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Challenge Trials Dominate Opening-Night Program at Sam Houston Race Park
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI HOUSTON, TX—APRIL 16, 2024—Sam Houston Race Park will open its 2024 American Quarter Horse meet with a 10-race program dominated by Bank of America Racing Challenge trials. Post time for the first race, a 300-yard first-level allowance dash for sophomore fillies, is set for 6:30 p.m. (CDT) on Friday, April 19. Twenty-nine 3-year-olds are entered in three 400-yard Adequan Sam Houston Derby Challenge trials. The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the May 10, $40,000-added final. Lefty, a graded stakes placed son of This Is An Eagle trained by Martin Rodriguez for owner Francisco Guadalupe Guerrero, drew post 8 and will be ridden by Francisco Giles in the first heat. A $6,000 purchase at the 2022 TQHA Yearling Sale in San Antonio, Lefty is coming off of a 2-year-old campaign during which he earned $50,225 from eight races and placed third in the 350-yard, $196,000 TQHA Sires' Cup Futurity ...


A Tres Of Eagle Gains His Third Stakes Win In Last Four Tries In AQHA RP Championship Challenge
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–APRIL 7, 2024– A Tres of Eagle is quickly approaching the half-million dollar mark in lifetime earnings, winning his third stakes in his last four tries at Remington Park, on Sunday in ...


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Heavy Favorite O Donavan Rossa Takes Victory In The $38,896 Lip Chip RP Distance Challenge
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–APRIL 7, 2024–Favored to win, O Donavan Rossa kept to task down the middle to win the $38,896 Lip Chip Remington Park Distance Challenge [G2] on Sunday ...


A Tres Of Eagle, A Legacy Of Tales Headline AQHA Remington Park Championship Challenge
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–APRIL 5, 2024–Bella Vista Farms' A Tres Of Eagle and Donald J. Friesen's A Legacy Of Tales are two of the eight aged sprinters entered in Sunday's 440-yard, $60,000 AQHA Remington Park Championship Challenge (G2). A Tres Of Eagle is a 5-year-old son of One ...


2022 All American Futurity Winner, Hes Judgeandjury, One Of Favorites For BOA Challenge Stakes
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–APRIL 5, 2024–Remington Park will welcome 2022 All American Futurity winner Hes Judgeandjury to Oklahoma City on Sunday as one of the favorites in the estimated $60,000 Bank of America Remington ...


O Donovan Rossa Headlines AQHA Remington Distance Challenge
BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI OKLAHOMA CITY, OK–APRIL 5, 2024–A field of seven distance specialists, led by Kelly Yother Equine's O Donovan Rossa, will face the Remington Park starter in ...


2024 AQHA Racing Challenge Championships Will Offer $1 Million In Purses

AQHA RACING—MARCH 20, 2024–The AQHA Racing Challenge continues to reward its participants, and this year will offer $1 million in purses at its AQHA Racing Challenge Championships, set to be held at The Downs at Albuquerque in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 26. The massive payday will be delivered to horsemen on a card that includes five ...



2024 AQHA Racing Challenge Regional Schedule
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION—JANUARY 21, 2024–In 2024, the AQHA Racing Challenge will offer regional stakes in the AQHA Racing Championship division (440 yards, 3-year-olds and up), Adequan Derby division (400 ...


Enroll Your Horses Now To Reap The Many Benefits of the AQHA Racing Challenge

AMARILLO, TX–DECEMBER 29, 2023–There is opportunity for every horse in the AQHA Racing Challenge, and the deadline to enroll closes December 31.

After that date, rates to enroll horses will ...



A Tres Of Eagle Soars to His Richest Stakes Win in Bank of America Challenge Championship
GRANDE PRAIRIE, TX–OCTOBER 21, 2023–Bella Vista Farms' A Tres Of Eagle broke sharply from his rail post and sprinted to a half-length victory in Saturday's Grade 1, $260,751 Bank of America Challenge Championship at Lone Star Park.

Saddled by Eddie Lee Willis and making his first-ever start at Lone Star Park, A Tres Of ...


Vytaliti Upsets the $106,500 Q-Racing Distaff Challenge Championship at Lone Star
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – OCTOBER 21, 2023 – Sent to post at odds of 7-1 in a field of nine fillies and mares, Victor Diaz's Vytaliti won Saturday's 400-yard, $106,500 Q-Racing Video Distaff Challenge Championship (G1) at Lone Star Park. Vytaliti defeated 22-1 longshot Paint Your Lips P by a neck in :19.841 and earned a 91 speed index. ...


The Grand Legend Earns First Grade 1 Win in $104,500 Cox Distance Challenge Championship
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – OCTOBER 21, 2023 – The Grand Legend, a 7-year-old son of the FDD Dynasty stallion FDD Going Grand racing for James C. Whitener LLC, earned his first career Grade 1 victory in Saturday's 870-yard, $104,500 Cox Ranch Distance Challenge ...


Fire Cowboy Earns First Stakes Victory in $130,625 John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – OCTOBER 21, 2023 – Fire Cowboy, a sorrel son of the Apollitical Jess stallion Flying Cowboy 123 racing for Emmanuel Villarreal, scored his first career stakes win in Saturday's $130,625 John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship (G2) ...