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RACING NEWS
AQHA CBY Distance Chal.
MS ESTHER
by Jess Johnson
Ms Esther added a second win to her 2021 season in the rainy AQHA Canterbury Park Distance Challenge on July 6.
Breaking last in the four horse field, Ms Esther found her space along the rail and blew by the early leader, SW Artemisia, to win by 5 1/2-lengths over a muddy track.
The sorrel mare, bred by Duwyne and Janice Pfeifle, covered 870 yards in :45.375 earning a 103 speed index and adding $14,242 to her account. This was nearly an identical time to her last out at Remington Park for a third-place finish in the May 29 Remington Park Distance Championship.
Ms Esther has hit the board in all of her five starts around the hook this year with Andrew Samaniego riding. She is trained by Victor Hanson.
The Pfeifle’s bred Ms Esther out of winner
Tres Down The Cash, who finished third in the Harrah’s Entertainment Derby-G2. The mare has produced two winners from five starters. Ms Esther, her first stakes winner, also won the 2019 & 2020 Will rogers Downs Distance Challenge-G3 as well as the 2019 Remingtn Park Distance Challenge-G3 and Pauls Valley Stakes-G2.
SW Artemisia (Second Painted Sign-Snowbound Lady Bug) set the pace and finished 2nd for owner Milena Kwiecien & trainer Jason Pascoe with Nik Goodwin aboard. The filly was 2nd in the 2020 Will Rogers Downs Distance Challenge-G3.
Multiple stakes finalist Cold Brewster (Im A Fancy PYC-Crescent Shore) was 3rd in his first stakes competition in 2021 for owner Austin Watterson, jockey L. Salvador Martinez & trainer Durk Peery.
Faster Than Hasta (Hasta Be Fast- Leadmetoyourladder), an early favorite after his win in the AQHA Energy Downs Distance Challenge last month, finished in fourth place. Hocks On The Move & SW Bullet Proof scratched.
Vals Fortune/Teddy Abrams Mem.
LIFEINTHEFASTLANES
by Michael Cusortelli
Asharp break from her rail post helped Lifeinthefastlanes score the victory in the $65,000 Vals Fortune/Teddy Abrams Memorial Stakes-RG2 for Louisiana-breds at Delta Downs on July 5.
Lifeinthefastlanes was stretching out in distance off of her third-place run, 1/2-length behind winner Eyeondaprize, in the 350-yard $34,700 Mother’s Day Stakes for fillies and mares at Delta Downs on May 31. The mare was bred by Wade and Kay Loup, and she was purchased by Richards and Leblanc for $41,000 at the 2018 Louisiana QHBA Yearling Sale.
Trained by Kenneth Roberts Sr. for owners Jason Richards and Michael J. Leblanc, Lifeinthefastlanes covered 400 yards in :19.590, and her margin of victory was a head from JRs Coronas Toast. David Alvarez rode the 4-year-old brown daughter of 2002 Champion Aged Stallion Jess Louisiana Blue.
Raced exclusively in Louisiana, Lifeinthefastlanes won nine of 13 outs -- including four stakes -- and earned $435,881. Her six wins in nine starts at Delta Downs include last year’s 400-yard $276,825 Delta Downs Derby-RG3 for state-bred sophomores.
Lifeinthefastlanes is out of Pantherinthefastlane, a homebred stakes-winning and multiple graded stakes placed daughter of Champion Panther Mountain.
JRs Coronas Toast (Coronas Leaving You-Egos Toast To Dash) finished second for owners Paul
R. Rigdon, Gyth Rigdon, Gerardo Gonzalez and
Juan Luis Fernandez. Juan Garcia rode the gelding
for trainer Paul Rigdon. Mpshinning (Mr Piloto- Shinningperrydash), ran third under Nestor Duran for owner Larry J. Boudreaux and trainer Erika Huitron.
Eyeondaprize (Fast Prize Jordan-Good Game Meg), Love The Way You Fly (Furyofthewind- Lovethewayyoulie), Tuckers Prize (Fast Prize Dash-BB Secrets Game), and Cos Im Kool (Tee Cos- Time For Wilena) completed the order of finish.
Develop A Plan Stakes-G3
WAGONS DASH
by Michael Cusortelli
Sent to post as the 9-10 favorite in a field of four, CT Racing Stables’ Wagons Dash responded with a wire-to-wire victory in the $26,850 Develop A Plan Stakes-G3 at Delta Downs on July 12.
Wagons Dash covered 350 yards in :17.725 while racing against a reported 8-mph head wind, and his winning margin was 3/4-length from Sharks Jess Jumpin. Everardo Rodriguez rode the 4-year-old bay son of PYC Paint Your Wagon for trainer Eric Long. Wagons Dash earned $15,000 from his first career stakes win. The gelding was bred in Oklahoma by Flag Ranch LLC, and he sold for $30,000 at the 2018 Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City. Wagons Dash is out of Breitling Time, a win- ning 13-year-old daughter of the First Down Dash stallion Fishers Dash. He traces back to his third dam, Chickarun, a Chick’s Deck mare who won two futurities in 1979, including the Raton Futurity at La Mesa Park in New Mexico.
Wagons Dash was rebounding from a troubled ninth-place finish in the 400-yard $58,000 Miss
Polly Classic Stakes-G2 at Delta Downs on June 14. Campaigned in three states, including Texas and Oklahoma, the gelding has won five of 17 races and has banked $137,848. Wagons Dash’s 3-year-old season included a second-place finish, a neck behind longshot winner I Am Valiant, in the 440-yard $135,865 Dash For Cash Derby-G2 at Lone Star Park.
Areli Gutierrez’s Sharks Jess Jumpn (Jumpn Chic-JA Jess Sizzlin) earned $7,000 for second to bring his bankroll to $44,725 from 14 outs. David Alvarez rode the sophomore gelding for trainer Fructuoso Huitron. Jess B One PYC (Paint Your Wagon-Jess B Mighty) finished third, and banked $2,750 for owner Gene Cox. Juan Francisco Garcia Jr. rode the 4-year-old gelding for trainer Trey Ellis. El Predator (Freighttrain B-Told Ya) finished fourth Achievopiloto and Afourleafclover scratched.
Canterbury Park • $25,432
870 yards • :45.375 • si 103
Smoke Glacken
Flo White
Tres Seis
Afrashad TB
MS ESTHER, ‘14-m.
Tres Down The Cash
First Down Chicky
Delta Downs • $65,000
400 yards • :19.590 • si 96
Mr Jess Perry
Jess Louisiana Blue
The Louisiana Girl
LIFEINTHEFASTLANES, ‘17-f.
Panther Mountain
Pantherinthefastlane
Sheza Neon Rose
Delta Downs • $26,850
350 yards • :17.725 • si 86
Corona Cartel
PYC Paint Your Wagon
WAGONS DASH, ‘17-g. Breitling Time
Dashin Follies Fishers Dash
Wasting No Time
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