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Summer Yearlings Again Headline Retama Park's Training Races on Friday
Training races for 2-year-olds continue Friday at Retama Park.

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Summer Yearlings Again Headline Retama Park's Training Races on Friday

SELMA, TX—FEBRUARY 14, 2019—A number of summer sale graduates from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico will headline 15 training races slated Friday at Retama Park.

The track will run the first two races for 3-year-olds & Up. Races 3 thru 15 are slated for maiden 2-year-olds. All races will be contested at 250 yards with first post set at noon (CST).

Runaway Second Down, an $80,000 LQHBA Yearling Sale Graduate will start in Race 5 for owners Eulalio Argote and Victor Alvarado. Trainer Robert Meche has named jockey J.R. Ramirez, Jr. to ride the Sir Runaway Dash colt from the Mr Jess Perry mare Second Down Leaving. He is a half-brother to multiple stakes winner Second Down Leaving. The second dam is two-time champion Royal Down Dash, by First Down Dash.

Meche will also saddled $57,000 Ruidoso Select Yearling graduate Amped Up in Race 7 for owner Margarito Espinoza. Ramirez will again be aboard the colt by leading sire Corona Cartel from the grade 3 wining Streakin La Jolla mare Party Girl Affair. This is the family of Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity(G1) winner I Like The Odds.

Michael Valenzuela and A. and S. Underwood's $50,000 Ruidoso New Mexico-Bred Sale graduate Bratva makes his debut in Race 14. Valenzuela will also handle training duties for the sorrel colt by last year's leading third-crop sire Big Daddy Cartel. Bratva is out of the Le Mishka Jess, a half-sister to grade 1 Sam Houston Futurity winner First Down Mr Jess. This is the family of All American Futurity(G1) sire Brookstone Bay and grade 1 winner Valors Gold.

For a complete list of the 2-year-old starters, with breeding lines, owner, trainer, jockey and sale information if applicable CLICK HERE.

Results with individual times will be published on StallioneSearch.com Friday afternoon as soon as they become available.