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Ez Feisty Patriot Leads Bevy of Qualifiers Into Baxter Andruss Futurity Final
Portland Meadows hosted three trials for the Baxter Andruss Futurity on Monday's race card.

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Ez Feisty Patriot Leads Bevy of Qualifiers Into Baxter Andruss Futurity Final

PORTLAND, OR—NOVEMBER 24, 2015—Multiple stakes-placed Ez Feisty Patriot defeated Cm Its All About Me by a neck in the last of three trials Monday to set the top qualifying time for the Baxter Andruss Futurity at Portland Meadows. The daughter of Game Patriot covered the 400-yard course in :20.570 seconds.

The 10 fastest two-year-olds, from today's trials, will return to the Pacific Northwest racecourse on Monday, December 14th and vie for the winner's share of a $25,000-est. purse.

Jockey Javier Matias rode the Gary Chumbley homebred Ez Feisty Patriot to her fourth win in seven starts for trainer Scott Raley. Six of 10 futurity finalists qualified from the final trial race, including the top three. Chumbley bred Ez Feisty Patriot in Oregon from the Georgias Easy mare Easy Verna. She has earned $14,894 this season.

Secretly Fast, a half-brother to champion Strawkins, won the second trial to get the 4th fastest time of :20.786. Coming off a fifth place effort in a $16,000 claiming race at Los Alamitos earlier this month, the son of No Secrets Here was making his first start outside of California for new owners Dana Pettibone and Leonard Hammrich.

John Harris conditions the Donald and Peggy Boyle bred gelding from the Strawfly Special mare Shirleys Strawfly. His record stands at (7) 2-1-0. Jorge Rosales had the riding call.

Harris also saddled the winner of the first trial Frankie Valentine, an Ocean Runaway colt, owned-and-bred by Rodney Lowe. Ridden by Jorge Rosales, the gelding completed the course in :20.926 for the 5th fastest time.

It was the first win in nine starts this year for the Oregon-bred bay from the Pritzi Dash mare Be Dancing. He also entered the trials off an eighth place finish for an $8,000-tag at Los Alamitos on October 2nd. His record stands at (9) 1-2-1.

For the complete list of Baxter Andruss Futurity qualifiers, times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.