Stakes winner Purty Darn Quick is among the 10 2-year-olds entered back in Friday’s 350-yard, $218,640 Valley Junction Futurity (G3) at Prairie Meadows.

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ALTOONA, IA-—SEPTEMBER 21, 2020—Stakes winners Purty Darn Quick and Fly Miss Corona Jess are among the 10 2-year-olds entered back in Friday’s 350-yard, $218,640 Valley Junction Futurity (G3) at Prairie Meadows.

A homebred son of champion Jess Louisiana Blue, Purty Darn Quick races for the Estate of Thomas Bradbury and trainer John Hammes. The gelding has earned $42,057 from five races in Oklahoma and Iowa, and his three wins include a head victory in the 350-yard, $65,000 John Deere Prairie Meadows Juvenile Challenge on August 15.

Purty Darn Quick drew post 9 and will be ridden by Ramiro Garcia.

Fly Miss Corona Jess is trained by Clint Crawford for owner Cavenaugh Quarter Horses LLC. A bay daughter of world champion Apollitical Jess, the filly is coming off of a Canterbury Park summer campaign during which she won the 350-yard, $50,000 Gopher State Futurity on July 7.

Fly Miss Corona Jess drew post 5 and will be ridden by Berkley Packer.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds:

1. Synergized (Armando Alvidrez), 20-1
2. Apollitical J Flash (Agustin Silva), 20-1
3. Easy Separatist (Jorge Torres), 10-1
4. Paint Me Brown (Uriel Cervantes), 8-1
5. Fly Miss Corona Jess (Berkley Packer), 30-1
6. Signs Of A Blue Moon (Jesus Salazar), 5-2
7. Not A Secret (Cristian Esqueda), 7-2
8. Shadi Lady (Jonathan Dominguez), 9-2
9. Purty Darn Quick (Ramiro Garcia), 6-1
10. Peves Blue Duck (Oscar Delgado), 10-1

Four other stakes will be contested at Prairie Meadows on Friday. Budderlicious, a stakes-placed son of Corona Cartel owned by Crestina Flores and Cesar Nunez, drew post 7 and will be ridden by Jonathan Dominguez for trainer Julio Corral in the 400-yard, $133,790 Altoona Derby. The second-fastest qualifier, Budderlicious made his local debut with a 1 1/2-length victory in the second of three trials on September 11. The gelding ran second, a nose behind winner Favorite Rock, in the July 1, 350-yard Rocky Mountain Derby at Arapahoe Park near Denver.

Alfredo Botello’s Ferrari James is the 5-2 morning-line favorite in Friday’s 440-yard, $35,000 Two Rivers Stakes (G3). A 7-year-old Ivory James gelding trained by Alex Wessels, Ferrari James has won 10 of 15 starts at Prairie Meadows, and he will be stretching out in distance off of his nose victory at odds of 11-1 in the 350-yard, $35,000 Keokuk Stakes (G3) on August 29. The gelding drew post 8 and will be ridden by Jorge Torres.

Eleven distance specialists, including three also-eligible entries, are entered in Friday’s 870-yard, $25,000 Covered Bridges Stakes. John G. Johnson’s Faster Than Hasta, a 6-year-old son of the Pritzi Dash stallion Hasta Be Fast trained by Robert Johnson, has won both of his outs at the 870 distance at Prairie Meadows this season, including a $13,500 open-condition allowance race on September 13. The gelding drew post 3 and will be ridden by Brett Birzer.

McCluskey Mugger, a homebred son of Valiant Hero trained by Jason Olmstead for owner Brenda Reiswig, drew the rail post for Friday’s 350-yard, $20,000 Valley Junction Juvenile Stakes. McCluskey Mugger has earned $16,350 from seven races, and he was a finalist in the Gopher State and Mystic Lake Northlands futurity at Canterbury Park last summer. The gray gelding will be ridden by Jesus Salazar.

All Prairie Meadows races can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.