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Nineteen Sophomores Entered in Autumn Derby Trials at Grants Pass Downs
Grants Pass Downs will host three trials on Sunday for the 400-yard Autumn Derby.

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Nineteen Sophomores Entered in Autumn Derby Trials at Grants Pass Downs

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

GRANTS PASS, OR—SEPTEMBER 25, 2021—Nineteen 3-year-olds, headed by Gilberto Madrigal’s Super Bowl Sunny Day, are entered in Sunday’s 400-yard Autumn Derby trials at Grants Pass Downs.

Super Bowl Sunny Day will be making his first start since July 5, when the gelded son of the Pyc Paint Your Wagon stallion Pyc Prize Time placed second in the 400-yard, $47,000 Adequan Grants Pass Derby Challenge Stakes. Super Bowl Sunny Day has earned $25,926 from 11 outs in Oregon and Washington, and he was a finalist in last year’s Far West Futurity.

Super Bowl Sunny Day drew post 3 and will be ridden by Taylor Smith for trainer Jose Rosales Gomez in the last of three trials.

The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the $15,000-added Autumn Derby on October 11.

The Autumn Derby trials, and all Grants Pass Downs races, can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.