TRAINER CLINT CRAWFORD SENDS OUT FASTEST TRAINING RACE WINNER AT REMINGTON PARK WITH JESS XQUIZIT 

by Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – February 11, 2026 – Trainer Clint Crawford sent out two winners in nine training races Wednesday at Remington Park, including the fastest American Quarter Horse of the day – the filly Jess Xquizit – blazing to a win in the final race of nine on the day.

Jockey Jorge Torres rode the 2-year-old daughter of Apollitical Jess to the win at 250 yards in :13.675 over the fast track for a speed index of 73. The race went off with a 59-degree temperature and a 6mph tailwind. Jess Xquizit, an Arizona-bred out of the Ivory James mare Xquizit, won the race by an open 1-1/2 lengths after breaking inward from the post-position six. Once she straightened out, Jess Xquizit began to pull away from the field. Jess Xquizit was bred by John and Kathy Lee.

“She’s a pretty nice filly,” said Crawford. “It was only the third time she had broken from a gate, but she has been a natural from the first time we introduced her to a gate. She left there running.”

Crawford said she is pointed to a couple of futurities at Remington Park this meet – the the Grade 2, $400,000-estimated Oklahoma Futurity on Saturday, March 21, and the Grade 1, $1,000,000 Heritage Place Futurity on Saturday, May 30. The owners of Jess Xquizit, Chris Lykins and Conda Maze of Ruidoso, N.M., were the last to bid on this filly in the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale of 2025 and were able to get her for $290,000. She looked every bit like that amount in her training race, winning the beauty contest in the post parade by far.

“They don’t sell for that amount of money without looking like that,” said Crawford. “They (the owners) just kept looking at me (as the bidding went up and up) and I just kept shaking my head yes.”

Crawford’s other training race winner for the day was W Rigsby, who won the fourth schooling event of the day in :14.000. That 2-year-old Texas-bred by Mental Error, out of the Corona Cartel mare Jess a Cartel, is also headed for the Oklahoma Futurity trials scheduled for March 6 and 7. That gelding is owned by Clint’s brother Cody and Katie Larson. They bought him from the same sell as Jess Xquizit, but got him for the bargain price of $18,000.

“We have some nice 2-year-olds in the barn and Toastin Heros (winner of the Grade 1 Championship at Sunland Park Stakes on Feb. 7) is back,” Crawford said. The 4-year-old Oklahoma-bred gelding by Valiant Hero, from the Coronas Leaving mare Toastin With Coronas, won a Remington Park Derby trial here last year. He has won 7-of-16 races lifetime for earnings of $344,647. He is owned and was bred by Gene Cox.

A horse of the Paint breed held the fastest time of the day until the final heat Wednesday. A 2-year-old gelded Oklahoma-bred son of multiple champion Painted Turnpike hit the wire in his 250-yard schooling race in :13.729 for a 71 speed index to win his race by 1-1/2 lengths. Big Rotney is trained by the second all-time winningest conditioner of mixed breeds, Matt Whitekiller. The gelding is out of the CRM Livewire mare CRM Country Girl and is owned by Apple R Racing (Timothy Reid) of McAlester, Okla.

The other training race winners (Quarter Horses unless otherwise noted), their times (in order from fastest to slowest winners), speed index, trainers and race number were:

• Yegua Ranchera, :13.818, 67, Leo Alcala, race five
• Kash Kowboyy, :13.862, 66, Leo Alcala, race seven
• Kiss Me Ina Flash, :13.886, 65, Jed Vane, race six
• Chilinator (dual registered as Paint and Quarter Horse), :13.921, 63, Matt Whitekiller, race two
• Cheyenne Stone, :13.957, 62, Wendy Garcia, race eight
• W Rigsby, :14.000, 60, Clint Crawford, race four
• RP Miss Wiredreckless (Paint), :14.070, 57, Dee Keener, race one

The next training races are set for Thursday, Feb. 12, with first post time of 11 a.m. There are nine races scheduled.

The 2025 Remington Park American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season begins March 5 and continues through May 31.

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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.