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Sunday Flashback Outlasts Our Musical Moment To Take Oklahoma Classics Distaff Sprint

Trainer C.R. Trout said Sunday Flashback's shins went south on her after she broke her maiden at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Oct. 30 last year, but that didn't stop him from winning his career 15th Oklahoma Classics race with her on Friday night.

The 3-year-old filly by Flashback, out of the Sunday Break (JPN) mare Sundayville Break, returned from the long layoff to heal up from October last year to Sept. 10 this year to win by 14-1/2 lengths in allowance company. That was an indication that she would be the one to beat in the $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Sprint, presented by Global Gaming Solutions. Heavily favored in the wagering at 1-5 odds, Sunday Flashback didn't exactly win as one would expect at such a low price.

An indication that it might not be Sunday Flashback's night was when she acted up in the paddock and then again at the gate. It was not a surprise after that when jockey Jose Alvarez had to fight tooth and nail at the wire with 23-1 longshot Our Musical Moment for the win. Sunday Flashback finally prevailed by a head after breaking seventh from the gate.

“I knew she was going to be special all along,” Trout said. “But those shins were not good after last year. We gave her some time to heal and now she has been training forwardly since we brought her back.”

She paid $2.40, $2.20, and $2.10 to win, place, and show. Our Musical Moment was another three lengths ahead of Casino Queen (9-1) in third. The remaining order of finish was Don't Touch My Man (4th), Stormieis Blue (5th), Kallie Sioux (6th), Yak Attack (7th), Sweet Mary M (8th), Polly Tiz (9th), and Machos Vision (10th).

This was also Trout's fourth win in the Classics F&M Sprint. He was in the winner's circle in 2010, 2016, and 2017 with Shotgun Gulch, Euro K Shotgun, and Hailstorm Slew, respectively.

Alvarez was a winner for the first time in an Oklahoma Classics race. Trout not only trains the filly, but owns her and bred her. He broke a three-year win streak for trainer Kenny Smith in this race, who had won with Three Chords in 2018-2020.

Alvarez sat in mid-pack down the backstretch of the six-furlong race and didn't catch front-runner Casino Queen until deep stretch. There, he engaged his filly with the longshot Our Musical Moment and they battled to the finish line.

Early fractions for the race were set by third-place finisher Casino Queen, going :21.86 for the quarter-mile, :45.26 for the half-mile, and :57.89 for five-eighths of a mile. The winning time for Sunday Flashback was 1:10.82 over the fast track. In her two previous wins, the filly had been on the lead of her sprints almost immediately.

“I don't know why she broke so badly,” said Trout, “whether the ground broke out from under her or what. She acted goofy in the gate, so maybe that was it.”

Sunday Flashback earned $78,000 for the win and improved to three wins from four starts. She was third in her other attempt when she finished behind stakes-quality fillies Gotta See Red and Twilight Curfew in the $100,000 Oklahoma Classics Lassie last year. Her bankroll after only four tries is $134,306.

The Oklahoma Classics is a $1,000,000 series of stakes races devoted to Oklahoma-bred Thoroughbreds.

Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Oct. 16 with the first race at 7:07 pm Central.

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Trout Wins Another Oklahoma Classics Cup With Absaroka At Remington

Trainer C.R. Trout won the $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup, powered by TVG, with Absaroka on Friday night, his seventh win of this race in the past nine years.

It helps when you have an Oklahoma-bred millionaire like Shotgun Kowboy win it four times, but Trout has dominated in this spot. Shotgun Kowboy won it in 2015 and 2017-2019. His other winner was Imahit in back-to-back years, 2013 and 2014.

It was Absaroka's third win in a row at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., as he broke like a rocket with his early speed on the rail under jockey David Cabrera, who won this race for the fourth time. The gelding's first two wins of the meet were not against stakes company, however. Still, Absaroka went off the even-money favorite and cruised to a 4-1/4 lengths victory in wire-to-wire fashion. Cabrera also won this race in the saddle of Phantom Trip in 2016 and Shotgun Kowboy's last two wins in the Cup.

Running time for the 1-1/16th miles was 1:43.19 over the fast track. Absaroka, a 5-year-old gelding by Flat Out, from the Brahms mare Wanton Song, made every pole a winning one. He set fractions of :24.10 for the quarter-mile, :48.45 for the half-mile, 1:12.62 for six furlongs, and 1:36.97 for the mile. He was bred by owner Cowboy Stables (Blake Sappington) of Clinton, Okla.

“This horse is so easy to train,” said Trout, who picked up his 14th career Oklahoma Classics win with Absaroka. “He's had a couple of hiccups along the way and I have to give it up to the owner because they gave us the money to straighten him out and we have worked the problems out.”

Cabrera was so grateful for more than Trout putting him on Absaroka.

“I've known C.R. Trout probably the longest of anyone here,” Cabrera said. “He's the first person I knew here when I came (in 2015). I'm so happy he gave me the opportunity on this horse. He went to the lead and I had so much horse left in the end.”

Absaroka paid $4, $2.20, and $2.10 across the board. Number One Dude (6-5) reported in second and was seven lengths ahead of third-place finisher Dont Tell Noobody (5-1), who was the defending champion in this race. The remaining order of finish was United Patriot (4th), Tonaltalitarian (5th), and Great Faces (6th).

Absaroka earned $105,000 with his trip to the winner's circle and improved his record to 17 starts, five wins, four seconds, and one third, almost doubling his lifetime earnings in this race. He now has $214,317 overall.

The Oklahoma Classics is a $1,000,000 series of stakes races devoted to Oklahoma-bred Thoroughbreds.

Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Oct. 16 with the first race at 7:07 pm Central.

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Run Slewpy Run Takes Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf At Remington Park

Run Slewpy Run kept the $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf, presented by WWLS-the Sports Animal, trophy in the family for the third year in a row with a win Friday night at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Alternative Slew, a half-sister to Run Slewpy Run, had won this race the past two years and in this year's edition, the two were running against each other. They showed that bloodlines ring true as Run Slewpy Run won and a fast-closing Alternative Slew ran second, three lengths back.

This was an all-family deal, too. Alternative Slew was trained in 2019-2020 by Randy Oberlander, father of this year's Distaff Turf winning trainer Jesse Oberlander. Jesse has trained now for two years and has started to make a name for himself after his dad retired this year.

When asked what his dad thought of his early success, taking down stakes wins, Jesse said, “He's a man of few words. He's busy playing with grandkids.”

Both horses are owned and bred by Mike Jones of Bristow, Okla.

Alternative Slew had a layoff from December of last year to Sept. 10 when she ran third in her only start of this year. She had been laid off so long because of an accident in her stall that almost cost her an eye. She and Run Slewpy Run are both from the same dam (mother), Imadancingslew. Run Slewpy Run was sired by Den's Legacy and Alternative Slew by Alternation. Even though Alternative Slew was proven at this distance of 1 1/16th miles on the lawn, while Run Slewpy Run's two wins greensward were at 7 1/2 furlongs, leaving some wonder if she could handle the extra measure.

“I didn't know whether she would get the 1 1/16th miles,” said Jesse Oberlander, “and with her running against her sister, I didn't know who would run first or second.”

Now he knows, even though Alternative Slew showed some improvement in her second start off the long layoff. Still, she finished second at 2-1 odds to her 6-5 favored sibling, beaten three lengths. Alternative Slew finished 2-3/4 lengths in front of Twilight Curfew (10-1) in third.

The remaining order of finish in the Distaff Turf was Country Daisy (4th), Leather and Lace (5th), Tiztheboss (6th), Hawaiian Typhoon (7th), Tic Toc Toccet (8th), and Courtly (9th).

Jockey Luis Quinonez won with Run Slewpy Run and was aboard Alternative Slew last year in her win. It was Quinonez's 21st win in an Oklahoma Classics race, tying him for second all-time with Don Pettinger. Quinonez is now five wins behind Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey and all-time winningest jockey at Remington Park, Cliff Berry. Quinonez has won the Classics Distaff Turf five times now. His other three victories came with Bringinginthelute in 2014, Soonerette in 2012, and In the Band in 2011.

This was the third Distaff win for Jones, all in a row with Alternative Slew (twice) and now Run Slewpy Run.

Run Slewpy Run sat second most of the race, chasing front-runner Hawaiian Typhoon's fractions of :23.83 for the quarter-mile, :47.63 for the half-mile, 1:12.41 for three-quarters of a mile, and 1:37.01 for one mile. The finish time for the winner was 1:43.28 over firm turf.

Run Slewpy Run paid $4.60, $2.60, and $2.40 to win, place, and show. She earned $78,000 from the purse and improved to nine starts, four wins, and two seconds for $188,631 in her wallet. She is now three-for-three on the Remington Park grass with $143,868 in earnings from those races.

The Oklahoma Classics is a $1,000,000 series of stakes races devoted to Oklahoma-bred Thoroughbreds.

Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Oct. 16 with the first race at 7:07 pm Central.

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Shannon C Finally Gets Best Of Welder In Oklahoma Classics Sprint

Twice last year, Welder, the all-time winningest horse in Remington Park history with 16 victories, had beaten Shannon C. Twice in 2018, Welder was an easy winner over Shannon C.

The fifth time is apparently the charm as Shannon C finally got the best of Welder, who made the final start of his career, running third in the $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Sprint, presented by The Kaw Nation, on Friday night here.

“Shannon has been an iron horse from Day One,” said trainer Scott Young. “Today was his day. It took a while but he showed why his breeders, Bob and Ted (Smith), breed horses to Miranda Diane. It's come full circle now. He got that Oklahoma Classics win that we've been shooting for, for what? The past four years.”

It was Young's first trip to the winner's circle in an Oklahoma Classics race as well as jockey Leandro Goncalves. Welder broke well, but veered out to the outside after leaving the gate. Shannon C, a 6-year-old gelding by Latent Heat, out of the Fistfite mare Miranda Diane, is a horse that likes to shoot for the front, but did not show that speed Friday night. Goncalves was mystified that Shannon C wasn't on the early lead.

“He is one of the fastest horses out of the gate I've ever ridden, but not tonight,” said Goncalves. “So, I was waiting and when I asked him to run, he just took off and ran like he was the best horse today.”

“Leandro said he had to go to plan B (because of the slow break) and it worked,” Young said.

It was the second stakes win in a row to the versatile Shannon C. He had won the Remington Park Turf Sprint Stakes on Sept. 24. That was a 5-furlong sprint on the grass. Friday night's win was a 6-furlong sprint over the fast main track.

Welder's owner Ra-Max Farms (Clayton Rash of Claremore, Okla.), before the race had wished Young good luck.

“I'm glad if Welder had to lose it was to this horse,” said Rash. “It's OK. I said before the race that, win or lose, we would be retiring him and we'll stick to that.”

“We knew it was time and we wanted him to retire sound and safe,” said Welder's trainer Teri Luneack. “He has done everything we've ever asked of him and he didn't owe us a thing going into this race.”

Now it seems a horse that Welder had beaten by 4-3/4 lengths, 6-1/4 lengths, 6-1/2 lengths, and a neck, the last four times they faced each other may be the heir apparent as top Oklahoma-bred sprinter on the grounds. Welder had won this race the past three years in a row and was trying to tie Highland Ice and Okie Ride for four wins in this race.

Shannon C drew away impressively at the end, winning by three lengths at 5-1 odds. He paid $12.80, $6.40, and $3.20 across the board. Young trained horses ran 1-2 in the race as Mesa Moon (2-1) held off Welder by one length.

The remaining order of finish in the Classics Sprint was Euromantic (4th), Fast Breakin Cash (5th), No Lak of Speed (6th), Fly to the Bank (7th), and D Toz (8th).

Shannon C earned $78,000 for the win and improved to 27 starts, seven wins, 11 seconds, and two thirds for $368,766 in earnings. He chased early fractions set by Fly to the Bank of :22.15 for the first quarter-mile, :45.30 for the half-mile, :57.68 for five-eighths of a mile, and a final time of 1:10.12. He was bred by B and S Racing of Springfield, Mo., the owner.

The Sprint was the first win in the Oklahoma Classics for all of the connections.

Welder was sent off as the wagering favorite at 4-5 odds in his final race. He finishes his career with 16 wins at Remington Park and a final record of 44 starts, 27 wins, five seconds, and seven thirds for $1,265,031 in earnings. He holds records at Remington Park as the only three-time Horse of the Meet, the six-furlong sprint record of 1:08.13 in the 2019 David M. Vance Stakes, three-time Oklahoma Horse of the Year, the only horse to win four stakes races in one meet at Remington Park, and a record 11 stakes wins in a row here.

The Oklahoma Classics is a $1,000,000 series of stakes races devoted to Oklahoma-bred Thoroughbreds.

Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Oct. 16 with the first race at 7:07 pm Central.

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