Shes EC To Tempt wins the Sunday, April 12, 2026 feature at Remington Park for her sixth consecutive career victory. Jockey Nester Duran was aboard for the score

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By Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–APRIL 12, 2026–Trainer Leo Alcala tightened up the race for the lead among conditioners at Remington Park on Sunday night by winning twice, including Shes EC to Tempt’s sixth win in a row.

Shes EC to Tempt’s victory in the featured allowance race was Alcala’s 21st win of the meet, moving him to within three of leader Dee Keener’s 24. Keener only had one horse entered on the day and did not make it to the winner’s circle.

Shes EC to Tempt, a 3-year-old Texas-bred filly by Tempting Dash, out of the EC Jet One mare, Kas Shes EC, began her winning streak on July 12, 2025, when she won a futurity trial at Retama Park near San Antonio. Her next two trips to the winner’s circle came at Delta Downs in Louisiana in the Big Easy Futurity trials and then in the finals.

Those wins came in August last summer. She continued her winning ways when she moved on to Evangeline Downs in Louisiana where she won a futurity trial, but did not race in the finals. Now, at 3 years old, she has won an Oklahoma Derby trial at Remington Park and an allowance race, the longest of the afternoon on Extreme Race Day at 250 yards.

The program, featuring other exhibition animal races including Ostriches, Camels and Zebras, contains no race longer than 250 yards, with many at 220 yards or 110 yards.

Shes EC to Tempt, a winner as the post-time favorite at 3-2 odds, won her by a half-length over runner-up Relentless Legacy (4-1), who was another neck in front of third-place longshot RR Dulce Neenya (29-1).

The winning filly improved her lifetime record for owner-breeder Francisco Javier Garza to six wins from seven starts and earnings of $135,323. Her only loss was a second place finish in the first start of her career, a maiden event at Sam Houston Race Park in Texas in May 2025.

Shes EC to Tempt covered the 250 yards Sunday on a fast track in :13.371, earning an 85 speed index. Both of her wins in Oklahoma City this season have been with jockey Nestor Duran in the irons.

A couple of jockeys had riding doubles on Sunday – leader Juan Pulido and Gonzalo Gutierrez. The top five in the jockeys’ race are Pulido with 39 wins; Roman Cruz with 17 (he was shut out Sunday, if you don’t count ostriches); Mario Delgado (15) third; Bryan Candanosa (13) fourth, and Francisco Calderon (12) in fifth.

EXTREME RACE DAY GETS OFF TO QUICK START AS THE PAINT, CAPTAIN FANCY, SETS TRACK RECORD FOR MIXED BREEDS AT 110 YARDS

Captain Fancy, a 4-year-old Paint filly, blazed to her seventh win in her last eight starts, and in doing so set a new track record for the mixed breeds of Paints and Appaloosas for 110 yards at Remington Park.

The North Dakota-bred daughter of Im the Captain Now, out of the Major Rime (QH) mare, ND Bunny Jet (QH), stopped the timer in :06.817 which shattered the old mark of :06.874 set in 2014 by Queen for Cash, an Appaloosa.

Captain Fancy, with leading rider Juan Pulido in the irons, flashed out of the gate like a bolt of lightning, and won by a neck over runner-up River Flower (38-1). The blanket finish included third-place runner, Turnpike Jammer (12-1), who was a head behind River Flower.

Captain Fancy improved her record to 15 starts, eight wins, two seconds and one third for lifetime earnings of $71,830. She was bred by Randal E. Schwartz. Her only loss in her last eight tries was a second-place finish in a stakes race at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., on Nov. 9 last year and she lost that race only by a neck at 350 yards.

Today’s race was under allowance conditions. Captain Fancy now boasts a perfect record at 110 yards, two-for-two lifetime. She has won four-of-five starts at Remington Park. Leo Alcala trains her for owner Heber Deyta-Melendez of Albuquerque, N.M.

Remington Park racing continues Thursday-Sunday, April 16-19. The $971,955 Remington Park Futurity headlines a stakes-laden program on Saturday, April 18.

The first race nightly at Remington Park is set for 6pm with Sunday racing at 4pm. All times are Central.

ABOUT REMINGTON PARK
Remington Park has provided more than $410 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District. The 2026 Remington Park Futurity, the richest race of the season for Oklahoma-breds, takes place on Saturday, April 18.  Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. Guests must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or to enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.

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