Q-Racing Video Distance-G1 and Cox Ranch Distaff-G1 Recap (Video)

By StallioneSearch

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — October 18, 2026

StallioneSearch.com continues its webcast coverage of the 2026 AQHA Racing Challenge Championship weekend with a combined feature on the $128,000 Q-Racing Video Distance Challenge Championship (G1) and the $150,000 Cox Ranch Distaff Challenge Championship (G1), held Saturday night at The Downs at Albuquerque.

Iam Outta Here made his first stakes victory a Grade 1 triumph, turning back defending champion Handin Out Candy by 1¼ lengths in the Q-Racing Video Distance Challenge Championship. With Jose Luis Enriquez aboard, Iam Outta Here scored the upset, covering 870 yards in :44.952 and earning a 95 speed index while facing a 4-mph headwind.

Js Freightrain delivered a wire-to-wire victory in the Cox Ranch Distaff Challenge Championship, drawing clear by 1½ lengths. The heavily favored 4-year-old daughter of world champion sire Freighttrain B covered 400 yards in :19.192 over a fast racing surface, earning a 99 speed index while facing a 4-mph headwind.

Coverage of the 2026 AQHA Racing Challenge Championship weekend is co-sponsored by the stallion roster at Cox Stallion Station in Kaplan, Louisiana, and Electrifying Cowboy, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Flying Cowboy 123, who will stand at Rancho El Dorado in Anthony, New Mexico, for the 2027 season.

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