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EC Revenge
began to feel more comfortable with the horses and connected with a palomino mare named Scottish Nurse (Tetra Gold-Skip’s Date, The Intimidator). “She was just gentle, and I pushed past my fear of horses as I got more acquainted with her,” Elizabeth says.
But even George W. was floored when Elizabeth told him that she’d like to show Scottish Nurse at halter. True to her farm-girl grit, she showed successfully, winning a Reserve World Championship at the Palomino World Show with the mare in 1996 at age 70. She earned a Superior with Scottish Nurse and continued to show halter horses for 20 years.
George W. and Elizabeth became a team: He would pick the colts, and she would show them. She continued to breed the mares after George W. succumbed to his health issues in June 2011 at age 85, but due to her hip problems, she was finding it difficult to show them at the trot.
She wanted to stay true to George W’s dream, and she expressed her dilemma to her veterinarian, Jay Ross of Coweta, Oklahoma. “He kept saying, ‘You need to sell these horses and get you a racehorse because then you don’t have to do anything except go watch them run,’” she recalls. “So finally, that’s what I did. And I haven’t been sorry because I’ve enjoyed it. I’ve had fun with the racehorses and I guess it helps that I’ve done very well with them.”
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In 2014, Elizabeth bought the Paint
horse Chrome Kisses (Dos Poruno-Kiss This Chrome, Awesome Chrome). “She didn’t do very well so I sold her, then bought DTL Batter Up,” Elizabeth says. “I needed a
new car and I said my racehorse was going
to have to buy it!” In two years, the 2014 Paint gelding by SF Royal Quick Flash and out of the Leaving Memories daughter Beef Jerkin Queen won four of 19 races, running second twice and third five times, bringing home earnings of $59,506. True to her word, Elizabeth secured the license plate “Batter Up” for her new silver Lincoln.
“Dee [Keener, her trainer] and Jay [Ross, her veterinarian] said why didn’t I go down to the Heritage Place Sale, so a friend of mine went down with me,” she says. “Jay and Dee were looking at the horses and they thought EC Revenge was a good one and bid on him for me.
“When ‘Revenge’ came along, everyone asked me if I was going to buy another car!” she said. The 2017 AQHA gelding by Hes Relentless and out of the unraced Corona Cartel mare SS Pamilla ran four times in 2019, earning $200,164. He won his trial and the final for the Grade 2 Oklahoma Futurity in March and followed that by winning his
trial and the final for the Heritage Place Juvenile. “Revenge was the one who’s done the most for me,” she says of the gelding, who ended 2019 as Champion Oklahoma Owned 2-Year-Old Gelding.
The Oklahoma Futurity win was a first for trainer Dee Keener, as well as for Elizabeth and EC Revenge. “That was really good,” Dee says. “He’s a nice horse and we’ve had a lot of success with him.”
Elizabeth hopes to run EC Revenge again this year, “But if he’s retiring, he’s retiring undefeated,” she says. “He’s a very nice horse.
I had him here and took care of him for about six months after he had surgery, and he was very gentle. I really liked him. I said, if I was 10 years younger, I’d bring him home and turn him into the pasture and just let him live like a horse for the rest of his life; he’s been so good to me.”
Elizabeth’s up-and-comer this year is BPmysoutherndynasty, by FDD Dynasty
and out of BP Southern Mariah, by Southern Cartel. So far in 2020, the sorrel gelding finished his Oklahoma Futurity trial riderless in March following a near wreck after
leaving the gate, then finished fourth in his Remington Park Futurity trial early in April. He ran second in his 350-yard Heritage Place Futurity trial, qualifying for the final on May 30 with a time of :17.898.
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OQHRA Champion 2-Year-Old Gelding EC Revenge winning the 2019 Heritage Place Juvenile. Elizabeth states that EC Revenge is the horse
that has done the most for her.