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Inaugural Running Of The Fred Scane Memorial Stakes On Saturday Night
Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity fastest qualifier Val Frida will head an outstanding group of fillies in the inaugural running of the $25,000 Fred Scane Handicap at Los Alamitos Race Course Saturday night.

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Inaugural Running Of The Fred Scane Memorial Stakes On Saturday Night

ULOS ALAMITOS, CA—JUNE 17, 2021—The first ever running of the $25,000 Fred Scane Memorial Stakes for 2-year-old fillies has attracted an outstanding cast led by Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity finalists Val Frida and La Blue Amore plus unbeaten filly Hitters Count.

Eight fillies will be in action in the 350-yard dash named in honor of the prominent owner, breeder, and stallion manager. Scane passed away in February of 2020.

Jose Luis Valdez's homebred Val Frida posted the fastest qualifying time to the Grade 2 Kindergarten and then returned with strong finish in the final to move up from seventh to fifth place. The Stel Corona filly showed her quickness in the trials and will need that type of a performance to challenge in this race. Armando Cervantes will ride her for trainer Jesus Nunez.

Now trained by Lindolfo Diaz, La Blue Amore won her Kindergarten trial by a half-length but after a good start in the final, she flattened late to finish sixth. Jesus Rios Ayala will be aboard the daughter of Kiddy Up in the Fred Scane.

Ed Allred will have a strong trifecta of runners to win the race named after his great friend. Hitters Count, who beat allowance horses for her second victory on May 22, will be joined by She Goes Up and Call It Close as part of the Allred-owned and bred trio. Three others winning fillies will also race.

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Los Alamitos Race Course honors the memory of the late Fred Scane, a highly-respected Quarter Horse owner, breeder, and stallion manager, with the running of a stakes race for 2-year-old fillies on Saturday.

The Fred Scane Memorial Handicap will have a $25,000 purse and will be contested at 350 yards. A leading breeder and owner of some of the biggest names in the sport, Scane passed away at the age of 82 on February 26, 2020. Involved in Quarter Horse racing for over 40 years, he owned Scane Ranch in Chino, where leading stallion Merridoc stood, and later a ranch in Murrieta, where he boarded Quarter Horses for many leading operations. Scane was Ed Allred's stallion manager and a member of the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association board of directors.

Scane was the breeder of three of Merridoc's finest offspring in AQHA champions Solvency, Apprehend, and Griswold. In recent years, he campaigned stakes winners Separate Lives and Fighting City Hall.

As stallion manager for Ed Allred's Rolling A Ranch, Fred Scane worked with some of the most prominent stallions in California. He managed Walk Thru Fire, Separatist, TR Dasher, Snowbound (TB), Stel Corona, and the champion sire Kiddy Up.

He was also an ever-present figure at most of the major Quarter Horse sale auctions.

"I leaned on Fred for advice on breeding and racing," Allred said. "He was nationally known and had so many great contacts in the industry to build stallion syndications."

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