BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
OPELOUSAS, LA–NOVEMBER 18, 2024–B Second Cowboy and Action Required are two of the 30 sophomores entered in Saturday's 400-yard Evangeline Downs Derby trials at Evangeline Downs Racetrack.
The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the $50,000-added Evangeline Downs Derby final on December 21.
A homebred son of Flying Cowboy 123 owned and trained by Jose R. ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
OPELOUSAS, LA–NOVEMBER 18, 2024–Ninety-two juveniles are entered in Friday's 400-yard Evangeline Downs Futurity (G2) trials at Evangeline Downs Racetrack.
Post time for the first of 11 trials is set for 4:35 p.m. (CST). The last heat is scheduled to go off at 8:45.
Kiss My Maruska, a son of Kiss My Hocks racing for Heavy Hitters Racing Stables from the barn ...
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BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
AURORA, CO–NOVEMBER 15, 2024–Arapahoe Park near Denver will end its 2024 racing season with a 10-race program on Sunday. Post time for the first race is set for 12 p.m. (MST).
Sunday's card is anchored by two stakes restricted to Colorado-bred runners. Lota Hocks, a stakes-placed son of Lota PYC and the fastest qualifier, leads a group of 10 state-bred juveniles entered back in the 350-yard, $135,620 Cherry Creek Futurity (R).
Lota Hocks has won both of his outs during the Arapahoe Park meet, including the second of four Cherry Creek Futurity trials on October 19. Jose Nava Arjon trains the black gelding for owner Arjon Jose ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–NOVEMBER 14, 2024–With a minimum of two berths still available for the Grade 1, $600,000 Champion of Champions, a total of 11 top runners will compete in a pair of $20,000 Z. Wayne Griffin Directors Trials on Sunday night at Los Alamitos.
London Toby, Empressum, Jeriko, Pattys Saint, Shakers No Secret and BP Cartel Policy are already on the grounds at Los Alamitos and have presumptive berths to the December 14 Champion of Champions.
Dashing Tres, winner of the Grade 1 All American Derby, is enjoying some rest and relaxation after a hugely successful derby campaign and has declined his Champion of Champions berth. ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX–NOVEMBER 14, 2024–Lone Star Park will present a pair of significant stakes for 3-year-olds as part of its 12-race closing night program on Saturday.
Saturday's 440-yard, $328,811 Texas Classic Derby (G1) is headed by Lance Bland's Relentless Eagle, a bay son of champion Hes Relentless and a $100,000 purchase at the 2022 Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City. The fastest qualifier from four trials run October 26, Relentless Eagle brings in a three-race win streak that includes a dead heat victory with Asscher in ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–NOVEMBER 14, 2024–Four mares with stakes victories in 2024, including three with local stakes wins, will lead the way when a full field of 10 distaffers face off in the Grade 2, $75,000 Las Damas Handicap on Saturday at Los Alamitos. The Las Damas is the final major race of the meet in the aged mare division, and just about every top mare at the Cypress track will be showing up in this 400-yard race.
Ed Allred’s Nymphette gets top billing after posting two impressive efforts during the second part of the year. Nymphette won the $50,000 Rolling A Ranch Matron Stakes here on July 27 and then finished second to the stellar Pattys Saint in the Grade 1, $125,000 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap on September ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX–NOVEMBER 13, 2024–A solid field of 10 2-year-olds is entered back in Texas' richest horse race, Saturday's 400-yard, $911,868 Texas Classic Futurity (G1) at Lone Star Park.
The 10 juveniles entered in the Texas Classic boast combined earnings of $2,433,628. Simmons Racing's Aguila Rapida brings in a three-race win streak that includes a 1 3/4-length victory in the September 2, $200,000 All American Juvenile Invitational Stakes at Albuquerque Downs. The homebred son of champion Tempting Dash also ran second, three-quarters of a ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX--NOVEMBER 11, 2024--KJ Desparado, a homebred 5-year-old son of world champion Apollitical Jess and the sport's all-time leading earner, will make his next start in Saturday's 440-yard, $100,000 Refrigerator Championship Stakes (G1) at Lone Star Park.
Trained by Wes Giles for owners John Lee, Kathy Lee, and Ruben Mares, KJ Desparado is coming off of a ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
CLAREMORE, OK–NOVEMBER 10, 2024–Will Rogers Downs will close its fall American Quarter Horse meet with a stakes tripleheader on Tuesday.
The 350-yard, $358,864 Black Gold Futurity Championship (RG3) for 2-year-old colts and geldings sired by participating stallions has drawn a full field of 10, including graded stakes winner Heavens Uncle. A homebred son of champion Uncle D trained by Guillermo Valdivia for owner Sherry Gilmore, Heavens Uncle is the ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–NOVEMBER 9, 2024–The anticipated running of the Grade 1, $795,000 Los Alamitos Super Derby will once again feature a powerhouse cast of 3-year-olds. The field will include BP Cartel Policy is the fastest qualifier and multiple graded derby winner – certainly one of the top runners on the West Coast, and Dark Nme, the 2023 AQHA champion 2-year-old filly after winning the Grade 1 Rainbow Futurity, Grade 1 Texas Classic Futurity, and the Restricted Grade 1 Remington Park Oklahoma-bred Futurity.
The field will also feature an undefeated colt named Stanley Cartel, who by the looks of recent performance could just be starting to scratch the surface of his ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
CLAREMORE, OK–NOVEMBER 8, 2024–Donald J. Friesen's A Legacy Of Tales, a graded stakes winner during the Prairie Meadows meet, drew post 2 for Sunday's 400-yard, $24,000 OQHRA Fall Classic Stakes at Will Rogers Downs.
A homebred 4-year-old Wagon Tales gelding trained by Stacy Charette-Hill, A Legacy Of Tales competed only against stakes company at Prairie Meadows, and he is coming off of a wire-to-wire, ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–NOVEMBER 7, 2024–Multiple graded derby winner BP Cartel Policy and AQHA champion and millionaire Dark Nme will headline the biggest Quarter Derby on the West Coast as 10 top sophomores will face off in the running of the Grade 1, $763,000 Los Alamitos Super Derby on Sunday night.
On the line for these horses will be a presumptive berth to the prestigious Grade 1, $600,000 Champion of Champions a chance to face a field that could include 2022 AQHA World Champion Empressum ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–NOVEMBER 6, 2024–Reliance Ranches’ Unrelentless returns to California after racing in the Rainbow Derby and the All American Invitational Stakes at Alburquerque to face a strong group of sophomores led by local stakes winners Ready For It and Cheater in the running in the $30,000 Town Policy Stakes at 400 yards on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.
Trained by Eddie Willis, Unrelentless had a strong local campaign as a juvenile last year, finishing second to champion Trane Station V in the Grade 1 Golden State Million Futurity while also qualifying to the Grade 1 Los ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–NOVEMBER 6, 2024–Checkn Cartel, In The Mode, Silver Bac, and Market Analyst, a foursome of talented fillies that competed in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Oaks earlier this year, are among the 10 sophomores that will get together in the running of the $30,000 Justanold Love Handicap at 350 yards in the ninth and final race on Saturday’s card at Los Alamitos.
Owned by J. Francisco Diaz, Checkn Cartel is the top earner in this group with $202,387 already to her name. The Favorite Cartel filly picked ...
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