Hazel Park will host the AQHA Racing Challenge Stakes on Friday's race card.

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HAZEL PARK, MI—OCTOBER 1, 2014—Renee K. Wilson’s What Ta Wear, a 4-year-old daughter of Game Patriot, will make her United States debut in Friday’s 330-yard, $15,000 AQHA Hazel Park Challenge Stakes.

Trained by Tom Dunlap, What Ta Wear ships in from Ajax Downs near Toronto, where the mare ran third, three-quarters of a length behind winner Joltin Jess, in the 440-yard, $71,000 Bank of America Ajax Championship Challenge on August 26. Daniel Rose will ride What Ta Wear from post 3 on Friday, as the mare tries for her first career stakes victory.

Other contenders in the field of eight include Speed Smith, a 6-year-old son of Prime Talent and champion Speedy Empress racing for Cesar Rosales from the barn of Rolando Almanza. The stallion is coming off of a runner-up finish in a 350-yard, $15,000 stakes dash at Belterra Park in Cincinnati on August 10.

Jose Beltran gets the call on Speed Smith on Friday.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments—

1. Zoom N Crash (Natasha Fritz)
2. Casey Corona (Mike Holmes)
3. What Ta Wear (Daniel W. Rose)
4. Tough To Get Six (Federico Mata)
5. Fearles Fred (Alvaro Hernandez-Lopez)
6. Speed Smith (Jose Beltran)
7. Luminaro (Christian Esqueda)
8. Arribo (Angel O. Stanley).