LOS ALAMITOS, CA—SEPTEMBER 26, 2016—Lucky Seven Ranch’s Sass Me Blue made the Grade 1, $100,000 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap the first stakes victory of her career after holding off La Primera Del Ano Derby winner Jess Good Reason by a head in the season’s marquee race for fillies and mares Sunday at Los Alamitos. Ridden by Cody Jensen for trainer Mike Casselman, Sass Me Blue was third at the start, but quickly took the lead and finished nicely to beat the 18-1 longshot Jess Good Reason, the stakes winner Apolitical Zoom and the defending Mildred Vessels winner Quirky. Sent off as the second choice in the wagering at 2-1 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM—SEPTEMBER 25, 2016—Zoomin Effortlessly, a multiple Grade 1 winning 5-year-old gelding racing for Telesforo Perrett of Houston, Texas, sprinted to a convincing 2¼-length victory in Sunday's 440-yard, $250,000 Albuquerque Fall Quarter Horse Championship, one of four stakes races run at Albuquerque Downs on Sunday. Saddled by ...

CLAREMORE, OK—SEPTEMBER 25, 2016—Ridden by jockey Gerardo Garrido As And Js was a wire-to-wire half-length winner over Meserret in the $303,000 Black Gold 350 Futurity Championship Sunday afternoon at Will Rogers Downs. Carters Thunder finished a nose back to take third. Saddled by Manuel Mata, As And Js completed the 350 yards in :17.660 ...

HOBBS, NM—SEPTEMBER 25, 2016—Under jockey Sergio Becerra, Jr., Boxwineizfine rolled to a 2 ¼ length victory in the second of five trials Sunday to set the top qualifying mark of :21.438 seconds for the $200,000-est. Hobbs America Derby(G3). The 10 fastest qualifiers will return to Zia Park on Sunday, October 9th to vie for the winner's ...

PORTLAND, OR—SEPTEMBER 25, 2016—Portland Meadows opened its 70th anniversary season with a 10-race program on Sunday. Sunday's opening card feataured a 300-yard, $4,100 allowance feature for Quarter Horses. Randy Dickerson's homebred Cm Whats Happening defeated a full field of 10. A 4-year-old daughter of Pyc Paint Your Wagon trained by Nick Lowe ...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM—SEPTEMBER 24, 2016— Mitey Man, the fastest qualifier and 6-5 favorite, rewarded his connections with a three-quarter length victory in Saturday’s $241,168 New Mexico State Fair Quarter Horse Futurity (RG3) for state-bred 2-year-olds at Albuquerque Downs. Racing for Bobby Simmons of Midland, Texas, and aided by a reported ...

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—SEPTEMBER 24, 2016— After a brief but severe lightening storm that caused a delay in the action just before the fifth race tonight, the Dash for Cash Futurity Trials resumed without any other glitches. There were 12 trial heats, the final being decided by the 10 fastest times. The field is now set with the finalists ready ...

SHELBYVILLE, IN—SEPTEMBER 24, 2016— Another fantastic performance was recorded by Fantastic Six Pack as he rallied home for his third straight victory in the eighth running of the $113,400 Sterlie Bertram Memorial Stakes at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino. The three-year-old, ridden by 2014 Indiana Grand Leading Quarter Horse Jockey Shanley ...

HOBBS, NM—SEPTEMBER 24, 2016—Lightly raced Chainman got his third win in four starts in the first of six trials on Saturday for the $300,000-est. Hobbs America Futurity(G2) a Zia Park. The Separatist colt posted the top qualifying mark of :19.794 seconds. There was no wind in the first trial and half the field qualified from that race. The wind ...

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—SEPTEMBER 23, 2016-The field is set for the 19th edition of the Grade 3, $235,600 Dash for Cash Derby to be held Saturday, October 8 at 440 yards. The top 10 horses that posted the fastest times from tonight's trials will advance to the final. Politically Corrupt, owned by Double H Racing Investments and trained by Jose ...

AJAX, ONT—SEPTEMBER 19, 2016—Fastest qualifier Country Boy 123 returned to Ajax Downs Monday afternoon to post a 1¼-length win in the $82,88(US) Picov Derby. Countrys Comin Back finished second half-a-length ahead of Panther Hero who was third. Ridden by jockey Cory Spataro, Country Boy 123 went wire-to-wire while completing the 400 yards ...

AJAX, ONT—SEPTEMBER 19, 2016—Ontario Sires' Stakes Futurity winner Home To Vegas kept his record a perfect 4-for-4 after winning the last of three trials to the Alex Picov Memorial Futurity Monday afternoon at Ajax Downs. The 10 fastest qualifiers will return to the Ontario racetrack on Monday, October 10th to vie for the winner's share of ...