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Wheatland Handicap
RUN RAGING RHINO RUN
by Tracy Gantz
The Thoroughbreds tried to catch him, but 6-year- old Quarter Horse gelding Run Raging Rhino Run held them all off in the 870-yard $20,000 Wheatland Handicap at Los Alamitos on April 13.
Run Raging Rhino Run and two other Quarter Horses faced five Thoroughbreds in the Wheatland Handicap. When the gates opened, Run Raging Rhino Run and jockey Minor Arana zipped to the lead and never let anyone pass them. At one point, Run Raging Rhino Run had a 2-length advantage. The Thoroughbreds narrowed the gap in the stretch, but Run Raging Rhino Run scored by a neck in wire-to-wire fashion, stopping the timer in :44.856.
Felix Gonzalez trains Run Raging Rhino Run for owner Dan Wilson, whose mother, Esther, raised the youngster as an orphan foal. Earlier this year, Run Raging Rhino Run won the Barbra B Handicap. The gelding also finished second in the 2018 Snowbound Superstar Handicap and third in the 2019 Rossmoor Handicap.
W G Racing bred Run Raging Rhino Run in California out of stakes placed Love That Six. The mare has produced four winners in five starters.
Bob Bean owns and trains second-place Candy Zip TB (Sidney’s Candy-Zip Gun), ridden by Ramon Guce. A $4,000 claim, Candy Zip won the 2019 Rossmoor Handicap.
Armando Viramontes rode Turn Your Eyes TB (Kafwain-Silk Queen) to a third place fin- ish for owner Ramon Reyes and trainer Rodolfo Viramontes. The six-year-old horse has won two races at Los Alamitos this year.
Completing the field were Papa G TB
(Papa Clem-Charlie’s Princess), Foxy Fresh TB (Sidney’s Candy-Miss Afleet Alex), Bound To Bet (Snowbound TB-Bet She Flys), Newport Coaster (TR Dasher-Wave Babe) and El Koreano TB (City Place-Bridge To Gold).
Los Alamitos • $20,000 870 yards • :44.856 • si 98
FDD Dynasty
First Down Dash
Dinastia Toll BRZ
RUN RAGING RHINO RUN, ‘13-g.
Tres Seis
Love That Six
Love That Chapelle
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