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Zack Stinebaugh Saddles Fastest Training Winner on Retama Park's Final 2025 Training Card
Zack Stinebaugh (left), the son of leading trainer John Stinebaugh (right), is the trainer and co-owner of Envestor, the fastest training race winner at Retama Park on Wednesday.

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Zack Stinebaugh Saddles Fastest Training Winner on Retama Park's Final 2025 Training Card

SELMA, TX–APRIL 2, 2025–Trainer Zack Stinebaugh saddled Envestor, a $28,000 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale graduate, to the fastest time from 80 2-year-olds who participated in the final 12 training races of the season for Juveniles at Retama Park on Wednesday.

Racing for the ownership of Young, Yates, and Stinebaugh, the son of first-crop sire Dulce Sin Tacha completed his 250-yard task in 13.63 seconds in Race 6, the day's fastest.

Out of the multiple stakes producing Stoli mare And Poof Shes Gone, Envestor is a half-brother to Northlands Futurity winner Five Bar Bodee, Clasico J. Merced Gomez Orozco winner Big Eagle Gone, and Fair Meadows Juvenile winner Redneckedness.

Stinebaugh also saddled Ivory Energy to victory in Race 3 to get two winners on the card.

Jockey Paulina Ramirez rode Automatique to the second fastest clocking of 13.67 seconds in Race 7 for trainer Ricardo Vallejo. Maria Teresa Ugarte paid $32,000 for the Freighttrain B filly at the TQHA Yearling Sale last July. Out of the Shazoom mare Shazumba, Automatique is a sister to Firecracker Futurity(G2) winner Expedyte, and half-sister to Sam Houston Juvenile winner Orbyson.

Trainers Yasmine Medina and Jose Sanchez III also had multiple winners on Wednesday, with two each.

Leading sire Apollitical Jess joined Dulce Sin Tacha as the only other sire to get two winners on Wednesday's card.

For results of today's schooling races by TIMES, CLICK HERE.

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