS PERFECT MONEY RECORD IN TACT,
CRUISING TO EASY WIN
- OKLAHOMA
CITY – August 26, 2010 - Selective
easily handled her foes in Thursday’s
$28,500 allowance feature at Remington
Park, rolling to a solid 4-1/4 length
win with plenty in reserve.
- Dustin Orona Photography
ANTIOCH
DIAMOND RALLIES IN TURF FEATURE,
CUNNINGHAM POSTS DOUBLE
- OKLAHOMA
CITY – August 25, 2010 - The first
Wednesday of racing at Remington Park
since Nov. 20, 1996 was a big night for
jockey Travis Cunningham as he won a
pair of races, including the night’s
$31,750 allowance feature over the turf.
- Dustin Orona Photography
CALL
ME FISHER IS THE WINNER OF THE ADEQUAN
CALIFORNIA FINAL
- CYPRESS, CA.
- AUGUST 22, 2010 - He came, he saw, he
got his ticket to Adequan Derby
Challenge. Jim and Marilyn Helzer and
Patricia Potts’ Call Me Fisher, who
arrived at Los Alamitos Race Course only
a week prior to the trials to the
Adequan California Derby Challenge,
emerged as the winner of the $42,100
final after holding off Jesus Avila and
Jesus Cuevas’ Hezstraightin by a head in
Sunday’s 400-yard final.
NOOSA
BEACH CONTNUES DREAM SEASON WITH VICTORY
IN 75th LONGACRES MILE
- AUBURN,
Wash. (Aug. 22, 2010) – Noosa Beach, a
4-year-old gelding that began his career
in the claiming ranks, scaled the
mountaintop Sunday with a 1-½ length
victory over long shot Jersey Town in
the 75th running of the Grade III,
$250,000 Longacres Mile at Emerald
Downs.
Bernell
Rhone & Dean Butler Sweep MTA Stallion
Auction Stakes;
She’s Better Loud Takes the Lassie;
Rustic Road Wins the Laddie -
Shakopee, MN -
August 22, 2010 - On Sunday at
Canterbury Park, two $25,000 stakes
races for 3-year-olds were featured on
an eight race program. The Minnesota
Thoroughbred Association Stallion
Auction Lassie and Laddie Stakes were
both run at six and one half furlongs on
a fast main track. Leading jockey Dean
Butler and trainer Bernell Rhone
dominated both events as She’s Better
Loud won the Lassie and Rustic Road won
the Laddie.
Canterbury Park / Andrea Thelen
Danley
Wins Three Races, W.L. Mooring Honored
on Lineage Day
-
Albuquerque, NM - August 22, 2010 -
Trainer Fred Danley saddled the winners
of three of the nine $40,000 stakes on
the 21st annual Lineage Day card at The
Downs at Albuquerque on Sunday.
Tommie Morelos / Coady
Photography
RANCHO
EL ALACRAN WINS THE BANK OF AMERICA
CALIFORNIA ONCE AGAIN
- CYPRESS, CA…
AUGUST 21, 2010 - One night after
Stylish Jess Br repeated as winner of
the Merial California Distaff Challenge,
the Vega family’s Rancho El Alacran won
the Bank of America California
Championship Challenge for the second
straight year after My Lady First
outfinished Stole The Candy to win the
440-yard race on Saturday at Los
Alamitos.
Evening Jewel Wins Del Mar Oaks
-
Del Mar - August 21, 2010
- Versatile and ultra-consistent Evening
Jewel, the 7-5 favorite under jockey
Victor Espinoza, overcame traffic
trouble entering the stretch to charge
to the front along the rail and win the
featured Grade I $300,000 Del Mar Oaks
for three-year-old fillies Saturday.
Benoit Photo
STYLISH JESS BR REPEATS
AS MERIAL CALIFORNIA WINNER
- CYPRESS, CA…
AUGUST 20, 2010 - Step one is done for
reigning distaff champion. Benny
Rosset’s Stylish Jess Br successfully
defended her Merial California Distaff
Challenge title on Friday night at Los
Alamitos, surely the first goal towards
defending her title as AQHA Champion
Aged mare.
Go
Forth North, Warren's Jitterbug Dead
Heat in Sandy Blue Handicap
- Del Mar,
August 20, 2010 - In only the fourth win
dead heat in Del Mar stakes history, Go
Forth North and Warren's Jitterburg
reached the finish exactly together in
Friday's featured $87,675 Sandy Blue
Handicap for three-year-old fillies.
Benoit Photo
Apollitical
Jess Impresses In Trials To Record
All American Derby - RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico
(August 20, 2010) – Trainer Juan
Aleman brought Apollitical Jess to
Ruidoso Downs to compete in the rich
summer derbies and the colt rewarded
his trainer as the fastest qualifier
to the richest derby in the history
of quarter horse racing, the Grade
1, $1,548,076 All American Derby.
Jockey
Jacky Martin Is Back, Places Three In
All American Futurity
-
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico
(August 18, 2010) – It was history
repeated at Ruidoso Downs on Thursday
afternoon when hall of fame jockey Jacky
Martin, who returned from a 4-year
hiatus in June, rode three horses into
the finals of the Grade 1, $2,050,000
All American Futurity presented by
Sentient Jet.
SARATOGA
BOOT NEVER LOOKS BACK ROMPS IN $75,000
EMERALD DERBY
-
AUBURN, Wash. (Aug. 15, 2010) – Saratoga
Boot, a 9-to-1 long shot, was never
headed Sunday and scored a 4 ¼ -length
victory in the $75,000 Emerald Derby for
3-year-olds at Emerald Downs.
Longshot
Tyee Wins Charles Taylor Derby
-
Albuq. NM - August 15, 2010 - Oscar
Ceballos rode longshot Tyee to a
half-length victory in Sunday’s $30,000
Charles Taylor Derby for 3-year-olds at
The Downs at Albuquerque.
Belinda Madrid / Coady
Photography
FAVORED
RACER FIRST ROYAL FEATURE WINS THE
$48,300 SAM HOUSTON MAIDEN CLASSIC AT
SAM HOUSTON RACE PARK
The Park Closed Out 2010 American
Quarter Horse Meet With Three Stakes
Races And Over $100,000 In Total Purse
Money on Saturday, August 14, 2010 -
HOUSTON — Sam Houston Race Park hosted
its final evening of American Quarter
Horse racing on Saturday, August 14th
with a total of seven live races
highlighted by three stakes races
totaling over $100,000 in purse money.
- Coady
Photography
jockey
russell Baze hits 11,000 mark
-
August 14, 2010 - Russell
Baze made thoroughbred racing history
Saturday at the Sonoma County
Fairgrounds and, fittingly, it was
another Hall of Famer that provided him
with the mount for his 11,000th winner.
A.P.
Flatter takes Chamisa Handicap - Albuq. NM – August 14, 2010 - A.P.
Flatter won Saturday’s 6 ½-furlong,
$30,000 Chamisa Handicap for fillies and
mares, as The Downs at Albuquerque
opened its 59-day meet in front of a
crowd of 3,142.
Tommie Morelos / Coady Photography
Thrilling
finish: Horse racing fans set betting
record at Western Montana Fair
- August 14, 2010 - Few moments create
such a stir in Missoula - outside of
maybe Marc Mariani meandering for a long
touchdown run on a Griz football game
day. The arena stands were jam-packed
Saturday for horse racing at the Western
Montana Fair, leaving one to wonder why
the sport ever left town.
Comin
Thru Wins the Grade 2 Sam Houston
Classic
- by Martha
Claussen - Stolis
Winner Denied Attempt to Top Earnings
Mark of Quarter Horse Legend,
Refrigerator - Houston, TX - August 13,
2010 - Friday, the 13th invokes
superstition and bad luck for many, but
all good things came to Comin Thru, a
4-year-old son of Separatist, who
defeated a stellar field in the $50,000
Sam Houston Classic.
- Sandra Beck/Coady
Photography
FILLY
SAYS GOODBYE WITH A KISS TO RIVALS IN
JOHN DEERE CALIFORNIA TRIALS
- CYPRESS, CA.
- AUGUST 13, 2010 - Trainer Paul Jones
always believed that Marcelo Jorge’s The
Goodbye Kisser was among his barn’s most
promising 2-year-olds of 2010. The First
Down Dash filly proved her trainer
right, as she disposed of eight rivals
in easy fashion while posting the
fastest 350-yard qualifying time of
:17.475 in the second of three trials to
the John Deere California Juvenile
Challenge on Friday at Los Alamitos.
Jessitifiably
Stoli Posts Top Time In Merial Distaff
Trials at Ruidoso
-
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (August 12,
2010) – M.C. and Cendy Stucks’
Jesstifiably Stoli raced to her second
win in her latest three starts to lead
the qualifiers from two Merial Distaff
New Mexico Challenge at Ruidoso Downs on
Thursday afternoon.
Heza
Wild Guy Takes Bullit; Thewayitusedtobe
Wins Barenscheer
- Extreme Race Day draws 17,259 fans -
Shakopee, MN -August 8, 2010- Heza Wild
Guy won the $50,000 John Bullit Stakes
on Sunday at Canterbury Park. Ridden by
Ry Eikleberry, the 9-year-old
thoroughbred led from the gate to the
top of the stretch before being
challenged by Kaddish, the wagering
favorite. Kaddish attacked from the
outside, sticking his head in front in
mid-stretch. Heza Wild Guy came right
back and held on to win by a half
length. Canterbury
Park / Andrea Thelen
Chicks
Gotta Secret Finds Spot With Mr Jet
Moore Victory -
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (August 6,
2010) – Higheasterjet Handicap
third-place finisher Chicks Gotta Secret
did not need to face the two horses who
beat him in the Higheasterjet and found
the competition to his liking with a
solid victory in the Grade 3, $30,000 Mr
Jet Moore Handicap on Sunday afternoon
at Ruidoso Downs.
CALL ME FISHER AND SECRET
BATTLEGROUND SHINE IN ADEQUAN TRIALS
- LOS ALAMITOS
RACE COURSE, CYPRESS, CA…. Thoroughbred
owners David and Jorge Landeros are now
starting enjoy the thrills of Quarter
Horse racing at Los Alamitos with their
most recent winner being the newly
purchased Secret Battleground in the
first of two trials to the Adequan
California Derby Challenge on Saturday
at Los Alamitos.
TWO
$15,000 WOODLAND STAKES TOPPED THIS
WEEKEND’S RACES AT SAM HOUSTON RACE PARK
-
Thereaintnobugsonme & Toast To Deefirst
Win Their Respective Stakes Races -
HOUSTON (Saturday, August 7, 2010)—Sam
Houston Race Park hosted two $15,000
Woodland Stakes races on Saturday,
August 7, 2010. Both stakes races were
for 3-year-old Quarter horses racing a
distance of 870 yards on the dirt track.
Coady Photography
Fast
Movin Vic Easily Wins John Deere New
Mexico Challenge
-
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (August 7,
2010) – David Barrett’s Fast Movin Vic
easily handled the sloppy track and his
four rivals to win the Grade 3, $60,210
John Deere New Mexico Juvenile Challenge
on Saturday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
Quick Enough Wins Feature; Talamo
Injured, Out for Season - Del Mar –
August 5, 2010 - Favored Quick Enough,
claimed for $32,000 at Del Mar July 25,
declared a quick dividend on his new
owners' investment with a hard-earned
victory in Thursday's feature at five
furlongs on the grass.
Take
The Mountain Sets NTR In First Career
550-Yard Start - RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico
(August 5, 2010) – Take The Mountain not
only won his first career start over 550
yards at Ruidoso Downs on Thursday, he
established a new track record with a
:26.340 time over a sealed-fast track.
A
Streak Again Upsets Zia Futurity During
Zia Festival at Ruidoso Downs
-
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico
(August 1, 2010) – The longest shot on
the tote board, A Streak Again, defeated
the short-priced favorite Streak Of
Sixes in the Grade 1, $351,963 Zia
Futurity, the richest race of the Zia
Festival program, on Sunday afternoon at
Ruidoso Downs. The Zia Festival
celebrates New Mexico-bred racing with a
stakes-filled 10-race card offering more
than $1.1 million in purses. A Streak
Again finished a neck ahead of Streak of
Sixes with a :19.897 time for the 400
yards.
HOT
HITTER IS ONE OF MANY HIGHLIGHTS ON
GREAT CHAMPIONS NIGHT
- CYPRESS, CA… JULY 31, 2010 - Balgo
Racing Team scored their second major
futurity victory of the Los Alamitos
campaign after Hot Hitter gave the
red-hot owners the win in the $428,000
Governor’s Cup Futurity on Saturday’s
California Breeders Champions Night.
Contested at 350 yards and featuring
nine outstanding Cal-bred 2-year-old
Quarter Horses, the Governor’s Cup was
the richest race in the outstanding
11-race program on Champions Night, that
featured combined total purses of
$939,500.
Big Payday for Brimmies Alli Bi B in the $400,000
TQHA Sale Futurity -
By Martha Claussen - It was a
fine weekend for progeny of of Brimmerton at Sam Houston Race
Park. On Friday, July 30, King Brimmerton was a convincing
winner in the $30,00 Ancira Ford Classic for owner/ breeder
Bobby Cox and on July 31, another talented Brimmerton offspring,
the 2-year-old filly Brimmies Alli Bi B, defeated a contentious
field in the $400,000 TQHA Sale Futurity.
Jockey Eddie Martin Jr.
Wins Minnesota Oaks and Derby
-
Hunter’s Tiger Paw takes
Oaks at 3/5 Odds; Longshot Tsar Tops
Dancer wins Derby - Shakopee, MN -July
31, 2010- Jockey Eddie Martin Jr. won
the Minnesota Oaks on the betting
favorite, and the Minnesota Derby on a
29 to 1 longshot, Saturday at Canterbury
Park. Each race, at one mile and 70
yards on the main track, had a $60,000
purse.
Gone
To The Mountain Nears Record In Master
Salls ‘Cap at Ruidoso Downs
-
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (July 31,
2010) – Clyde Woemer’s homebred champion
Gone To The Mountain nearly erased the
Ruidoso Downs’ 870-yard track record
while defending his title in the $30,000
Master Salls Handicap over 870 yards on
Saturday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
TQHA SUMMER SHOWDOWN
STAKES RACE RESULTS
- HOUSTON
(July 31, 2010)—Sam Houston Race Park
hosted a crowd of more than 3,200 race
fans for the first night of the 12th
Annual Texas Quarter Horse Association (TQHA)
Summer Showdown on Friday, July 30. The
weekend, which features more than
$500,000 in purse money, showcases top
accredited Texas-bred horses across two
days of live racing events.
Martin, Hes Too Icy For Me Spoil 1-2 Rainbow Futurity Showdown
- RUIDOSO DOWNS, New
Mexico (July 25, 2010) – Hall of fame jockey Jacky Martin, 55,
capped his return to race riding from a 4-year absence by
winning his fifth Rainbow Futurity aboard Dolores and Robert
Gerhardt’s Hes To Icy For Me at Ruidoso Downs on Sunday
afternoon.
Swingin
Daddyo Is Golden In Record-Setting
Rainbow Derby -
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (July 24,
2010) – Debra Gotovac’s iron runner
Swingin Daddyo turned to gold in his
20th start with a gate-to-wire victory
in the record-setting Grade 1, $873,441
Rainbow Derby at Ruidoso Downs on
Saturday at Ruidoso Downs.
HEADACHE
TAKES CLAIMING CROWN JEWEL TO CAP
PERFECT DAY FOR TRAINER MICHAEL MAKER
AND OWNERS KENNETH AND SARAH RAMSEY
- Shakopee, MN -July 24, 2010- Trainer
Michael Maker and owners Kenneth and
Sarah Ramsey shipped two horses to the
Claiming Crown from their Churchill
Downs home base, and they will leave
Minnesota with two impressive victories.
Just a half-hour after Inca King
captured the Claiming Crown Emerald,
Headache won the day’s featured event,
the $150,000 Claiming Crown Jewel before
a crowd of 11,473.
Canterbury Park / Andrea Thelen
Dominyun,
Feature Honor Pull Away For Top Times To
John Deere New Mexico - RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (July
22, 2010) – Dominyun and Feature Honor
pulled away from their rivals in the
fourth of seventh trials to set the
top-two qualifying marks to the $60,210
John Deere New Mexico Juvenile Challenge
at Ruidoso Downs on Thursday afternoon.
COULDABENTHEWHISKY
POTENT IN STRONG RULER; CARRABELLE HARBOR PREVAILS IN
KNIGHTS CHOICE
- AUBURN, Wash. (July 18, 2010) –
Couldabenthewhisky romped in the $30,000 Strong Ruler
Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings and first-time
starter Carrabelle Harbor prevailed in the $30,000
Knights Choice Stakes for 2-year-old fillies in Sunday's
stakes double-header for Washington-bred juveniles at
Emerald Downs.
Six
It Up Wins $18,1000 Bob Morehouse Memorial Cash Caravan
Stakes -
Victory Is Third
Consecutive Win for Minnesota Bred Filly - Shakopee, MN
-- July 18, 2010 - Six It Up, a three-year-old Minnesota
bred quarter horse, won the $18,100 Bob Morehouse
Memorial Cash Caravan Stakes on Sunday at Canterbury
Park.
Canterbury Park / Andrea Thelen
HOT
HITTER IS LATEST IN FAMILY TO SHINE IN THE GOVERNOR’S
CUP - CYPRESS, CA…. JULY 17, 2010 - Just like
his older sibling Hard Hitting in 2008 and 2009, Balgo
Racing’s Hot Hitter became one of the big stories in the
Governor’s Cup Series in 2010 after posting the fastest
qualifying time to the $428,000 Governor’s Cup Futurity
on Saturday at Los Alamitos.
VICKERY
STABLE DOMINATES IDAHO CUP STAKES AT SANDY DOWNS
- IDAHO FALLS, Id.—July 17, 2010 - If the Brett Vickery
trained stable doesn’t receive a handsome wholesale
discount on Winner Circle photos at Sandy Downs, they
should. -
Hawkinsign pictured
SEIS
IT FAST
fastest qualifier in 350-YARDS North
Central Quarter Horse Racing Association Futurity trials
at Canterbury Park On Saturday, July 17th.
Canterbury Park / Andrea Thelen
qualifiers
PEACE
FIRE STILL EYEING SWEEP; PINK BOOTS RM SCORES BIG -
CYPRESS, CA… JULY 16, 2010 - Childers Ranch’s Peace Fire
is still capable of becoming only the seventh horse to
sweep the Governor’s Cup Series after qualifying to the
July 31st final thanks to a second place finish in the
first of two derby trials at 400 yards on Friday at Los
Alamitos.
Down
With You Tops Zia Derby Trials at Ruidoso RUIDOSO DOWNS,
New Mexico (July 16, 2010) – Down With You returned just
one week after racing in the Rainbow Derby trials to
lead the qualifiers to the $126,924 Zia Derby for New
Mexico-breds on Friday at Ruidoso Downs.
JAZZY
SIXES fastest qualifier in 350
YARDS TQHA Sale Futurity-RG1 trials for 2-year-olds
which passed through the TQHA Yearling Sale at Sam
Houston Race Park On Friday, July 16th.
Sandra Beck/Coady Photography
qualifiers
GOLLY
ZEE
fastest qualifier in 400 YARDS
Adequan Texas Derby Challenge-G3
trials for 3-year-olds at Sam
Houston Race Park on Thursday,
July 15th.
Sandra Beck/Coady Photography
qualifiers
Streak
Of Sixes Stays Sharp With Zia
Futurity Trial Score - RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (July
15, 2010) – Peter and Marjorie
Gallegos’ Streak of Sixes is set
up for her third futurity win
after rolling to a
one-half-length victory her
trial to the $351,963 Zia
Futurity for New Mexico-breds on
Thursday afternoon at Ruidoso
Downs.
SPURRIER SECOND OF FOUR WINNERS
FOR ROSARIO -
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (July
15, 2010)-Spurrier collared
stablemate Never in the final
strides, completing a Bob
Baffert exacta in a $54,908
optional claimer Thursday at
Hollywood Park.
TEF’s
Star One, Comicsperfectstorm Upset In
Rio Grande Trials at Ruidoso Downs
Sunday -
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (July 11,
2010) ‑ TEF’s Star One upset two stakes
horses to win his Rio Grande Senor
Futurity trial while Comicsperfectstorm
pulled the same feat in the Rio Grande
Senorita Futurity trials on Sunday
afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
- Tef's Star One pictured
Stolis
Winner Closes in on the Record Books in
the Bank of America Texas Challenge
- By Martha
Claussen - July 10, 2010 – It was a
memorable night at Sam Houston Race Park
as Stolis Winner returned to the
winner's circle with solid performance
in the $106,290 Bank of America Texas
Challenge Championship (G1). Owned and
bred by Jerry Windham of College
Station, the 4-year-old gelding broke
sharply under rider G.R. Carter and held
off the fast-closing XO Kate by a neck.
Amber Watts/Coady
Photography
MCM
DASHMASTER TAKES LEE BERWICK- LOUISIANA SHOWCASE NIGHT DELIVERS
AT DELTA DOWNS - VINTON, LA. – JULY 10,
2010 - Delta Downs hosted another
edition of Louisiana Showcase Night on
Saturday as it closed out its 2010
American Quarter Horse Season. The
11-race program featured seven stakes
races for Louisiana-bred horses
including the richest race of the year,
the restricted Grade I $375,700 Lee
Berwick Memorial Futurity.
Emily Stevens / Coady
Photography
A.P. Flatter Best In Stretch To Take
Fern Sawyer at Ruidoso - RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (July
10, 2010) – Patricia Grunwald’s A.P.
Flatter rolled to the lead entering the
stretch and was easily the best of her
seven rivals in the $40,000 Fern Sawyer
Handicap on Saturday afternoon at
Ruidoso Downs.
WYOMING NIGHT DELIVERS BIG AT IDAHO’S
SANDY DOWNS…IDAHO FALLS, Id.—July 10, 2010 -
The Wyoming All Breeds were welcomed
with open arms Friday night at Sandy
Downs in Idaho Falls and they delivered
with three great stakes races.
The show topper was the final race of
the night—the $25,559 Wyoming
Futurity—when seven two-year-olds fought
each other neck-in-neck the entire 350
yard distance..
Love
Samba Sets Fastest Time To
Record-Setting Rainbow Derby -
RUIDOSO DOWNS,
New Mexico (July 9, 2010) – Jim Pitts’
Love Samba has the opportunity to live
up to Grade 1-stakes winning
expectations as the fastest qualifier to
the record-setting Grade 1, $873,441
Rainbow Derby on Friday afternoon at
Ruidoso Downs.
American
Runaway On Triple Crown Bonus Track,
Qualifies For Rainbow Futurity at
Ruidoso Downs -
RUIDOSO DOWNS (July 8, 2010) –
The nation’s top-ranked 2-year-old
quarter horse American Runaway remained
on track to earn the $4,000,000 All
American Triple Crown Bonus while
pulling away to a convincing
fastest-qualifying victory in the sixth
trial to the Grade 1, $625,000 Rainbow
Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Thursday
afternoon.
qualifiers
CLAIR
ANNETTE LEADS ALL THE WAYPREVAILS IN $50,000 KING COUNTY '
CAP - AUBURN, Wash. (July 4, 2010) –
Clair Annette rediscovered her winning
ways Sunday at Emerald Downs.
Lefty
Who Shows His Class With Sierra Blanca
Victory - RUIDOSO
DOWNS, New Mexico (July 4, 2010) – Sam
Stevens’ homebred Lefty Who, the 3-2
favorite, raced with class through the
stretch to win the $50,000 Sierra Blanca
Handicap over five-and-a-half furlongs
on Sunday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
Jockey
Eddie Martin Jr. Wins Two Thoroughbred
Stakes; Jockey Eikleberry wins Great
Lakes Quarter Horse Stakes -
Shakopee, MN -- July 4,
2010 - Jockeys Eddie Martin Jr. and Ry
Eikleberry battled to the wire in both
thoroughbred stakes on Sunday’s program
at Canterbury Park. Martin got the
better of Eikleberry each time, winning
both the $35,000 Dean Kutz Stakes and
the $35,000 Northbound Pride Stakes.
Stachys - Canterbury Park
/ Andrea Thelen
MONTANA CARTEL CRUSHES FIELD IN $15,000
GILTNER TRUCKING FROLIC - IDAHO
FALLS, Id.—July 4, 2010 - If there was
any doubt about the outcome of
Saturday’s $15,000 Giltner Trucking
Challenge, it vanished quickly when
Montana Cartel took complete control of
the race when the gates sprung open.
BIGTIME
CAT SCORES COME-FROM-BEHIND WIN IN GRADE
II FIRECRACKER FUTURITY - FOUR
STAKES HIGHLIGHT HOLIDAY WEEKEND PROGRAM
- VINTON, LA. – Ramon F. Martinez’
2-year-old gelding Bigtime Cat scored an
exciting victory in Saturday night’s
Grade II $201,450 Firecracker Futurity
at Delta Downs. Nicole
Walker / Coady Photography
SILESTONE
STAKES EVENTS HIGHLIGHT JULY 4th HOLIDAY
RACES ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PARKHOUSTON (July 3, 2010)—Sam
Houston Race Park hosted an All-American
Independence Day Celebration featuring
two $20,000 + Silestone Stakes races on
the live race card on Saturday, July
3rd, both of which were 350-yard races
for Texas-bred horses three years of age
and up. The Silestone Stakes races were
the 8th and 10th races of the night.
Comin Thru - Amber Watts/Coady
Photography
Shy
Ann Jess Runs Away With Higheasterjet
Handicap -
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (July 3, 2010)
– Butch Southway and Paul Wood’s Shy Ann
Jess ran away from his rivals under a
tight hold by Jacky Martin to dominate
the Grade 3, $30,000 Higheasterjet
Handicap at Ruidoso Downs on Saturday
afternoon.
Sarahs
Son Wins Blair’s Cove Stakes With A Late
Rush -
Mizzcan’tbewrong Wins HBPA Mile by DQ;
Dash of Paint takes Northlands -
Shakopee, MN -- July 3, 2010 - Sarahs
Son and jockey Derek Bell won the
$50,000 Blair’s Cove Stakes on Saturday
at Canterbury Park. Bell never hurried
the 5-year-old Minnesota bred during the
early stages as they raced near the back
of the pack. Canterbury
Park / Andrea Thelen
Danzip
remains Perfect -
Aurora, CO - July 3, 2010 - Danzip
remained perfect in five career starts
when he won his two-turn debut in the
$35,805 Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders
Association Derby at Arapahoe Park on
Saturday. - Coady
Photography
FAVORED
SIXES LIAISON, ACORN COME THROUGH IN
RICH SAM HOUSTON RACES - July 2,
2010 – Two of the biggest races of the
Sam Houston Race Park meet went
according to form as the fastest
qualifiers and betting favorites
unleashed big performances over a sloppy
track in the Sam Houston Futurity (G1)
and Sam Houston Derby (G2) on Friday
evening. Sandra Beck/Coady
Photography
CHALALA
KEEPS ON WINNING, CHAMPIONS NIGHT COULD
BE NEXT - CYPRESS, CA… JULY 2,
2010 - She has finished first or second
in 12 straight outings. She has visited
the winner’s circle in nine of those
races. She has won each of her last six
starts. The time of :15.098 is the
average winning time of her last five
victories at 300 yards and in each of
those wins she’s posted a time of
:15.118 or faster.
CHIVALRY
SR DELIVERS ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE VICTORY
- CYPRESS, CA... JULY 2, 2010 -
Stern Ranches’ Chivalry SR has developed
into one of the revelations of the Los
Alamitos racing season after the son of
Walk Thru Fire posted his second
impressive victory in a row on Friday
night.
An
Ocean Rocket Prevails In Tight Adequan
New Mexico Derby Challenge -
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New
Mexico (July 2, 2010) – Ronnie
Armstrong’s fastest-qualifier An Ocean
Rocket prevailed in the final stride to
take a nose decision over favored Silk
Mountain in the Grade 3, $52,560 Adequan
New Mexico Derby Challenge at Ruidoso
Downs on Friday afternoon.
KOALA
BEACH PREVAILS IN PEPSI-COLA ‘CAP HARWOOD PASSES KLOKSTAD IN STAKES
WINS - AUBURN, Wash. (June 27,
2010) —Koala Beach out-finished Posse
Power and Newfound Man in a thrilling
three-horse photo Sunday in the $50,000
Pepsi-Cola Handicap for 3-year-olds at
Emerald Downs.
Shadowbdancing
captures Cornhusker - Altoona, IA - June 26 -
Shadowbdancing showing a different
dimension as he pulled a 10-1 upset in
the track's marquee race, the $300,000
Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Breeders'
Cup. Jack Coady/Coady
Photography
Concord
Point easily wins Iowa Derby; Seeking
the Title out finishes Harissa In Oaks
- ALTOONA, Iowa – June 26, 2010 -
Concord Point ended the Iowa Festival of
Racing undercard with an exclamation
when he scored an impressive 8
1/2-length victory in the Grade 3,
$250,000 Iowa Derby at Prairie Meadows
Saturday night. Jack
Coady/Coady Photography
Easy
Dashin Sixes fastest
qualifier in Bank of America Texas
Challenge Championship-G1 trials at Sam
Houston Race Park - June 26, 2010 -
:21.632 - Owner: Jesus Huitron, Trainer:
Eusevio Huitron, David Pinon - UP -
Coady Photography -
qualifiers
Wowzer
Won fastest qualifier in
Merial Texas Distaff Challenge-G3
trials- Sam Houston Race Park - June 26,
2010 - :19.884 - Owner: Kathleen O.
Matey, Trainer: Judd S Kearl, Rodrigo S
Vallejo - UP - Coady
Photography
qualifiers
Red
Rock Springs Game Winner Of Mountain Top
Thoroughbred Futurity
- RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (June 25,
2010) – The Tony Sedillo-owned and
-trained Red Rock Springs held off a
determined bid by favored Texas Sliver
to win the $136,221 Mountain Top
Thoroughbred Futurity for New Mexico-breds
on Saturday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
Time
for Wilena Wins $35,300 Canterbury Park
Quarter Horse DerbyFilly Wins at 30-1, Equals
Track Record - Shakopee, MN -June 26,
2010 - Time for Wilena, a 30-1 long
shot, regained her top form while
defeating eight three-year-olds in the
$35,300 Canterbury Quarter Horse Derby
on Saturday at Canterbury Park.
- Canterbury Park /
Andrea Thelen
Majesticperfection
sets track record-
ALTOONA, IA – June 25, 2010 -
Four-year-old Harlan's Holiday colt
owned by Padua Stables and trained by
Steve Asmussen won his stakes debut
Friday night. Wynning Ride turns
back Euphony in Iowa Distaff, Secret
Gypsy perfect in Saylorville ...
Jack Coady/Coady
Photography
BRUCE’S
DREAM READY TO RAMBLE IN COMEBACK -
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (June 25,
2010)-Making his first start in almost
nine months, Bruce’s Dream was ready to
roll, winning by one length as the 11-10
favorite in a $54,556 allowance Friday
night at Hollywood Park.
KLASSY
LAD FASTEST QUALIFIER: Pfizer Texas
Starter Allowance Challenge - Sam
Houston Race Park - June 24, 2010 - 350
yards :17.970. Owner: Douglas O.
Traylor, Trainer: Judd S Kearl, Rodrigo
S Vallejo UP - photo
credit Coady Photography
qualifiers
TWO TURNS PROVE NO PROBLEM FOR JUST
MAGIC - INGLEWOOD, Calif. (Jun
24, 2010)-Making his first start beyond
6 ½ furlongs, Just Magic was an easy
winner of a $44,000 optional claimer
Thursday at Hollywood Park.
JLS
MR BIGTIME fastest qualifier: The
Lee Berwick Memorial Futurity Trials -
June 23, 2010 Delta Downs - 350 Yards
:17.51 - JLS Speed Horse Ranch, Inc.,
Owner, Darrel Soileau, Trainer, Gilbert
Ortiz, Up - Photo Credit
Given To: Nicole Walker / Coady
Photography
qualifiers
LT. HOPEFUL HANGS ON TO WIN WEDNESDAY
FEATURE - INGLEWOOD, Calif.
(June 23, 2010)-Lt. Hopeful ended a
seven race losing streak, holding off A
Lil Dumaani in a $59,184 allowance on
Wednesday at Hollywood Park.
The victory was the third in 12 starts
for the 4-year-old Bernstein gelding out
of the Bright Launch mare Bright Orange.
Owned by Budget Stable and trained by
Janet Armstrong, Lt. Hopeful has earned
$111,680.
LONGSHOT
SCORES SWEET WIN IN ED BURKE JUVENILE
- CYPRESS, CA... JUNE 20, 2010 - First
Down Illusion's victory in the
$1,064,000 Ed Burke Million Futurity at
odds of 29-1 did not produce the biggest
payout in a race associated with the Ed
Burke on Saturday night. That honor went
to Gustavo De La Torre's One Sweet Jess,
who won the $30,000 Ed Burke Juvenile
Stakes by 1 1/4 lengths at odds of 32-1.
RUBIO
HAS MEMORABLE RIDE IN 9TH RACE ON SUNDAY
NIGHT - CYPRESS, CA... June 20,
20101 - Francisco Rubio had a ride to
remember on Sunday night at Los
Alamitos, as the meet’s leading Quarter
Horse rider showed quick-thinking on the
fly to help Kindergarten Futurity
runner-up Kool Cowboy win the 9th race
on Sunday at Los Alamitos.
Streak
Of Sixes Easily Wins Mountain Top QH
Futurity -
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (June 20,
2010) – Peter and Marjorie Gallegos’
Streak Of Sixes raced to her second
futurity win of the still young 2010
racing season with an emphatic score
over New Mexico-breds in the $254,353
Mountain Top Quarter Horse Futurity at
Ruidoso Downs on Sunday afternoon.
Bella
Notte Leads All The Way In Princess
Elaine Stakes; Haraldo closes to win
Shot of Gold; Seis It Fast Wins
Breeders’ Futurity -
Shakopee, MN - June 20, 2010 -
Bella Notte and jockey Derek Bell went
gate to wire to win the $35,000 Princess
Elaine Stakes by a half-length on Sunday
at Canterbury Park. The 6-year-old
Minnesota bred mare drifted out in deep
stretch as long shot Tickleyourfancy
closed to her outside. A lengthy
stewards’ inquiry ensued as the crowd of
12,129 waited anxiously.
- Canterbury Park / Andrea Thelen
Illusion
is reality with upset win in Ed Burke
- CYPRESS, CA. -
JUNE 20, 2010 - A couple of years ago,
Utah State Senator David Hinkins stated
his love for racing with a few simple
sentences. "Horse racing is not just a
passion for us - it's an obsession," he
said while also speaking on behalf of
his brother Ross Hinkins during an
interview. “Of course, our dream would
be to race in a big race. We plan on
racing our horses in California for a
long, long time."
THE
‘KID’ DOES IT AGAIN AT DELTA DOWNS- CHARAL KID WINS
SECOND STAKES RACE OF THE SEASON
VINTON, LA. – JUNE 19, 2010 - Delta
Downs hosted the Grade III $40,000 Miss
Polly Classic Stakes on Saturday night
and it was Charal Kid coming away with
his second stakes victory of the season.
The property of Malinche Cattle Co, Inc.
also took the Develop A Plan Stakes back
on May 21. - Emily
Stevens / Coady Photography
W
R Carver captures $100,800 Grade 3 Four
Corners Futurity -
Farmington, NM - June 19, 2010 - W R
Carver broke his maiden with a high
profile win in the $100,800 Grade 3 Four
Corners Futurity at SunRay Park and
Casino. Tommie Morelos/
Coady Photography
Awintersdream speeds to victory
in $75,000 Aztec Oaks-
Farmington,
NM – June 19, 2010 - Awintersdream
parlayed her natural speed to a front
running win in the $75,000 Aztec Oaks at
SunRay Park and Casino. Under jockey
Juan Ochoa, the fleet filly jumped out
on top and took control of the pace
heading into the first turn of the six
and one-half furlong race for
three-year-old New Mexico-bred fillies.
Tin Can Kitty erupts in $75,000 C.O. Ken
Kendrick Memorial Stakes- Farmington, NM - June 19, 2010
- Tin Can Kitty erupted with a powerful
speed run to take a daylight victory in
the $75,000 C.O. "Ken" Kendrick Memorial
Stakes at SunRay Park and Casino. The
highly tuned freshman filly romped to a
wire to wire score in the four and
one-half furlong stakes race and avenged
a prior defeat to Squall Willbud.
Acorn
fastest qualifier Sam Houston
Derby-G2 trials -
June 19, 2010
400 yards :19.749 - Owner - Rose Mary
Chandler, Trainer - Janet Van Bebber,
James Brooks, Up
-
photo credit - Coady Photography -
qualifiers
Cherry
One Gets Perfect Trip, Easily Wins First
Lady Handicap - RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico (June
19, 2010) – Cleber Massey’s homebred
Cherry One got a perfect trip from the
outside post position and easily went to
the lead at the top of the stretch to
win the $40,000 First Lady Handicap on
Saturday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs.
STREET CALL GIVES OWNER TOM DURANT
RECORD-SETTING 31st WIN OF THE 2010 LONE
STAR PARK MEETBreaks Previous
Record of 30 Set by Heflin and Driver
Racing, GP in 2007 - GRAND
PRAIRIE, Texas (June 19, 2010) – Tom
Durant’s Street Call, who won Friday’s
eighth race, gave the Lone Star
Park-leading owner his record-breaking
31st win of the 2010 meet. Durant
surpassed the previous mark of 30 set by
Heflin and Driver Racing, GP in 2007.
LONGSHOT
WINS CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS BERTH IN
VESSELS MATURITY - CYPRESS,
CA... JUNE 19, 2010 - Manuel Carmona
Jr's Blues Man Too joined reigning AQHA
World Champion Freaky and multiple
champion and millionaire Jess You And I
in the field to this year's $750,000
Champion of Champions following a
surprising victory in the Grade 1
$139,600 Vessels Maturity on Friday at
Los Alamitos.
Sixes
Liaison Fast Qualifier to the Sam
Houston Futurity-G1
on July 2, 2010 - Trials: JUNE 18,
2010 :17.795 - Owner - Ted G. Abrams,
Sr. Trainer - Bobby Martinez, Saul
Ramirez, Jr - Up. -
Sandra Beck / Coady Photography
qualifiers
wokatree
Fast Qualifier to the open graduation
stakes (R) on July 3,
2010 - Delta Downs - 6/18/2010 - 350
Yards :17.57 - Claude Jumonville, et al,
Owner - Bobby Martinez, Trainer -
Alfonso Lujan, Up
Nicole Walker/ Coady Photography
qualifiers
JACK’S WILD EARNS FIRST WIN SINCE 2007
IN FRIDAY FEATURE - INGLEWOOD,
Calif. (June 18, 2010)-Jack’s Wild ended
a nine race losing streak dating to the
summer of 2007, rallying late to win a
$44,800 optional claimer for California
breds on Friday night at Hollywood Park.
BERTHA
VENATION -
Fastest Qualifier - The Firecracker
Derby Trials - Delta Downs - 6/17/2010
Purse $6,000 - 400 Yards :19.83
Jose Luis Salazar, Owner - Erika Huitron,
Trainer - Julian Cantu, Up
Photo Credit Given To:
Nicole Walker / Coady Photography
qualifiers
An Ocean Rocket, Apollitical Jess
Impress In Adequan Derby Trials -
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New
Mexico (June 17, 2010) – An Ocean Rocket
raced to the fastest-qualifying time and
the highly regarded Apollitical Jess won
his return to racing in the three trials
to the Adequan New Mexico Challenge
Derby at Ruidoso Downs on Thursday
afternoon.
BIGTIME
CAT
The Firecracker Futurity Trials
Delta Downs
6/16/2010
Purse $6,000
350 Yards :17.57
Ramon F. Martinez, Owner
Frank Cavazos, Trainer, Juan Luis
Vazquez, Up -
Nicole Walker / Coady Photography -
qualifiers
Evening
Jewel Wins San Clemente Handicap
SEIS
IT FAST
fastest qualifier in 350-YARDS North
Central Quarter Horse Racing Association Futurity trials
at Canterbury Park On Saturday, July 17th.
Canterbury Park / Andrea Thelen
JAZZY
SIXES fastest qualifier in 350
YARDS TQHA Sale Futurity-RG1 trials for 2-year-olds
which passed through the TQHA Yearling Sale at Sam
Houston Race Park On Friday, July 16th.
Sandra Beck/Coady Photography
GOLLY
ZEE
fastest qualifier in 400 YARDS
Adequan Texas Derby Challenge-G3
trials for 3-year-olds at Sam
Houston Race Park on Thursday,
July 15th.
Sandra Beck/Coady Photography
Easy
Dashin Sixes
KLASSY
LAD FASTEST QUALIFIER: Pfizer Texas
Starter Allowance Challenge - Sam
Houston Race Park - June 24, 2010 - 350
yards :17.970. Owner: Douglas O.
Traylor, Trainer: Judd S Kearl, Rodrigo
S Vallejo UP - photo
credit Coady Photography
JLS
MR BIGTIME fastest qualifier: The
Lee Berwick Memorial Futurity Trials -
June 23, 2010 Delta Downs - 350 Yards
:17.51 - JLS Speed Horse Ranch, Inc.,
Owner, Darrel Soileau, Trainer, Gilbert
Ortiz, Up - Photo Credit
Given To: Nicole Walker / Coady
Photography
Acorn
fastest qualifier Sam Houston
Derby-G2 trials 
wokatree
Fast Qualifier to the open graduation
stakes (R)
BERTHA
VENATION -
Fastest Qualifier - The Firecracker
Derby Trials - Delta Downs - 6/17/2010
BIGTIME
CAT
