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The AQHA announced that Albuquerque Downs will host the 2019 BOA Challenge Championship races
June 24
First Smart Money (First Down Dash-Prissy Gold Digger) died in his sleep. During his racing career, he earned $32,613 from a record of 3-4- 4(2) from 17 starts, including third place finishes in the 1997 New Mexico Juvenile Challenge-G3 and the 1998 Los Alamitos Stakes. The 1995 stallion is the sire of 13 stakes winners from 136 starters with earnings of nearly $3 million.
July 8
Dr. Edward Darryl Leslie
of Broken Bones Cattle Co.
passed away. Leslie, 76, was
a graduate of Transylvania
University and of the
University of Kentucky
School of Medicine. He
practiced as an orthopedic
surgeon for 30 years. Leslie was a top AQHA owner in 2014 and 2014, and raced the earners of nearly $550,000. Included among his top runners is the 2012 mare/4-time stakes winner Gold Digging Ashley, whose second dam is also the second dam of 2-time Champion Kiss My Hocks.
July 13
Arizona Downs in Prescott, Arizona, opened for simulcasting. The track’s simulcast room was constructed on the first floor of the grandstand at a cost more than $2 million. The track, once known as Yavapai Downs, plans to offer live racing starting in 2019.
July 21
Katherine and Eddie Kirshner’s Baby Bo dominated the 23rd annual Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals title for the second year
in a row at Los Alamitos. The 2 1/2-year old black doxie won his trial and easily defeated his nine rivals gate-to-wire in the finals.
The Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals is a fundraising event for the Seal Beach Animal Care Center, a non-kill shelter in Orange County, California. The Wiener Nationals and SBACC have raised over $260,000 over the years.
July 22
Sam Barker of Utah
passed away on
July 22 at the age
of 61. Sam was a
lawyer for over 25
years. He was once
the middleweight
Intermountain
Golden Glove
champion. Barker was
also a rancher who
bred racehorses such
as Grade 1 winner Five Bar Molly, dam of Champion Five Bar Cartel, under the name The Five Barkers Inc.
July 23
Longtime Quarter
Horse trainer Eusevio
Huitron, 54, passed
away. Huitron
saddled 219 Quarter
Horse winners from
1,328 starters with
earnings of more
than $4.46 million.
He trained winners
of the Refrigerator
Handicap-G1, Texas Classic Futurity-G1, and Dash For Cash Futurity-G1; and included among his top horses are Champion Tempting Dash, Champion Miss Kips Streakin, Easy Dashin Sixes, Charal Kid and many more.
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July 1
Billy and Shelly Martin’s leading sire Firewater Ta Fame (Dash Ta Fame-Fashion Star Flit, Fire Water Flit) died
due to colic. The 2003 stallion boasted offspring earnings of more than $855,000, including
Stitchs Streaknfame,
Stitchs Honor
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Panellapie
and KN My
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July 13
The AQHA announced that Albuquerque Downs will host the 2019 Bank of America Challenge Championship races. This marks the first time that Albuquerque Downs has hosted the event and the first time since 1993 that the Challenge Championship races will be held in New Mexico. The 1993 inaugural Challenge Championships were held at Sunland Park.
July 15
Longtime jockey and
trainer Danny Mitchell
passed away at the age of
66 from complications of
Myelodysplastic Syndrome
(MDS). As a Quarter
Horse jockey, Danny won
563 races at Los Alamitos.
As a conditioner, perhaps
his best trainee was Dicey
Secret, dam of the 2006 All American Futurity-G1 winner No Secrets Here. Dicey Secret was a three- time derby winner herself, winning 12 of 21 starts.
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Local restaurants and commodities, as well as a representative of one of America’s most successful craft breweries, were featured at the first Taste
of Ag Event at the North Dakota Horse Park in Fargo. “We couldn’t think of a better way to tie in this celebration of local agriculture than to align it with our live racing season,” said North Dakota Horse Park general manager Mike Schmitz.
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