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Red Cell Remington Park Distance Challenge-G3
De PAssem okey
by Tracy Gantz
De Passem Okey doesn’t just win 870-yard races, he demolishes the competition with an ease that demonstrates why he is a two-time
AQHA Distance Champion. The latest bunch fell victim to him in the May 6 Red Cell Remington Park Distance Challenge-G3.
Drawn on the outside, De Passem Okey, with champion jockey G.R. Carter Jr. aboard, immediately raced up to challenge leader Free Stater. De Passem Okey
edged in front outside of the
gray gelding before the turn.
The two raced together into
the stretch, but it was simply
a matter of when Carter
asked De Passem Okey.
When he did, the champion
drew off and won by three
lengths in :45.158 as the 2-5
betting favorite.
“I just sent him and got him out of there to avoid the wide trip,” said Carter. “I
never asked him until the eighth pole.” The victory, De Passem Okey’s ninth
in a stakes, brought his lifetime earn-
ings to $365,387 and gives him a spot in
the Oct. 27 Red Cell Distance Challenge Championship-G1 at Prairie Meadows. It was his fourth win in a row, which included the Pauls Valley Handicap-G3 earlier this year and the King Rick Rack Stakes in late 2011.
Rodney Reed trains the 6-year-old gelding for owner Steve Holt.
Bred in Oklahoma by Eddie L. Moore, DVM, De Passem Okey is the first registered Quarter Horse from the Thoroughbred mare Impassable Gal. A daughter of stakes-placed Luscious Linfa, Impassable Gal won four races for earnings of $44,555.
J. Garvan Kelly and Nancy Yearsley’s homebred
Free Stater (Separatist-Free Bird Fly-TB) held on for second under jockey Stormy Smith. Trained by Charles Hunt, the 4-year-old gelding broke his maiden in 2011 and most recently had won a $5,000 claiming race in his first attempt at 870 yards.
Yin Your Eyes (Eye Yin You-Apollo Snowbound) finished third with Berkley Packer aboard. Bill Hoburg trains the 5-year-old gelding for owner Rene Laatsch. Yin Your Eyes’ 11 victories include a win in the 2011 Red Cell Distance Challenge Championship-G1.
Completing the field were Federal
Express Pack (Hawkinson-Design Express), Strawbrima (Brimmerton-Justiflied), Ok Black Panther (Panther Mountain-Classic Bully), and Jessie My Girl (Gold Medal Jess-Miss High Toast).
Remington Park $53,820 • 870 yards :45.158 • si 96
First Down Dash
Okey Dokey Dale
Okeydokey Baby
DE PASSEM OKEY, ’06-g.
Sir Richard Lewis
Impassable Gal-TB
Luscious Linfa
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merial Remington Park Distaff Challenge
FReDAviLLe
by John Moorehouse
For all of Fredaville’s success in 2011—five wins and more than $125,000 in prize money—it had been almost a full calendar
year since she tallied her last victory.
Robert Gentry’s homebred mare snapped
her winless streak on May 6, catching up
to Chics Delight to repeat in the Merial Remington Park Distaff Challenge. Her vic- tory in the $40,770 stakes event marked her ninth in 31 total outs, and
sixth win in stakes company. Fredaville and Chics
Delight broke from adjacent starting gates, drawing the Nos. 3 and 2 holes, respec- tively. Chics Delight led up until the final few yards, and it took an all-out push by Fredaville and jockey G.R. Carter Jr. just to catch their rival. Fredaville nipped Chics Delight by a head at the wire.
“She just really gamed up
Remington Park $40,770 • 400 yards :19.661 • si 94
Streakin La Jolla
Mr Jess Perry
Scoopie Fein
FREDAVILLE, ’06-m.
Dash For Cash
Fearless Freda
to win this,” Carter said following the race. “The mare to the inside, Chics Delight, is known for leaving really well and she had us beat by about a half-length. Fredaville just dug in. Luckily the race was 400 yards because we needed the whole 400 to get there.”
Clinton Crawford trains Fredaville, who is 4-0 all-time at Remington.
Gentry reaped a $19,165 payday for the latest win by Fredaville,
which improved her lifetime earnings to $230,066. He bred the mare out of Fearless Freda, another homebred
and multiple stakes winner. Fearless Freda, foaled in 1993, claimed three graded stakes victories in 1996.
All three of Fearless Freda’s stakes winners have been sired by Mr Jess Perry, including 2005 AQHA Champion Aged
Stallion Fredricksburg and Dasha Freda, who won the 2005 Adequan California Derby Challenge-G3.
Chics Delight (Chicks Doit-Easy Hempen Chic) finished second. Dale Kolb trains the mare and co-owns her with Tina Kolb. Mike Frederick was aboard. Back In The Pack (Corona For Me-Runninbac) outnodded Ms Queen Of Naboo for third. Reliance Ranches LLC owns Back In The Pack, trained by Bradley Bolen and ridden by Cody Wainscott.
The remaining order of finish was Ms Queen Of Naboo (Azoom-Queen Of Naboo), Jess A Queen (Gold Medal Jess-Credit Card Queen), Feedingmygator (Pritzi Dash-Lizas Mystique), Simply Swift (Valiant Hero-Future Glass), Valentis Tango Dolly (Streak And Dash-Dancing Valenti) and Snow Forecast (La Jollaroid-Scarlet Snow).
Such An Easy Effort
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