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race recaps
Stakes Qualifiers & Featured Non-Stakes Races
LQHBA Breeders’ Futurity-RG1
Evangeline Downs • Opelousas, LA
10/26/12 • Finals 11/17/12 • 400yds • 2yo • $1,000,000 guar. • Fast
:19.639 T Boy C, g, (Sir Runaway Dash-Toast To Mallard) Jose Guzman/M Rodriguez/R Ramirez Jr
:19.667 Open Me A Corona, c, (Coronas Leaving You-In The Open) Charles Forbes Jr & Tommy Hays/B Martinez/D Alvarez
:19.674 Cougar Hill, f, (Panther Mountain-Lovers Dash) Luis Armando Castellanos/J Beavin/J Yoakum
:19.735 Heza Fast Snow, g, (Heza Fast Dash-Mary Snow) Billy R Kirk/K Roberts Sr/D Lavergne
:19.787 Logans Mountain, c, (Panther Mountain-Logans Game) Armando Rivera Fernandez/M H Taylor/J Hamilton :19.793 Dashin Gage, g, (Oak Tree Special-Dash Lady Love)
Douglas O Traylor/K Roberts Sr/S Gillum
:19.818 Bigtime Beau, g, (Bigtime Favorite-Bedawee Beau)
Bob & Jerry Ann Gaston/M H Taylor/J Hamilton
:19.823 Special Fine Corona, g, (Oak Tree Special-Miss Fine Corona)
Daniel Gonzalez/R Sanchez/F Maldonado
:19.868 Heza Lucky Crown, g, (Special Crown Royal-Sheza Lucky
La Jolla) Teddy L Bery/K Roberts Sr/S Gillum
:19.870 Perrys Runaway, g, (Sir Runaway Dash-Ms Perrys Money)
Gerald D Libersat/K Broussard/D Watson
†AQHA Will Rogers Maiden Challenge
Will Rogers Downs • Claremore, OK 11/4/12 • 350yds • 3yo&up • $28,090 • Fast
:18.066 Jo Jos Rocket, 3, g, (The Chocolate Rocket-Miz Proudest Chic) Rodrigo Gonzalez/J Contreras/S Smith
Hartack, 4, g, (Tres Seis-Genie In Red)
Dee Keener/D Keener/R Gutierrez
Lelas Dashing Stone, f, (SC Chiseled In Stone-Beduino Dashin Chick) Martin Portillo/M Portillo/F Camacho
†Not A Stakes Race
A Night with the Legends of Quarter Horse Racing opened the Heritage Place Fall Sale on Oct. 31. AQHA’s all-time leading rider G.R. Carter Jr. and Track Magazine’s Ben Hudson emceed the event, which looked at the careers of nine riding legends. Shown in the photo are Curtis Perner, Charley Smith, Donald Allison, Jerry Burgess, Ben Hudson, G. R. Carter, Jr., Kenny Hart, Tami Purcell, Danny Cardoza, Tommey Jean Swan and James Lackey. Jerry Nicodemus was invited to the event, but could not make it as his daughter Shelley was killed in an accident Oct. 28.
been closed for over a year. Miller said he would like to open the track by 2013.
Jeanette Moehrig Passes Away
a reputation as being gentle and intuitive with horses, but was refused a jockey license at most larger tracks because of her gender. She instead raced in exhibition and match races. Davis in 1949 won a match race against National Racing Hall of Famer Johnny Longden in Agua Caliente, Mexico, as well as a match race against National Racing Hall of Famer Jack Westrope. In 2004 she was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She is survived by her son Dr. Tad Davis.
Equine Encephalitis Linked To Snakes
According to The Horse, a study by Thomas Unnasch, PhD has found that snakes can harbor Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEEV) through their hibernation and provide a source of the virus for mosquitoes pick up the next season and transmit to horses. Prior to the study, it was unknown if snakes were hosts for EEEV and it was uncertain how the virus survived the winter in areas of the U.S. The study, “Detection of eastern encephalomyelitis virus in RNA in North American snakes,” was published by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Jeanette Moehrig passed away Oct. 24 in San Antonio, Texas, following a long battle with cancer. Jeanette, 79,
was proceeded in
death by her hus-
band Allen Moehrig,
who passed away on
June 24 of this year.
The Moehrigs bred
and raised World
Champion Special
Effort, Quarter
Horse racing’s only
Triple Crown winner.
They are survived by son, Dennis, and numer- ous other family members and friends.
Wantha Davis Dies
Former jockey Wantha Lorena Davis, 95, died Sept. 18. Davis galloped horses and earned
Jeanette Moehrig
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