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AQHA Maiden Challenge Stakes at Hialeah Park Draws Full Field of 10
Hialeah Park will host the $20,000 AQHA Maiden Challenge Stakes over 300 yards on Saturday's race card.

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AQHA Maiden Challenge Stakes at Hialeah Park Draws Full Field of 10

BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

HIALEAH, FL—FEBRUARY 23, 2015—Iz Special James, a stakes-placed 3-year-old Ivory James colt racing for Linda Stanley, is one of 10 sprinters entered in Saturday’s 300-yard, $20,000 AQHA Maiden Challenge Stakes at Hialeah Park.

An earner of $39,460 from nine starts, Iz Special James is trained by Matt Frazier. The colt ended his 2-year-old campaign with a second-place finish to Seize The Win in the $128,000 Governor’s Stakes at Indiana Grand.

Other contenders include Gerardo Cadena’s Six Gun Shazoom, one of only two multiple winners in the full field. Conditioned by Reimar Cabrera, the 6-year-old Shazoom gelding will be stretching out in distance off of his nose victory in a 250-yard allowance-optional claiming ($15,000) dash at Hialeah on February 13.

The AQHA Maiden Challenge Stakes is restricted to horses enrolled in the AQHA Bank of America Racing Challenge program. The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments--

  1. First Down McLaren B (Omar Reyes)
  2. Captivating Cara (Alex Baldillez Jr.)
  3. Zoomininthewind (Bryan Ernst)
  4. Scandalia (Jose Bonilla)
  5. Kissintherestgoodbye (Brian Theriot)
  6. Vengeance Is Ours (Cristian R. Esqueda)
  7. Jess For The Roses (Jose M. Ruiz)
  8. Six Gun Shazoom (Raul Gutierrez)
  9. First Down Swinger (Rodrigo S. Vallejo)
  10. Iz Special James (Shanley Jackson).

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