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This Wagons Okay Late-Enrolled in Challenge
This Wagons Okay, a PYC Paint Your Wagon gelding has been late-enrolled into AQHA Racing Challenge program.

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This Wagons Okay Late-Enrolled in Challenge

Q-RACING JOURNAL—JUNE 18, 2015—The 4-year-old gelding This Wagons Okayhas been paid into the Bank of America Racing Challenge program for a $20,000 late fee. He is owned by breeder Michael Pohl of Montgomery, Texas, and is now eligible to run in Bank of America Racing Challenge races for the remainder of his racing career.

To date, This Wagons Okay has made 12 career starts, with five wins and three seconds and earnings of $94,815.

His stakes appearances include a troubled second-place finish in the 2014 Canterbury Park Derby, followed by a victory in the $105,550 Altoona Derby.

He has won four of his last five starts, dating back to October 2014. His starts this year include a victory in a May 7 allowance at Remington Park over a field that included Finche ($302,124), Big Boi ($405,246) and Send A Candy Guy ($136,785), and a sixth-place run in a May 29 allowance at the Oklahoma City track.

This Wagons Okay is by leading sire Pyc Paint Your Wagon and out of the Okey Dokey Dale mare This Candys Okay, who comes from the productive breeding program of the late Carl Pevehouse. This Candys Okay was a multiple stakes winner and earner of $218,354.

The Bank of America Racing Challenge is the world’s richest program for racing American Quarter Horses, and was designed to offer more opportunity for aged horses. Horses must have a single, lifetime enrollment to participate in Challenge races, with weanling enrollment only $300. Horses who participate in the Challenge program run at more than $5 million in purses each year.

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