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LOS ALAMITOS, CA—OCTOBER 13, 2019—Bill Hoburg's BH Lisas Boy earned a provisional berth to the $600,000 Champion of Champions while completing a career grand slam of prestigious Grade 1 stakes races after his victory in Sunday's $125,000 Robert Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship at 440 yards.
By winning this race, BH Lisas Boy's is the first Quarter Horse with career victories in the Robert Boniface, Go Man Go Handicap, Vessels Maturity, and Brad McKinzie Los Alamitos Winter Championship.
The 11-time Los Alamitos stakes winner also won the Grade 1 Bank of America Championship Challenge here in 2018, leaving the Grade 1 Champion of Champions as the only major race for older horses at Los Alamitos to be added to his great list of accomplishments.
Katies Easy Moves, who had the lead for the first half of the race, finished third with He Looks Hot, last year's Robert Boniface winner, finishing fourth. BH Lisas Boy earned $62,500 for the win to take his career earnings to $921,053. BH Lisas Boy will now make his third start in the Champion of Champions. He was third to eventual World Champion Bodacious Eagle last year and fifth to Mr PYC To You in 2017.
As for Andrade Jr., he has ridden the veteran gelding a total of five times resulting in three graded stakes wins and a pair of second place finishes against Grade 1 competitors. The young pilot was pleased with the way BH Lisas Boy left the starting gate in this race.
"He exploded out of there," he said. "I think he broke sensational. It's the best he's done for me. I'm speechless. This has been such a great opportunity."
A1A Racing's Tarzanito was outstanding in the Robert Boniface in what may have been the final start of his career, as the 2018 AQHA champion aged stallion will enter stud in 2020 at Robicheaux Ranch in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. And if this was his final start, what a way to go out.
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Tarzanito, the winner of the Go Man Go last year, earned $21,250 for running second to take his career earnings to $429,657. He's hit the board in 18 of 26 career starts. Eddie Garcia piloted the son of Favorite Cartel for trainer Yanet Rodriguez.
Caballo Rapido LLC and Five Livestock Company LLC's Katies Easy Moves earned $12,500 for running third. The Monty Arrossa-trained sprinter led for a lot of the race before BH Lisas Boy and Tarzanito caught him in the final 110 yards.
Katies Easy Moves also has berth to the Champion of Champions after winning the Grade 1 Vessels Maturity on July 7. The Maknmoves 6-year-old was second to BH Lisas Boy in the Go Man Go and for his career has hit the board in 30 of 37 lifetime starts.
Ed Allred's He Looks Hot earned $8,750 for running fourth to take his career earnings to $1,314,680.
The top four finishers were followed by Yanque, Hotstepper, Fenian Faith, Bos Time Machine, Jesstacartel, and Eagles Fly Higher.
Courtesy of www.losalamitos.com.