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“I think Toby is a great trainer,” Wootan said. “He and his wife have been 12-14 hours a day at the barn. He beds them in two-foot of shavings. He hand-walks them all. They do it right, and the horses love their job.”
Jim Streelman and Bill Dale bred Whiskey Creek in Missouri from multiple stakes winner Checknbac. The mare has produced seven winners from 11 starters, including Grade 1 stakes winners Flash Bak and Cobalt Creek and stakes-placed Distant Fury and Eagle Cry. During All American weekend, millionaire Flash Bak
finished second in the All American Gold Cup-G1.
Rodrigo Vallejo rode second-placed Chasing AJ (Apollitical Jess-Eye On This Candy), trained by Heath Taylor and owned by Steve Holt, Charles Cox, Jack Powers, and Roger Moore. Chasing AJ ran second
in the 2023 Ruidoso Invitational and third in the 2022 All American Futurity-G1 and 2023 Rainbow Derby-G1.
Regina Laymon’s homebred Hooked N Gone (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Pretty Girl Kate) finished third. Justine Klaiber rode the gelding for trainer Eddie D. Willis.
Hooked N Gone won the 2023 Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby-RG1 and 2022 Remington Park Juvenile Stakes and placed in two other stakes.
Completing the field were Shakers No Secret (Five Bar Cartel-Shaker Secret), Magnanimous V (Apollitical Jess-Jenuine Joy), Getthere Fast (Tempting Dash-Get There), Delight Interest (Seperate Interest-Volcoms Delight), Cyber Attack (Favorite Cartel-Remember Me Rose), Sicario V (Favorite Cartel-Nymph),
and Hes A Jet One (EC Jet One-Shez Dead Serious).
Whiskey Creek’s co-owner Terry Wootan, Cindi Keeton, Karen Wootan and trainer Toby Keeton.
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“When I saw him in the post parade I said, ‘He means business today,’” Terry Wootan
Susan Bachelor, Speedhorse
Susan Bachelor, Speedhorse