Indeed, ridden by Cordarelton Benn, wins the $22,950 Rocky Mountain Championship Stakes at Arapahoe Park on Tuesday.

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AURORA, CO–OCTOBER 4, 2022–Indeed outran the competition Tuesday afternoon at Arapahoe park in the $22,950 Rocky Mountain Championship Stakes. 

Ridden by Cordarelton Benn, Indeed broke best from the gates and led the pack wire-to-wire crossing the finish line first only by a head over Kooler Wagon. Benn and Indeed clocked a 101 speed index in :19.864 seconds on the 400-yard straightaway. The close finish with 9-4 odds at the post paid $8.60 on the win. 

The Rocky Mountain Championship is the first stakes win for Indeed, who has lit the board 13 out of 15 starts with 4 career wins. Jose Chavez saddled the four-year-old son of Wagon Tales for owner Jose Cantaneda and the $13,770 winner’s share of the purse ups his lifetime earnings to $64,529. 

Bred by Mr. and Mrs. L. Judd Morse of Oklahoma, Indeed’s dam is Dancing Iam by Apollo (TB) and is out of a half-sister to the grandam of champion Check N Fetch.

Kooler Wagon, with Jose Lopez in the irons, broke well and maintained her second place position from gate-to-wire. Trained by Uriel Delgado, the five-year-old daughter of Desiro has six career wins with $54,489 in the bank, including the American Flyer Stakes in September.

Breeders Thomas Bradbury and Vaughn Cook sold Kooler Wagon to her current owner Alma Olivas for $7,200 in the 2018 Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale. Her dam is the Pyc Paint Your Wagon stakes-placed mare Beaus Wagon, who is a 3/4-sister to the grandam of two-time AQHA champion and millionaire Empressum. 

Coming in third with Daniel Valles at the reigns was This Parties Hoppin. The post-time favorite has three career stakes wins, with two from this year, including the Leo Beau Dash Stakes and Dolls Prodigy Stakes at Arapahoe. The four-year-old son of Five Bar Cartel has earned $79,949 and is conditioned by Jose Nava Arjon.

This Parties Hoppin’s dam is the Check Him Out mare Bsimjumpn, who is out of a half-sister to champion Carters Cartel. Bred by Jose Antonio Flores, the Colorado bred gelding is owned by Vences Racing.

The remaining order of finish is Sheza Prized Perry, Southernstylemission, Choot Em Lizz and Legends On Fire.