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Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity-RG2
LYNNDER 16
by Tracy Gantz
Lynnder 16 is smart. She has learned to improve from each of her racing experiences, all without losing a race.
Her latest triumph came in the $864,500 Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity-RG2 on April 21.
The two year olds had to navigate their first major futurity in rainy weather over a sloppy, sealed track in this race.
The conditions didn’t faze Lynnder 16, however, who broke on top under jockey Cristian Esqueda and then battled with Jess Let It B, who headed her in the middle of the 330 yard contest.
Lynnder 16 fought back and prevailed with a head margin at the wire in :16.374 for a career-high 105 speed index.
Tom Maher and Dick Tobin own Lynnder 16. Maher had traveled to Remington Park from his home in Pierre, South Dakota, with sons Tom and Tim and grandson Tommy.
Maher said that in Lynnder 16’s 250- yard training race, she had hopped in the air and made up a lot of ground to win without Esqueda using the whip.
Then in her Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity qualifying race on the second days of trials on April 7, she ducked out when she saw Remington’s giant video screen.
Iowa, and Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota.
Maher and Tobin paid $31,000 for Lynnder 16 at the 2017 Heritage Place Winter Mixed Sale. “She’s so bal- anced and I liked that cross,” said Maher. “The family is a very good female family.”
Lynnder 16 is by World Champion Apollitical Jess out of the Corona Cartel mare Tinys Corona Queen, who is
out of Champion Tiny First Effort. Maher and his brother, Bill, had raced Eagles Span, a stakes- winning 1/2-brother to Tinys Corona Queen, who is also a 1/2-sister to Flying Eagle 07, win- ner of the West Texas Juvenile Stakes at Sunland Park on April 14. Her other half siblings include stakes winners Genovese and Eye Agree.
Maher telephoned the Helzers after Lynnder 16 won the Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity to thank them for breeding such a good filly.
“It was kind of sad,” said Maher. “Jim Helzer was happy that I had called, but I asked about her mother and he said that she had been hit by lightning and he lost her. We were both just sick.”
But, she romped to the finish line and won her heat by 2-lengths.
“She jumped out about 4-lengths,” stated Maher. “The rider and I talked about her staying straight at the end. There were five horses right there about 75 to 100 yards out, and then I saw her make a move when she went past me.”
Maher wasn’t standing right on the finish line.
“Then I could hear my sons and grandson yelling, so I figured that she had won,” he continued. “She showed she’s a racehorse and that she will handle distance.”
Maher credited the entire team for the vic- tory: Esqueda, Tobin, trainer Jason Olmstead and Olmstead’s wife, Amber, and the filly’s breeders, James and Marilyn Helzer.
“Dick Tobin has been a good friend and he took care of the filly at his home after we bought her as a short yearling,” said Maher.
Tobin has acreage in Missouri, near the Iowa border. The partners have gone racing together at tracks such as Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Prairie Meadows in Altoona,
Remington Park $864,500 • 330 yards :16.374 • si 105
Mr Jess Perry
Apollitical Jess
Apollitical Time
LYNNDER 16, ‘16-f.
Corona Cartel
Tinys Corona Queen
Tiny First Effort
Lynnder 16’s winning connections include owners Tom Maher & Dick Tobin, trainer Jason Olmstead and jockey Cristian Esqueda.
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