Relentless Okie won the seventh race allowance event on Friday, April 5, 2024 at Remington Park, giving jockey Edwin Escobedo and the gelding’s trainer, Jason Olmstead, their fourth win of the night together.

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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.

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About Remington Park
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.