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RACING NEWS
Jockey Ramon Sanchez was back aboard Party Politics riding for owner JGA Racing Stables.
Juan Aleman Sr. congratulates his son Juan Aleman.
become the first horse to sweep all three million-dollar futurities at Los Alamitos.
Party Politics races for JGA Racing Stables Inc., “our family’s racing corporation,” Aleman said. Aleman’s parents and a family friend are also involved in the horse.
“This horse is a blessing for us,” Aleman said. “We invested in him and he’s paying dividends. We had to work for it a lot today. He really had to come back, but his style of running, he’s always had a good late kick. He’s never run from the outside.”
JGA Racing Stables only races one or two horses each year. Aleman has trained for J.
to get there just in time.” Sanchez said in an interview with StallioneSearch.
Party Politics is special to trainer Juan Aleman, not only because he belongs to Aleman’s family, but also because Aleman trained both the gelding’s sire, Apollitical Jess, and his dam, Shanachee.
“I trained his dad, and to come back with one of his sons and to do what he’s doing, it’s amazing,” Aleman said in an interview with StallioneSearch.
Apollitical Jess became a Champion at three years of age under Aleman’s tutelage, and the horse has turned into a leading
sire. Party Politics is excelling as a two year old, first winning the Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1 and then adding the Golden State Million Futurity-G1, both at Los Alamitos. Party Politics broke his maiden in his racing debut, finished second in his Ed Burke Futurity trial, and then took the June 19 final. He didn’t run between the Ed Burke and the Golden State trials, and while he
won his Golden State Futurity trial, he only qualified the seventh-fastest. “He needed his trial race,” Aleman said.
Should Party Politics capture the Los Alamitos $2 Million Futurity-G1, he would
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