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Time For Jess Lee Tops BOA Les Bois Trials, Hanson and Aceves Dominate Juvenile Trials
Time For Jesse Lee, under jockey Nikeela Black, sets the top qualifying time for the $70,000-added Bank of America Les Bois Challenge Championship.

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Time For Jess Lee Tops BOA Les Bois Trials, Hanson and Aceves Dominate Juvenile Trials

BOISE, ID—JULY 24, 2015—Les Bois Park hosted four trials for the $32,000-added John Deere Les Bois Juvenile Challenge and two trials for the $70,000-added Bank of America Les Bois Challenge Championship on Friday's race card.

The 10 fastest qualifiers to each of the respective races will return to Les Bois Park on Saturday, August 8 and vie not only for their winner's share of their race but also a starting spot in the Bank of America Challenge Championship night on November 7 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Bank of America Les Bois Challenge Championship Trials

Multiple stakes winner Time For Jesse Lee rolled to a 1¼-length win over Sign Of Corona in the last of two trials to set the top mark of :21.536 seconds, a 104 speed index in the Bank of America Les Bois Challenge Championship trials.

Monty Arrossa saddled the Mr Jesse Lee 4-year-old to his 13th career win for owner/breeder Jim Walker. Ridden by jockey Nikeela Black, Time For Jesse Lee has earned $133,945. He is out of the Mescallero Chick mare Time For Noble.

Graded stakes winner Ss Paydirt defeated Special Gold by a neck the first trial to knock down the second fastest time of :21.608 seconds, a 102 speed index. Jesus Virgen rode the 4-year-old Utah homebred son of Carters Cartel for owner/breeder Richard Frandsen.

Out of the Dash Ta Fame mare Mia Ta Fame, Ss Paydirt has won seven of 16 starts and earned $125,280.

For a complete list of Bank of America Les Bois Challenge qualifiers, their times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.

John Deere Les Bois Juvenile Challenge Trials

Coronas Fast Game led a royally bred group of two-year-olds who qualified for the John Deere Les Bois Juvenile Challenge on Friday night.

Coronas Fast Dash was the first of four qualifiers ridden by jockey Eddie Aceves in Friday's John Deere Les Bois Juvenile trials. © Gene Wilson & Associates
The first of four finalist ridden by jockey Eddie Aceves for trainer James Hanson, Coronas Fast Game rolled to a two-length win in the third trial to set the top mark of :17.431 seconds, a 99 speed index. The son of Coronas Fast Dash entered the trails off a second place effort in the $171,985 Bitterroot Futurity on July 4 at Les Bois.

Hanson saddled the gelding for owners Ben McKinney and RTM Stables, LLC. Bobby D. Cox red the winner of three of five starts in Louisiana from the Game Patriot mare Game Snowlady. He has earned $41,561 this season.

Hanson Aceves teamed again for the second fastest qualifier, First Black Knight who won the final trial by a nose over Classy Katrina in a time of :17.492 seconds, a 97 speed index. Robin Dunn, Larry Chapple and RTM Stables, LLC own the Ivory James gelding out of Oh What A Perks, by Dash For Perks.

It was the second win four starts this season for the Weetona Stanley Oklahoma-bred gelding.

Bitterroot Futurity winner Pappas In The House won the first trial by 1½ lengths to post the third fastest time of :17.399 seconds, also a 97 speed index. Also trained by Hanson and ridden by Aceves, the Pappasito gelding has won four of five starts this season while earning $77,746.

MacKie Racing LLC bred the bay in Oklahoma from the champion mare Moongoose Jet Eye, by Mr Eye Opener.

For a complete list of John Deere Les Bois Juvenile Challenge qualifiers, their times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.