SUNLAND PARK, NM—JANUARY 11, 2025—Multiple graded stakes winner Pavel extended his latest win streak to three on Saturday with a half-length victory in the second of four trials for the $100,000 added Shue Fly Stakes(RG2) at Sunland Park.

The 10 fastest qualifiers will return to the Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino on Groundhog Day, Sunday, February 2, to vie for the winner's share of a $200,000-est. purse going a distance of 400 yards for accredited New Mexico Bred 3-year-olds.

Regular rider Luis Martinez guided Pavel to his seventh career win while clocking the fastest trial time of 19,387 seconds, a 93-speed index. Jorge Luis Sanchez, Jr. trains the son of third-crop sire Czar Cartel Mv, a brother to leading sires Pyc Paint Your Wagon and .. Read More

SUNLAND PARK, NM–JANUARY 8, 2025–RC Corona King, a gelded son of Eye Am King racing for Jose R. Riojas, will make his 5-year-old season debut in Sunday's 400-yard, $90,000 Red or Green Stakes (RG2) for New Mexico-breds at Sunland Park.

RC Corona King ended his 4-year-old campaign with a half-length victory in the December 15, 440-yard New Mexico Classics Championship (RG2) at Zia Park. The gelding earned $292,746 from 10 races last year, and his three wins included a neck victory in the September 8, 440-yard First Moonflash Ma .. Read More

AMARILLO, TX–JANUARY 3, 2025–The 2025 season of the AQHA Racing Challenge will kick off on February 23 with the Cox Ranch Hipodromo Distaff Challenge in Mexico.

There are 43 regional stakes races currently scheduled for this year’s Challenge, with more races expected to be added. Among them are 13 graded stakes races, and more than $1.3 million in added money alone.
Stretching from the Hipodromo in Mexico to Century Mile in Alberta, .. Read More