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AJAX, ONT–OCTOBER 28, 2024–The 2024 Quarter Horse racing season at Ajax Downs wraps up on Wednesday, October 30, with a full, nine-race card that gets underway at 12:55. Fans who come to the track wearing a Halloween costume will receive a $2 betting voucher. The forecast is mainly sunny conditions and a high temperature of 20 C.
Some of the year's top equine performers will be in action on the final day of racing, including two of this year's Horse of the Year contenders, Queen Charlotte and Had To Be Ivory, who meet up in the featured Open Gridiron Gallop, race six, at 110 ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–OCTOBER 25, 2024–American Dreamin will look to give Dunn Ranch their third futurity win of the season when the fastest qualifier headlines an outstanding field of juveniles in the running of the Grade 1, $1,073,800 Golden State Million Futurity on Sunday at Los Alamitos.
Dunn Ranch has already visited the winner's circle twice at Los Alamitos after futurities. Those wins were courtesy of the undefeated Up To Party in the Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity and the Grade 2 PCQHRA Breeders Futurity.
Dunn Ranch and trainer Monty Arrossa decided to give their star filly a longer break with the thought of bringing ...
SHELBYVILLE, IN–OCTOBER 24, 2024–The state’s top Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses will take center stage Saturday, October 26th, for the fifth annual Indiana Champions Day. A record $1.5 million will be offered on the 13-race program featuring seven Thoroughbred races followed by six Quarter Horse events. First post for the day is 12 p.m.
The Quarter Horse portion of the program will be capped off with the 16th running of the $235,600 Miss Roxie Little Futurity, which runs as a Restricted Grade 3 event for the first time in 2024. The race is one of two elevated to Grade 3 status this season, joining the RG3 QHRAI Stallion Service Auction Futurity held earlier this year. WRs Mynameisrip was the fastest qualifier with a time of ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX–OCTOBER 23, 2024–West Texas Racing Partners’ Cowboys Gun Z, a gelded son of Flying Cowboy 123 and last year’s champion 2-year-old, will make his next start in Saturday’s 440-yard Texas Classic Derby (G1) trials at Lone Star Park.
Thirty-eight 3-year-olds are entered in four heats. The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the $400,000-est. final on November 16.
Cowboys Gun Z is coming off of a seventh-place finish, three lengths behind ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX–OCTOBER 23, 2024–Grade 1 winners Especially Goodcandy and Asscher head a group of 27 sophomore fillies entered in Saturday’s 400-yard Texas Classic Oaks trials at Lone Star Park.
A homebred daughter of Jess Good Candy trained by Trey Wood for owners Mark McCloy and Annette McCloy, Especially Goodcandy will be shortening in distance off of her half-length victory in the September 2, 440-yard All American Oaks (G1) at Albuquerque Downs. The ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–OCTOBER 22, 2024–The big question heading into the running of the $77,800 Wild West Futurity will be if J Lazy Six Racing’s Heartlande can repeat her sensational performance in the trials to the Wild West Futurity.
If the filly by Favorite Cartel can be anywhere close to duplicating that thrilling effort, then it’s tough to imagine any horse outdueling her in Saturday's 350-yard final at Los Alamitos.
Simply put, Heartlande dominated her trial race. She won her heat by 3 1/4 lengths, and her time of 17.742 was 45/100ths of a second faster than the next ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX–OCTOBER 22, 2024–A total of 114 2-year-olds, topped by multiple graded stakes winner DK Marney Jess and the undefeated graded stakes winner Kempton, are entered in Friday’s Texas Classic Futurity (G1) trials at Lone Star Park.
The 10 fastest qualifiers from the 12 400-yard heats will meet in the November 16, $1-million final.
A daughter of world champion Apollitical Jess trained by Juan Diaz Jr. for owner CH Horse Racing LLC, DK Marney ...
AJAX, ONT–OCTOBER 22, 2024–Sarah Wincikaby's talented 2-year-old Niigaanii will meet nine other top juveniles in Wednesday's $77,220 Alex Picov Memorial Futurity at Ajax Downs, one of this country's richest Quarter Horse races.
The Futurity, at a challenging 400 yards, is race eight on a big nine-race card that gets underway at 12:55 p.m.
Niigaanii, who was bred by Wincikaby, has won two of his five starts and was second by just a neck in his latest, the Ontario Sires Stakes Futurity, to Runaway Fate, who is also in the Picov Futurity field.
"He's going to run as best as he can," said Wincikaby, who ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
ALBUQUERQUE, NM–OCTOBER 18, 2024–Nori, a homebred son of Favorite Cartel owned by MRB Racing LLC, drew post 7 for Sunday’s 400-yard, $207,730 La Fiesta Derby for 3-year-olds at Albuquerque Downs.
The fastest qualifier from four trials run September 27, Nori is coming off of a one-length victory in the last heat. The gelding has earned $120,723 from 14 races, and he was a finalist in the sport’s richest race for sophomores, the September 2, ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–OCTOBER 17, 2024–TYKHE Racing LLC’s Dark Nme, winner of nine of her first 12 starts and over $1.6 million in career earnings, will make her West Coast debut when she is one of 33 standout sophomores in the 400-yard trials to the Grade 1, $763,000 Los Alamitos Super Derby on Sunday night.
Trained by Romeo Mireles, Dark Nme will be in action in the first of four Super Derby trials and will start from post number two against a field that includes multiple local derby winner BP Cartel Policy. The horses with the ten fastest times in the trials will advance to the Grade 1 final on Sunday, November 10.
Named ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
ALBUQUERQUE, NM--OCTOBER 17, 2024--Karmalites, a multiple stakes-winning daughter of the One Famous Eagle stallion The Marfa Lights racing for Fabian Muniz Porras, is one of 10 2-year-olds entered back in Sunday’s 400-yard, $383,353 La Fiesta Futurity (G3) at Albuquerque Downs.
Karmalites will be seeking her third career stakes win and second graded stakes victory, as the sorrel filly has scored wins in the 350-yard, $215,000 ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–OCTOBER 17, 2024–Jeryl Hartley’s Hes Chickless won the Moonist Award in 2023 thanks to his tremendous work rate and great success at high racing levels at Los Alamitos. The colt won the El Primero Del Año Derby and the A Ransom Handicap while racing in five other stakes or derby finals during his sophomore campaign.
The talented son of Hes Relentless is putting together another great resume during his 4-year-old campaign, once again exhibiting great ability and consistency on the racetrack. Hes Chickless will look for his first stakes score of the season when ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
AURORA, CO–OCTOBER 15, 2024–Kali K and Yo Morning Delite are two of the 10 aged sprinters entered in Friday’s 350-yard, $20,300 Pen Pal Stakes at Arapahoe Park near Denver.
A 5-year-old daughter of One Fabulous Eagle trained by Alexander Orozco for owner Luis Marquez, Kali K made her official season debut with a wire-to-wire, one-length victory in the 400-yard, $27,000 Leo Beaudash Stakes at Arapahoe Park on September 28. The Colorado-bred mare and horse for the ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–OCTOBER 11, 2024–Pedro Barbizan Santiago Leite’s Miss Isao Jqm, who in 2022 became the first Quarter Horse in Brazil to win the GP São Paulo, GP Brasil and GP Consecration since 2014, will make her second start at Los Alamitos when she heads the $13,600 allowance feature on Sunday night.
The mare by Mr Jess Perry became ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
ALBUQUERQUE, NM--OCTOBER 10, 2024--Miss Hi Tide, a stakes-winning and Grade 1-placed daughter of the Dash Ta Fame stallion Woodbridge campaigned by Uno Menos, is one of 10 state-bred 3-year-olds entered in Sunday’s 400-yard, $442,075 New Mexico State Fair Derby (RG3) at Albuquerque Downs.
Miss Hi Tide is the fifth-fastest qualifier from her 1 3/4-length victory in the second of five trials on September 21. The sorrel filly has earned $201,506 from five races in New ...
AJAX DOWNS–OCTOBER 10, 2024–Ajax Downs is the place to be this Thanksgiving Monday, October 14, for Race Day For The United Way, a jam-packed afternoon of Quarter Horse racing, raffles and prizes, a pumpkin giveaway to the first 100 kids, an appearance by the headless horseman, and the 'Turkeys vs. Chickens' race, which is sure to provide laughs.
Bring a new or used clothing item and receive a $5 betting voucher. There is a blanket giveaway while quantities last.
The on-track feature is the $57,150 Ontario Sired Stakes Derby, ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–OCTOBER 10, 2024–As it’s now the norm in the top fillies and mares division, a full field of distaffers will get together for the running of the $35,000 Sound Dash Handicap on Saturday night at Los Alamitos.
The 350-yard Sound Dash is the eighth race on the card, with the Robert Boniface completing the stakes late double.
Los Alamitos is nationally regarded as having the best stakes program for fillies and mares in the nation, and the Sound Dash is another fine example of its strength. The field of 10 will include 2023 AQHA champion Fearless ...
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
ALBUQUERQUE, NM–OCTOBER 10, 2024–Harken, a graded stakes winning son of Eye Am King and the fastest qualifier, drew post 7 for Sunday’s 400-yard, $1,160,420 New Mexico State Fair Futurity (RG2) for state-bred 2-year-old Quarter Horses at Albuquerque Downs.
A $145,000 yearling purchase at last year’s New Mexico-Bred Sale at Ruidoso Downs, Harken races for Alepony LLC. The sorrel gelding has earned $237,214 from six races -- all in New Mexico -- and his four wins include a nose victory in the 350-yard, $351,000 Mountain Top Futurity (RG2) at Ruidoso ...
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–OCTOBER 10, 2024–Steve Holt and Jeff Jones’ multimillionaire Empressum, the AQHA Racing World Champion in 2022, will look to become the first back-to-back winner of the Grade 1 Robert Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship since 2017 when he heads a strong field of seven here on Saturday night.
The great Heza Dasha Fire, who won this race in 2016 and 2017, is the last horse to successfully defend his title in this race and is one of only six to have done so ...