Chicks First Flash, the runner-up in the Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity (G2) in his last start will start in the $25,000 Fred Scane Memorial Stakes for 2-year-olds on Saturday at Los Alamitos.   

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LOS ALAMITOS, CA—JUNE 17, 2022—Jeryl Hartley’s Hes Chickless, who has been very impressive in his first two starts, plus a pair of Grade 2 futurity finalists are among the seven runners leading the field in the $25,000 Fred Scane Memorial Stakes for 2-year-olds on Saturday at Los Alamitos.   

The field will also include Five Livestock and Steve Wright’s Chicks First Flash, the runner-up in the Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity (G2) in his last start.

J. Francisco Diaz’s One Sweet Bar, who ran fifth in the Kindergarten, will also be in action in the Fred Scane. Both runners won their respective Kindergarten trials with Chicks First Flash doing so while posting the fastest qualifying time. 

Hes Chickless, a colt by Hes Relentless, hopes to launch his stakes career with a victory following a pair of perfect outings in his previous starts. The John Cooper-trainee won his debut by daylight and from the rail on April 2 before returning to score a neck victory in an allowance event on May 21.

Eligible to the Golden State Million Futurity and Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, Hes Chickless will have his usual rider Juan Pablo Leon aboard from the outside post seven.

The field for the Fred Scane will also feature M&M Racing Stables LLC’s Imm Born To Fly, who is also undefeated in her two starts, plus VGK Fire Fly, Attacker and Mr Secret Cartel.

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Los Alamitos Race Course honors the memory of the late Fred Scane, a highly-respected Quarter Horse owner, breeder, and stallion manager, with the running of a stakes race for 2-year-olds on Saturday.

The Fred Scane Memorial Handicap will have a $25,000 purse and will be contested at 350 yards.  A leading breeder and owner of some of the biggest names in the sport, Scane passed away at the age of 82 on February 26, 2020. Involved in Quarter Horse racing for over 40 years, he owned Scane Ranch in Chino, where leading stallion Merridoc stood, and later a ranch in Murrieta, where he boarded Quarter Horses for many leading operations. Scane was Ed Allred’s stallion manager and a member of the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association board of directors.                                                   

Scane was the breeder of three of Merridoc's finest offspring in AQHA champions Solvency, Apprehend, and Griswold.  In recent years, Scane campaigned stakes winners  Separate Lives and Fighting City Hall.  As stallion manager for Ed Allred’s Rolling A Ranch, Fred Scane worked with some of the most prominent stallions in California. He managed Walk Thru Fire, Separatist, TR Dasher, Snowbound, Stel Corona, and the champion sire Kiddy Up. He was also an ever-present figure at most of the major Quarter Horse sale auctions.

 "I leaned on Fred for advice on breeding and racing," Allred said. "He was nationally known and had so many great contacts in the industry to build stallion syndications."

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