SUNLAND PARK, NM—APRIL 17, 2018—The highly successful 2017-18 Sunland Park live racing season concluded today. Here are the leading horsemen for the season.

Wes Giles collected another Sunland Park leading Quarter Horse trainer’s title. His precocious two-year-old Zee James won the $396,412 New Mexican Spring Futurity. Giles saddled the winners of 11 races from 69 starts and banked $453,406 to secure the 2017-2018 title. His stable compiled a (69) 11-12-9 record with top-three 46 percent top-three finishes.

Manuel Gutierrez enjoyed a monster campaign as the runaway leader in the Quarter Horse jockey standings. Gutierrez won 22 times from 113 mounts for a 19 percent clip. His mounts earned over a half million dollars. The Sunland Park riding title was the first for the world class pilot.

Diamond Racing Stables were the leading Quarter Horse owners with a record of (29) 7-4-3 and earnings of $167,687. Among their stable are such stars as Sunland Park Winter Juvenile Championship runner-up Believe Me Irene, multiple stakes finalist California King who has won his last four starts and 2-year-old New Mexico-bred Rallydownthealley who qualified for the New Mexican Spring Futurity(RG2) in his first career start.

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