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Lynnder 16 Wins Inaugural Running of Paragon Oaks at Lone Star Park
Lynnder 16 (outside) drives past Sera Jess Fine V (#1) to win the $30,000 Paragon Oaks Saturday night at Lone Star Park.

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Lynnder 16 Wins Inaugural Running of Paragon Oaks at Lone Star Park

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—NOVEMBER 9, 2019—Multiple stakes winner Lynnder 16 defeated Sera Jess Fine V by a neck in the inaugural running of the $30,000 Paragon Oaks at Lone Star Park Saturday night. Rvaliant Chick finished half-a-length back in third.

Ridden for the second time by jockey Cody Smith, Lynnder 16 covered the 400 yards in :19.686 seconds, a 98 speed index into a 3 mph headwind. Trainer Jason Olmstead saddled the daughter of leading sire Apollitical Jess to her seventh career win and the $16,500 winners' purse boosted her bank accounts to $592,121.

Tom Maher and Richard Tobin own the Oklahoma-bred filly out of Tinys Corona Queen by Corona Cartel. James and Marilyn Helzer is the breeder.

Paragon Farms and Phillip Stewart of Bob Moore Farms presented the winning connections a 2020 breeding to Champion Flying Cowboy 123 for winning the Paragon Oaks.

Paragon Farms' Tom Lipar and Bob Moore Farms Phillip Stewart present the winning connections of Lynnder 16 the Paragon Oaks stakes trophy at Lone Star Park.
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Valeriano Racing Stables LLC's Sera Jess Fine V earned $5,100 for second. Toby Keeton conditions and Augustin Silva rides the daughter of second-crop sire Jess Lips from the Corona Cartel mare Sera Fina. The mare is an Oklahoma-homebred for Valeriano Racing Stables.

Rvaliant Chick picked up $3,000 for her third-place effort. Fernando Carrete trains the stakes winning daughter of Valiant Hero for owner Blanca Villegas-Varela. Bob and Deanna Williams bred the $113,527 earner in Oklahoma from the Chicks Beduino mare Rdustys Chick. Martin Felix was up.

Shake Em Rocks, Tempting Annee Gl, First Of 15, Wagon Chick V, Running A Wave and America Rules completed the field.

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Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie, a Class I racetrack operated by Texas Partners LSP and Global Gaming LSP. The track offers a 16-day 2019 Quarter Horse Season, which opens Friday, September 20 and concludes on Saturday, November 9. Live racing will be held Friday and Saturday Nights at 6:05 p.m. For more information on Lone Star Park visit LoneStarPark.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Lone Star Park is also home to the multi-million dollar simulcast racebook, sports bar and event venue, Bar & Book. The 36,000 square foot venue is open to the public 363 days a year.

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Global Gaming Solutions, LLC (GGS), is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation with a primary business focus of pursuing entertainment, gaming and racing related opportunities in emerging jurisdictions in the United States and overseas as well as acquisition of regional gaming and entertainment assets. GGS LLC is the parent company of GG RP, which owns Remington Park in Oklahoma City, OK and GG LSP, which owns a significant stake in Lone Star Park. GG LSP is the track operator who owns the license to operate Lone Star Park and leases the property from the Grand Prairie Sports Facilities Development Corporation.