Challenge


Juveniles Compete In John Deere California Trials On Saturday
Grade 2 Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity runner-up Jet Wings One will head two trials on Saturday at Los Alamitos Race Course for the John Deere California Challenge.

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Juveniles Compete In John Deere California Trials On Saturday

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—JULY 30, 2020—A pair of trials to the John Deere California Challenge will highlight the 8-race program on Saturday night at Los Alamitos. First post is approximately 7:30 p.m.

Fourteen juveniles will compete in the trials with the horses with the 10 fastest times moving on to the 350-yard California regional final on Saturday, August 15.

The list of top horses in the trials is led by Dan Moon’s Jet Wings One, the runner-up to the outstanding filly La Jaconde in the Grade 2 Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity.

In finishing second in the Kindergarten, Jet Wings One finished ahead of Freshman Stakes winner La Reina Del Sur 1 and Kindergarten finalist Hi High Hopes. Jet Wings One is also the winner of one of the strongest maiden races of the season.

The Ec Jet One filly beat a field that included the highflying La Jaconde, Kindergarten finalist PYC Powerglide and Governor’s Cup Futurity fastest qualifier Untuckit. Jose Nicasio will ride the Monty Arrossa-trainee.

Arrossa will have two other standouts in the trials in Walker Family Trust’s undefeated Apollitical Patty and Caballo Rapido, Five Livestock Company and Steve Wright’s Transcendeur, an Ed Burke Million Futurity trial winner.

Gentry Farms’ College Scandal, a Coronas Leaving You filly out of Grade 1 stakes winner Fovee, is another top name in the trials.