L Bar D Razle Dazle and Jake Samuels will look to remain undefeated together in the Baxter Andruss Futurity Sunday afternoon at Portland Meadows.

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PORTLAND, OR—DECEMBER 15,2017—The biggest day of Oregon Horse racing will take place on Sunday as all nine races on the Oregon Championship Day program will be stakes events, two of the features will be for American Quarter Horses.

BAXTER ANDRUSS FUTURITY
Worth nearly $30,000, the Baxter Andruss Futurity will be the second race of the day at 400 yards for eligible two-year-olds Quarter Horses who qualified from the November 26th trials.

The top two trial winners will break side by side in the likes of CM Boom Shakalaka and L Bar D Razle Dazle from posts nine and ten.

Owned by Randy Dickerson and trained by Nick Lowe, CM Boom Shakalaka turned in the best time of the trials with a :20:111 over a sloppy track last month at The Meadows.

Jockey Luis Gonzalez has gone two for three with the young son of Carters Cartel including a victory in The John Deere Juvenile Challenge at Emerald Downs earlier this year. With a record of four wins from just six starts, CM Boom Shakalaka represented the Pacific Northwest in The Bank of America Challenge Championships' John Deere Juvenile finals which was run at Prairie Meadows last October at 350 yards.

CM Boom Shakalaka finished fifth over a sloppy track in the Iowa Juvenile Challenge Championship worth $130,000.

Torres and Espelien’s L Bar D Razle Dazle won the Far West Futurity worth $32,000 at Portland Meadows last October in a 350-yard time of: 17:88.

Trained by the Meadows leading Quarter Horse trainer, Hector Magallanes, L Bar D Razle Dazle will be ridden by Jake Samuels who is undefeated atop the gelded son of Ragazzo.

A full field of ten are entered for The Baxter Andruss.

THE MEMORIAL
At 350 yards for three-year-old Quarter Horses, The Memorial will offer a $10,000 added prize as L Bar D Bonnie Lee takes on Henry Craig among others in the first dash of the day.

Racing for Hernan Torres and trained by Hector Magallanes, the daughter of Giorgino was nosed out in the Portland Meadows Fall Derby last month by Perrys Gettin Down. Henry Craig finished third that race.