Lynnder 16, under jockey Edwin Escobedo, winning the $36,465 Will Rogers Q-Racing Video Distaff Challenge on Sunday.

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CLAREMORE, OK – OCTOBER 1, 2023 – In the third Challenge race of the Sunday afternoon card at Will Rogers, Lynnder 16 dominated the field of nine in the $36,465 Will Rogers Q-Racing Video Distaff Challenge.

Lynnder 16 ($3.00) broke sharply from the outside and controlled the race from start to finish. She won by a length and a half and posted a final time of :19.658 for 400 yards to earn a 101 speed index.

The heavy post-time favorite was also the fastest qualifier from two trials on September 12 and is now a three-time winner of the Will Rogers Q-Racing Video Distaff Challenge.

Lynnder 16 is trained by Jason Olmstead and was ridden by her usual jockey, Edwin Escobedo. Tom Maher and Richard Tobin own the 7-year-old Apolltical Jess mare. She was bred in Oklahoma by Jim and Marilyn Helzer, out of the Corona Cartel mare Tinys Corona Queen.

The winning connections of Lynnder 16 accept the Q-Racing Video Will Rogers Distaff Challenge Stakes trophy at Will Rogers Downs. © Coady Photography

The multiple graded stakes winner is 21 for 40 lifetime and is four for four at Will Rogers. She earned $16,774 from Sunday’s win and has amassed $874,037 in her career. This was her third straight win, a streak that also includes the Prairie Meadows Q-Racing Video Distaff Challenge (G3) in August.

Lynnder 16 won the Distaff Challenge Championship in Albuquerque in 2020 and is a three-time champion of the Grade 3 Canterbury Park Distaff Challenge. Before campaigning in the Challenge program, she qualified to the All American Futurity (G1) in 2018 and the Ruidoso Derby (G1) in 2019.

Glamazon and Noe Garcia finished in second place for trainer Juvenal Licona-Vazquez and owner Marisol Alvarado.

The A Revenant filly won her trial and was the third fastest qualifier. This was her first start in a Challenge race; the 4-year-old mare won the Balloon City Stakes (G3) at Albuquerque in 2022 and was third in the Junos Request (G1) earlier that year.

Glamazon has six wins and $134,09 from 19 career starts. She was bred in Oklahoma by Denis and Julie Schoenhofer, out of Eat the Fish, by Hard Hitting.

Priscilla Arredondo’s Paint Your Lips P rounded out the trifecta for trainer Kevin Willis; Jhaciel Soto had the riding call.

Paint Your Lips P was second to Glamazon in their trial and posted the fourth fastest qualifying time. She is a 4-year-old mare with three wins from 20 starts and $175,044 in earnings. She was the 2021 winner of the Black Gold 400 Lassies Futurity at Will Rogers.

Paint Your Lips P was bred by Michael Pohl in Oklahoma, by Jess Good Candy and out of the Jess Louisiana Blue mare Jess Paint Your Lips.

Completing the field were Apocalyptical Sis, Ab What a Kiss, Mperativ, Jess Ride My Wagon, Political Fire and Bv Living for Love. Dedikated was scratched.