APOLLITICAL MUSE PULLS OFF MINOR UPSET IN REMINGTON PARK OAKS WITH HOT JUAN PULIDO UP
by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 20, 2025 –Juan Pulido capped off an amazing week for himself, winning four races on Friday night and then following that up with two stakes wins Saturday in the Remington Park Oaks and Remington Park Derby.
Pulido won the late Daily Double with Apollitical Muse in the $160,670 Oaks and with Valiant Painted Sign in the $185,420 Derby. Both events are for Oklahoma-breds who qualified in trials earlier this month.
In the Oaks, Pulido was triumphant for trainer Jed Vane and owner Greg Cullum of Fort Gibson, Okla. Apollitical Muse, a 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred filly by Apollitical Jess, out of the Southern Cartel mare BP Shes Southern, was the winner by a half-length at 7-1 odds. The runner-up, BV Elaina Ray (18-1) completed a nice $2 exacta that returned $179.80. When Thereturnofthecartel (5-1) finished third, the 50-cent trifecta was worth $327.30.
The 5-2 wagering favorite, Eyesa Wagon My Tale, who was also the fastest qualifier for this final, ran sixth, but was disqualified for interference on a rival and placed ninth in the field of 10. The rest of the finish past the top three was Flying Bandida (5-1) fourth, High Dollar Dynasty (37-1) fifth, Curlie D (33-1) sixth, MM Lightning Jess (42-1) seventh, Jolie Laide (5-1) eighth, Eyesa Wagon My Tale, ninth and Flashin Dynamite (3-1) 10th.
Apollitical Muse paid $16.20 to win, $7.60 to place and $5.40 to show. It was the first win in four tries for this filly at the distance of 400 yards. She was bred in Oklahoma by Rancho El Cabresto. The winner earned $64,268 from the purse and improved lifetime to 12 starts, four wins, two seconds and one third, more than doubling her bankroll to $126,482. She was a $55,000 purchase from the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale in 2023.
Running time for the winner was :19.887 for an 89 speed-index over the sloppy track. This was only the third running of the Oaks. The winner’s connections were all winning the race for the first time.
It took Apollitical Muse three tries to break her maiden, twice at Remington Park when she started her career, before finally winning at Fair Meadows in Tulsa in the filly’s third out last year. The trip to the winner’s circle in the Oaks was her first black-type victory. Her only other wins came in the Black Gold Futurity trials at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., last fall and in the Oklahoma Derby trials at Remington Park on March 9 of this meet.
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Remington Park has provided more than $377 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. The 2025 American Quarter Horse Season, features the $1,000,000 Heritage Place Futurity on May 31, the final night of this meet. Must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.
𝘖𝘒𝘓𝘈𝘏𝘖𝘔𝘈 𝘊𝘐𝘛𝘠, 𝘖𝘒 – 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 9, 2026 – The first training races of the upcoming Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Patin and Appaloosa Season will take place this week. There are 63 horses scheduled to run on Wednesday at 11 a.m. and 65 horses entered Thursday with the same starting time.
Nine races were drawn for each day and three-time defending champion trainer Dee Keener didn’t let the stall doors on his stable stay shut long, emptying the barn for these two days. Keener has entered 14 horses each day for a total of 28, prepping for the first starts of their careers. The next most of any trainer is Clint Crawford with 13 entered for the two days. The only other conditioners who will send out double-figures in horse totals for Wednesday and Thursday are Leo Alcala (12), Matt Whitekiller (10) and Jed Vane (10). Sixteen other trainers have entered for the schooling races with less than 10 running from each of those barns.
Keener’s barn is jumping and ready to go, searching for that fourth training title in a row at Remington Park for the Inola, Okla., native.
“I have some really good 2-year-olds that have been working well on the farm,” Keener, 59, said.
His three titles in a row is well short of the record set by Rodney Reed when the late top trainer here won the trophy for nine consecutive years from 1995-2003.
Keener set a meet record when he won his third training title in a row last year with 54 winners. He needed two victories on Champions Night, Saturday, May 31, 2025, to pass Eddie Willis, who had the record at 53. Keener solved the problem in a hurry on that night, winning the first race of the evening with Vesper Martini in the Grade 1, $20,000 Speedhorse Graham Paint and Appaloosa Stakes and then established a new record by winning the second race with JC Speeding, a double-registered Quarter Horse/Paint. Keener finished 26 wins ahead of runner-up Matt Whitekiller in the trainers’ race.
Many of Remington Park’s top jockeys are named to ride in the training races this week, including Juan Pulido, Francisco Calderon, James Flores, Roman Cruz, Mario Delgado and Cody Smith. Pulido won last year’s jockeys’ race for the riding title with 67 wins, well ahead of runner-up Calderon at 43 victories. In comparison to Pulido’s first riding title here in 2021, he had only 46 trips to the winner’s circle that year. Pulido’s 67 wins last year were the most since G.R. Carter’s 68 in 2014.
Training, or schooling, races are used by many trainers to gain approval by Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission stewards for 2-year-olds to make their first pari-mutuel attempt. All training races at Remington Park are contested at 250 yards.
The Remington Park stable are continues to grow in equine population with 601 horses on the grounds as of Monday morning.
The 2026 Spring Season begins March 5 and continues through May 30.
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Remington Park has provided more than $407 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District. The 2026 Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season begins March 5. Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. Guests must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or to enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information. ... ’Expand’See Less
𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦 & 𝗧𝗥𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒 ✔️ Funds must be in the owner’s account at the time of entry for schooling races ✔️ Horse registration papers must be on file in the office at the time of entry ✔️ Schooling race fee: $125.00 per horse
💰 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀: • Personal check • Cashier’s check • Cash • Bank wire transfer 🚫 Credit cards are NOT accepted
📬 If you are mailing funds, please allow adequate time for postal delivery. Funds must be posted to the specific owner account that owns the schooling horse at the time of entry.
🤝 Partnerships: If the horse is owned by a partnership, please be sure the bookkeeper knows which partnership account the funds should be deposited into.
For questions or to coordinate deposits, please contact: Gedda Quinonez, Horsemen’s Bookkeeper One Remington Place, Oklahoma City, OK 73111 📞 405-419-4424 (Direct) 📧horsemensbookkeeper@remingtonpark.com ... ’Expand’See Less
✔️ Funds must be in the owner’s account at the time of entry for schooling races ✔️ Horse registration papers must be on file in the office at the time of entry ✔️ Schooling race fee: $125.00 per horse
💰 Accepted payment methods: • Personal check • Cashier’s check • Cash • Bank wire transfer 🚫 Credit cards are NOT accepted
📬 If you are mailing funds, please allow adequate time for postal delivery. Funds must be posted to the specific owner account that owns the schooling horse at the time of entry.
🤝 Partnerships: If the horse is owned by a partnership, please be sure the bookkeeper knows which partnership account the funds should be deposited into.
For questions or to coordinate deposits, please contact: Gedda Quinonez Horsemen’s Bookkeeper One Remington Place Oklahoma City, OK 73111 📞 405-419-4424 (Direct) Horsemensbookkeeper@remingtonpark.com ... ’Expand’See Less
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APOLLITICAL MUSE PULLS OFF MINOR UPSET IN REMINGTON PARK OAKS WITH HOT JUAN PULIDO UP
by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 20, 2025 – Juan Pulido capped off an amazing week for himself, winning four races on Friday night and then following that up with two stakes wins Saturday in the Remington Park Oaks and Remington Park Derby.
Pulido won the late Daily Double with Apollitical Muse in the $160,670 Oaks and with Valiant Painted Sign in the $185,420 Derby. Both events are for Oklahoma-breds who qualified in trials earlier this month.
In the Oaks, Pulido was triumphant for trainer Jed Vane and owner Greg Cullum of Fort Gibson, Okla. Apollitical Muse, a 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred filly by Apollitical Jess, out of the Southern Cartel mare BP Shes Southern, was the winner by a half-length at 7-1 odds. The runner-up, BV Elaina Ray (18-1) completed a nice $2 exacta that returned $179.80. When Thereturnofthecartel (5-1) finished third, the 50-cent trifecta was worth $327.30.
The 5-2 wagering favorite, Eyesa Wagon My Tale, who was also the fastest qualifier for this final, ran sixth, but was disqualified for interference on a rival and placed ninth in the field of 10. The rest of the finish past the top three was Flying Bandida (5-1) fourth, High Dollar Dynasty (37-1) fifth, Curlie D (33-1) sixth, MM Lightning Jess (42-1) seventh, Jolie Laide (5-1) eighth, Eyesa Wagon My Tale, ninth and Flashin Dynamite (3-1) 10th.
Apollitical Muse paid $16.20 to win, $7.60 to place and $5.40 to show. It was the first win in four tries for this filly at the distance of 400 yards. She was bred in Oklahoma by Rancho El Cabresto. The winner earned $64,268 from the purse and improved lifetime to 12 starts, four wins, two seconds and one third, more than doubling her bankroll to $126,482. She was a $55,000 purchase from the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale in 2023.
Running time for the winner was :19.887 for an 89 speed-index over the sloppy track. This was only the third running of the Oaks. The winner’s connections were all winning the race for the first time.
It took Apollitical Muse three tries to break her maiden, twice at Remington Park when she started her career, before finally winning at Fair Meadows in Tulsa in the filly’s third out last year. The trip to the winner’s circle in the Oaks was her first black-type victory. Her only other wins came in the Black Gold Futurity trials at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., last fall and in the Oklahoma Derby trials at Remington Park on March 9 of this meet.
••••
Remington Park has provided more than $377 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. The 2025 American Quarter Horse Season, features the $1,000,000 Heritage Place Futurity on May 31, the final night of this meet. Must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.
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𝘖𝘒𝘓𝘈𝘏𝘖𝘔𝘈 𝘊𝘐𝘛𝘠, 𝘖𝘒 – 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 9, 2026 – The first training races of the upcoming Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Patin and Appaloosa Season will take place this week. There are 63 horses scheduled to run on Wednesday at 11 a.m. and 65 horses entered Thursday with the same starting time.
Nine races were drawn for each day and three-time defending champion trainer Dee Keener didn’t let the stall doors on his stable stay shut long, emptying the barn for these two days. Keener has entered 14 horses each day for a total of 28, prepping for the first starts of their careers. The next most of any trainer is Clint Crawford with 13 entered for the two days. The only other conditioners who will send out double-figures in horse totals for Wednesday and Thursday are Leo Alcala (12), Matt Whitekiller (10) and Jed Vane (10). Sixteen other trainers have entered for the schooling races with less than 10 running from each of those barns.
Keener’s barn is jumping and ready to go, searching for that fourth training title in a row at Remington Park for the Inola, Okla., native.
“I have some really good 2-year-olds that have been working well on the farm,” Keener, 59, said.
His three titles in a row is well short of the record set by Rodney Reed when the late top trainer here won the trophy for nine consecutive years from 1995-2003.
Keener set a meet record when he won his third training title in a row last year with 54 winners. He needed two victories on Champions Night, Saturday, May 31, 2025, to pass Eddie Willis, who had the record at 53. Keener solved the problem in a hurry on that night, winning the first race of the evening with Vesper Martini in the Grade 1, $20,000 Speedhorse Graham Paint and Appaloosa Stakes and then established a new record by winning the second race with JC Speeding, a double-registered Quarter Horse/Paint. Keener finished 26 wins ahead of runner-up Matt Whitekiller in the trainers’ race.
Many of Remington Park’s top jockeys are named to ride in the training races this week, including Juan Pulido, Francisco Calderon, James Flores, Roman Cruz, Mario Delgado and Cody Smith. Pulido won last year’s jockeys’ race for the riding title with 67 wins, well ahead of runner-up Calderon at 43 victories. In comparison to Pulido’s first riding title here in 2021, he had only 46 trips to the winner’s circle that year. Pulido’s 67 wins last year were the most since G.R. Carter’s 68 in 2014.
Training, or schooling, races are used by many trainers to gain approval by Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission stewards for 2-year-olds to make their first pari-mutuel attempt. All training races at Remington Park are contested at 250 yards.
The Remington Park stable are continues to grow in equine population with 601 horses on the grounds as of Monday morning.
The 2026 Spring Season begins March 5 and continues through May 30.
•••••
Remington Park has provided more than $407 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District. The 2026 Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season begins March 5. Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. Guests must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or to enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information. ... ’Expand’See Less
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✔️ Funds must be in the owner’s account at the time of entry for schooling races
✔️ Horse registration papers must be on file in the office at the time of entry
✔️ Schooling race fee: $125.00 per horse
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• Cashier’s check
• Cash
• Bank wire transfer
🚫 Credit cards are NOT accepted
📬 If you are mailing funds, please allow adequate time for postal delivery. Funds must be posted to the specific owner account that owns the schooling horse at the time of entry.
🤝 Partnerships:
If the horse is owned by a partnership, please be sure the bookkeeper knows which partnership account the funds should be deposited into.
For questions or to coordinate deposits, please contact:
Gedda Quinonez, Horsemen’s Bookkeeper
One Remington Place, Oklahoma City, OK 73111
📞 405-419-4424 (Direct)
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✔️ Funds must be in the owner’s account at the time of entry for schooling races
✔️ Horse registration papers must be on file in the office at the time of entry
✔️ Schooling race fee: $125.00 per horse
💰 Accepted payment methods:
• Personal check
• Cashier’s check
• Cash
• Bank wire transfer
🚫 Credit cards are NOT accepted
📬 If you are mailing funds, please allow adequate time for postal delivery. Funds must be posted to the specific owner account that owns the schooling horse at the time of entry.
🤝 Partnerships:
If the horse is owned by a partnership, please be sure the bookkeeper knows which partnership account the funds should be deposited into.
For questions or to coordinate deposits, please contact:
Gedda Quinonez
Horsemen’s Bookkeeper
One Remington Place
Oklahoma City, OK 73111
📞 405-419-4424 (Direct)
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