PHOENIX, AZ—MAY 4, 2024—As the post-time favorite El Panadero held off a bid from Rebs Regalo to win the $23,000 AQRA Quarter Horse Derby Consolation (not black type) by a neck Saturday afternoon at Turf Paradise.

Jockey Joseph Belloc, Jr. rode the son of multiple stakes sire Im A Fancy Pyc to his first career win while clocking :18.076 seconds for the 350 yards.

Trainer Armando Castellanos conditions the Arizona homebred for owner-breeder Miguel Reynoza.  Bred from the Chicks Regard mare Black Storm Regard, El Panadero used the $14,260 derby consolation winner's purse to increase his earnings total to $21,205.

Runner-up Rebs Regalo earned $4,600 for his second-place finish. Trainer Jesus Fernando Ortega, Sr. name .. Read More

LOS ALAMITOS, CA–MAY 3, 2024– Dunn Ranch’s Pattys Saint, a two-time Grade 1 stakes winner at Los Alamitos, will face the red-hot multiple stakes winner mare AJ Born Runnin and six other top mares in the running of the Grade 3, $60,000 Miss Princess Handicap at 350 yards on Sunday at Los Alamitos.

Pattys Saint loves running in stakes races at the Orange County oval. The 6-year-old mare won the Grade 1 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap in 2022 and then the Grade 1 Charger Bar Handicap earlier this year. She also ran second in the Grade 2 Las Damas Handicap while also racing in the prestigious Grade 1 Champion of Champions .. Read More

HOUSTON, TX–APRIL 25, 2024–On Friday, April 19, Sam Houston Race Park hosted six trials for the John Deere Juvenile Challenge(G3) as well as three trials for the Adequan Derby Challenge, with the ten fastest qualifiers advancing to the final on Friday, May 10.

The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) contacted Sam Houston Race Park on Monday morning to inform the northwest Houston racetrack about a discrepancy in the validity of the reported qualifying times for the John Deere Juvenile Challenge. AQHA did an analysis and reached out to Sam Houston Race Park and communicated with the timing vendor, which .. Read More