Energy Downs will honor the memory of the late K.C. Carden on Friday with the first running of the K.C. Carden Memorial Stakes.

GILLETTE, WY—JUNE 13, 2018—Energy Downs will honor the memory of the late K.C. Carden on Friday, as the track’s feature race, the 350-yard, $7,000 -added K.C. Carden Memorial Stakes, has drawn a field of seven 3-year-old Quarter Horses.

One Sweet Dance, a stakes winner in the Intermountain region during his 2-year-old campaign, drew post 4 and will be ridden by Tyson Lusk. A homebred daughter of One Sweet Jess trained by Jordan Hadley for owners Ed McNelis and Karla Diaz, the filly has earned $25,513 from eight outs, and her three wins include a neck victory in the September 4, $37,000 Elko Intermountain Futurity at the Elko County Fair.

A longtime horseman, Carden died on February 13 after a battle with cancer. During his 19-year training career, he prepped 515 winners and the earners of more than $4.6 million from 3,673 starters, including champions Winalota Cash, Toast To Dash, and Kool Kue Baby.

As an owner, he had 44 winners and the earners of $817,927 from 304 starters, topped by multiple graded stakes winner Brindis Por Cayenne.