The Ocean King will have his toughest career test in Saturday's Grade 1 $100,000 Leo Stakes at Remington Park.

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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—MARCH 24, 2015—A three-time stakes winner during the Hialeah Park winter meet, The Ocean King will try to get back on the winning track in Saturday’s 400-yard, $100,000 Leo Stakes (G1), one of two graded Quarter Horse stakes on Remington Park’s 12-race program.

The Ocean King drew the rail post and will be ridden by Cody Jensen. A gray 4-year-old stallion by Corona Cartel trained by C. Dwayne “Sleepy” Gilbreath, The Ocean King has earned $52,075 from four outs this season for his owner, the Ocean King Syndicate.

Other contenders include Julio Rodriguez’s Bay Eagle Glory, a 3-year-old One Famous Eagle colt trained by Jose Gamez and the lone sophomore in the 10-horse field. Bay Eagle Glory will be making his first start since November 15, when he ran second, a head behind winner Torts On Fire, in the 400-yard, $861,000 Texas Classic Futurity (G1) at Lone Star Park.

Bay Eagle Glory will be ridden by Omar Reyes from post 2.

A Toss Up, a 6-year-old Sweet First Down gelding and a Grade 1 winner in California last year, drew post 7 and will be ridden by Jimmy Dean Brooks. Racing for James Sills and Abel Flores and trained by Eddie D. Willis, A Toss Up won two races last fall at Los Alamitos, including the 440-yard, $150,000 Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship (G1) on October 18.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey and weight assignments--

1. The Ocean King (Cody Jensen, 126)
2. Bay Eagle Glory (Omar Reyes, 124)
3. JZ Fast Boy (Joe Badilla Jr., 126)
4. River Wind (Stormy Smith, 126)
5. One Valiant Hero (Jose Vega, 126)
6. Dashin Brown Streak (G.R. Carter Jr., 126)
7. A Toss Up (Jimmy D. Brooks, 126)
8. Testing The Ice (Ricky Ramirez, 126)
9. Charvet (Raul Gutierrez, 126)
10. Wagon Tales (Jorge Torres, 126).

Also on Saturday, a full field of 10 distaffers has been entered in the 350-yard, $50,000 Decketta Stakes (G3).

Top contender This Candy Is Awesome, a homebred 4-year-old PYC Paint Your Wagon mare owned by the Estate of Carl C. Pevehouse, faces fillies and mares again and stretches out in distance off of her second-place finish to BP Wagon Train in the 250-yard, $70,000 Mighty Deck Three Stakes (R) for Oklahoma-breds on March 8. A finalist in last year’s $174,000 Dash For Cash Derby (G3) at Lone Star Park, This Candy Is Awesome has won three of her seven races at Remington, including last year’s $328,000 Remington Park Oklahoma-Bred Derby (R).

This Candy Is Awesome is trained by Clinton Crawford. The mare drew post 2 and will be ridden by G.R. Carter Jr. in the Decketta.

Jose C. Aguilera’s Kuhl Wave is coming off of a three-quarter length victory against open-condition allowance company at Remington on March 6. A 5-year-old daughter of champion Wave Carver conditioned by Aguilera, the mare ended her 4-year-old campaign by running fourth, 1 1/2 lengths behind eventual world champion JRC Callas First, in the 440-yard, $150,000 Zia Park Championship (G1).

Kuhl Wave drew post 5 and will be ridden by Daniel Torres.

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

1. Painted Laico Bird (James A. Flores)
2. This Candy Is Awesome (G.R. Carter Jr.)
3. Fire Burning (Modesto Pina)
4. Midnight Cartel (Jimmy D. Brooks)
5. Kuhl Wave (Daniel Torres)
6. Glory Rider (Cesar Gomez)
7. Catchin Fire (Cody Jensen)
8. Rock Princess (Ricardo Aguirre)
9. Nellie Delaney (Joe Badilla Jr.)
10. Specials Jamie (Agustin Silva).