Retama Park will host 12 training races on Wednesday. The first post is set for noon (central).

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SELMA, TX–FEBRUARY 18, 2025–No less than six (6) six-figure summer sale yearlings are expected to make their career debut on Wednesday when Retama Park will host its second-day training races for newly minted juveniles.

Contested over a distance of 250 yards, the races will begin at noon (central) at the Selma, Texas facility. Parking and admission are FREE. All ages are welcome. This is a non-wagering event.

Trainer Marc Jungers will saddle $350,000 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale graduate Favoritetang in Race 9—the colt by leading sire Favorite Cartel races for the Favoritetang Partnership. A rider has yet to be named but the colt will race from Post 2.

Bred in Louisiana by Grant Farms LLC, Favoritetang is out of the Corona Cartel mare Cosmopolitanne, a half-sister to All American Derby(G1) winner Instygator ($1,608,801), Heritage Place Futurity(G1) winner Shott Gun ($695,029) and multiple stakes winner Maybellina ($167,659).

In addition, Jungers will send out $250,000 Ruidoso New Mexico-Bred Sale graduate On Da Edge for the On Da Edge Partnership in Race 3 and Shesa Favorite, a $235,000 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale daughter of Favorite Cartel for owner Shesa Favorite Partnership in Race 11.

Trainer John Stinebaugh will get things underway in the opening race (1) with $315,000 Ruidoso Select graduate Dare To Fly. The royally bred son of leading third-crop sire Flying Cowboy 123 races for owner Zane Kiehne.

Jockey Ali Rivera has been tapped to ride the half-brother to Grade 3 winner Pandorum, the dam of two-time champion Hotstepper ($1,336,359), Ruidoso Derby(G1) winner Hotsempting ($682,793) and Grade 1-placed In Hott Pursuit ($358,218), etc. Laura Erickson bred the colt in Oklahoma from the Grade 3-placed Strawfly Special mare Daring Diversion.

Stinebaugh and Rivera will team again in Race 8 with Darryl Murray's Apollitical Jess colt, Jess Hotz. The $100,000 Ruidoso Select graduate is out of Kinda Spicey by Tres Seis.

Trainer Patrick Clemons named jockey Nestor Duran to ride the final six-figure summer sales graduate, Ocho Rojo, in Race 2.  Florentino Leon paid $135,000 for the Favorite Cartel gelding out of Sizzling N Fast at the Ruidoso Select Sale.

CLICK HERE for a Race program that includes sale prices if applicable.

Can't make it to the track? CLICK HERE to access the free live stream on the 19th.

Race results with individual times will be available on StallioneSearch.com late Wednesday.