AMARILLO, TX—FEBRUARY 19, 2019—Nominations for 2019 Regional Challenge races at racetracks in Texas, Oklahoma and Washington State are due Friday, March 1. Challenge enrolled horses may be nominated to any of the following races for $400:

• Bank of America Sam Houston Championship Challenge(G2)
  $50,000-added - Trials ...

AMARILLO, TX—FEBRUARY 12, 2019—Nominations for the 2019 Turf Paradise Bank of America Championship Challenge, John Deere Juvenile Challenge and AQHA Distance Challenge are due Friday, February 15. Challenge enrolled horses 3-year-olds & up are eligible to nominate for the $35,000-added Bank of America Turf Paradise Championship ...

AMARILLO, TX—DECEMBER 17, 2018—The American Quarter Horse Association released the 2019 Bank of America Regional Challenge schedule late last week. In 2019 the program returns to its full regional schedule. In 2018, the Challenge program had ...

PORTLAND, OR—DECEMBER 16, 2018—Coming off a seventh place effort in the Grade 1 Bank of America Challenge Championship last month at Los Alamitos Race Course, Corona B Gone dug in to hold off a game Sneakin Tr by a neck in the $17,000 Portland Meadows Championship Bonus Challenge on Sunday. Ridden by jockey Lorenzo Lopez, Corona B Gone ...

By Tom Harris PORTLAND, OR—DECEMBER 15, 2018—The biggest day of Oregon horse racing will take place on Sunday as nine of the ten races on the program will be stakes or special events for state-breds on Oregon Championship Day. The Portland ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—DECEMBER 2, 2018—Johnny Trotter's One Sweet Racy took the lead shortly after the start and then held off a game effort by Hayden Brothers Ranch's Tickle Ur Fancy to win the Grade 1, $100,000 AQHA Distaff Challenge Championship on Sunday at Los Alamitos. Ridden by Eduardo Nicasio for trainer Chris O'Dell, One Sweet Racy ...

AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION—NOVEMBER 20, 2018—On November 17, during the running of the Bank of America Challenge Championships at Los Alamitos Race Course in California, there was a starting gate malfunction during the $100,000 AQHA Distaff Challenge Championship (G1). This event caused an unfair start for the field and, following ...

AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION—NOVEMBER 19, 2018—Five youth competed to earn scholarships worth a total of $6,000 November 15-18 at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, California, during the Bank of America Challenge Championships. The ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—NOVEMBER 17, 2018—BH Lisas Boy, a homebred 6-year-old Mighty Invictus gelding owned and trained by Bill Hoburg of Kennewick, Washington, parlayed a sharp break from post 4 into a one-length victory in Saturday's $250,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship (G1) at Los Alamitos. Under jockey Cesar DeAlba, BH Lisas Boy went 440 yards in :21.506. In addition to posting a 98 speed index, BH Lisas Boy banked the $112,500 winner's share of the purse from his fourth lifetime Grade 1 win. BH Lisa Boy was sent to post a the 5-2 second choice in the field of 11, and he was rebounding off of his eighth-place finish, 2 ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—NOVEMBER 17, 2018—Saturday's 400-yard, $100,000 AQHA Distaff Challenge Championship (G1) at Los Alamitos Racecourse was declared a no contest. Before the start, Duck Dash N Go broke through the gate, causing all the gate doors to open before the starter officially dispatched the field. Because the horses were unprepared ...