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JC WILD KING GETS SECOND CAREER STAKES WIN IN $71,015 SPEEDHORSE QH DERBY
JC Wild King, under champion jockey James Flores, winning the $71,015 Speedhorse QH Derby Saturday night at Fair Meadows Race Track.
© Coady PhotographyTULSA, OK—JULY 24, 2021—JC Wild King defeated Bp Primetime by half-a-length in the $71,015 Speedhorse QH Derby Saturday night at Fair Meadows Race Track in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
JC Wild King was sharp, straight and speedy under champion jockey James Flores to stop the clock in :17.718 seconds, earning a 95 speed index for 350 yard into a 6 mph headwind. It was the third career win in nine starts for 3-year-old son of leading sire Apollitical Jess.
Racing for owner-breeder Jose Cervantes, JC Wild King is trained by Fidencio L. Jimenez. Bred in Oklahoma, JC Wild King is out. Cervantes' multiple stakes-producing Stoli mare Oh Cherokee Rose. A graded stakes-placed runner herself, Oh Cherokee Rose finished third in the 2007 Remington Park Futurity(G1) for Cervantes.
JC Wild King picked up $29,986 for the win to boost his earnings mark to $79,335. Last year he won the Will Rogers Downs Juvenile Challenge and was second in the Grade 2 John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship at Albuquerque.
Bp Primetime put in a strong bid under jockey Jose Meza but had to settle for second-place earning $12,072. Buddy Clay saddled the son of third-crop stakes sire Im A Fancy Pyc for owner H E Racing, LLC. Bill Price bred the gelding in Oklahoma from BP Southern Mariah by Southern Cartel. The $72,205 earner was making his first stakes appearance.
Spotty Politics, a son of leading third-crop sire Apollitical Blood was neck back in third to earn $7,812. Owner-trainer Matthew Eck named Daniel Torres to ride the Oklahoma-bred gelding from the Favorite Cartel mare Sunspot Babie. A finalist in the Speedhorse QH Futurity(G3) last year and the Heritage Place Derby(G20 in May, Spotty Politics has earned $60,127. Andy Knight is the breeder.
Coyotee Dale, Political Babbel, Mh Apollitical Spy, Willie McBride and Cindydoesitagain completed the field. Cashmere And Beer was scratched.