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for this place,” said Wells. “This
is an exceptional place, with a real
horse-loving culture. It always
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the $1 million-estimated Heritage Place Futurity-G1 and $750,000-estimated Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity.
“Our Quarter Horse meet
is the best in the history of the breed,” Wells said. “Our average purses are $275,000 a day, far and away better than any Quarter Horse track in history. Our Thoroughbred meet has come back up to where we’re getting some stakes re-graded now, and we’ve got our purses up in the $230,000 range and growing.”
Wells has spent a diversified career in both the Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred breeds.
But his deepest roots extend in Quarter Horses. He is a third- generation horseman whose father, Ted Wells Jr., won the All American Futurity in 1965 with Savannah Jr. and trained such other good horses as the dam of Easy Jet, Lena’s Bar (TB).
orn in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, to
a racing family, Scott Wells had to make his way elsewhere in the years when his native state didn’t have legalized pari-mutuel racing. That he has been able to return and help establish Remington Park in Oklahoma City as a leader in the Quarter Horse racing industry delights him.
“I’ve always had an abiding love
stood out to me as one of the shin
- ing spots among U.S. racetracks.” As the president and general
manager of Global Gaming
RP LLC, which operates Remington, Wells is part of
a team that hosts a top-flight Quarter Horse meet. The
2013 season, the track’s 25th anniversary, runs from March 8 through June 2. It sports a rich stakes schedule that includes
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