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Ep.77- 2026 All American Preview Edition · StallioneSearch Podcasts

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  SPEAKER_09: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_09: It's the preview edition everyone in the quarter horse racing world will be listening to.
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  SPEAKER_09: It's the 2026 All-American edition here on the number one quarter horse racing podcast in the world, Quarter Horse Racing Talk Weekly.
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  SPEAKER_16: And here's your host, Greg Thompson.
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  SPEAKER_13: That's right, it has arrived.
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  SPEAKER_13: Hello again, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_13: I'm Greg Thompson, AustallianESearch.com here on Quarter Horse Racing Talk Weekly, your number one quarter horse racing podcast in the entire world.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_13: And we got a great show for you here on this edition, here on Quarter Horse Racing Talk.
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  SPEAKER_13: As we're looking at the All-American weekend for 2026 out there in Albuquerque, as Yancey Guiman and myself analyze all four of the big races there in Albuquerque, the Derby, the Futurity, the Oaks, as well as the absolute star-studded All-American Gold Cup.
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  SPEAKER_13: And we also look at the Boco Futurity and the Bluegrass Derby.
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  SPEAKER_13: But one of the unique things about this edition is we also get a bunch of people on the phone to talk to them that are celebrating an anniversary of their big win in the All-American Futurity on the sixes that I call it of 2006, 1996, 1986, all the way back to 1976, as we get Gary Sumter on the phone talking about real wins victory in the 1976 All-American Futurity.
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  SPEAKER_13: And don't forget the recap section here on Quota Horse Racing Talk Weekly, as we just have so many things to cover.
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  SPEAKER_13: So let me get out of the way and get to a commercial so we can get right into the show here on Quota Horse Racing Talk Weekly.
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  SPEAKER_13: The Sire Tempting Dash at Roboshow Ranch in Bro Bridge, Louisiana, getting it done in the All-American Futurity Trials.
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  SPEAKER_13: Tempting Loo is taking over with his runner Tempting Loo, qualifying as the fastest qualifier in day two of trials.
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• 1:56
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  SPEAKER_09: Check out his talented pool of runners, and you'll most definitely find yourself in the winner circle.
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  SPEAKER_09: Eagles Fly Higher.
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  SPEAKER_09: Alright, back to the show.
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  SPEAKER_13: Alright, we're back here on Quarter Horse Racing Talk, ready to jump into our feature, which is analyzing the 2026 All-American Futurity with me and Yancey Guiman, our race analyst here on Quarter Horse Racing Talk Weekly.
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  SPEAKER_13: And before that, we're going to get into what I had promised, a look back at some of the anniversaries that we had this year on the Sixes, and we'll go all the way back 50 years ago, 1976, to Real Winds victory in the Labor Day Classic.
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  SPEAKER_13: Check out this cool segment.
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  SPEAKER_09: And here's a look back at All American Futurity History on Quarter Horse Racing Talk Weekly.
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  SPEAKER_13: Which was a race that saw a 10 mile per hour tailwind as Real Wind streaked down the racetrack in a time of 21.71 seconds there in Riodoso, capturing the 18th running of the million dollar futurity.
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  SPEAKER_13: And at the time it was the world's richest horse race, as Real Wynn was owned by Elsie and Katie Kitchens of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, both of them retired school teachers.
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  SPEAKER_13: And Real Wynn, who was also the Rainbow Futurity winner, went off as a 3-2 betting favorite and crossed the wire with a one and a quarter length victory with Gary Sumter in the saddle, earning a paycheck of$330,000 for the win.
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  SPEAKER_13: And was trained by TA Walker for the victory.
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  SPEAKER_13: All right, on the phone, as we look back on the All-American Futurities, we're going to go 50 years back.
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  SPEAKER_13: And I got Gary Sumter on the phone.
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  SPEAKER_13: 50 years ago, Gary, you went down the lane there at Riyodoso on Real Win and captured the All-American Futurity in 1976.
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  SPEAKER_13: Gary, clearly it's a half century ago, but take us back as and give us a little bit of your recollections in 1976 of going to post with this horse.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's been a while back, but uh I remember a lot of it like it was yesterday because it opened a lot of doors and it was at that time one of the richest races in the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it was a lot of pressure, and you know, and I mean that's a big step for me, but I can remember like it was yesterday some days, sometimes, you know, when I look at the pictures and what have you.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it was yeah, I had uh really been riding this race for a week after I qualified because I wanted to want to make no mistake on that this year was kind of hard to ride.
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  SPEAKER_02: She kind of lugged in a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_02: But anyway, I had butterflies normal.
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  SPEAKER_02: But anyway, I just kind of prepared myself for to ride it like uh any other race.
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  SPEAKER_13: Gary, the gate spring open.
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  SPEAKER_13: Take us here as we go down memory lane, take us your recollection of the of the the victorious ride in the all-American.
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  SPEAKER_02: She broke really good, and I was head in head with with the lead, you know, and then and I felt like I had a ton of horse under me, and all I had to do is switch sticks and come kicking on her, and she finished really strong, and and it didn't soak in for a day or two, but it's uh real exciting, I know that.
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  SPEAKER_13: It was your one and only All-American win.
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  SPEAKER_13: And as you look back 50 years ago, what's one of the things that absolutely stands out is when you're telling somebody about your win in the All-American, what is that thing that you tell them mostly about?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's a very important race to win if you're riding a quarter horses, especially, but you know, there's been a lot of riders been riding 30 years and never wanted to ride or win it, but uh to get to win at one time was a big uh thrill for me, and it felt like it opened a lot of doors at the time, but uh it was pretty special and it always will be special, you know, and you got to ride with some of the greatest riders, you know, like Cherry Burger Nicodemus and some of those boys, you know.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it was uh quite a thrill and it was uh it was uh something uh fulfillment that a fulfillment that you finally achieved, you know.
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  SPEAKER_02: But uh just to win at one time was something that you never forget, and it's always stuck in the back of my mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I've got her picture set right over top of my TV, and I look at it every day.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes I get screwed down the gate again.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was uh many moons ago, but I still ride it ever so often.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_09: That was the 50th anniversary look back at the 1976 Labor Day Classic.
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  SPEAKER_13: Let's jump 10 years earlier to the 40th anniversary of the 1986 win of Ron's Ryan and the All-American Faturity.
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  SPEAKER_04: And uh there they go! Up alone inside, Ronas Ryan is going to the front in the middle of the racetrack.
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  SPEAKER_04: Here comes will be easy on the outside.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's uh little bit shiny and uh closing on the extreme outside.
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  SPEAKER_04: Here comes Jet O'J from the inside.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's Ronas Ryan with the lead in front.
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  SPEAKER_13: Many that summer in Riadoso doubted the ability of this Colt by Wendy Ryan to get the quarter of a mile distance.
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  SPEAKER_13: As the Colt was unbeaten in his first seven races, including the Grade 3 Graham Farms Futurity and the Grade 1 Kansas Faturity, with clockings of 17.49 seconds for 350 yards in both of those stakes races.
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  SPEAKER_13: But one that didn't doubt his ability to get the distance was a 36-year-old Mississippi native by the name of Arnold Simmons, who trained Ronos Ryan, who validated all the doubters who didn't think this Colt could get the quarter-of-a-mile distance.
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  SPEAKER_13: And handle it he did in the finals of the Grade 1$2 million All-American Futurity with the riding services of Hall of Fame Jockey who had already won two previous runnings of the All-American Futurity, Jerry Nicodemus.
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  SPEAKER_13: Now, one other unique thing about Ronas Ryan, as he was one of seven horses supplemented into the All-American Trials at a cost of$50,000 at the time, and uniquely six of them made the finals to go forth in the Labor Day Classic.
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  SPEAKER_13: The Colt was bred by James Plummer of Selma, Alabama, and was owned in partnership with Ben Benham and W.E.
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  SPEAKER_13: Darden of Ocala, Florida.
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  SPEAKER_13: All right, as we continue to do the lookbacks on the sixes, we're gonna go all the way back 40 years ago, 1986.
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  SPEAKER_13: Rona's Ryan with Jerry Nicodemus, Storm's Homa winner and the All-American Faturity, and I got trainer Arnold Simmons on the phone.
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  SPEAKER_13: Arnold, thanks, of course, coming on and joining us to kind of recollect on 40th, the 40th anniversary of Rona's Ryan winning the All-American Faturity.
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  SPEAKER_03: No problem.
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  SPEAKER_03: And and thank you for taking the time to talk to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: I appreciated it.
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  SPEAKER_13: Arnold, what's some of the things that jump out at you when I when I mention it's been 40 years ago and and when you think about that outstanding horse, w what was it that kind of jumps to mind?
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_03: You know, the first thing that jumps to mind, to be honest with you, is it seems impossible to spend it long.
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  SPEAKER_03: But fortunately, it's it's a race that if you win it stays pretty fresh on your mind.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_03: It seems like it was just yesterday because uh there's so many things about the occasion that are very rare, if you know what I mean.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_13: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_13: Kind of take us back if you can, uh Arnold 1986, the actual Labor Day.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_13: Take us back there 40 years ago.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I tell you, as a trainer, and and to be honest with you, I wasn't into bleachers.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_03: I spent the first nine races prior in in the barn with horse.
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  SPEAKER_03: To be honest with you, it was probably the longest nine races of my life because uh you you spent months preparing for that day and then you just have to sit and wait.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and it seems like it's an eternal wait till till it's time for you to take the horse to the paddock.
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  SPEAKER_13: Nicodemus had won twice prior, but he hadn't won the All-American and being one of the top writers of all time, and and sp certainly one of the leading writers during that period of time hadn't won in 16 years.
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  SPEAKER_13: Uh it last had one with Rocket Wrangler in 1970.
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  SPEAKER_13: Arnold, as you think about about watching the replay of that horse, uh take us from the gate to the wire on your recollection of that Labor Day event.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, he was he was always a tremendous horse, uh leaving the gate.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: As a matter of fact, if anybody's ever really looked at his picture, if anybody ever looked at the horse up close, his statue was exactly like an old timey cutting horse.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was he was thick and muscled, and and uh a lot of people had the opinion that he couldn't go a quarter of a mile, but as you and I both know, they were wrong.
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  SPEAKER_03: But he had a tremendous ability to get away from the gates and and uh and and get away really fast.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh I always stood him a couple of days before every race and and he would be a little bit anxious under the gates as we were prepping him.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: If we always stood him and relaxed him in the gates a couple of days before the race on race day, he would just stand there with his nose in the V and dare them to open.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: But the most memorable thing, and I don't know that it's ever happened to me before in a big race like this, but uh as you said, Nicodemus was uh was a legend.
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  SPEAKER_03: As a matter of fact, a lot of people might not realize they had published a book on Nicodemus' life before he ever wrote Ronald's Ryan the first time.
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  SPEAKER_03: But what was really wild from the gates watching the race is uh about the second jump is as Nicodemus spun his stick to to to put it in his hand, it went flying straight up in the air and and and he lost his stick.
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  SPEAKER_03: And from the gates, you know, you can't tell where a horse is.
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  SPEAKER_03: And and I just told the people around me, well, we'll just have to get him the next time.
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  SPEAKER_03: But Nicodemus hand rolled the horse all the way from the gates to the wire and and he won the race and it was pretty exciting.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_13: You know, Arnold, I'd always heard about the legend that he had dropped his stick in '86 and still won.
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  SPEAKER_13: And so you reaffirmed the rumor and the legend that it actually did happen.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there's no question.
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  SPEAKER_03: And you know, I I will tell you, you you talked earlier as a young trainer, I was probably the most blessed trainer that ever trained a quarter horse because I didn't train my first quarter horse till 1979.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I I had always been in the show horse business.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I and so in 79 I switched to racehorses, and and I tell my wife I was young and foolish, and and the day I started, I knew I was gonna win the All-American.
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  SPEAKER_03: I I was too young and foolish to stop and think about what the odds were.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank goodness I didn't, I might not always have tried, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: But to to have started in 79 and win the All-American in 86 was was a true blessing.
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  SPEAKER_03: It it was it was unbelievable, you know.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_09: That was the 40th anniversary look back at the 1986 Labor Day Classic.
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• 13:43
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• 14:24
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• 14:27
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• 14:33
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• 14:37
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• 14:41
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• 14:53
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  SPEAKER_17: Alright, let's get back to the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_09: It's a look back 30 years ago, this episode, to 1996, as Streak and Flyer, a hyper horse with a 46-year-old jockey, ran straight and strong to capture victory in the 440-yard,$2 million All-American Futurity on Labor Day for trainer Donnie Strickland and owners Janelle and Mike Green of Pelzer, South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_09: Streak and Flyer, who was by Strawfly Special, broke cleanly from the number seven post, overtaking the pre-race favorite Blush and Bugs halfway through the quarter-of-a-mile classic event, and held off a late surge from the Philly Speedy Empress to win by a neck.
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  SPEAKER_13: All right, we're continuing this walk down memory lane.
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  SPEAKER_13: 1996 Riadosa Downs, Donnie Strickland trained, Streakin' Flyer goes down the racetrack and wins the 1996 All-American Faturity with Streaking Flyer, and Larry Leighton's in the irons.
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  SPEAKER_13: Larry, thanks for joining us here quickly to kind of do a walk down memory lane as we look back on everybody that's on the sixes and have an anniversary, and it means 30 years this week that you won the All-American Faturity.
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  SPEAKER_13: So take us just on a stroll back there in 1996, Larry.
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  SPEAKER_07: Well, obviously it was a very good time.
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  SPEAKER_13: Take us from the gate to the wire on your recollection, Larry.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_07: Everything went just textbook because he walked in there, did everything right, looked down a racetrack, left in front, and it stayed there.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_07: Everything went just exactly like you'd dream it would happen, you know.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_13: When you crossed the wire, did it set in right away that I just achieved something that multiple Hall of Fame writers and had not been able to have the opportunity to achieve, and here you're winning the All-American fraternity.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it set in before I got to the wire because I knew he was gonna win it shortly after he left the gates.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_07: His hit only problems he ever had was not getting away well and having to play catch up.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_07: When he got away good first hundred yards, I just thought he was the winner then, you know.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_07: And yeah, it it's it sets in.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_07: You're like, oh my gosh, here we are.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_09: That was the 30th anniversary look back at the 1996 Labor Day Classic.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_13: All right, let's keep the anniversaries rolling as we go to the 20th anniversary of the All-American Futurity win of No Secrets Here, which was significant because the year prior in 2005, as trainer Paul Jones and jockey Cody Jensen teamed up to go back to back and wins in the Labor Day Classic.
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  SPEAKER_13: And ironically enough, both of them were ran in the slop.
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  SPEAKER_13: They're up on the mountain at Riadosa Downs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember, me Rose is fighting to the outside, don't let down, but it is no secrets here and gun battle, no secrets here! Wins the All-American Futurity, back to the back wins for Paul Jones and Cody Jensen.
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  SPEAKER_13: Alright, as we continue our walk down memory lane here, we're gonna go 20 years back.
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  SPEAKER_13: 2006, no secrets here, Cody Jensen.
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  SPEAKER_13: Cody, does it feel like 20 years ago?
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_12: No, it feels like yesterday, honestly.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_13: Take us back down memory lane 20 years ago, put us in the grandstand there, and what was it like going to post on No Secrets Here?
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  SPEAKER_13: And and you had just won the All-American the year before.
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  SPEAKER_12: In 2005, I was on a very big long shot that was still a maiden.
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  SPEAKER_12: Uh, there was no pressure, nobody expected him to win, but this time I was coming in with the fastest qualifier who'd already run third in a in a grade one in California, he'd run third in the Ed Perk.
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  SPEAKER_12: And so all the pressure was on him.
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  SPEAKER_12: He was the big one time favorite.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_12: Um, we really thought we could win if we just worked out a good trip away from the gates and stayed out of trouble.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_13: We're in the gates 2006, looking, pointing down the racetrack.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_13: Take us from the gate to the wire, Cody.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_12: Well, he was a really good quarter mile two-year-old.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_12: Um, always a good finisher.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_12: It was real, real muddy that day.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_12: We were we were in the inside part of the track, we're in the three-hole horses had been winning from all over the track that day, so I knew we were in a good spot.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_12: Um, we just needed to get away and stay out of the mud, and he bombed away from there.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_12: Him and the horse on the inside of him, which was gun battle, they got away heads up, and it was a horse race right off the bat.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_12: But I thought, as long as I keep him picked up, keep him hooked up on the racetrack, don't get him slipping and sliding in all that mud, I could outfinish that horse.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_12: And he that gun battle, he was a heck of a nice horse, and he sure didn't make it easy on me, but we we battled it out, and I was able to sneak by him by about a neck there at the finish line.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_13: And you still have the quarter of a mile record for the All-American Peturity on that sloppy racetrack.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_13: But you had told me years before or years after that Ritos that had a way of making that the water and the rain had an opportunity to make that track super fast.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_12: Oh, I love driving on a muddy racetrack at Rito.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_12: So it's one of the few tracks that actually the more water is on it, it makes it better.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_12: Horses hook up on it better, they run on it better.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_12: Um, you just gotta stay out of the splash.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_12: If you don't break in the mud up there, it can be pretty daunting to try to work your way through all that mud coming back at you.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_12: But this time we gotta weigh on top.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_12: You know, we ran we ran really fast that day because the track was really good.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_12: But I had a great horse also that hooked up with me and we pushed each other all the way to the finish line.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_12: And it was a very, very good group of two-year-olds that all went on and made a lot of money that was a very, very deep field of two-year-olds that year.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_13: I mean, on the phone with Hall of Fame trainer Paul Jones.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_13: Paul, it's 20-year anniversary.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_13: I asked Cody Jensen the same thing.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_13: Does it feel like 20 years or does it feel like yesterday?
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_06: Gosh, it sure doesn't feel like 20 years.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_06: 20 years goes by fast.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_13: Give us your recollection of 20 years ago.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_13: You just had been bouncing out of winning the All-American Fraturity in 2005 with Teller Cartel, and now you get in there and you're you're right back in there with another talented horse, No Secrets here.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, no secrets here was a super incredible horse.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_06: Um you know, when we won with Teller Cartel, it was felt like a miracle.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_06: He was the first maiden to win the American and it was a rainy day.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_06: And uh when No Secrets Here's race came along, it was even more rainy.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_06: It was soaking wet.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_06: The track looked like it was a river.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_06: But No Secrets Here, you know, he showed talent, quite a bit of talent.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_06: We knew we had a really nice horse.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_06: Um, it was super exciting because it belonged to Scoop Vessels and the Vessels family and uh Benny Rossette from Brazil in partnership, you know, and there was a lot of racing heritage and history with the vessels family, and it was just uh an honor to train for them.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_06: And uh Benny Rossette was just one of the greatest guys, you know, ever to train for.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_06: He he's just a super guy and has a beautiful farm in Brazil where no secrets here's now.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_06: But that day, what we had with Teller Cartel, the same spot on the track, same jockey, same kind of day.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_06: Uh everything, it just went right.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_06: But it just the horse ran an unbelievable race, and it's amazing that he ran the fastest All-American ever.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_13: Still, still has the record.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_06: And the track was like, like I said, it was like a river.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_06: It was, you know, to win it two years in a row.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_06: Can't describe the feeling and the excitement that it was.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's it's undescribable.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_13: And on behalf of stallionesearch.com, we wish happy anniversary to all those connections and individuals to these horses that are celebrating their 50th, 40th, 30th, and 20th anniversary of this big win on Labor Day weekend.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_13: And we'll be right back to discuss who we think will be down the road celebrating an anniversary of a big win here in the All-American Futurity.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_16: Have you made your plans to attend the AQHA Challenge Championships at the Downs in Albuquerque on October 17th?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_16: Well, let this serve as your reminder.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_16: While you're at it, mark Lone Star Park as a destination for you in 2027 as the championship finals moves back to Texas for another edition.
• 23:52
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• 23:55
  SPEAKER_16: Log on to AQHA.com forward slash racing to find out more information about the program.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_08: Did you know four of ten All-American Futurity qualifiers this year are Riadoso Select Yearling graduates?
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_08: And four of the ten of the All-American juvenile are Riadoso New Mexico Bred Yearling Sale graduates.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_08: So here's a simple equation everyone can understand.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_08: Yearlings times the Riadoso sale equals success.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_08: It seems simple when you think about it.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_08: See you at the Select Yearlings sale on September 4th and 5th.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_17: Alright, let's get back to the podcast.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_13: Alright, we're back here, ready to jump into the analysis of the all-American Futurity, the$3 million granddaddy of them all, Yancey, and of course, another star-studded field, and there's plenty to talk about in this field, especially with two of the horses getting into the field with sub-21 quarter of a mile, and it was just absolutely flying that weekend.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_13: Not only was it flying on the the first two days of the All-American Faturity, but the Derby.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_13: When we finally get to those times, it's just absolutely ridiculous of how fast they were going down the racetrack.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_13: But before we get to that, let's look at the two-year-olds and let's look at some of the horses that we like in the All-American Faturity.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, I couldn't be more excited, Greg.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_14: And this is the weekend we all look forward to.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_14: I think the first one we have to talk about is the seven horse cowboys flying, and he definitely was flying on trial day.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_14: From what I can see, and with watching him, he had the worst headwind going into the trial, and he just looked super, super impressive.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_14: He took a perfect record going into that race.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_14: He's already won two grade one fraternities.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_14: He was first in the Sale fraternity at Ratama, and he was also first in the Texas Breeders Fraternity at Sam Houston.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_14: Comes to the All-American trials 19 days later and as a supplement.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, as a$50,000 supplement as well.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_14: So I to me he's the best two-year-old there is right now.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_14: I think he's proven that.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_14: He's got to prove it one more time, but I think he's the horse to beat going into the race.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_13: Well, one thing I will uh definitely agree with you on that, Yancey.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_13: It was uh it was weird.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_13: We had waited for this horse all day long there on day two, and uh it just the wind just really, really picked up.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_13: And when that when the wind picked up, I honestly thought he had no shot.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_13: It's almost like thinking like what would putting myself in the owner's shoes of paying that$50,000 supplement and then have the conditions turn like this.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_13: And we're not even in Riadoso, Yancy.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_13: We're over in Albuquerque.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_13: This is not supposed to happen there, it's supposed to happen in Riadoso.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_13: But I will say this I've seen plenty of all American trials.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_13: And uh when I was walking back from the winter circle back over into the enclosure there at Albuquerque, I was talking with a colleague Tom Dawson, and both of us kind of were talking about how we've seen so many of these horses really run a gigantic trial race, and that usually is the kiss of death coming back in the finals.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_13: And so that is one of the things that I'm always concerned with is if they run too hard of a trial race, I just I can I can continue to just start listing off horses that have done it, and then when they just were nowhere when it came to being there in the finals of the All-American.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, I mean, there's been time and time again that that's happened.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_14: I just think with the three weeks and with how impressive this horse looked after only 19 days coming off of a grade one win.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_14: I think this horse might turn the tides a little bit, but there's a lot of really other good top horses that he has to beat.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_13: Sat it down.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_13: Let's talk about the fastest qualifier, Chili Gato.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_13: One of the things that jumps out is clearly the fact that he ran a sub-21.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_13: He ran 20.911, which is turns out to be the fastest all-American trial of all time.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_13: But one thing I don't like about this horse Yankee is is he his very first lifetime start was subpar, and then of course just jumps off the page and runs the huge number here.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_13: And that's another scenario where I've seen plenty of horses do that and come back in the finals and and be nowhere.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, I mean, one thing for sure, this horse is gonna be fresh, but it's all a matter of the if the trial race was not a fluke, then he's definitely a top contender.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_14: I mean, I think that was that was the fastest time ever since 2007 with Hearts Wide Open.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_14: So it's been crazy how long it's been to see that fast a time.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_14: And he did it, so we'll just have to see if he can do it again on finals day.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_13: Another one I want to touch upon is the second fastest qualifier overall, tempting Lou, the Philly, the tempting dash filly out of the barn of Omar Vargas.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_13: This horse ran a great race.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_13: I mean, there's really nothing knocking it.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_13: If you watch the replay on this horse, Yancy, this filly bears down about half track and just absolutely shifts into another gear.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_13: But the other thing to point out about this fast trial race is if you look there on the inside, just a bad little cat.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_13: The gelding with Oscar Andrade Jr.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_13: on board was just right there.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_13: Easily a stride or two would have been in front of this horse and been further up on the qualifiers list.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_13: Both of those have to be looked at as being live contenders going into the finals here.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, Greg, I I agree with you.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_14: This horse kind of slipped under my radar going into the trials.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_14: Like I didn't even know she had run second in the West Texas fraternity, she wasn't one of the ones that I was like looking at, but her trial race was super impressive and and and just a bad little cat, he was another one of those fifty thousand dollar supplements that he stepped up and qualified.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_14: And I've been high on him since his um Rainbow Juvenile win.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_14: So definitely it was uh uh tempting Lou as a horse to to reckon with in the finals.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_14: And then another one that I had going into the race that I really like is the two Think Twice Perry.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_14: Uh this was the runner-up in the Rainbow Futurity, and this horse has just impressed me in Albuquerque.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_14: Um his trial to the rainbow was super impressive.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_14: He comes back and runs a really tough race in the rainbow finals, and then runs a really good trial race as well.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_14: And I think I'm kind of picking him too on if anybody deserves it in the sport or has put in his time or put his due in, I would think Johnny Trotter is one that has did that.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_14: And so maybe this will be his time that he finally gets to put his name in the history books of winning an all-American futurity.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_13: Well, as it pertains to my pick going into the finals, Yancy, I'd like to look at a horse that didn't just jump up and just run a just an absolute gigantic career number to get into the field or qualify way up high on the list.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_13: That typically hasn't been the horse that I've gone with in the All-American finals.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_13: Granted, Yancy, I'm not really sure I'd want to publicize my percentage of actually how many All-American Futurity winners I've picked in the past.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_13: So I imagine it's pretty low.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_13: But as it pertains to going into the this year's final, I want to see a horse that's absolutely shown some consistency.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_13: Obviously, Cowboys flying fits the mold.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_13: How can you knock a horse that's completely undefeated?
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_13: Going into the finals runs a huge race like that to get into the finals.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_13: Is we've already talked about how that's kind of a knock, but the consistency is there.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_13: I think that this horse certainly deserves a huge look.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_13: It's going to be one of my picks.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_13: And then another horse that I think has to be really looked at as it pertains to consistency is Asker to Fly.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_13: Ask her to fly has gotten into the Riadosa Futurity, the grade one event, ran a third place finish, qualified into the Rainbow Futurity, ran an eighth, now gets into the All-American Futurity.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_13: So has gone through the entire triple crown here in Albuquerque and has made each of the finals going into this three million dollar event.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_13: She's another one.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_13: Definitely consistent.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_13: It certainly would take a probably her career race, but I think that Jason's definitely one that can put a horse on that path to run a big race here on Labor Day.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_13: So if I have to be nailed down on going who I would go to the window with, it's going to be Cowboys flying, and Ask Her to Fly would be part of that exact.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_14: Yes, Greg, I love Ask Her to Fly.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_14: I've I've picked her in almost everything.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_14: Um like you said, she's the only one to qualify to all three grade one races this year.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_14: And she just continues to prove she can she deserves to be there and she can run with the boys every time.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_14: And I do think the added time going into this race, she had a little more time in between trials and finals of this race than she did the other two, and I think that will help her a lot.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_13: After these messages, we'll be right back with our look and analysis into the All-American Derby.
• 32:47
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• 33:00
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• 33:07
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• 33:14
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• 33:17
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• 33:22
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• 33:29
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• 33:35
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• 33:42
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• 33:49
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• 33:58
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• 34:40
  SPEAKER_16: All right, let's get back to the podcast.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_13: Alright, we're back here, ready to jump into the all-American Derby.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_13: The million dollar event, 440 yards, and and you know, clearly, Yancey, there's two horses that just absolutely jump out on the page, and that's the fastest two qualifiers, GF She Senful, as well as political twist.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_14: Yes, Greg, I think this is a huge showdown of two of the best three-year-olds in the country.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_14: Uh yeah, I'll start with the 10 political twists.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_14: This is the two-year-old champion from last year.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_14: And from what I've seen this year, it's almost like he's got better.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_14: Uh he's three for three going into the finals.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_13: Um he was off for seven months going into the trials of the rainbow and didn't look like he'd been off at all, and then continues to prove how good he is, uh, wins the rainbow, and then super pressive on trial day, and he drew the outside, drew the 10, and I think he's gonna be really tough to beat, but if anyone could beat him, it's they you know, talking about political twists, Yancy, if if you throw out the Lo Sal 2 million fraturity where the horse ran a clearly a bad race and finished seventh, this horse has had a legendary career thus far.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_13: I mean, winner of the West Texas, winner of the Riadoso, second in the All-American Fraturity, just right behind King of the Tide, and gets into the two million.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_13: And of course, if it would have ran a just a better race, uh, or didn't run the two million at all, now we we'd be talking about just an absolute mega super horse, which I feel's political twist certainly fits that category already.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_13: Horses made nearly$1.5 million just going into the All-American Derby and ran a hole in the win that day and was super impressive in the in the trial.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_13: And I thought, you know, he ran exactly the way he was supposed to run.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_13: We all assumed he was going to run that kind of a caliber race, and he stepped up and did.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_13: But of course, it was overshadowed by the absolute gaudy time that was ran by the talented three-year-old Philly GF She's Sinful.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, GF She's Sinful on trial day.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_14: I mean, I texted you as soon as the race was over, and I was like, that was pretty amazing.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_14: Like, we just saw something that we don't see very often.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_14: But I mean, this horse going into that race, it's not like she was under the radar.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_14: This is the winner of the Riodosa Fraturity, run second in the Rainbow Oaks.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_14: She's a rocket ship from the gates.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_14: Like, if she leaves, they're gonna have to catch her.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_14: It's just all a matter if she can put another race like that on finals, she can beat political twist, but I think she's gonna have to put that calibova race together to beat him.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_13: Yeah, she did text me right after the race, and that 20.541 for the quarter of a mile was not just the fastest all-American Derby trial that I've ever seen.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_13: It's the fastest quarter of a mile I've ever witnessed.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_13: I was not around when Firstman Flash ran the world record time out there in El Paso with that gigantic tailwind they always have there in El Paso.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_13: But this was absolutely bona fide.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_13: We knew that it was fast, Yancy.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_13: When we were sitting there in the grandstand and we were filming this race, I knew that was fast.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_13: I didn't know it was 20.541, but I knew it was fast.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_13: And with West Giles being able to go either into the Oaks or into the trials of the Derby, shows just how much confidence he has in this three-year-old Philly by sticking her up against the boys and going for the bigger money.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_13: And uh obviously he made the right decision.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_13: And he was confident after the win as well.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_13: And it will be very interesting to see as it pertains to coming into the finals, if she can run the exact same race.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_13: And as we had talked, Yancy, that 20.541, I knew I know it's time and this the old racetrack adage that time only matters when you're sitting in jail.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_13: But that 25.41 is would you say that horse was all out?
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_13: I mean, it looks on the replay, and I didn't ask this question to Noe Garcia if that horse was all out or was there still a little bit left.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_13: Could he have gone faster on that day?
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_13: And theoretically, if she bounces back into the all-American finals here in the Derby, is she going to have to run that type of a number in order to beat political twist?
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_13: I know there's a lot of if questions there, Yancy, but it goes back to that adage I was talking about with Cowboys Flying about how you leave the effort in the finals in the trial race that you run, then you go a little bit too fast.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_13: But, you know, clearly they they have to run fast enough to try to get into the event.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_13: And by the time that GFC Senthill went down the racetrack, the bubble was very low.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_13: So meaning that he had to run a huge effort, regardless.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_13: He had to push her to get into the finals.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_13: And and I did ask him, he just had no idea he was going that fast.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_13: But it'll be interesting to see just how she bounces back going into the finals.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_14: Yes, Greg, there's a lot of ifs, but just like the owner partnership says on GFC, she's sent full, it's all in partners.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_14: So they'll they're all in on her on winning the all-American Derby.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_13: Another horse I'd like to talk about, Yancey, at Effortless Favorite.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_13: Horse has done a lot of good.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_13: Horse has earned a lot of money on the racetrack thus far.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_13: Winner of the Heritage Place Futurity as a two-year-old, came back in the All-American juvenile, qualifies into the this is the second derby this horse has qualified into as a three-year-old, and goes into the finals, and certainly it deserves a look, especially coming out of the barn of Jason Olmsted.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_14: Yes, Gray.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_14: And the one thing I really always put on this horse, to me, this is the typical 440 horse that you want.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_14: Like this horse doesn't always break the best, but man, does he finish strong.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_14: He is always coming at him at the end.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_14: And sometimes he might not always get there, but he's proven he can run with the best of them since his two-year-old year when he won the heritage.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_14: And he will be coming on the end.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_14: So it's just a matter if he gets there in time.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_13: And this just goes to show how good this field is, is that we almost have to force ourselves to talk about the All-American Futurity winner from last year who made the field this year, king of the tide.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_13: He did not win his trial race.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_13: I could tell by the body language of the connections that they thought they were not in the field at the end of this trial race.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_13: And to find out that they made the field, I'm assuming they were just as surprised as we were.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, I mean, to run third on trial day against how tough those trials were.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_14: I mean, you're you're probably not thinking your chances are very high, but bottom line is he's one of the ten in the race, and he's got just as good a chance as anyone, and he's proven that on big day he steps up and does what he needs to do.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_14: He beat political twist last year in the finals of the All-American Futurity.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_14: So if he turns back the clock a little bit and runs that effort again, then we could very well be saying this is the All-American Fraternity and Derby winner on label day.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_13: And the ridiculousness of it, Yancey, is that every single horse in the field ran a sub-21 quarter of a mile.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_13: King of the tide, as perfect example, sitting in the ninth fastest spot, but still ran a 20.993 time in the quarter of a mile, finishing third in his trial event, but still gets into the field, just shows just how fast they were running on that Sunday.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_14: On a lot of years, he could have very well been the fastest qualifier going into the race on his time that he put up.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_14: So I can't wait for the finals.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_13: And there's another horse in the field, a long shot, 20-1 on the morning line.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_13: Certainly made headlines going into the All-American Futurity as the fastest qualifier coming out of his day.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_13: I don't know if it was day one or day two, but the diesel train was another one that made the field here in the All-American Derby.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_13: And you kind of have a hunch.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, this is my long shot on the day.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_14: Uh this horse has definitely proven that he likes Albuquerque.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_14: As you said, he was the fastest qualifier going into the fraturity last year.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_14: And on trial day, he definitely had the fast there, the hardest trial overall that he was running in.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_14: He beat investor, Louisiana man, and like that whole race was like a stakes race.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_14: And it's just all a matter if he can keep his head in in the paddock and keep his head in the gates.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_14: If we can get him to the gates and they can open it before he messes up, I think he has every bit of chance to hit the board and run with these guys.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_14: We'll just hope he has a cool head on race day.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_13: Alright, it's time to talk about the three-year-old Phillies in the All-American Oaks.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_13: With this year's purse being nearly$700,000 for three-year-olds going a quarter of a mile down the racetrack.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_13: The fastest qualifier was Full Moon Desire coming out of the barn of Heber Melendez with Juan Polito aboard, ran a huge number at 20.850, but fits into a category of another one, Yancey, that worried about this horse leaving its finals effort there in the trial race.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_14: Yes, all these horses look so good on trial day, it's all a matter if they can come back in the finals.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_14: But I do think with Full Moon Desire, I think they pointed this horse to this race all year.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_14: She only has two starts on the year.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_14: She ran second and then missed Ratama stakes at Ratama before shipping to Albuquerque.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_14: And so I think the connections have waited all year, and she will definitely be fresh and going into the finals of this race.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_13: And that leads us to talk about the second fastest qualifier, Roos Tickle Knockout, who has been there, Yancey, throughout the career, fought qualifying into some big events, qualified into the grade two Oklahoma Faturity as a two-year-old, qualified into the Black Gold Faturities later in the year, running a third, got into the Southwest Juvenile, was a runner-up finisher there, third place finisher in the Los Al Oaks as a grade one event, and then of course now is getting into the All-American Oaks.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_13: This might be just this time when this horse steps up and runs huge numbers.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_13: Well bred, a political jest out of the Trey Saismere, eight off trace knockout, which throws a lot of great runners already.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_13: And this horse is six wins out of 13 starts, so there's a whole lot to like about this horse.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, since she just tries hard every time.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_14: I mean, like you said, she's been right there.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_14: So she looked really good on trial day, and maybe this is her time.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_14: Definitely has strong connections.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_14: Mark Younger's Edwin Escobados.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_14: And I think this horse always runs super tough when she gets the chance to just run against Phillies.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_14: And she gets that chance here, and maybe her time will be the big one.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_13: And we'll be right back after these words to jump in looking at the All-American Gold Cup as well as the Boco Futurity and the Bluegrass Derby out in Kentucky.
• 45:39
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• 46:03
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• 46:23
  SPEAKER_09: The countdown is on.
• 46:25
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• 46:29
  SPEAKER_09: Over a thousand yearlings offered at the industry leading sale, September 16th through the 19th in Oklahoma City at Heritage Place, the place where champions are sold.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_17: All right, let's get back to the podcast.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_13: All right, we're back here, ready to jump into some more preview of this big weekend of racing coming up, and we'll go out to Albuquerque and we'll talk about the Grade One All-American Gold Cup.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_13: Yancey, from top to bottom, maybe one of the top fields I've seen of the Gold Cup in the last five years, maybe even the last 10 years.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_13: But there's a lot of star power, including the world champion FTD Dreams, in there.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_13: Multiple Grade One winners, the all-time winningest horses in there.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_13: Uh, a lot of up and comers, multiple grade one winners this year are in the the event, so I don't even know where to start.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, I mean, it's hard to pick one.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_14: You could pretty much say any horse in this race is my top pick, and there would probably be a reason to justify it.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_14: But I went towards the outside the nine church spire.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_14: This horse has just impressed me this year so much.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_14: He was kind of the horse that flew under the radar that turned into a superstar.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_14: After his win in the Leo, he was on everyone's radar.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_14: I mean, he beat Impressum in that race, and then he comes back in the Debbie Shaf, and which I think was the race of the year, and runs a really close third to Impressum and KJ Desperado.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_14: And simply I put him on top just because of his post-position draw, the nine, and he's just super, super impressive all year.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_13: Well, I'm gonna focus on KJ Desperado.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_13: I mean, I wouldn't say over his career he's been one that I would have continued to go to to pick to run huge in these big races.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_13: He's had plenty of second place finishes.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_13: He does suffer from a little bit of seconditis.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_13: But if you throw out the nose lost there in the Debbie Shaff, we're talking about the grade one winner of the Debbie Schaaf right here, KJ Desperado.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_13: If L if Impressum did not fire in that race, it would have been KJ Desperado.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_13: And we would have been sitting here talking about how KJ Desperado is the deservingly overwhelming favorite going into this race, even though Church Spire was right there as well in that photo with Impressum as well as KJ Desperado and Church Spire.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_13: They were all there along the finish line at the wire.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_13: I think this horse is coming into his own.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_13: This may be the last go-around where this horse has an opportunity to go out to California after this event, if he does well by going a route of going up to Albuquerque for the championship to get over to the champion at champions at the end of the year.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_13: He deserves it.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_13: And it's certainly if the racing gods are looking down, it gives a little bit more of a push here in this event to get him to the wire so this horse can continue that momentum over into the championship there in Albuquerque later in the year.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_13: There's two more horses I'd probably like to touch upon, Yancey.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_13: The five horse in this field is Toast and Heroes, which at the beginning of this year, starting at the championship at Sunland, goes up there and runs a huge, huge effort to win, comes back in the D-Raper, sooner state stakes, restricted to Oklahoma Breds, but you know, as in the quarter horse racing, the Oklahoma Breads is like Kentucky Breds in the thoroughbred side.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_13: They're the at the top of the list and runs a huge race, wins there as well.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_13: If you throw out the Debbie Schaaf, or if the uh and Clint Crawford, of course, said that the horse was had shown after the race that he actually had something going on with him as of some illness going through him.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_13: But if you throw that Debbie Schaaf out, we're talking about the leader of the division, and and certainly, certainly so.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_13: Clint claims that he's got this horse back online and ready to run a huge race.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_13: And I can certainly make an excuse for Toast and Heroes being the one that they take the picture of there in the winner circle at the All-American Go Club.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_14: Oh, yes, Greg.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_14: Like I said last week in our podcast, to me, Toast and Heroes is the up and comer and the kind of the taking over of this older class division if he's on his game.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_14: And like you said, throw out the Debbie Shaffin.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_14: He's probably, if not one of the best horses in our game this year.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_14: So I definitely can see him taking his picture too.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_13: Do you want to hear how tough this field is?
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_13: There's two grade one winners we're not really even going to touch upon.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_13: I mean, the world champion from last year, the the champion of champions winner, FTD Dreams, of course, has had a rough 2026 campaign thus far.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_13: Third in Sunland Park and sixth in the Mr.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_13: Jet Moore, but goes Postword, and then of course RC Corona King on the outside, the 10 horse is another grade one winner that we're not going to be really talking about as it pertains to the contenders in this field, just to show you how talented this is all American Gold Cup.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_13: And I'm maybe as excited for this race as I am the All-American Fraturity.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, Greg, this race is a handicapper's dream.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_14: I mean, you're gonna get possibly a 10 to 1, 8 to 1 shot on a grade one and champion winner.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_14: So I can't agree with you more.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_14: I'm I'm always almost as excited for the goal the older horse race as I am for the fraternity on Labor Day.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_13: And those are the big races we're covering there at Albuquerque this weekend, but also going on this weekend, and Stallion ESearch will be out there in Kentucky covering the finals of the Boco Futurity and the Bluegrass Derby.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_13: Let's start with the three-year-olds in the bluegrass derby with a s with a huge standout in the field that it just looks like the overwhelming favorite going into the finals, and that's AJ Remember Me.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_14: Yes, AJ Remember Me is three for three on the year.
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_14: This a political Jess Colt is the winner of the grade three Oklahoma Derby earlier this year, and then he didn't run until the trials of this race.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_14: Juan Polito qualified him, and in the trial race, I mean he was just holding him with everything he got back.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_14: Like I think if this horse runs his race, he's easily the best horse in the race, but that's why they run the race on finals day.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_14: It's not always the best horse that wins.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_13: So yes, and Court Ben picks up the mount because Juan Polito will be in Albuquerque riding in the the big Grade One events out in Albuquerque.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_13: And now let's shift over the to the two-year-olds in the Boco Futurity, the inaugural event there at Sandy Ridge out in Ashland, Kentucky.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_14: Yes, Greg, in that race I really like Nena C.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_14: Um, this is a Kiss My Hawks Philly.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_14: And she later or earlier this year, she ran fifth in the Oklahoma Fraternity, which is a grade two.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_14: And then she also hasn't ran since uh the finals of that race.
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_14: And then she came to this race and looked really good in her trials.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_14: Juan Polito again qualified her, can't be there for the finals, but she looked the most impressive to me on trial day, even though she wasn't the fastest time.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_14: She won it really easy.
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_14: Uh she picks up Randy Vega for the finals, and I like for her to be hard to beat.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_13: Of course, as mentioned, Stallion ESearch will be everywhere this weekend.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_13: Covering the races will be out at the Riodoso Select sale, covering the both nights there, and also there in Albuquerque on Sunday, covering the Oaks and the Derby, as well as on Monday, Labor Day.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_13: We'll be doing the the all-American Futurity coverage there on Stallion ESearch.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_15: Now it's time for the recap section.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_15: This week on Quarter Horse Racing Talk Weekly.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_13: All right, ready to jump into the recap section.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_13: There was a big weekend in Louisiana, so we'll start there down at Delta Downton's in Vinton, Louisiana.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_13: The big easy faturity, almost$160,000 on the line for open breads, going 350 yards.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_13: And here's a call from Don Stevens.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_10: And they're off in the big easy futurity and macho man lady came away running for the lead.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_10: Down on the inside, be my valentine is right up close.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_10: On the far outside, it's Gold Eye Eagle.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_10: And behind those, JP Valiant Blue.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_10: Be My Valentine has a lead late and is opening up.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_10: It's all be my valentine to win the big easy.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_13: An apolitical jest Philly getting it done.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_13: Be My Valentine.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_13: A$58,000 Heritage Place yearling graduate getting it done for trainer Vivian Hill and jockey Leonardo Rodriguez in the Irons for owner J Lazy6.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_13: As this filly was bred by McCauley Lannon Livestock LLC in his out-of-the-valiant hero mare, Valiant Candy Rocks, and finished in a time of 17.513 seconds for the 350 yards.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_13: And that'll move us over to the big event for the weekend.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_13: It was the restricted Grade 1 LQHBA sale futurity, over$561,000 purse for accredited Louisiana Bred two-year-olds that passed through the sales ring at the LQHBA sale in 2025, going 350 yards.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_13: And here's the call.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_10: And they're off in the sale futurity of Delta Downs coming away a step slow as Man for Cause.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_10: Coming away fast, KJ Medusa, right in the middle of the track.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_10: Epiphany is right there.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_10: To the inside, it's Cajun Tide.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_10: On the outside, thunderstruck.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_10: Trying to come on late now is Man for Cause.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_10: It's getting late.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_10: KJ Medusa does it!
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_13: The restricted Grade 1 Lee Berwick Memorial Futurity winner gets it done again in the sale Futurity, KJ Medusa for owner JA Racing LLC and trainer Miguel Pizana with jockey Victor Yuriana in the irons for this LQHBA sales graduate.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_13: That was a$20,000 RA when it rent through the sales ring.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_13: This KJ Mucho Macho Man gelding stopped the clock at 17.503 seconds for the 350 yards and is out of the Rigazzo Mare Medusa and was bred in the state of Louisiana by Roost Ranch LLC.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_13: And that'll move us up to Indianapolis for the QHR AI Stallion Service Auction, a restricted grade three event,$247,000 purse for 350 yards for two-year-olds.
• 56:44
  SPEAKER_13: And here's the call.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_00: Wild over Corona making a charge for it.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: Between horses, here's Flash and Flyer fly.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_00: Nearest the inside as Valiant Kiss is a toss-up.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_00: Wild over Corona.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_00: Red Sleeve, they come forward.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_00: Red Sleeve has an advantage.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: Wild over Corona, and here's Wild Over Corona and Red Sleeve on the wire.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_00: Close call.
• 57:07
  SPEAKER_00: Red Sleeve and Wild Over Corona.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_00: And Flash and Firefly split them in the final.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_13: Red Sleeve gets it done for trainer Claudio Barraza and Jockey Martin Munoz for owners.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_13: Campos Family Ventures LLC.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_13: This one sweet just gelding out of the Isa Special Mayor, KGB Agent Anna, stopped the clock at 17.926 seconds for the 350 yards, as he was bred in Indiana by Tony Brackens.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_13: And that'll do it for the short and sweet recap section this week, due to the fact that we have such a robust preview section with the All-American Futurity and Derby and Oaks, as well as the steak races out in Kentucky to preview in this edition.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_13: And we'll be right back after these words from our sponsors.
• 57:50
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• 58:26
  SPEAKER_13: And we'll see you next week on Quarter Horse Racing Talk Weekly.