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STANLEY BREDS SECURE THREE SPOTS IN
MILLION DOLLAR TEXAS CLASSIC FUTURITY AT LONE STAR PARK
First Prize Shaunda, under jockey Ricky Ramirez, races to the third fastest qualifying time.
Photos by Reed Palmer PhotographyGRAND PRAIRIE, TX—OCTOBER 20, 2012—Weetona Stanley bred three of 10 finalists to the Grade 1, $1,000,000 estimated, Texas Classic Futurity, the richest annual horse race in Texas, during 14 trials contested Saturday night at Lone Star Park.
The 10 fastest qualifiers will return on Saturday, November 10, closing night of Lone Star Park’s 2011 Fall Meeting of Champions for Quarter Horses, and vie for the winner's purse.
One Fast Wagon winning her Texas Classic
Futurity trial.
Trainer Trey Wood saddled First Prize Shaunda to win the fourth trial by 1 ¾ lengths while setting the third fastest time of :19.541 seconds. The Pyc Paint Your Wagon filly came into the race off an impressive maiden victory at Lone Star Park on September 29, when ran 330 yards in :16.440 seconds, a 106 speed index.
The brown filly was the first of the three finalists bred by Weetona Stanley owner of the Lady Bug Stallion Station in Madill, Oklahoma, with her sons Stan, Steve and Fred Stanley.
First Prize Shaunda, also owned by Mrs. Stanley, is out of the Grade 1 winning Mr Jess Perry mare First Prize Leesa.
PYC Kant Katch Me winning his Texas Classic
Futurity trial.
Mrs. Stanley bred 7th fastest qualifier One Fast Wagon, a Pyc Paint Your Wagon filly out Fast Mans Prize, by Heza Fast Man. A winner of four of nine starts this season, the Joe Flores owned miss has earned more than $110,000. She was also second in the RG1 $400,000 TQHA Sale Futurity and a finalist in the $222,000 G3 Harrah's Entertainment Futurity at Louisiana Downs. Jorge Barrera is the trainer with David Alvarez riding.
Judd Kearl saddled Heritage Place Futurity(G1) fastest qualifier Pyc Kant Katch Me who qualified 8th fastest in the seventh trial. The Pyc Paint Your Wagon colt has won five of five career start and earned $82,793 this season. Mrs. Stanley bred the 2-year-old from the Disco Jerry (TB) mare Wanna Be Me.
For the complete list of top 10 qualifiers for the Grade 1Texas Classic Futurity, including times, sires, dams, owners, breeders, trainers and jockeys CLICK HERE.