COLORADO-BRED STAKES WINNER PRESIDO PETE READIES FOR REMINGTON PARK WITH TUESDAY WORKOUT

By Richard Linihan 

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 18, 2026 – Presido Pete worked 220 yards Tuesday morning over a fast track at Remington Park. He has won his last three starts, all stakes races in Colorado, and has been virtually impossible to beat at Arapahoe Park near Denver.

The 5-year-old Colorado-bred horse by The Marfa Lights, out of the Wave Carver mare Tahiti Wave, is a four-time stakes winner in Colorado, losing his only black-type race there when he ran eighth in the Rocky Mountain Derby on Sept. 29, 2024.

Presido Pete covered 220 yards Tuesday in :12.50 handily for trainer Haley Hobbs. Presido Pete was one of 23 that broke the :13-second mark in 220-yard workouts this morning.

Presido Pete’s four stakes wins at Arapahoe were the Rocky Mountain Championship Stakes on Nov. 16 last fall, the Leo Beau Dash Stakes on Nov. 1, the Dolls Prodigy Stakes on Oct. 5, and the Lucille Rowe Derby on Nov. 17, 2024. His only win at Remington Park came when he was 2-years-old in taking an Oklahoma Futurity trial on March 11, 2023. He did not run in the final for those trials. Presido Pete won that race at 8-1 odds for owner Francisco Cornejo. Jockey Fernando Fonseca-Soto was the rider that night.

Since winning that trial, Presido Pete has tried seven other times to win a second Oklahoma City race without success. Don’t count him out, however. Hobbs twice brought in winners of 10-1 odds or higher at last year’s American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa race meet.

Presido Pete’s lifetime record is 26 starts, nine wins, three seconds and three thirds for $131,068 earned. He was also bred by his owner.

Another classy worker Tuesday was the 3-year-old California-bred sorrel colt, AJ Remember Me. He covered 220 yards in :12.50 handily. He broke his maiden at Remington Park on March 28, 2025 as the 4-5 heavy favorite. He won by a full length that day.

Since then, all he has done is put up a strong effort, running second in his last start, in the Grade 1, Los Alamitos 2 Million Futurity on the West Coast. That was a Dec. 14, 2025 start in which AJ Remember Me finished only a head back of the winner, Toby Sis.  The colt is by Apollitical Jess from the Tres Seis broodmare Remember Robyn and was bred by Rancho El Cabresto Inc.

The 2026 spring season at Remington Park begins Thursday, March 5.

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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. First post time nightly is 6 p.m. unless otherwise specified as a special post time race day. 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.