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Tres Corona Cash In Action; Remembering Florence Debuts
Luis Alvarez’s Tres Corona Cash will face a solid group of sophomore sprinters in the $13,200 allowance main event on Friday at Los Alamitos.

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Tres Corona Cash In Action; Remembering Florence Debuts

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—JUNE 29, 2016—Luis Alvarez’s Tres Corona Cash is the only 4-year-old entered to run again a solid group of sophomore sprinters in the $13,200 allowance main event on Friday at Los Alamitos. A total of nine top runners will compete in this event with Tres Corona Cash serving the elder statesman of the eighth and final race on the card. First post is 7 p.m.

Trained by Elena Andrade for owner Luis Alvarez, Tres Corona Cash has been lightly raced in his 12-race career. He made three starts at Ruidoso Downs and two at Los Alamitos while concentrating in the top futurity trials in the country during his freshman year. He made only three outings during his 3-year-old campaign, including a fourth place finish in the $100,000 Los Alamitos Maiden Stakes.

The Blessed River LM-bred runner has started just twice in 2016, running second against allowance foes in his season debut and then a troubled sixth when taking on the top older horses on the grounds in a trial to the Grade 1 Vessels Maturity on June 12. With great bloodlines, his sire is the champion Tres Seis and his dam is the All American Futurity winner Corona Cash, Tres Corona Cash will be looking for his second career win. Cesar De Alba will ride.

The field will include El Primero Del Ano Derby finalist Eternity and La Primera Del Ano Derby finalist I Wont Give Up. Trained by Yanet Rodriguez, the EG High Desert Farm owned Hawkinson filly ran against eventual La Primera winner Jess Good Reason in the trials to that race. I Wont Give Up will come into this race after breaking her maiden by a neck on May 29.

Balgo Racing Teams’ First Down Dash gelding Eternity won his El Primero trial at 32-1 odds, but he lugged out in the final and never threatened the leaders. He’ll be making his second start for trainer Jose Flores.

Recent maiden winners Good Looker, One Sweet Winner, and Jess Master are among the other top contenders.

Jeryl and Ron Hartley’s Kindergarten Futurity finalist Jess A Chick Magnet will also be in action in Friday’s seventh race. The Apollitical Jess gelding will be taking on a group that included Ed Burke Million trial fourth place finisher Hawtomatic.

Remembering Florence

The legacy of Spencer and Florence Childers lives on at Los Alamitos Race Course thanks to the outstanding breeding lines of Quarter Horses that he and his wife nurtured at their Childers Ranch for more than 60 years.

One such runner is Ed Allred’s owned and bred filly Remembering Florence by Tr Dasher out of the Childers-bred Sables Bono. Named in memory of Florence Childers, the California-bred will be making her career debut in Friday’s sixth race. Carlos Huerta will ride Remembering Florence for trainer Scott Willoughby.

Like Remembering Florence, Allred has named many of Sables Bono’s foals in memory of the influential couple. Spencer Childers was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2002, and died July 9, 2009 at the age of 97. Allred considered him a mentor. Florence, meanwhile, worked hard taking wonderful care of the horses for six decades at Childers Ranch in Fresno. She’s also passed away.

Some of the other Sables Bonos babies that Allred has named include Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby winner Remembering Spence, La Primera Del Ano Derby winner Fiesty Flo, current 2-year-old Spencey, plus past runners Lady Florence and My Pal Spence.

Sables Bono is the daughter of the Childers-bred Bono Jazz and out of Black Sable. Bono Jazz and Black Sable both trace back to the Childers’ foundation mare, Black Easter Bunny.

Florence famously chose Black Easter Bunny as a gift over a mink coat that her husband offered to purchase for her instead. Black Easter Bunny became the gift that kept on giving for the Childers in the form of the hundreds of colts and fillies that can be traced back to her bloodline. Remembering Florence is one such gift.

Courtesy of www.losalamitos.com.