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central question was whether the Authority was inferior to the FTC, stating, “The Horseracing Authority is subordinate to the agency. The Authority wields materially different power from the FTC, yields to FTC supervision, and lacks the final say over the content and enforce- ment of the law—all tried and true hallmarks of an inferior body.” The State of Oklahoma objected that the amendments to the language, “does not change one feature of the Act—that the FTC has power only to review proposed rules by the Authority for ‘consistency’ with the Act, a standard of review that, it says, does not pick up policy disagreements.” The judges disagreed, writing, “But even if that is the case, the FTC’s later authority to modify any rules for any reason at all, including policy disagree- ments, ensures that the FTC retains ultimately authority over the implementation of the Horseracing Act.”
Jack “Corky” Evans Passes Away
Jack “Corky” Wilson Evans Jr., 79, of Celina, Texas, passed away
on March 20.
Corky graduated
from Richardson
High School in
Texas in 1960, and
earned his Bach-
elors of Business
Administration
from North Texas
University. He
started his career
in grocery stores as
a young boy at his
father’s store in Dallas. He worked his way up at Tom Thumb as a store director, district manager, buyer, and executive vice president. He retired as President of Tom Thumb in 1994 after more than 25 years. He participat- ed in the Army National Guard Reserves, was a supporter of the FFA, co-chaired the Allen Library Campaign, and served on the Grand Bank Board of Directors and on the State Fair of Texas Board of Directors. He enjoyed making appearances at Mary Evans Elemen- tary, where the school mascot was named in his honor, and created and funded the “Mary Evans Top Ten Luncheon” honoring the top ten graduates of Allen High School now in its 28th year. He had a love of Quarter Horse racing and was the owner of 2001 Ruidoso Futurity-G1 winner Red Clay Of Texas, and had qualifiers to the All American Futurity- G1. He was also part of the original share- holders in leading sire Mr Jess Perry. Corky married Mary Caldonia Hill in 1971. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, a daughter, three grandchildren and many other family members and friends.
Elmer January Passes Away
Longtime trainer
Elmer January, 97,
passed away on
March 1. Elmer
saddled horses for 70
years from the 1950’s
through 2020. A na-
tive of Vernon, Texas,
his family moved to
California when he
was 7 years of age.
He served in World War II and then returned to racing. He bought his first racehorse in 1945. He went to Evangeline Downs and won their first Quarter Horse Derby in 1966 with the
bay gelding Tom Lydon. He enjoyed success in the mid-1980’s with his distance horse Manus Mark, who was the 1984 PCQHRA Champion Distance Horse, and his top money earner was Primo High, winner of the PCQHRA Breed- ers’ Futurity-G1. Among his other top wins were in the QHBC Marathon Classic-G3, California Derby Challenge-G3, Kaweah Bar Handicap-G3, and the Ivan Ashment Handi- cap. He was the trainer of over $1.9 million
in Thoroughbred runners with 197 wins and more than $1.5 million in Quarter Horse earn- ers with 370 victories.
Rylees Boy Dies
3-Time Champion Rylees Boy (Heza Motor Scooter-Pipistrelle, Rocky Jones) died on March
17 at the age of 18. The 2005 bay gelding was named the 2011 Champion Aged Gelding and the 2012 Champion Aged Horse and Champion Aged Gelding. Bred by Gary D. Nesbitt, Rylees Boy was owned and trained by Gerardo Ochoa-Pena early in his career. He raced at Turf Paradise, Yavapai Downs, and Rillito Park from 2007-2009, winning the West/Southwest Championship Challenge-G3 and Louie Curtis Memorial Speed Championship. He then traveled from Arizona, where finished second and third in the 2009 and 2010 Champion- ship at Sunland Park-G1, and won the Sunland Championship Challenge-G1 and KOFX-FM Handicap-G2. In 2012, he was purchased by Lorena Velazquez Rodriguez where he entered the stables of Paul Jones and won the AQHA Chal- lenge Championship-G1, Champion of Champi- ons-G1, and Los Alamitos Winter Championship- G1. He made his final start for owner/trainer Paul Jones, and he spent his retirement years at his ranch. Rylees Boy is the all-time leading money
earner in the Bank of America Racing Challenge program with $578,214 coming from that pro- gram. In all, he earned $1,417,264 with 21 wins, 13 seconds, and 8 thirds from 55 career starts.
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The photo on page 219 shows 1989 World Champion See Me Do It (On A High-Rita Seis, Easy Six) winning the 1988 Oklahoma Futurity-G3.
Bred and owned by Jean Dillard and trained by Bobby Turner, See Me Do It started her career on the track at the age of two and raced until
she was five. During that time, she secured 17 victories and four Champion titles. In addition to the Oklahoma Futurity-G3, she also won the Rainbow Derby-G1, All American Derby-G1, Champion Of Champions-G1, All American Gold Cup-G1, and World’s Championship Classic-G1. See Me Do It was also second in the All American Futurity-G1 and the Higheasterjet Handicap-G3. Her stellar victories earned her the title of World Champion, Champion 3 Year Old and Champion 3-Year-Old Filly in 1989 and Champion 2-Year-Old Filly in 1988. See Me Do It has been selected to be inducted into the 2023 Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall Of Fame on June 29.
After her successful career on the track, See Me Do It went on to produce five winners from 11 starters, including Lookin For Me, winner of the 1995 Black Gold 330 Futurity; and Andalay Get, second in the 1999 East Derby Challenge-G3 and third the 1999 AQHA Derby Challenge Champinship-G1.
This year’s $533,270 Oklahoma Futurity-G1 was run on March 25 at Remington Park and was won by PYC Legacy. The gelding was ridden by Juan Pulido for owner Rito Sosa and trainer Waylan Melton.
The Oklahoma Futurity is the oldest continuously run futurity in the nation. The first running of this race happened in 1947
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has been contested
at many different tracks throughout the state before landing permanently at Remington Park in 2006.
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