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Qualifying Race: Won the Bank of America Grants Pass Downs Championship Challenge
2023 Record: (2) 2-0-0, $29,252
Lifetime Record: (12) 6-0-1, $93,348

Owner: Adrian Aleman
Breeder: Weetona Stanley (TX)
Trainer: Erasmo Soto
Qualifying Jockey: Ali Rivera

Notes: Undefeated in two starts this season, multiple stakes winner A Famous Ribbon earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) by shipping from California to Oregon to win the Bank of America Grants Pass Downs Championship Challenge.

Winner of the James S. Smith Memorial Handicap, fourth in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby and a finalist in the Grade 2 Golden State Derby A Famous Ribbon will return to Lone Star Park where he was undefeated in two starts at 2. He broke his maiden at the Texas racetrack then won a trial for the Texas Classic Futurity.

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Qualifying Race: 2nd Bank of America California Championship Challenge
2023 Record: (6) 3-1-1 $174,224
Lifetime Record: (16) 4-6-2 $224,741

Owner: Bella Vista Farms LLC
Breeder: The Mixer Ranch (OK)
Trainer: Eddie Lee Willis
Qualifying Jockey: Francisco Calderon

Notes: Multiple graded stakes winner A Tres Of Paint earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) by winning the July 22nd Bank of America Arapahoe Park Championship Challenge.

Also the winner of the Dee Raper Sooner State Stakes(G1) and third in the Debbie Schauf Remington Park Invitational Championship(G1) in 2023 he enters the Bank of America Championship off a troubled fifth-place finishing in the Grade 1 $250,000 All American Gold Cup in his last start at Ruidoso Downs on Labor Day.

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Qualifying Race: Won Bank of America Emerald Downs Bank of America Championship Challenge(G2)
2023 Record: (3) 2-0-0, $29,466
Lifetime Record: (17) 7-0-5, $138,646

Owner: Juan Manuel Marquez
Breeder: EG High Desert Farms, LLC (CA)
Trainer: Lorenzo Marquez-Campo
Qualifying Jockey: Cordarelton J. Benn

Notes: Graded stakes-winner Apolinaria Prize earned her spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) by winning the Bank of America Emerald Downs Championship Challenge in her last start.

Winner of the Grade 2 John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship(G2) at 2, Apolinaria will be making her second appearance at the Bank of America Challenge Championship Night when she comes to Lone Star Park.

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Qualifying Race: 2nd Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge(G2)
2023 Record: (5) 1-0-1, $46,240
Lifetime Record: (21) 4-3-4, $237,787

Owner: Cavenaugh Quarter Horses, LLC
Breeder: Rancho El Cabresto Inc. (CA)
Trainer: Renee K. Wilson
Qualifying Jockey: Jorge Torres

Notes: Multiple graded stakes-placed Apollitical Redflash earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) by finishing third in the Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge to One Fabulous Boy and Nothin Like You.

Also fourth in the Grade 1 Debbie Schauf Remington Park Invitational Championship and Leo Stakes in 2023. No stranger to Grade 1 competition, Apollitical Redflash was also a Grade 1 finalist to the Ruidoso QH Futurity, All American Derby and Ruidoso QH Derby.

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Qualifying Race: Fourth in the Bank of America Arapahoe Park Championship Challenge
2023 Record: (8) 1-1-1, $ 0,239
Lifetime Record: (35) 6-3-7, $92,036

Owner: Clay Teeter
Breeder: Darling Farms (OK)
Trainer: Clay Teeter
Qualifying Jockey: Nakia Teeter

Notes: Stakes winner Df Storm Tales earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) with a fourth-place finish to A Tres Of Eagle in the July 22nd Bank of America Arapahoe Park Championship Challenge.

The son of Grade 1-placed stakes winner and multiple stakes sire Wagon Tales was also a finalist in the 2021 and 2022 Grade 1 Bank of America Challenge Championship. He will be making his third consecutive appearance this year.

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Qualifying Race: 2nd Bank of America Retama Park Championship Challenge
2023 Record: (6) 1-2-2, $9,534
Lifetime Record: (23) 3-4-2, $96,861

Owner: Donna Mushinski
Breeder: Donna Mushinski (TX)
Trainer: Kie Mushinski
Qualifying Jockey: Froylan Tellez Ramirez

Notes: Graded stakes-placed Dm Moonpie earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) by finishing second in the Bank of America Retama Park Championship Challenge to His Time To Deal.

The Texas homebred was also second in the TQHA Classic Stakes(RG2), Dr. Glenn Blodgett Stakes and third in the B.F. Phillips, Jr. Stakes at Lone Star Park in his last start September 30.

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Qualifying Race: 2nd Bank of America Arapahoe Park Championship Challenge
2023 Record: (3) 0-2-0, $14,964
Lifetime Record: (19) 4-8-4, $87,193

Owner: Jose Castaneda
Breeder: Mr. or Mrs. L. Judd Morse (OK)
Trainer: Jose Chavez
Qualifying Jockey: Cordarelton J. Benn

Notes: Stakes winner Indeed earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) with a second-place finish to A Tres Of Eagle in the July 22nd Bank of America Arapahoe Park Championship Challenge. He was also second in the Dolls Prodigy Stakes at Arapahoe this year.

The son of leading multiple stakes sire Wagon Tales won the Rocky Mountain Championship last year and was second in the Leo Beau Dash Stakes and third in the American Flyer Stakes and Mile High Derby.

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Qualifying Race: 2nd Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge(G2)
2023 Record: (6) 2-4-0, $132,515
Lifetime Record: (20) 10-5-4, $407,341

Owner: Bradbury Racing
Breeder: Thomas Bradbury / Lisa Beauprez (CO)
Trainer: John D. Hammes
Qualifying Jockey: Stormy Smith

Notes: Multiple graded stakes-winner Nothin Like You earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) by finishing second in the Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge to One Fabulous Boy.

Winner of the Grade 2 Two Rivers Stakes in his last start September 29 and the Grade 3 Keokuk Stakes two races back, he was second in the Debbie Schauf Remington Park Invitational Championship(G1), Leo Stakes(G1) and Bob Moore Memorial (G2) in 2023. Nothin Like You won the Adequan Derby Challenge Championship(G3) at last year's Bank of America Challenge Championship Night in Indiana.

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Qualifying Race: Won the Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge(G2)
2023 Record: (4) 1-1-0, $37,549
Lifetime Record: (12) 6-1-1, $106,576

Owner: Paul Wolfe
Breeder: Diane and/or Paul Wolfe (OK)
Trainer: Edward Ross Hardy
Qualifying Jockey: Angel O. Ramirez

Notes: Graded stakes-placed One Fabulous Boy earned his spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship(G1) by winning the Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge. One Fabulous Boy was also fourth in the Boyd Morris Memorial Stakes(G2) and a finalist in the Keokuk Stakes(G3) this season.