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Futurity Winners Headline PCQHRA Breeders' Trials Tonight
Ed Allred’s Discontent, winner of the Governor's Cup Futurity earlier this year, will start in Sunday's trials.

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Futurity Winners Headline PCQHRA Breeders' Trials Tonight

LOS ALAMITOS, CA— SEPTEMBER 14, 2014—Governor’s Cup Futurity winner Discontent (left) and Kindergarten Futurity winner Old Girl will clash in the fifth of nine trials to the $375,000 PCQHRA Breeders Futurity tonight (Sunday) at Los Alamitos.

Ed Allred’s Discontent and Jose Arturo Flores’ Old Girl each posted dominant futurity wins, with Discontent pulling away to a half-length win in the $352,000 Governor’s Cup, while Old Girls cruised to a 1 ¼ length win in the $261,000 Kindergarten Futurity. But while Discontent is at the top of his game after winning his Governor’s Cup trial by a 1½ lengths and the final by a half length, Old Girl will look to make amends after being disqualified from fourth and finishing sixth in her Governor’s Cup trial. Cruz Mendez will be aboard Old Girl from the outside post number eight in this trial, while Rodrigo Aceves will handle the reins on Discontent from post number two.

Discontent is another tremendous runner representing Separatist this season. The gray stallion is also the sire of three-time derby winner Moonist, who will race in the derby trials on Saturday night. Trained by Scott Willoughby, Discontent will be going after his fourth victory in six starts this season. Old Girls will make her first start for trainer Lindolfo Diaz.

The fifth trial will also feature Tom Bradbury and Vaughn Cook’s Lavish Victory, who broke her maiden by daylight on August 30. The field will also feature Kindergarten finalist Off Beat, owned by David Brownell, and Spackman Racing and Lin Melton’s Walk The Dog, who comes into this race after hitting the board in his last two races.

The opening trial will feature Allred’s Mystery Man, who has already qualified two a pair of futurities this year. The TR Dasher gelding made the finals to the Kindergarten and Governor’s Cup futurities. Rob Evans and Hanson Racing LLC’s Steinway Ivory is also a multiple futurity winner this year. He qualified to the Bitterroot Futurity and Northwest Juvenile Challenge.

Donald and Peggy Boyle’s BF Farm Boss returns to Los Alamitos after an impressive victory in his All American Futurity trial on August 14. From the same family as champion Strawkins and Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity finalist BF Farm Boy, BF Farm Boss won his All American trial by 1¼ lengths. In his previous race, the Oregon-bred ran fourth in the Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity.

Steve Burns’ No Arizona, the runner-up in the Governor’s Cup Futurity, will be in action in trial number three. The Foose filly has hit the board in all four of her career starts and has consistently shown tremendous burst of speed in her races. Smile And Wave, from the family of Champion of Champions winners Ocean Runaway and Wave Carver, will also compete in this event.

The fourth trial is wide-open with the stakes placed Dashing Over and Ruidoso Juvenile Stakes finalist Miz Good Friday among the top names in this race. The sixth heat will be headed by Governor’s Cup Futurity finalist Dash Of Red for owner Santos Monteyor, while Erik Flores’ homebred and recent maiden winner Mr Ko is another talented runner to watch in this event. A newcomer is Johnny Trotter and Burnett Ranches, LLC’s Miss Racy Fire, a filly out of 2011 Los Alamitos Super Derby winner and champion Miss Racy Jess.

Michael Zynda’s Foo Who was tremendous in her maiden victory on August 10 when she sailed to a 2 ½ length victory in a sharp time of :15.39. She’ll now headline trial number seven.

“She ran in her race like had been running in her workouts,” Zynda said. Foo Who worked in :11.90 on July 29 prior to making her racing debut.

Jim Nebeker’s Flying Foose, third in the California Breeders Freshman Stakes, and second in the John Deere California Juvenile Challenge, will join Foo Who in the seventh trial.

The final two heats will feature John Deere Northwest Juvenile Challenge runner-up James First Affair in the eighth, and Governor’s Cup finalist and recent winner HRH Walkonfire in the ninth.

The horses with the 10 fastest times will return for the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity final on Saturday, October 4.

Courtesy of www.losalamitos.com.