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By Eric Alwan
SUNLAND PARK, NN–FEBRUARY 2, 2026– A dozen of the nation's top older quarter horses will run in Saturday's (Feb. 7) 24th running of the $350,000 Grade 1 Championship at Sunland Park, one of three stakes races to be held on a very busy day of action. An early post of 12 noon is set for Saturday’s expanded ...
By StallioneSearch
SELMA, TX–JANUARY 31, 2026– Action for the 2026 2-year-old crop of American Quarter Horses will begin Wednesday, February 4, when Retama Park hosts 12 schooling races for juveniles.
The non-parimutuel races will be contested at 250 yards and are designed to provide young horses with experience as they prepare for their 2-year-old racing season.
Five six-figure sale graduates are entered to run Wednesday, ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
CYPRESS, CA–JANUARY 30, 2026–Graded futurity finalists Slatedtoshine and Sentella Olimpia, along with Los Alamitos Two Million Juvenile Invitational finalists Terry Mesu and Hell On Wheels V, are among the 34 sophomores competing in the trials for the $98,500 Los ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA–JANUARY 29, 2026– Two strong efforts in futurity trials last year establish Steve Burns’ In The Lead as a top contender in Saturday’s featured $12,900 allowance at Los Alamitos. The 350-yard dash is part of an eight-race card, with the ...
By Eric Alwan
SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 29, 2026–A dozen of the nation's top older quarter horses were entered for Saturday's 24th running of the $350,000 Grade 1 Championship at Sunland Park, one of three stakes races to be held on a very busy day of ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 27, 2026—The Saturday program at Sunland Park will feature a competitive nine-race card highlighted by three stakes races: the $60,000 Lonnie and Candy Elam Memorial Stakes, the Grade 1 $350,000 Championship At Sunland Park Stakes, and the GII $188,490 Shue Fly Finals.
The ninth race on the Saturday card at Sunland Park will showcase ten talented three-year-olds who qualified ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 26, 2026—The Saturday program at Sunland Park will feature a competitive nine-race card highlighted by three stakes races: the $60,000 Lonnie and Candy Elam Memorial Stakes, the Grade 1 $350,000 Championship At Sunland Park Stakes, and the Grade 2 $188,490 Shue Fly ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 22, 2026–Thirty-two sophomores have been divided into four trials at 400 yards to the Grade 1, $201,000 Los Alamitos Winter Derby on Saturday night at Los Alamitos. The trials will make up an all-Quarter Horse Late Pick Four and the quality of these standouts comes through as 20 of them ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
PHOENIX, AZ–JANUARY 26, 2026—The Monday afternoon program at Turf Paradise features an eight-race card highlighted by the $27,800 Mark Villa Maiden Stakes, which will ...
By Eric Alwan
SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 12, 2026– David Meridyth's Flashtoglory will be seeking to defend her title in Saturday's 25th running of the $80,000 Lou Wooten and Sydney Valentini Stakes at Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino.
The New Mexico-bred mare by ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 9, 2026– Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s homebred Rockin With Energy will look to defend her title in the Grade 1, $100,000 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap when she headlines a ...
SUNLAND, NM–JANUARY 5, 2026–Wes Giles-trained Bigg Picture will be seeking his third straight stakes win when he arrives in the paddock as the 3-to-1 morning line favorite for Saturday's 28th running of the $80,000 Red Or Green Stakes, a restricted Grade 2 event for New Mexico-bred older quarter horses.
Bigg Picture, owned by Uno Menos and bred in New Mexico by Mj Farms, is coming off back-to-back stakes victories at Zia Park, most recently the Grade 1 Zia Park Championship, in which the son of Big Daddy Cartel beat open company.
Prior to that, Bigg Picture captured the Namehimastreaker New Mexico Classic Championship Stakes at Zia Park, one of his five wins from eight starts in an extraordinary 2025 campaign for the 5-year-old gelding. In all, Bigg Pictre has amassed earnings of more than $440,000 while winning six times from 21 ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 5, 2026—The Saturday card at Sunland Park will feature a ten-race program beginning at 12:25 PM, highlighted by five trial heats for the G2 $100,000-added Shue Fly Stakes and the G2 $80,000 Red or Green Stakes. A total of forty-four New Mexico-bred three-year-olds will compete in the Shue Fly Trials, all aiming to post one of the ten fastest times to earn ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 1, 2026–Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s homebred Rockin With Energy will look to defend her title in the Grade 1, $100,000 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap when she headlines a field of 10 aged mars in the 400-yard race on Sunday at Los Alamitos.
Rockin With Energy won this race by the narrowest of margins last year, but she’ll enter the meet’s first Graded 1 final fresh off an impressive 3/4 length win in the Grade 2 Las Damas Handicap on November ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–JANUARY 1, 2026–The first full weekend of racing of the new meet at Los Alamitos is on tap with eight races each on Saturday and Sunday night.
The Sunday program will be headed by a pair of stakes races for mares led by the Grade 1, $100,000 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap with a full field of 10. Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s Rockin With Energy will look to become only the fourth two-time winner of the James Dreyer Charger Bar, which is always the first Grade 1 race of the meet at Los Alamitos.
Ten mares will also be in action in Sunday’s Dashingly. Cruz Mendez, who will ride Silver Bac in the James Dreyer Charger Bar and Racy Favorite in the Dashingly, is just one Quarter Horse stakes win away from 100 in ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 31, 2025—The January 5th card at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race program highlighted by two trial heats for the $22,500 added Mark Villa Maiden Stakes, drawing a competitive group ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 27, 2025—The New Year’s Eve Wednesday program at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race card beginning at approximately 1:15 PM, highlighted by two key AQRA events: the $17,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Derby Consolation Stakes and the $68,875 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Quarter Horse Derby. Both races bring together qualifiers from the December 1 trial heats and showcase some of the track’s top three-year-old talent.
The afternoon ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 25, 2025—The Friday afternoon program at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race card highlighted by two major futurity events for Arizona-bred juveniles, the $17,800 AQRA Quarter Horse Futurity Consolation Stakes and the $62,350 AQRA Quarter Horse Futurity. The first post is scheduled for approximately 1:15 PM.
The opening race is the $17,800 ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 25, 2025—The Saturday card at Turf Paradise will be highlighted by the $34,800 Mike Hastings Memorial Stakes, ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
LOS ALAMITOS, CA—DECEMBER 24, 2025–The final stakes for juveniles at Los Alamitos in 2025 lured a solid cast of nine 2-year-olds for $25,000 Holiday Handicap on the opening night of the meet here on Sunday evening.
Kolleen Ledgerwood’s Fancy Upp heads the field after running in a pair of futurities this year. The Favorite Cartel filly finished third in the Restricted Grade 1 Governor’s Cup Futurity and also competed in the Grade 2 PCQHRA ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
PHOENIX, AZ–DECEMBER 21, 2025—The Monday afternoon program at Turf Paradise will feature an eight-race card highlighted by two key juvenile events: the $22,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Futurity Consolation Stakes and the $98,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Futurity. First post is scheduled for 1:15 PM, with promising two-year-olds taking center stage over 400 yards.
The $22,800 AQRA Turf Paradise Open Futurity Consolation Stakes will open the card as race one, bringing ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
MEXICO CITY, MEX–DECEMBER 20, 2025—On Sunday, December 21, Hipódromo de las Américas will present an eleven-race card featuring some of the top Quarter Horse talent in Mexico. The program includes four major stakes events: the $11,651 Mexican Breeders Juvenile, the $29,749 Champion of Champions Classic-G3, the $43,374 Championship Juvenile, and the $159,264 Mexican ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–DECEMBER 18, 2025–Link Newcomb’s Cattail Cove will make his 60th career start when he defends his title in the Grade 3, $30,000 First Down Dash Handicap in Saturday’s eighth race at Los Alamitos. The 8-year-old star will also look for his fourth stakes victory of the year and the ninth of his brilliant career.
Cattail Cove won the 2024 First Down Dash by a neck before scoring stakes win in this year’s Moonist, Independence Day and Restricted Grade 1 Spencer Childers California ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
HOBBS, NM–DECEMBER 17, 2025—The Saturday card at Evangeline Downs will bring the meet to a thrilling conclusion with a twelve-race stakes-filled program offering more than $2 million in purses.
Highlighting the evening are the $1,000,000 LQHBA Louisiana Million Futurity and the $307,955 EVD Futurity, along with a deep supporting slate that includes the EVD 870 Stakes, EVD Juvenile Stakes, LQHBA Breeders Oaks, Leverne Perry Stakes, LQHBA Louisiana Million Invitational Stakes, EVD Derby, LQHBA Breeders Derby, Louisiana Champions Day ...
By Rob Tuel, Evangeline Downs
OPELOUSAS, LA–DECEMBER 16, 2025–The $1,000,000 LQHBA Louisiana Million (RG1) is the featured event on the Saturday night card at Evangeline Downs. The race over the distance of 400 yards is the main event on a card stacked with 12 stake races.
Rf Fast Dash N Blood has a chance to become racing’s newest millionaire with a win in the ...
By Orlando Gutierrez
LOS ALAMITOS, CA—DECEMBER 13, 2025—La Feliz Montana Ranch and Ray Willis’ Political Twist will look to become the first juvenile to win California’s richest Quarter Horse, the Grade 1, $1,929,825 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, after having already won a Grade 1 futurity at Ruidoso Downs.
He will take on a stellar field that will also include two other major Grade 1 winners at Los Alamitos on Sunday night. Political Twist, the 2-1 morning line favorite in the Two Million final, won the Grade 1 $1,000,000 Ruidoso Futurity at the New Mexico track and then ran a super second in the Grade 1 $3,000,000 All American Futurity on Labor Day Monday at The Downs at Albuquerque.
In his Los Alamitos debut, Political Twist had an ...
By George Duarte, Los Alamitos Night Lines Analyst
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–DECEMBER 12, 2025–This year's edition of the Champion of Champions is headlined by the defending and two time champion Empressum, the latest runner who has bested him in Jeriko and an up and comer who beat both of them in Stanley Cartel. Others who merit consideration are the All American winner Fdd Dreams who has ...
By Orlando Gutierrez, Los Alamitos
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–DECEMBER 11, 2025–The 53rd running of the Grade 1, $700,000 Champion of Champions at 440 yards will bring together the best lineup of Quarter Horses to face off in 2025. Ten Grade 1 winners will be in action with stats that exemplify their outstanding talents.
The field has combined to win 98 races from 220 starts with total earnings of $9,058,824. There are three millionaires in the field in Empressum, FDD Dreams and Jeriko and three others with over $600,000 each in ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
HOBBS, NM–DECEMBER 9, 2025—Sunday at Zia Park will showcase a packed ten-race program highlighted by seven major Quarter Horse stakes, beginning with first post at 12:05 PM. The afternoon features a combined $700,000 in guaranteed purses across the King Rick Rack Stakes(G2), the New Mexico Classic Quarter Horse Distaff ...
By Stallionesearch / Louanne Wainscott
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–DECEMBER 8, 2025—The prestigious Grade I, $700,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos stands as one of Quarter Horse racing’s most celebrated events, and this year’s edition has drawn a powerhouse lineup.
Ten elite runners—each earning their place through major victories across the country—will break from the gate on Saturday, December 13th, set to contest the classic 440 yards for one of the sport’s most coveted titles.
The field, in no particular order, includes ...
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