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Dalts Fancy Pistol Top Saturday Qualifying as Overall Fastest for the Remington Park Futurity
Dalts Fancy Pistol (#9) wins her trial easily under Rolando Raudales to qualify fastest Saturday for the $891,900 Remington Park Futurity. The rich race for eligible Oklahoma-bred 2-year-olds will take place on April 18.

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Dalts Fancy Pistol Top Saturday Qualifying as Overall Fastest for the Remington Park Futurity

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—APRIL 4, 2020—The majority of top qualifiers were from early trials on the card Saturday night for the restricted Grade 1, $891,900 Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Futurity, until Dalts Fancy Pistol fired the shot heard round the track with an amazing win.

The 2-year-old filly had seen the fastest time of the night hold up from the first race when Jess Is The Boss posted :16.738 for 330 yards. Then in the ninth race, Dalts Fancy Pistol said, “Hold my beer.”

The juvenile gray filly by leading third-crop sire Im A Fancy Pyc, out of the Mr Eye Opener mare Dalts Pistol, left the starting gate like she’d been blasted from a cannon, stopping the timer in :16.576 over the fast track. Dalts Fancy Pistol, trained by Guillermo Valdivia, beat her trial field by 1-3/4 lengths for a speed index of 97. The second fastest of the evening was a 92. Rolando Raudales kept this filly in a straight line and knew immediately that he had no competition.

Jess Is The Boss (#10) won the opening trial leading fellow qualifiers Gael Force (#9) and Jetlz (#6) into the Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Futurity(RG1) final.
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Raudales won last year’s biggest race at Remington Park, getting another Valdivia filly, Uptowne Babe, to the winner’s circle in the Grade 1, $1 million Heritage Place Futurity.

Owned and bred in Oklahoma by owners Larry Thompson and Don Anthony, Dalts Fancy Pistol had won her career debut against maidens at Remington Park on March 8 at 3-1 odds. She covered the 250 yards that night in :13.457 for a 73 speed index. She appears to be improving as she increased her winning speed index Saturday night in the trials by 24 points.

Three of the top five horses came from the opening trial on Saturday night. The aforementioned Jess Is The Boss, a son of leading sire Apollitical Jess, defeated Gael Force by a neck followed by Jetlz by nose to get the second fastest clocking of :16.738 seconds, a 92 speed index.

Mario Delgado rode the sorrel colt to his first win in two starts for owner Rolando Ortiz and trainer Josue Ponce. Verle Bohner bred Jess Is The Boss from the Corona Cartel mare Bosanova Baby.

One Incredible Hock, under jockey James Flores, qualifying in the second trial on Saturday to the Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Futurity(RG1). © Dustin Orona Photography
Gale Force, a colt also by Im A Fancy Pyc, held for the third fastest clocking of :16.798 seconds, a 90 speed index. Juan Pulido was aboard for trainer Rex Dean Brooks. Racing for Circle T Ranch, the brown colt has finished second in two starts. Doug Ruby bred Gael Force from the Country Chicks Man mare Country Club Chick.

Bobby D. Cox's homebred Jeltz, a gelding by first-crop sire One Fabulous Eagle, scored the fourth fastest clocking of :16.805 seconds. John Buchanan saddled the brown gelding in his first career start. Champion James Flores jockey rode the gelding out of First To Celebrate by First Down Dash.

One Incredible Hock posted a one-length win in his career debut for owner s Maria Gama Medrano and Herman Medrano in the second trial. Adrian Huitron saddled the son of second-crop sire Kiss My Hocks to the fifth fastest clocking on Saturday of :16.809 seconds. James Flores was up. Monty McNair bred the $15,500 Heritage Place Yearling Sale graduate out of Enticilizeur by Make It Anywhere.

For a complete list, with times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys of the top five from Friday and Saturday's 20 trial races CLICK HERE.

The second five fastest from each night of trials are preferred invites for the $100,000-Guaranteed Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Juvenile that will also run back on April 18. For a list of second then fastest qualifiers CLICK HERE.

Im A Fancy Pyc led all sires from both nights qualifying three in to the rich April 18 final. Leading sire Apollitical Jess was the only other sire with multiple qualifiers getting one in eah night. First-crop sire One Fabulous Eagle got his first stake qualifier of the year.

Im A Fancy Pyc won the 2014 Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Futurity.

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Racing is scheduled to resume Sunday, with no spectators, with a first post time of 1:30 p.m.-Central. The nine-race card will include five trials for 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred American Quarter Horses trying to qualify for the finals of the restricted Grade 2, $268,700 Remington Park Derby on Saturday, April 18. The trials will be held in races four-through-eight.

The first trial, race four, will include last year’s Grade 1, $3 million All American Futurity winner Mr Jess Jenkins. He was ridden to victory in last year’s biggest Quarter Horse race of the year by Remington Park two-time champion jockey James Flores, who retains the mount Sunday. This 3-year-old gelded son of Apollitical Jess, out of the Dashing Cleat mare Fetching Image, has been installed by Remington morning-line odds-maker Jerry Shottenkirk at 2-5 odds to win his trial. Mr Jess Jenkins is trained by Marcos Carrizales and owned by Jose E. Guzman and Rito Sosa of Blanchard, Okla. In six career starts, he has won three for earnings of $1,576,180.

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Tracked by more than 162,000 fans on Facebook and more than 10,100 Twitter followers, Remington Park has provided more than $242 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park will host the 2020 American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season from March 6 through May 30. For more information, reservations and group bookings please call 405-424-1000, 866-456-9880 or visit remingtonpark.com.