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FIRST PRIZE TIMBER POST FASTEST TIME TO HERITAGE PLACE JUVENILE Date Posted: 5/13/2008 4:05:40 PM Chilled Wine (#5) out nods First Prize Timber (#1) at the wire to keep him out of the $1,140,000 Heritage Place Futurity. Photo Credit: Dustin Orona PhotographyOKLAHOMA CITY, OK—MAY 9, 2008—The first night of trials for the $1,140,000 Heritage Place Futurity was conducted Friday at Remington Park with First Prize Timber, a two-year-old bred by Weetona Stanley of Lady Bug Stallion Station posting the sixth fastest qualifying time from eight trials. Owned W.E. Smith and L. Scherwinski, the Oak Tree Special colt finished second by a head in only second start this season. Trained by Stacey L. Capps and ridden by Storm Smith, First Prize Timber handled 350 yards in :17.869 over the fast track. He just missed the $1,000,000+ final by 1/100th of a second putting him as the fastest qualifier to the Heritage Place Juvenile. First Prize Timber is out of Lady Bug Stallion Station's Broodmare of the Year, First Prize Dash, the dam of grade 1 winners First Carolina, winner of the Heritage Place Futurity(G1) and Remington Park Derby(G2); First Prize Robin, winner of the Remington Park Futurity(G1); Fast First Prize, winner of the Heritage Place Futurity; and First Prize Perry, runner-up in the Texas Classic Futurity(G1). Fast First Prize is dam of the grade 1 winning world record holder Fast Prize Zoom. She is the only American Quarter Horse in history to run back-to-back world records in their first two starts. She earned a speed index of 111 while winning the $300,958 West Texas Futurity at Sunland Park last month.
The Heritage Place Juvenile finals will be run on June 1.
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