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Far West Futurity
THE BEST FEELING
by Tracy Gantz
The stallion Docs Best Card hit the Exacta in the $60,000 Far West Futurity at Grants Pass on Nov. 9. His daughter The Best Feeling won the race, while his gelded son Coopers Best Card finished sec- ond. They were the only two by the sire in the field.
The Best Feeling, who qualified the fastest and went off as the 9-10 favorite, quickly went to the front under jockey Jesus Ayala. She won by 3/4-length, stopping the timer in :17.469 for 350 yards.
Danny Montes trains The Best Feeling for owner Adrian Olivas. The Best Feeling had won three of her previous seven races, including two at Los Alamitos.
Lisa Anderson bred The Best Feeling and Coopers Best Card in Oklahoma. The Best Feeling is out of the winning mare Stuckonafeeling, raced
by Anderson in partnership in the mare’s final three starts. Stuckonafeeling has produced six winners from seven starters, including graded stakes winner Moonie Blues, stakes winner Jumpn Black Flash, and stakes-placed Go Black Benny.
Jose Nicasio rode Coopers Best Card (Docs Best Card-Super Cooper) to second for owner Adrian Oliva Gomez and trainer Juan Romo Jr. Coopers Best Card broke his maiden at Grants Pass in June.
Montes also trained third-place Lopini (Seperate Interest-Firebaugh Filly), ridden by Oscar Peinado and owned by Irma Peinado. Lopini broke his maiden at Los Alamitos and had won three consecutive races.
Completing the field were Owdacious (Five Bar Cartel-Shes Sweet N Can Fly), Dahock (Zoomin For Bux-Lanty Bug), Marcelino (Sixthirteen
TB-La Dvana), Super Bowl Sunny Day (PYC Prize Time-Holland Last Star), Special Doll Baby (Soy Especial-Chick N Dales Pride) and Skyywalker (Fly Chisholm Fly-La Jackye). Not Another Lover was scratched. .
OQHRA Fall Classic
CHARLIES FURY
by Michael Cusortelli
Charlies Fury was a prompt odds-on favorite in the $19,000 Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association Fall Classic for state-bred sprinters at
Will Rogers Downs on Nov. 14.
Prepped by Michelle Hurdle for owners Tom and
Kathleen McNally, Charlies Fury went 400 yards in :19.533 on a sloppy track, and his margin of victory was 1-length from JK Wildcat Red. Agustin Silva rode the 4-year-old homebred.
Charlies Fury was shortening in distance off his fourth-place finish, 3/4-length behind winner Danjer, in the Oct. 24, 440-yard Bank of America Challenge Championship-G1 at Albuquerque Downs. The gelding is out of Jess Charlena, a homebred winning daughter of the Mr Jess Perry stallion Take Off Jess.
Campaigned in three states, including Iowa, Charlies Fury has won six of 18 starts, and the $11,196 winner’s share of the OQHRA Fall Classic purse bumped his bankroll to $263,099, of which $68,562 has been earned from seven outs this season. The gelding has won two stakes, including last year’s $40,953 Adequan Will Rogers Derby Challenge, and his 4-year-old resume includes a second-place finish, 1 3/4-lengths behind winner Eagles Fly Higher,
in the Aug. 15, $56,007 Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge-G2.
JK Wildcat Red (One Dashing Eagle-Shaky Girl) pocketed $3,932 for owner Regina Laymon. Cristian Esqueda rode the gelding for trainer Kenny Laymon. Hooked On A Win (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Pretty Girl Kate) ran third, 2-lengths behind Charlies
Fury, for owner Regina Laymon. Daniel Torres
rode the graded stakes winning gelding for trainer Kenny Laymon. Olena Sangria (Dashair-Mt Rob This Corona), Saginaw Creek (FDD Dynasty-Royal Quick Glass) and Dynasty Cartel (FDD Dynasty-A Snowy Cartel) completed the order of finish. Bo K J and DG Dreamer were scratched.
Las Damas Handicap-G2
CURLS HAPPY WAGON
by Tracy Gantz
Neither fog nor getting bumped on her left flank kept Curls Happy Wagon from posting her second stakes win in as many Los Alamitos starts by capturing
the $50,000 Las Damas Handicap-G2 on Nov. 21. Jockey Armando Cervantes hustled the 5-year- old mare out of the gate. JR Prissys Blood bumped
Curls Happy Wagon’s hip from the inside, but Curls Happy Wagon flew to the front and scored by a nose in :19.962 for 400 yards.
Juan Aleman trains Curls Happy Wagon at Los Alamitos for owners Michael Pohl and Martin Stacy, who bred her in Oklahoma. Curls Happy Wagon previously won the Mildred N. Vessels Memorial Handicap-G1 at Los Alamitos, the Decketta Stakes twice (once G2, once G3) at Remington Park, and the 2019 Canterbury Park Distaff Challenge.
Curls Happy Wagon is out of Stacy’s homebred multiple graded winner Eye A Spit Curl Girl. The mare has produced one other starter and winner.
Lupe Ayon’s homebred Galloping Goddess (One Sweet Jess-Ingrate Queen) finished second. Jose Nicasio piloted the 4-year-old filly for trainer Felix Gonzalez. Galloping Goddess most recently ran third in the Whataway To Go Stakes.
Ruben Lozano rode Ladys A Cartel (Five Bar Cartel-Significant Lady) to third for owner Jorge Carmona and trainer Danny Montes. Ladys A Cartel won the 2018 Pot O’ Gold Futurity at Sun Downs and Champagne Lane Overnight Handicap at Los Alamitos.
Completing the field were Chocolate Divinity (Apollitical Blood-Nellie Delaney), Fayvorite
Chick (Favorite Cartel-Chicks Tell), Lynnder 16 (Apollitical Jess-Tinys Corona Queen), JR Prissys Blood (Apollitical Blood-Prissy B Panther), Victorioso Dinastia (Favorite Cartel-Forgotten Dynasty) and Symbol Of Faith (Tac It Like A Man-Answer The Dream). Hot Little Kiddy was scratched.
RACING NEWS
Grants Pass • $60,000
350 yards • :17.469 • si 99
Corona Cartel
Docs Best Card
THE BEST FEELING, ‘18-f. Stuckonafeeling
Docs First Card Special Leader
Streakin Dot Dash
Los Alamitos • $50,000
400 yards • :19.962 • si 88
Corona Cartel
PYC Paint Your Wagon
Dashin Follies
CURLS HAPPY WAGON, ‘15-m.
Spit Curl Jess
Eye A Spit Curl Girl
Thisdimplesaniopener
Will Rogers Downs • $19,000
400 yards • :19.533 • si 105
Corona Cartel
Dashing Phoebe Take Off Jess
Furyofthewind
CHARLIES FURY, ‘16-g. Jess Charlena
Charlenas Cleat
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