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Jess A Cowboy Looking To Defend Schvaneveldt Title On Friday Night
Larry Stark's Jess A Cowboy will look for his second victory in the Blane Schvaneveldt Handicap Friday night at Los Alamitos.

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Jess A Cowboy Looking To Defend Schvaneveldt Title On Friday Night

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—OCTOBER 3, 2018—Larry Stark's Jess A Cowboy will look to join Sheza Bad Habit and PF Flyair as two time winners of the Blane Schvaneveldt Handicap when the veteran 6-year-old Arizona-bred gelding leads an outstanding 10-horse field in the 400-yard race on Friday night at Los Alamitos.

The Schvaneveldt is for 3-year-olds and upwards that have raced in the Intermountain and Northwest regions, Nevada, Arizona and Canada in 2018.

To be ridden by Jorge Bourdieu for trainer Matt Fales, Jess A Cowboy ran twice at Turf Paradise in Arizona, but it's at Los Alamitos where he has run some of his best races this year. He has hit the board in all three of his local outings and enters the Schvaneveldt fresh off an allowance win on September 7. The son of Dejon won the 2017 Schvaneveldt by daylight and also added a victory in last year's He Flys Handicap to his Los Alamitos resume.

Ruben Magallanes' Corona B Gone, a 3-year-old son of Favorite Cartel, arrives at Los Alamitos following a 17-1 upset victory in the $41,400 Bank of America Emerald Downs Championship Challenge on August 26. Trained by Hector Magallanesthe son of multiple stakes sire Favorite Cartel won the 440-yard race by three-quarters of a length while covering the distance in :22.329.

Mr Pyc To You, the winner of the 2017 Champion of Champions, was among the horses Corona B Gone defeated at Emerald Downs. The victory also earned him a spot in this year's Grade 1 Bank of America Challenge Championship to be held at Los Alamitos on November 17. He is by leading sire Pyc Paint Your Wagon.

The Schvaneveldt field will also feature Pete Schoeler's Poutn On The Wagon, who was fourth to Corona B Gone in the Bank of America Emerald Downs Championship Challenge, and Wyoming stakes winners VVF Dazzling Corona and Koris Knud Chick.

Poutn On The Wagon is a 4-year-old gelding by Pyc Paint Your Wagon with 10 wins from 13 career starts, while VVF Dazzling Corona has won 10 of 20 in her career with her most recent win coming in the Rock Springs Wyoming-bred Maturity at Sweetwater Downs. Koris Knud Chick won the 89 And Under Stakes also at Sweetwater.

Jess Udy's SP Four Square arrives to the Monty Arrossa-barn after crushing to win the Western Breeders Derby at Sweetwater by two lengths. The Favorite Cartel gelding also won the Renegade Sports Derby at Wyoming Downs two races back.

The Justin Clark-trained Oh La represents Nevada and Wyoming. Her last two starts were allowance wins at the Elko County Fair in Nevada.

Courtesy of www.losalamitos.com.