Remington
Park to honor trainer Brooks with bronze
OKLAHOMA CITY - (March 4, 2010)-Remington Park is honoring retired quarter horse
trainer Jack Brooks during an awards banquet prior to the start of the track's
annual quarter horse racing meet.
Track officials will unveil a life-size bronze statue of the 73-year-old trainer
from Edmond on Thursday during the event entitled "A Night of Legends." Brooks
is an eight-time winner of the All American Futurity, the most prestigious event
in quarter horse racing.
Brooks began training horses in 1959 at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico and has
enjoyed considerable success at other tracks, including Remington Park, where he
won three trainers' titles
Other top quarter horse owners, jockeys and trainers also will be honored
Thursday.
The track's quarter horse meet starts Friday.