I Be The Queen, the 2024 Los Alamitos Equine Sale top selling filly, is already on the Los Alamitos grounds and is settling in great with trainer James Glenn, Jr.

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LOS ALAMITOS, CA–The 2024 Los Alamitos Equine Sale was full of highlights thanks to record figures and several big-ticket purchases that caught the attention of the Quarter Horse racing world. Leading the way was the Favorite Cartel colt, Accelerated, the sale topper that went for an all-time Equine Sale record of $850,000.

His full sister, I Be The Queen, was the second-highest seller at $500,000 and the event’s top-selling filly. Purchased by Cathy Allred, the president of Los Alamitos Race Course and wife of track owner Ed Allred, I Be The Queen is already on the grounds at the Orange County oval and is doing a great job settling in at the barn of top trainer James Glenn, Jr.

The filly by Favorite Cartel is out of the great Remember Me Rose, American Quarter Horse racing's all-time leading dam by money earned. The cross of Favorite Cartel and Remember Me Rose has become legendary by their progeny, including AQHA champion Cyber Attack and millionaire Bomb Cyclone and Powerful Favorite, plus six other stakes winners. I Be The Queen’s full sisters include stakes winners Majority Interest and Go To Girl and Ed Burke Million Futurity finalist Remember To Dash.

Glenn, a Grade 1 stakes-winning trainer with 744 Quarter Horse wins to his name, has already been impressed with I Be The Queen’s classy attitude and gorgeous looks.

Trainer James Glenn, Jr. said that I Be The Queen is already on the grounds at Los Alamitos and is doing a great job settling in at the barn. © Los Alamitos

"She’s doing great,” Glenn said. “We jogged her backward on the track just to let her get used to the place, and so far, she’s handled it like a true queen. You can see her class. She has the past horses (in her family), and the pedigree definitely shows up. Of course, you never really know until you get to the races. We’ve only had her here (less than a week), but so far, she’s been great. I hauled her out here myself and you would never have known she was back there in the trailer. She never made a move.

"She was a total doll when she got here. I took her right to the track and jogged her backward. She was alert and the (horse) traffic coming at her never bothered her. She’s done everything right. That’s really all you can ask for."

    I Be The Queen sold for $500,000 at the 2024 Los Alamitos Equine Sale as the second highest seller of the entire sale and top-selling filly. © Los Alamitos

After Allred signed the half-million-dollar ticket to acquire I Be The Queen on day two of the Equine Sale, she was shipped to Ralph and Carrie Fales’ Fales Ranch in Coolidge, Arizona. The Steve Burns-bred filly spent three months there, getting the initial breaking and training to be race-ready once she arrived here.

"The Fales did a really good job with her,” Glenn said. “They were organized and had all the paperwork ready when I went to pick her up. Mr. Ralph Fales brought her out with just a lead line on her. She was just a classy queen, and from there, she let us lead her to the trailer. The Fales did a really good job with her."

I Be The Queen continued to show signs of precocity when she arrived at the Cypress track, stepping out of the trailer with ease and enjoying her first meal right away.

"We’ve had her on the track twice, and she obviously was well broke at Fales Ranch. We really appreciate that. They made the most of it the time she was out there," Glenn added.

Her activities will continue to ramp up in the next few months, and if all goes well, her racing career will soon begin.

"We’ll take her a few more times out to the track and backtrack her with a pony," Glenn added. "I like to do that to make sure she’s used to seeing horses around her going at full speed. We want to get her used to that and always with a pony, just in case. We’ll have her do that for a few more days, and then we’ll start loping her. She’ll lope for the next 30 days, and then we’ll start walking her to the gate. She was already doing that at Fales, but we’ll also start that process here at the track. As you get further down the road, then the breezes will start, and the hand openings out of the gate.

"You have got to be patient with fillies. If it takes a little longer for them to get used to something, then it just takes a little longer. You’re not going to force anything on them. I’ve never been that way. You just take what they can accept, and you move forward with it. It’s all about being patient, reading your horse, and trying not to do too much or too little. You don’t want them to be bored and on the other hand, you don’t want them to be overwhelmed. We just try to strike that balance and do what they’re ready to do at the time."

The trainer has conditioned many top mares in his career, including AQHA champion and Grade 1 winner Quirky, multiple graded stakes winner Kiddy Up Cowgirl, and current top stakes winning mares Nymphette and Miss Isao Jqm. He’s also trained the geldings Monopolist, Check My Thoughts, and Watch Out, all winners of over $250,000. Simply put, Glenn is no stranger to working with top Quarter Horses and is comfortable training a horse with a $500,000 price tag.

"We’ll let her show us what she can do,” he added. “Right now, she has the look and the mentality. It’s too early to tell if she can run, but she moves nicely, and we’re pleased with her. Time will tell if she’s that Grade 1 horse that everyone is looking for."

Ed Allred with his wife Cathy, owner of the two-year-old filly I Be The Queen. © Los Alamitos

Glenn has two other top prospects for Cathy Allred, both of whom are also sired by Favorite Cartel. One of those is God I Need A Favor, a $57,000 purchase also at the Los Alamitos Equine Sale.

The Burns-bred runner is out of Need You Now, and his grand dam is Separate Tac, the dam of Governor’s Cup Futurity winner Pitbull and stakes winners Attack The Cartel and Southwesterly. Attack the Cartel produced the 2023 AQHA champion colt Trane Station V.

"Cathy is loaded,” Glenn said with a smile, referring to the owner’s precocious prospects. "(God I Need A Favor) is a rangy, big-looking horse. He’s been doing everything right. She also has a homebred (a Favorite Cartel colt out of the winning mare Studious). He’s probably the best one that mare has produced. I really like him. Cathy has three pretty nice prospects. We’ll see what happens, but I’m excited for her, and I think she’ll have a nice year."

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