QUALIFYING HISTORY
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CONNECTIONS
 Paul C Jones
Trainer

Paul Jones is the all-time leading trainer in American Quarter Horse racing. He has conditioned the earners of more than $74.4 million and came into the trials having sent out 3,761 winners from 20,174 starts. Jones has won the Blane Schvaneveldt Champion Trainer award 12 consecutive times – every year since 2002 – and now is tied with the award’s namesake who won it consecutively from 1985 through 1996. Jones has won the All American Futurity (G1) three times, with Teller Cartel in 2005, No Secrets Here in 2006 and Runnning Brook Gal in 2009. He won the All American Derby (G1) twice, the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity (G1) twice, and the Champion Of Champions (G1) six times.
 Rodrigo Aceves
Jockey

California-based Rodrigo Aceves, who has ridden 1,720 winners and the earners of more than $22.38 million from 9,558 mounts. Aceves has scored in nine Grade 1 races, including aboard One Quick First Down in the 2010 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity (G1, First Down Illusion, A Stoli Mate, Startlet Hawk, Willie Works, Hulapai, What A Performance and Sheza Bad Habit.
 Paul Blanchard
Owner

Paul Blanchard of Albuquerque, New Mexico, bought Bills Last from the 2010 All American Select Sale for $47,000. From 50 starts, Blanchard's horses have won nine starts and earned more than $251,000.



PEDIGREE
Bills Last - Off the board only three times in his career, Bills Last has shown up consistently – he was a finalist in the All American Futurity (G1), as well as this year’s Grade 1 Ruidoso and Rainbow derbies. Bills Last was third in the third trial, a nose behind dead-heat winners A Toss Up and Hez Our Secret.

The horse’s name is a nod to a tiny bit of AQHA history. Bills Last was the final horse registered with AQHA while the Association was overseen by AQHA Executive Vice President and recent American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame nominee Bill Brewer. The next horse registered was Dons First, as a nod to current AQHA Executive Vice President Don Treadway Jr. Both names were auctioned off at the AQHA Convention as a benefit to the AQHA’s Bill Brewer Employee Scholarship Program.

AQHA Past President Jerry Windham of College Station, Texas, is a 30-year cumulative breeder. In that time, he has bred the winners of 980 races from 6,041 starts, with earnings of more than $15.2 million. Among the standouts he has bred are all-time leading money earner Stolis Winner ($2,235,161), champion First Regards ($277,270), and multiple Grade 1 winners First Place Queen ($880,869) and Azoom ($738,136).

“He’s just a solid war horse,” Paul Blanchard said of his horse. “He just goes about his business and always performs well. He always gives it what he’s got, and that’s all you can ask of him.

"In the trial, he broke seventh, so he didn't get out really well," he said. "So for him to come back and be right there was a testament to the fact that he tries. He doesn't quit."

All-time leading trainer Paul Jones took over training duties of Bills Last about a month before the All American trials.

Bills Last is a full brother Grade 1 winner Azoom ($738,136) and Grade 1-placed Vrrroom ($161,593). His 19-year-old sire Shazoom was a Grade 1-placed runner who won nine of 22 starts and earned $178,606. As a sire, from 13 crops he has the earners of more than $18.6 million, including champions Shining Sky and Lett Her Zoom. Shazoom now stands in Brazil.

The 24-year-old Crystalinas, a winning daughter of Beduino (TB), has produced 10 winners from 14 starters. In addition to Bills Last, Azoom and Vrrroom, the mare has also produced stakes winner Special Crys ($95,190, by Special Effort).

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