OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–FEBRUARY 17, 2025–Trainer Dee Keener of Inola, Oklahoma, sent out the fastest runners among American Quarter Horses and Paints on Monday from 13 training races at Remington Park.

Training races, also known as schooling races, are run this time of year to prepare 2-year-old horses for the first starts of their careers. No Appaloosas were entered in schooling events on Monday.

Keener, who has won the past two training titles at Remington Park during the Quarter Horse-Paint-Appaloosa meets of 2023 and 2024, will be searching for his third trophy in a row when the meet begins Thursday, March 6.

On Monday, he sent out Cyber Star, a Quarter Horse filly, in race 11 of the day for owner Kelly Yother Equine of Culver City, Calif. That 2-year-old Oklahoma-bred by ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–FEBRUARY 16, 2025–Reliance Ranches' Unrelentless and Ed Allred's London Toby put on a show of epic proportions in the running of the Grade 1, $135,750 Brad McKinzie Los Alamitos Winter Championship, as the two outstanding Quarter Horses traded leads with each passing stride with a presumptive berth to the Grade 1 Champion of Champions on the line.

Unrelentless and London Toby hit the wire nearly at the exact same time before the photo finish image showed that Unrelentless had crossed the finish line 4/1000ths of a second ahead of the defending Brad McKinzie winner in the 400-yard race.

With Justine Klaiber up for trainer Eddie Willis, Unrelentless posted his fourth consecutive victory at Los Alamitos while also picking up his third stakes victory during that span.

The 4-year-old horse by Hes Relentless ...

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–FEBRUARY 15, 2025–Runner-up in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity last December, Monte and Katsy Cluck and Ross Roark's Brown Coffeee dominated his first derby final, leading from start to finish in route to a 1 ½ length victory over Train B Taka in the Grade 1, $175,350 Los Alamitos Winter Derby on Saturday night

Bred by Silver Racing Farm LLC, the California-bred Brown Coffeee began his juvenile campaign in New Mexico before traveling to Los Alamitos in Orange County, California.

Purchased for $200,000 at the Ruidoso Yearling Sale, the gelding by Good Reason SA out of the Mr Jess Perry mare Amore La Blue has been outstanding in six starts at Los Alamitos, winning three of those outings while finishing third or better in every one of his races in Southern ...

SUNLAND PARK, NM—FEBRUARY 15, 2025–Let go at odds of 18-1, restricted G2-placed Bad King got his first career stakes win on Saturday when he defeated Flash Devine by a half-length in the $90,000 Pepsi Cola Stakes (RG3) at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino.

Jockey Christian Cardenas rode the son of leading New Mexico sire Eye Am King to a wire-to-wire win while completing the 350 yards in 17.101 seconds, a 101-speed index with a 15 mph tailwind.

Trainer James J. Gonzales III saddled the 4-year-old to his fourth career win in 14 starts for the partnership of Nove Racing LLC, Triple R Racing Stables LLC, Antoinette Gonzales, and Patricio ...

BOSSIER CITY, LA–FEBRUARY 15, 2025– Patty Wagon Train, a multiple stakes winning daughter of Bp Wagon Train, kicked off her 5-year-old campaign Saturday with a convincing half-length victory in the $30,000 Billy Montgomery Stakes at Louisiana Downs.

Jockey Ubaldo Luna booted the brown mare to a wire-to-wire victory while completing the 330 yards in 16.813 seconds, equaling a 101-speed index with a 15 mph tailwind. It was the eighth career wins in 25 starts for the Louisiana-bred.

Trainer Orlando Orozco trains Patty Wagon Train for owner John T. Sargent. Today's $18,000 victory boosted the mare's earnings total to $186,310.  Steven P. Miller bred Patty Wagon Train from the Game Patriot mare Pattymegone.

Last season, she won the French Quarter Stakes at the Fair ...

SUNLAND PARK, NM–FEBRUARY 8, 2025–Five trials were held on Saturday, with 44 three-year-olds vying for a spot in the $158,060 added West Texas Derby [G3] at Sunland Park. Half-brothers Daou and Harken won their trial heats and clocked the top two fastest times.

Daou, ridden by Christian Cardenas, set the time to beat in 19.135 seconds, defeating Ozarke by a half-length. Starting from the six hole in trial #2, he took the lead at first call and kept it to the wire, clocking a 99-speed index. The three-year-old ...

By Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—FEBRUARY 6, 2025—Trainer Leo Alcala was the talk of the town going into the finals of last year’s $854,775 Remington Park Futurity with three qualifiers among the 10 Oklahoma-bred 2-year-old finalists.

He may have another solid runner this year with A Separate Rose among the 3-year-old ...

SELMA, TX–FEBRUARY 5, 2025–Hock Your Kisses, a $45,000 TQHA Yearling Sale repurchased owned by Herman Medrano, posted the fastest time from 67 newly minted Quarter Horse juveniles who debuted in 12 training races at Reatma Park Wednesday.

All races were contested at 250 yards over a fast track, and the temperature in Selma, Texas, was 79 degrees.

Trainer John Stinebaugh tapped jockey Ali Rivera to ride Hock Your Kisses in Race 11. The daughter of leading sire Kiss My Hocks posted a time of 13.64 seconds to garner the day's fastest time. Out of the Jet Black Patriot mare, JB Whatajet, Hock Your Kisses is from the family of Grade 1 AQHA Derby Challenge winner A New Hero and stakes-placed Mr Step ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—FEBRUARY 5, 2025—Trainer Sue Hunt and her family have been in the horse racing business for decades, and horses like Turnpike Special D make her get up before most roosters every morning.

This 3-year-old Paint horse by the multiple World Champion, Painted Turnpike, out of the Euroears (TB) mare Eurodiamond Diva, worked the bullet at 250 yards on Wednesday morning of 14 horses of different breeds and it is always ...

BOSSIER CITY, LA–FEBRUARY 4, 2025–Sm Temp Me Boy, a $15,000 TQHA Yearling Sale graduate, posted the fastest time from 85 open and state-bred juveniles that participated in 16 schooling races on Tuesday at Louisiana Downs.

Contested over a distance of 220 yards, participants had to be nominated to the Grade 2 $400,000-est.Louisiana Downs Futurity or the restricted Grade 2 $600,000-est. Mardi Gras Futurity.

State-breds and open-breds were confined to their own races today, however the card was mixed in order run. In past years the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–FEBRUARY 4, 2025–Remington Park opened the track for pre-season training this morning at 7 am. Shortly after that, Divory recorded the first official workout in preparation for the 2025 American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season that begins on March 6.

Owned by Bill Doenz of Sheridan, Wyoming, and trained by Josh Taylor, Divory moved 220 yards in 12.63 handily over the fast track under jockey David Alvarez. The first workout took place under cloudy skies with temperatures in the low 30s.

Divory is a three-year-old Oklahoma-bred filly by Ivory James from the ...

SUNLAND PARK, NM—FEBRUARY 2, 2025–Multiple Grade 1 winner Shakers No Secret took the lead from Kj Deparado, then held off the all-time leading money earner by a neck to win the 23rd running of the Grade 1 $350,000 Championship at Sunland Park on Sunday afternoon.

Under jockey Christian Ramos, Shakers No Secret completed the classic Quarter Horse distance of 440 yards in 20.994 seconds, equaling a 103-speed index with a 5 mph tailwind.

Trainer Marc Jungers saddled the son of champion Five Bar Cartel to his 10th career win in 28 starts.  The $210,000 winner's purse boosted the ...

SUNLAND PARK, NM—FEBRUARY 2, 2025—Robert Driggers, Del Rae Driggers, and Ben Ivey's Boot Scootin Mama raced to a half-length win in the $182,755 restricted Grade 2 Shue Fly Stakes at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino on Sunday.

Under jockey Christian Ramos, Boot Scootin Mama completed the 400-yard course in 19.558 seconds, equaling an 89-speed index with a 5 mph tailwind. It was the second win in eight career starts for the daughter of multiple stakes sire Prime Talent.

Trainer Simon Buechler saddled the 3-year-old bred in New Mexico by Ivey Cattle Co. from the ...

SUNLAND PARK, NM—FEBRUARY 2, 2025—Starting off a fourth-place finish in the $150,000 New Mexico Classic 870 Stakes(RG3) in his last start on December 15, Jess A Outlaw scored his first career stakes victory in the $60,000 Lonnie and Elam Memorial Stakes at Sunland Park on Sunday.

At odds of 9/2, jockey Alejandro Medellin guided the son of multiple stakes sire Jess A Chicks to a near gate-to-wire victory while completing the 870 yards in  44.531, equaling a 102 speed index with a 5 mph tailwind. The winning margin was 1-1/2 ...