TRAINER JASON OLMSTEAD, JOCKEY EDWIN ESCOBEDO TEAM UP TO DOMINATE ACTION, WINNING FOUR RACES FRIDAY AT REMINGTON PARK
by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 5, 2024 – When jockey Edwin Escobedo won the seventh race aboard Relentless Okie among allowance company Friday night, it was the fourth trip to the winner’s circle for him on the night, all for trainer Jason Olmstead.
Escobedo had won his first jockeys’ title last year at Remington Park and Olmstead was the top trainer in the country the last couple of years in wins, but both had been off to a sluggish start here this season. Going into Friday’s racing card, Olmstead was tied for 15th in the trainers’ standings with three wins. The four victories moved him up to sole possession of fifth place at the end of the night.
Escobedo was tied for seventh in the riders’ standings with seven wins and his four scores on the evening gave him 11, moving him into fifth place, hopping over Bryan Candanosa and L. Salvador Martinez. He is only one behind Francisco Calderon in fourth with 12 wins.
Last year Escobedo’s 43 wins bested runner-up James Flores by three. Olmstead finished second in the standings, two wins behind Dee Keener’s 37. Olmstead had the most Quarter Horse wins among that breed’s trainers at Remington Park.
The duo’s big Friday began right off the bat in the first race as Escobedo booted home Cowboy Tres in the 2-year-old colt’s career debut against maidens. The son of Flying Cowboy 123 is owned by Paul Treadwell of Derby, Kan., and earned $11,463 after being bought at the Ruidoso Select Yearling sale last year for $33,000 in New Mexico. He was bred in Montana by Ralph G. Young.
The jockey-trainer combo came back in the third with another winner who was a first-time starter, Flyn Agree. That 2-year-old filly by Flying Cowboy 123 is owned by S/T Racing Stables (Tom Smith) of Barnsdall, Okla. She was a $40,000 purchase in the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale last year and earned $11,355 for her victory. She was bred in Texas by Paragon Farms.
They then swept the sixth and seventh races with Candy for Corona and Relentless Okie, respectively. Candy for Corona, also owned by Treadwell, won a $30,000 claiming race for non-winners of two lifetime races. That 3-year-old gelding by Corona Cartel won another $13,588 for Treadwell. The gelding was bred in Oklahoma by PV Quarter Horse Farms. Relentless Okie, a 4-year-old gelding by Hes Relentless, won the toughest race of the bunch, winning a conditional allowance race. He beat the likes of Wieburg, a graded stakes place horse, and Sir James, who won the $283,000 Black Gold Lads Futurity at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., last fall. Sir James is another graded stakes place competitor.
Relentless Okie earned $18,696 from the $33,175 purse and improved lifetime to 20 starts, four wins, three seconds and six thirds for $97,609 in earnings. He is owned by Tom Maher of Pierre, S.D., who also bred the horse in Oklahoma.
Relentless Okie was sent off at 6-1 odds and paid $15.60 to win, $4.40 to place and $2.60 to show. He stopped the timer for 330 yards in :16.705 over the fast track for a speed-index of 92.
2022 ALL AMERICAN FUTURITY WINNER, HES JUDGEANDJURY, ONE OF FAVORITES FOR $60,000 BANK OF AMERICAN CHALLENGE STAKES
Remington Park will welcome 2022 All American Futurity winner Hes Judgeandjury to Oklahoma City on Sunday as one of the favorites in the estimated $60,000 Bank of America Remington Park Challenge Stakes.
The race is carded for the 10th and final race of the night and Hes Judgeandjury has been made the 5-1 fourth favorite in this tough field of older American Quarter Horses. Jockey James Flores rode him to victory in the industry’s biggest race of the year at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico on Sept. 5, 2022, a $3 million race. The now 4-year-old gelded son of Hes Relentless, out of the First Down Dash mare Crazy Down Corona, will be ridden by Calderon in Sunday’s stakes.
The gelding’s career marks because of that big win dwarf the rest of the field. He has started 15 times, winning six, running second twice and third three more times for a bankroll of $1,970,950. Last year’s winner of the race, Jess My Hocks, took home more than $33,000 for the win and if Hes Judgeandjury were to win this race with that kind of payout, he would surpass $2 million in earnings.
He is owned by Jeff Jones and Steve Holt of Guthrie, Okla., and trained by Heath Taylor. He was bred in Oklahoma by his owners.
A Tres of Eagle is the 2-1 morning line favorite in the race, coming off a third-place finish in arguably the toughest race in the country for older horses – the Champion of Champions Invitational at Los Alamitos in California on Dec. 9, 2023. He is owned by Bella Vista Farms (Fred Helmuth) of Arcola, Ill., and trained by Eddie Lee “Bubba” Willis. He will be ridden by Jhaciel Soto.
Live racing continues Saturday night with a first post time of 6 p.m. Sunday’s first post is 4 p.m.
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Remington Park has provided more than $345 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 simulcast racing daily and non-stop casino gaming. The Remington Park Futurity for Oklahoma-breds is featured on April 27. The 2024 American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season continues through June 1. starts its 50-date season. Parking and admission are always free. 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 – April 20, 2025 – Shy Kisser wasn’t shy about showing her competition to losers alley as she won the $100,000 Dee Raper Sooner State Stakes on Saturday at Remington Park as a 22-1 longshot.
The race is a restricted Grade 1 for Oklahoma-breds, 3-years-old and older at 400 yards.
Jockey Mario Delgado used every ounce of energy encouraging the 6-year-old Oklahoma-bred mare to get there first. In the end, Shy Kisser slapped the kiss of fate on her opponents with a win by a head. She returned a healthy $47.80 to win, $27.80 to place and $7.40 to show.
Hooked N Gone, the class of the field with $570,323 earned, held the lead most of the race until Shy Kisser just nailed him at the wire. Hooked N Gone is a graded stakes winner and Shy Kisser’s only previous stakes win came in the $24,000 Miss Ellen Stakes at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., last fall.
Shy Kisser earned $57,600 for her efforts and improved her career running lines to 26 starts, five wins, six seconds and six thirds. The mare has made $234,364 in earnings for owner Leobardo Soria of Oklahoma City, who won the Sooner State for the first time. She was bought for $19,000 at the Heritage Place September Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City. Trainer Juvenal Licona-Vazquez won this race for the first time, but it was the second time Delgado has made it to the winner’s circle in the Sooner State. He also won this race in 2020 with Eagles Fly Higher.
Running time for the winner was :19.574 for a speed-index of 96, over a sloppy track. The rest of the order of finish past the top two was Lucky Luke (21-1) third, One Stolin Eagle (7-2) fourth, Paint Your Lips P (32-1) fifth, Cardiac Cowboy (6-1) sixth, Heza Relentless Mess (21-1) seventh, Rare Roy (46-1) eighth and the even-money favorite RGs Gold Wagon was last after rearing up high at the start of the race.
The Sooner State Stakes honors influential Oklahoma horseman Dee Raper. He played a key role in helping Oklahoma pass pari-mutuel racing legislation in the early 1980s. Raper also served 14 years as president of the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association, all while operating Belle Mere Farms in Norman, Okla. with his wife Betty. Belle Mere stood such top stallions Bully Bullion and Mr Eye Opener, while campaigning the likes of Eye Yin You to multiple stakes triumphs. Dee Raper was inducted into the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame at Remington Park in 2012.
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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.
Photo: Shy Kisser (8) wins the Dee Raper Sooner State Stakes on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at Remington Park. Jockey Mario Delgado was up for the triumph. 📸: Dustin Orona Photography... ’Expand’See Less
𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐋𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐁 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐀𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐔𝐏 by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 20, 2025 – Heavens Uncle won for the fourth time in five starts at Remington Park as he cruised over a sloppy racing surface to win the Grade 2, $54,800 Bob Moore Memorial Stakes in a heavy downpour.
The 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred gelded son of Uncle D, out of the Streak and Dash mare Heavens Assured, sped to his second stakes victory here after winning the Grade 1 (restricted) $854,775 Remington Park Futurity on April 29, 2024 by a head. Bryan Candanosa was up for that futurity score and had the leg up from trainer Guillermo Valdivia again on Saturday night in the Bob Moore while sent off as the betting favorite at 2-1 odds. His only loss at Remington Park was a second-place finish in his first career start among maidens when he fell short by a neck on March 16, 2024. He has not lost at Remington Park since that initial attempt.
This was the first time Heavens Uncle had raced over an off track and he seemed to like it just fine. He won $34,500 from the purse, improving his career record to nine starts, five wins, two seconds and one third, getting ever closer to the half-million dollar mark in earnings with $497,519. Heavens Uncle was bred and is owned by Sherry Gilmore of Sallisaw, Okla.
Candanosa broke on top with Heavens Uncle and held onto his half-length margin from mid-stretch to the wire. The top four favorites in the race completed the superfecta in the exact order. AB Boogie (3-1) was the runner-up, a head in front of third-place finisher Apollitical Ike (5-1). Believe in Perry (6-1) ran fourth, one length behind the winner. The rest of the order of finish was The Swamp (13-1) fifth, Rustys Cowgirl (12-1) sixth, Eye Dynasty (30-1) seventh, Striking Breeze (34-1) eighth, and Liberty for Jess (24-1) ninth.
Running time for the winner at 300 yards was :15.049, the fastest time of the meet at that distance. Heavens Uncle earned a speed-index of 106 for the effort.
Heavens Uncle paid $4.40 to win, $2.80 to place and $2.20 to show. Cowboys Gun Z, the 5-2 morning line favorite, was an early scratch from the Bob Moore.
It was the second win in the Bob Moore for Valdivia, who also won this race in 2019 with Eye Captain. Candanosa and Gilmore won for the first time in this series.
The Bob Moore Memorial is named in honor of the Hall of Fame horseman who was prominent in American Quarter Horse racing for over four decades, operating from his Norman, Okla. farm. Bob Moore Farms continues to be a leader in breeding quality horses. ••••
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.
Photo: Heavens Uncle (7) wins the Bob Moore Memorial on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at Remington Park. Jockey Bryan Candanosa was up for the victory. 📸: Dustin Orona Photography... ’Expand’See Less
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 20, 2025 – Nearly everyone forgot that Alliekat Dynasty loves the Remington Park racetrack like she loves sweet feed on a day off. The 4-year-old mare didn’t forget how to win, however, as she flew to victory Saturday night in the Grade 2, $82,520 Easy Date Stakes at 13-1 odds.
The Easy Date is for fillies and mares, three and older, at 350 yards.
Alliekat Dynasty, an Oklahoma-bred mare by FDD Dynasty, out of the Apollitical Jess mare Pollitical Scorpion, won for the seventh time in 11 starts at Remington Park and pocketed $47,925 from the purse for owner Arrowhead Racing (Anita Ruiz) of Wapanucka, Okla. Alliekat Dynasty is trained by Jesus Ruiz.
Alliekat Dynasty has now won three stakes races in Oklahoma City – the FL Lady Bug Stakes in 2023; the Grade 2 Decketta Stakes in 2024, and now the Easy Date. She was bred by Jahree Standridge. Interestingly enough, Standridge won the Easy Date Stakes as an owner and it was done with Alliekat Dynasty’s dam (mother), Pollitical Scorpion in 2016.
Alliekat Dynasty provided the first win in the Easy Date Stakes for all her connections.
The reason Alliekat Dynasty may have been ignored at 13-1 odds, was that she had not won a race in almost a year (May 12, 2024) and was on a four-race non-winning streak going into the Easy Date. Jockey Roman Cruz put her on the lead over a sloppy track with rain falling and nothing bothered her as she battled to the wire for a win by a head over Curls Joyful Wagon.
Those who stayed loyal to Alliekat Dynasty on this night were rewarded with a return of $28 to win, $7.60 to place and $5.60 to show. Curls Joyful Wagon (the heavy 3-5 favorite), was coming hard at the winner in the latter stages, but couldn’t quite catch her. The favorite was a nose ahead of 43-1 longshot Paige. That 50-cent trifecta paid $541.50. The 10-cent superfecta with 13-1 longshot Hallmarke running fourth was worth $893.03.
The rest of the order of finish in the Easy date was BP Moonlight (10-1) fifth, First Time for Wine (6-1) sixth, Flying Sophia (5-1) seventh, I Got Thiss (20-1) eighth, and Relentless Diamond (27-1) ninth. Edelyns PYC was a gate scratch in the race.
Alliekat Dynasty improved her career record to 15 starts, nine wins, one second and two thirds for a bankroll of $299,867. The winner won for the sixth time in seven starts at 350 yards.
The Easy Date Stakes is named after the 1974 All American Futurity winner and 1975 American Quarter Horse World Champion who was bred, owned and trained by Walter Merrick of Sayre, Okla.
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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.
Photo: Alliekat Dynasty (yellow shadow roll) wins the Easy Date Stakes on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at Remington Park. Jockey Roman Cruz was up for the score. 📸: Dustin Orona Photography... ’Expand’See Less
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TRAINER JASON OLMSTEAD, JOCKEY EDWIN ESCOBEDO TEAM UP TO DOMINATE ACTION, WINNING FOUR RACES FRIDAY AT REMINGTON PARK
by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 5, 2024 – When jockey Edwin Escobedo won the seventh race aboard Relentless Okie among allowance company Friday night, it was the fourth trip to the winner’s circle for him on the night, all for trainer Jason Olmstead.
Escobedo had won his first jockeys’ title last year at Remington Park and Olmstead was the top trainer in the country the last couple of years in wins, but both had been off to a sluggish start here this season. Going into Friday’s racing card, Olmstead was tied for 15th in the trainers’ standings with three wins. The four victories moved him up to sole possession of fifth place at the end of the night.
Escobedo was tied for seventh in the riders’ standings with seven wins and his four scores on the evening gave him 11, moving him into fifth place, hopping over Bryan Candanosa and L. Salvador Martinez. He is only one behind Francisco Calderon in fourth with 12 wins.
Last year Escobedo’s 43 wins bested runner-up James Flores by three. Olmstead finished second in the standings, two wins behind Dee Keener’s 37. Olmstead had the most Quarter Horse wins among that breed’s trainers at Remington Park.
The duo’s big Friday began right off the bat in the first race as Escobedo booted home Cowboy Tres in the 2-year-old colt’s career debut against maidens. The son of Flying Cowboy 123 is owned by Paul Treadwell of Derby, Kan., and earned $11,463 after being bought at the Ruidoso Select Yearling sale last year for $33,000 in New Mexico. He was bred in Montana by Ralph G. Young.
The jockey-trainer combo came back in the third with another winner who was a first-time starter, Flyn Agree. That 2-year-old filly by Flying Cowboy 123 is owned by S/T Racing Stables (Tom Smith) of Barnsdall, Okla. She was a $40,000 purchase in the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale last year and earned $11,355 for her victory. She was bred in Texas by Paragon Farms.
They then swept the sixth and seventh races with Candy for Corona and Relentless Okie, respectively. Candy for Corona, also owned by Treadwell, won a $30,000 claiming race for non-winners of two lifetime races. That 3-year-old gelding by Corona Cartel won another $13,588 for Treadwell. The gelding was bred in Oklahoma by PV Quarter Horse Farms. Relentless Okie, a 4-year-old gelding by Hes Relentless, won the toughest race of the bunch, winning a conditional allowance race. He beat the likes of Wieburg, a graded stakes place horse, and Sir James, who won the $283,000 Black Gold Lads Futurity at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., last fall. Sir James is another graded stakes place competitor.
Relentless Okie earned $18,696 from the $33,175 purse and improved lifetime to 20 starts, four wins, three seconds and six thirds for $97,609 in earnings. He is owned by Tom Maher of Pierre, S.D., who also bred the horse in Oklahoma.
Relentless Okie was sent off at 6-1 odds and paid $15.60 to win, $4.40 to place and $2.60 to show. He stopped the timer for 330 yards in :16.705 over the fast track for a speed-index of 92.
2022 ALL AMERICAN FUTURITY WINNER, HES JUDGEANDJURY, ONE OF FAVORITES FOR $60,000 BANK OF AMERICAN CHALLENGE STAKES
Remington Park will welcome 2022 All American Futurity winner Hes Judgeandjury to Oklahoma City on Sunday as one of the favorites in the estimated $60,000 Bank of America Remington Park Challenge Stakes.
The race is carded for the 10th and final race of the night and Hes Judgeandjury has been made the 5-1 fourth favorite in this tough field of older American Quarter Horses. Jockey James Flores rode him to victory in the industry’s biggest race of the year at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico on Sept. 5, 2022, a $3 million race. The now 4-year-old gelded son of Hes Relentless, out of the First Down Dash mare Crazy Down Corona, will be ridden by Calderon in Sunday’s stakes.
The gelding’s career marks because of that big win dwarf the rest of the field. He has started 15 times, winning six, running second twice and third three more times for a bankroll of $1,970,950. Last year’s winner of the race, Jess My Hocks, took home more than $33,000 for the win and if Hes Judgeandjury were to win this race with that kind of payout, he would surpass $2 million in earnings.
He is owned by Jeff Jones and Steve Holt of Guthrie, Okla., and trained by Heath Taylor. He was bred in Oklahoma by his owners.
A Tres of Eagle is the 2-1 morning line favorite in the race, coming off a third-place finish in arguably the toughest race in the country for older horses – the Champion of Champions Invitational at Los Alamitos in California on Dec. 9, 2023. He is owned by Bella Vista Farms (Fred Helmuth) of Arcola, Ill., and trained by Eddie Lee “Bubba” Willis. He will be ridden by Jhaciel Soto.
Live racing continues Saturday night with a first post time of 6 p.m. Sunday’s first post is 4 p.m.
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Remington Park has provided more than $345 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 simulcast racing daily and non-stop casino gaming. The Remington Park Futurity for Oklahoma-breds is featured on April 27. The 2024 American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season continues through June 1. starts its 50-date season. Parking and admission are always free. 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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𝐒𝐇𝐘 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐏𝐒 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐒, 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊
By Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 20, 2025 – Shy Kisser wasn’t shy about showing her competition to losers alley as she won the $100,000 Dee Raper Sooner State Stakes on Saturday at Remington Park as a 22-1 longshot.
The race is a restricted Grade 1 for Oklahoma-breds, 3-years-old and older at 400 yards.
Jockey Mario Delgado used every ounce of energy encouraging the 6-year-old Oklahoma-bred mare to get there first. In the end, Shy Kisser slapped the kiss of fate on her opponents with a win by a head. She returned a healthy $47.80 to win, $27.80 to place and $7.40 to show.
Hooked N Gone, the class of the field with $570,323 earned, held the lead most of the race until Shy Kisser just nailed him at the wire. Hooked N Gone is a graded stakes winner and Shy Kisser’s only previous stakes win came in the $24,000 Miss Ellen Stakes at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., last fall.
Shy Kisser earned $57,600 for her efforts and improved her career running lines to 26 starts, five wins, six seconds and six thirds. The mare has made $234,364 in earnings for owner Leobardo Soria of Oklahoma City, who won the Sooner State for the first time. She was bought for $19,000 at the Heritage Place September Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City. Trainer Juvenal Licona-Vazquez won this race for the first time, but it was the second time Delgado has made it to the winner’s circle in the Sooner State. He also won this race in 2020 with Eagles Fly Higher.
Running time for the winner was :19.574 for a speed-index of 96, over a sloppy track. The rest of the order of finish past the top two was Lucky Luke (21-1) third, One Stolin Eagle (7-2) fourth, Paint Your Lips P (32-1) fifth, Cardiac Cowboy (6-1) sixth, Heza Relentless Mess (21-1) seventh, Rare Roy (46-1) eighth and the even-money favorite RGs Gold Wagon was last after rearing up high at the start of the race.
The Sooner State Stakes honors influential Oklahoma horseman Dee Raper. He played a key role in helping Oklahoma pass pari-mutuel racing legislation in the early 1980s. Raper also served 14 years as president of the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association, all while operating Belle Mere Farms in Norman, Okla. with his wife Betty. Belle Mere stood such top stallions Bully Bullion and Mr Eye Opener, while campaigning the likes of Eye Yin You to multiple stakes triumphs. Dee Raper was inducted into the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame at Remington Park in 2012.
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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.
Photo: Shy Kisser (8) wins the Dee Raper Sooner State Stakes on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at Remington Park. Jockey Mario Delgado was up for the triumph. 📸: Dustin Orona Photography ... ’Expand’See Less
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by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 20, 2025 – Heavens Uncle won for the fourth time in five starts at Remington Park as he cruised over a sloppy racing surface to win the Grade 2, $54,800 Bob Moore Memorial Stakes in a heavy downpour.
The 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred gelded son of Uncle D, out of the Streak and Dash mare Heavens Assured, sped to his second stakes victory here after winning the Grade 1 (restricted) $854,775 Remington Park Futurity on April 29, 2024 by a head. Bryan Candanosa was up for that futurity score and had the leg up from trainer Guillermo Valdivia again on Saturday night in the Bob Moore while sent off as the betting favorite at 2-1 odds. His only loss at Remington Park was a second-place finish in his first career start among maidens when he fell short by a neck on March 16, 2024. He has not lost at Remington Park since that initial attempt.
This was the first time Heavens Uncle had raced over an off track and he seemed to like it just fine. He won $34,500 from the purse, improving his career record to nine starts, five wins, two seconds and one third, getting ever closer to the half-million dollar mark in earnings with $497,519. Heavens Uncle was bred and is owned by Sherry Gilmore of Sallisaw, Okla.
Candanosa broke on top with Heavens Uncle and held onto his half-length margin from mid-stretch to the wire. The top four favorites in the race completed the superfecta in the exact order. AB Boogie (3-1) was the runner-up, a head in front of third-place finisher Apollitical Ike (5-1). Believe in Perry (6-1) ran fourth, one length behind the winner. The rest of the order of finish was The Swamp (13-1) fifth, Rustys Cowgirl (12-1) sixth, Eye Dynasty (30-1) seventh, Striking Breeze (34-1) eighth, and Liberty for Jess (24-1) ninth.
Running time for the winner at 300 yards was :15.049, the fastest time of the meet at that distance. Heavens Uncle earned a speed-index of 106 for the effort.
Heavens Uncle paid $4.40 to win, $2.80 to place and $2.20 to show. Cowboys Gun Z, the 5-2 morning line favorite, was an early scratch from the Bob Moore.
It was the second win in the Bob Moore for Valdivia, who also won this race in 2019 with Eye Captain. Candanosa and Gilmore won for the first time in this series.
The Bob Moore Memorial is named in honor of the Hall of Fame horseman who was prominent in American Quarter Horse racing for over four decades, operating from his Norman, Okla. farm. Bob Moore Farms continues to be a leader in breeding quality horses.
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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.
Photo: Heavens Uncle (7) wins the Bob Moore Memorial on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at Remington Park. Jockey Bryan Candanosa was up for the victory. 📸: Dustin Orona Photography ... ’Expand’See Less
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𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐊𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐘𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐘, 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐓 𝟏𝟑-𝟏 𝐎𝐃𝐃𝐒, 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐀𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒
by Richard Linihan
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – April 20, 2025 – Nearly everyone forgot that Alliekat Dynasty loves the Remington Park racetrack like she loves sweet feed on a day off. The 4-year-old mare didn’t forget how to win, however, as she flew to victory Saturday night in the Grade 2, $82,520 Easy Date Stakes at 13-1 odds.
The Easy Date is for fillies and mares, three and older, at 350 yards.
Alliekat Dynasty, an Oklahoma-bred mare by FDD Dynasty, out of the Apollitical Jess mare Pollitical Scorpion, won for the seventh time in 11 starts at Remington Park and pocketed $47,925 from the purse for owner Arrowhead Racing (Anita Ruiz) of Wapanucka, Okla. Alliekat Dynasty is trained by Jesus Ruiz.
Alliekat Dynasty has now won three stakes races in Oklahoma City – the FL Lady Bug Stakes in 2023; the Grade 2 Decketta Stakes in 2024, and now the Easy Date. She was bred by Jahree Standridge. Interestingly enough, Standridge won the Easy Date Stakes as an owner and it was done with Alliekat Dynasty’s dam (mother), Pollitical Scorpion in 2016.
Alliekat Dynasty provided the first win in the Easy Date Stakes for all her connections.
The reason Alliekat Dynasty may have been ignored at 13-1 odds, was that she had not won a race in almost a year (May 12, 2024) and was on a four-race non-winning streak going into the Easy Date. Jockey Roman Cruz put her on the lead over a sloppy track with rain falling and nothing bothered her as she battled to the wire for a win by a head over Curls Joyful Wagon.
Those who stayed loyal to Alliekat Dynasty on this night were rewarded with a return of $28 to win, $7.60 to place and $5.60 to show. Curls Joyful Wagon (the heavy 3-5 favorite), was coming hard at the winner in the latter stages, but couldn’t quite catch her. The favorite was a nose ahead of 43-1 longshot Paige. That 50-cent trifecta paid $541.50. The 10-cent superfecta with 13-1 longshot Hallmarke running fourth was worth $893.03.
The rest of the order of finish in the Easy date was BP Moonlight (10-1) fifth, First Time for Wine (6-1) sixth, Flying Sophia (5-1) seventh, I Got Thiss (20-1) eighth, and Relentless Diamond (27-1) ninth. Edelyns PYC was a gate scratch in the race.
Alliekat Dynasty improved her career record to 15 starts, nine wins, one second and two thirds for a bankroll of $299,867. The winner won for the sixth time in seven starts at 350 yards.
The Easy Date Stakes is named after the 1974 All American Futurity winner and 1975 American Quarter Horse World Champion who was bred, owned and trained by Walter Merrick of Sayre, Okla.
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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.
Photo: Alliekat Dynasty (yellow shadow roll) wins the Easy Date Stakes on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at Remington Park. Jockey Roman Cruz was up for the score. 📸: Dustin Orona Photography ... ’Expand’See Less
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