QUALIFYING HISTORY
TrackDateRaceNameFinish 
Sunland Park12/28/20149The Championship At Sunland Park S.9Chart

CONNECTIONS
 Juan G Aleman
Trainer

Juan Aleman has sent out 494 winners from 2,582 starts since 2000. He has trained the earners of more than $9.8 million, including having won the Grade 1 Champion of Champions and the Los Alamitos Super Derby with Apollitical Blood’s world champion sire Apollitical Jess and the Los Alamitos Super Derby with Apollitical Jess’ dam Apollitical Time.
 Rodrigo Aceves
Jockey

California-based Rodrigo Aceves, who has ridden 1,720 winners and the earners of more than $22.38 million from 9,558 mounts. Aceves has scored in nine Grade 1 races, including aboard One Quick First Down in the 2010 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity (G1, First Down Illusion, A Stoli Mate, Startlet Hawk, Willie Works, Hulapai, What A Performance and Sheza Bad Habit.
 Kelly, J. Garvin, Yearsley, Nancy and Vinewood Farms
Owner

Bon Accord races for J. Garvin Kelly, Nancy Yearsley, Vinewood Farms of Culver City, California. Vinewood Farms joined the partnership in January 2012, four months before Bon Accord broke his maiden on first asking at Los Alamitos.


PEDIGREE
Bon Accord - Winning the ninth trial, Bon Accord defeated heavy favorite Wicked Courage while clocking the only sub-21 second time and winning the trial by a length. The gelding by Shazoom got a sharp break from the inside post position while 3-10 favorite Wicked Courage, winner of the Grade 1 Ruidoso and Rainbow derbies, stumbled at the start from the 6 post.

The Shazoom gelding has four wins from six starts and will be making his stakes debut in the All American Derby.

“Honestly, coming into this race, I just wanted to finish close to Wicked Courage and qualify,” said trainer Juan Aleman. “He’s a great horse and if we could be close to him we would be in the hunt (to qualify).”

Bon Accord is bred by J. Garvin Kelly of Culver City, California, and Nancy Yearsley, who now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over the past decade, Kelly and Yearsley have bred 13 winners and the earners of more than $1.28 million from 15 starters. Among them are El Primero Del Ano Derby (G2) winner Dutch Shultz ($356,668, by Holland Ease) and Los Alamitos Million Futurity (G1) winner Value The Man ($732,399, by Heza Fast Man).

Bon Accord is one of 60 stakes winners, 520 other winners and the earners of more than $20.5 million from 14 crops raced by Shazoom, who is the sire of champions Shining Sky and Lett Her Zoom. A graded-stakes-winning earner of $178,606, Shazoom is a 20-year-old stallion by champion Takin On The Cash.

Bon Accord is one of four winners from five starters out of Dream Accord, the only American Quarter Horse out of Mikes’s Way, a Thoroughbred mare by sprint champion Gulch. An earner of $5,979, Dream Mirage won once in eight starts at Los Alamitos and Ruidoso Downs.

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