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Sam Houston Distaff Draws Eight Fillies and Mares
Barefoot Beach will be seeking her first stakes win of the season in Monday’s 300-yard, $15,000 Sam Houston Distaff at Sam Houston Race Park.

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Sam Houston Distaff Draws Eight Fillies and Mares

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

HOUSTON, TX—MAY 21, 2017—Samuel Martinez’s Barefoot Beach, stakes-placed twice at the current meet, will be seeking her first stakes win of the season in Monday’s 300-yard, $15,000 Sam Houston Distaff at Sam Houston Race Park.

Trained by reigning champion trainer Judd Kearl, Barefoot Beach will be shortening in distance off of her second-place finish, a neck behind winner Brookside, in the 400-yard, $28,000 Merial Texas Distaff Challenge on April 22. The 4-year-old daughter of Ivory James drew post 3 and will be ridden by Rodrigo Vallejo.

Other contenders include Thriving Ivory, a 3-year-old Ivory James filly who will be facing aged runners for the first time. Trained by Angel Sanchez for owner Agustin Hernandez, Thriving Ivory is coming off of a sixth-place finish in the 350-yard, $198,000 Sam Houston Derby (G3) on August 29.

Thriving Ivory drew the rail post and will be ridden by Francisco Calderon.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments--

  1. Thriving Ivory (Francisco Calderon)
  2. Zoomin And Celebrating (Noe Villatoro)
  3. Barefoot Beach (Rodrigo Vallejo)
  4. Wish A Tong (Francisco A. Mendez)
  5. Apollitical Girl (Eduardo Luviano)
  6. Ima Dashing Gator (Juan L. Vazquez)
  7. Hiclass Ms (Luciano Duenez)
  8. Jess Iam First Royal (Pedro C. Espinosa).

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