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.
Ramon Sanchez Jockey
Paul Jones put Ramon Sanchez aboard champion Runnning Brook Gal to win the 2009 All American Futurity. Since 1999, Sanchez has ridden the winners of 1,591 races and the earners of more than $30.1 million from 8.982 races. Last year, Sanchez won Grade 1 races aboard Llano Teller in the All American Derby; I Like The Odds in the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity; Separate Fire in the Ed Burke Million and Kindergarten futurities; Favorite Cartel in the Bank of America Challenge Championship; Feature Honor in the Adequan Derby Challenge Championship; and Stylish Jess BR in the Charger Bar Handicap.
Miller, Melissa Ann Owner
Melissa Ann Miller of Belton, Texas is a 30-year breeder at AQHA. Miller since 2010 has raced five winners from 27 starts, with earnings of nearly $40,000. She has bred the winners of 18 races from 124 starts with earnings of $187,439. They include stakes winner Surviving Success.
PEDIGREE
Jess Featureme Quick - Winning the second trial over a field that included champion Feature Mr Bojangles, Jess Featureme Quick won by a head and hung on to the tenth-fastest time. The gelding will make his stakes debut in the All American Derby. His previous wins came in a non-qualifying Rainbow Futurity trial and, earlier this year, a Ruidoso allowance race that included fellow qualifier Eyein This Feature.
The homebred gelding races for 30-year breeder Melissa Ann Miller of Belton, Texas.
The late Feature Mr Jess was a two-time Grade 1 winner with $539,327 in career earnings. The successful sire from eight crops has sired the earners of more than $19.3 million, including All American Futurity winner Heartswideopen.
Dam One Slick Cookie is a member of the good mare line cultured by the American Quarter Horse Hall of Famers the Allred Bros. One Slick Cookie is a half sister to six-figure earner One Famous Lady, dam of champion and leading freshman sire One Famous Eagle. A winner on the track, One Slick Cookie was also shown at halter, and finished top-5 in performance halter mares at the 2007 AQHA World Championship Show. From three starters, One Slick Cookie has produced two winners, including stakes placed One Famous Cookie (by Separatist, $27,387).
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