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Owners Scott and Jaime Bryant and Joe D. Brooks of West Texas Racing Partners with Linda and Michael Joiner, trainer of Cowboys Gun Z.
sister, Cindy Cochran, who has kept the books for the stable for many years.
Son Justin also trains and runs their training facility in Asher, Oklahoma. Michael and Linda’s other son, Cody, is a former trainer and now runs a business in Albuquerque. Cody continues to own a few horses in partnership.
Cowboys Gun Z now has two wins from four career starts with $1,510,000 in earnings.
Michael picked out Cowboys Gun Z
at the 2022 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale for West Texas Racing Partners, bidding $125,000 to get the son of Flying Cowboy
123. The sire’s first foals are two-year-olds this season, and he had two other runners qualify for the All American races.
“He’s had an exceptional first year,” said Joiner about the stallion.
Running C Ranch bred Cowboys Gun Z in Oklahoma from winner CF Smokin Gun, a daughter of Tres Seis. The mare has produced two winners from three starters, including multiple stakes winner Relentless Gun.
Santos Carrizales Jr. trains second-place Trane Station V (Favorite Cartel-Attack The Cartel), ridden by Everardo Rodriguez, and third-place Dark Nme
(Hes Relentless-Quions), piloted by Francisco Calderon. Valeriano Racing Stables owns Trane Station V, who also ran second in the Rainbow Futurity-G1. TYKHE Racing owns Dark Nme.
Completing the field were Flyin Rabbit 123 (Flying Cowboy 123-Hardtoget), Dashing Tres (Tempting Dash-Sissys Tres Girl), Corner Pocket 123 (Flying Cowboy 123-Shanondoah), AJ Precious Jewel (Apollitical Jess-CC Seis), Devastating (Favorite Cartel-Quirky), and Cuz Lightyear (Corona Cartel-Jess Cuz). Sandstone Mountain was scratched.
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“It probaby hasn’t sunk in really good yet, but it is a grand feeling,” Trainer Mike Joiner.
Trainer Michael Joiner and Linda, his wife
Linda Earley, Speedhorse
Susan Bachelor, Speedhorse