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Four Stakes Headline Saturday's All-Quarter Horse Program at Horseshoe Indianapolis
The fastest qualifier, Arbitro, drew post 7 for Saturday's $168,520 Heartland Futurity at Horseshoe Indianapolis.

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Four Stakes Headline Saturday's All-Quarter Horse Program at Horseshoe Indianapolis

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

SHELBYVILLE, IN–JULY 19, 2024–Four stakes headline Saturday's nine-race all-Quarter Horse program at Horseshoe Indianapolis.

Post time for the first race is set for 10:45 a.m. (EDT).

Fastest qualifier Arbitro drew post 7 for Saturday's 350-yard, $168,520 Heartland Futurity.

A $40,000 purchase at last year's Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City, Arbitro races for Campos Famiy Ventures from the barn of trainer Claudio Barraza. The Ivory James colt made his career debut with a nose victory in the fourth of five Heartland Futurity trials on June 29.

Arbitro is the 5-2 morning-line favorite. Edgar Diaz will ride the colt.

Other contenders include Jason Chinn's RR God And Cowboys, a son of Big Lew who was graded stakes placed at the Remington Park meet. The fourth-fastest qualifier, RR God And Cowboys has banked $42,168 from five races, and his spring record included a second-place finish, a head behind winner Lews Muddybuddy, in the April 27, 330-yard Laico Bird Stakes (RG3) for Oklahoma-bred 2-year-olds.

RR God And Cowboys drew post 2 and will be ridden by Luz D. Martinez for trainer Tony Cunningham.

Also on Saturday, 11 Indiana-sired juveniles are entered back in the 350-yard, $193,700 Gordon Mobley Futurity (R).

Campos Family Ventures' Paradise Beach, the fastest qualifier from five trials run June 29, made his debut with a half-length win in the second heat. Claudio Barraza trains the chestnut daughter of the Corona Cartel stallion Escondido Beach.

Paradise Beach drew post 10 and will be ridden by Edgar Diaz.

Trainer Tony Cunningham will send out four qualifiers to Saturday's 350-yard, $134,700 Jaguar Rocket Futurity (R) for Indiana-breds, led by the undefeated Macho Chick.

A chestnut daughter of the Apollitical Jess stallion KJ Mucho Macho Man owned by Brian L. Gunder, Macho Chick has won both of her outs and has banked $18,150. The filly is the third-fastest qualifier from four trials run on June 27.

Macho Chick drew post 8 and will be ridden by Luz D. Martinez.

Eleven state-bred sophomores are entered in Saturday's 400-yard, $133,900 Blue River Derby (R).

Nachor Secret, a homebred son of Habits Secret owned and trained by Ricardo Martinez, has earned $65,810 from three races this year, and his two wins include a three-quarter length victory in the 350-yard, $99,000 Harley Greene Derby (R) on June 1. The gray colt drew post 5 and will be ridden by Martin Munoz.

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