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B.F. Phillips Jr. Stakes Draws Eight Texas-Breds
Stakes winner RC Me Leaving You, is the 9-5 morning-line favorite in Saturday’s 400-yard $25,000 B.F. Phillips Jr. Stakes (R) at Lone Star Park.

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B.F. Phillips Jr. Stakes Draws Eight Texas-Breds

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—NOVEMBER 2, 2017—A field of eight Texas-bred sprinters, topped by 9-5 morning-line favorite RC Me Leaving You, has been entered in Saturday’s 400-yard, $25,000 B.F. Phillips Jr. Stakes (R) at Lone Star Park.

RC Me Leaving You is a 5-year-old Coronas Leaving You stallion trained by Jimmy Padgett for owners Bennie and Terri Jeter. RC Me Leaving You has won six of his 23 starts and has earned $173,462, and his four wins in eight outs at Lone Star Park include a neck victory in last year’s B.F. Phillips Jr. Stakes.

RC Me Leaving You drew post 7 and will be ridden by Rodrigo Vallejo.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds:

  1. This Is A Deal (Ricky Ramirez), 12-1
  2. Kid Can Dash (Luis Vivanco), 12-1
  3. DM La Jolla (Luciano Duenez), 4-1
  4. Apollitical Wave (Francisco Mendez)
  5. Big Tex (Francisco Calderon), 15-1
  6. Tellereyeamatthebar (Juan F. Garcia Jr.), 2-1
  7. RC Me Leaving You (Rodrigo Vallejo), 9-5
  8. KW Cowboy (Juan L. Vazquez), 15-1

All Lone Star Park races can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.