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LONGEST SHOT BUCK PIE, WINS COLTS & GELDINGS DIVISION OF OKLAHOMA STALLION HANDICAP AT 57-1 ODDS


For Immediate Release
Friday, August 28, 2026
by Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY – Buck Pie was totally ignored by everyone at Remington Park except his jockey, Jose Alvarez. When all was said and done, Alvarez had produced a winner in the colts and geldings division of the $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Handicap at 57-1 odds. It was the longest odds in a short six-horse field.

“Nobody is more surprised than I am,” said owner-breeder Bryan Hawk of Shawnee, Okla. “We had two horses in the field and I really thought the 6-horse (C W Dazzle) might be the one. Jose just did a great job.”

Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer Joe Offolter trains both C W Dazzle and Buck Pie and he was thinking along the same lines as his owner.

“I did not expect (Buck Pie) to run the way he did,” said Offolter. “Jose rode him perfectly and he told me before the race, ‘there’s a lot of speed in here. I think I’ll just sit back and see what happens in front of us and see what we can do.’ “

What they did was come from dead last in the pack of six horses and flew down the stretch, passing all the fading speed, to draw off to a 3-1/2 length win at seven furlongs on the fast main track.

Buck Pie became the second horse of the night to pay more than $100 to win on a $2 ticket. Buck Pie, a 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred gelded son of Pass the Buck, from the Candy Ride (ARG) mare Sugar Pie, paid $116.20 to win, $17.60 to place and $5.60 to show, covering the distance in 1:24.14 on the fast track. Earlier in the evening, Connie’scalculator went off at 66-1 and paid $135.40 to win.

Buck Pie rallied into early fractions of :22.68 for the first quarter-mile, :45.88 for the half-mile, and 1:11.17 for three-quarters of a mile. Buck Pie earned $30,000 for the victory and improved to eight starts, three wins, and one second for $63,331 in lifetime earnings. It was his first stakes win, in his first race after more than three months off after running seventh in a handicap at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., on May 2.

“When I asked him to run at the three-eighths, he began to run and gave me everything he had,” said Alvarez.

It was the first win in the colts and geldings division of the Oklahoma Stallion Handicap for colts/geldings for all the connections. Buck Pie was followed in second by How About Bob (1-5 betting favorite), I Am What I Am (7-2) third, C W Dazzle (7-1) fourth, Flashout (15-1) fifth and Sandthefloor (9-1) sixth.

The Oklahoma Stallion Handicap is restricted to 3-year-old progeny of stallions registered with the Oklahoma Stallion registrar.

Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Aug. 29 with the first race at 6:30pm-Central.

Caption: Buck Pie rolls to a longshot win in the Oklahoma Stallion Handicap for colts and geldings, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 at Remington Park. Jose Alvarez was up for the score.
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CYNDI LOPER GIVES JOCKEY FLOYD WETHEY, JR., TRAINER FRANCISCO BRAVO WIN IN OKLAHOMA STALLION HANDICAP FOR FILLIES


For Immediate Release
Friday, August 28, 2026
by Richard Linihan


OKLAHOMA CITY – Cyndi Loper just wanted to have fun and she did indeed, winning the $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Handicap on Friday night at Remington Park in the 3-year-old fillies division of this black type event, doing it fairly easily.

Cyndi Loper’s victory gave jockey Floyd Wethey, Jr., a second win in this event as he scored with Miss Code West in 2024. The win was the third for Bravo since the race was reconditioned to 3-year-olds at seven furlongs. He also won last year with Floras Ora and in 2019 with Lady Orhid.

The Oklahoma Stallion Handicap is restricted to progeny of stallions registered with the Oklahoma Stallion registrar.

“I love this for (owner) Ms. (Pamela) Grossman (of Fredericksburg, Texas),” said Bravo as he got emotional. “She is fighting cancer really bad. Her filly is always really game.”

Cyndi Loper, an Oklahoma-bred daughter of Atreides, out of the Maclean’s Music mare Spring Steen, won for the third time in her career in only five starts and for the second time in stakes company. She broke her maiden at Lone Star Park last year as a 2-year-old, winning by four lengths and followed that up with a win in the $100,000 Oklahoma Classics Lassie at Remington Park on Oct. 17, 2025 with Oklahoma-bred juvenile fillies by 4-3/4 lengths. She then suffered her first loss but still ran second against some strong company in the $50,000 Slide Show Stakes at Remington, losing to Lanaluah.

On Friday, Wethey put her in perfect position to dig in down the stretch to outlast Giveitaspin (8-5 second favorite) for the victory. She wound up winning by three-quarters of a length as the 3-5 odds-on betting favorite. Cyndi Loper paid $3.20 to win, $2.20 to place and $2.10 to show. Running time for the seven furlongs was 1:24.45 over the fast track. The winning filly took them virtually gate to wire after breaking second in the field of five runners, setting interior fractions of :23.24 for the first quarter-mile, :46.56 for the half-mile, and 1:11.27 for six furlongs.

“I really didn’t have much of a plan,” said Wethey. “I just let her break the way she wanted and she was game the whole way.”

Cyndi Loper earned $30,000 from the purse and improved her record to five starts, three wins, and one second for a bankroll of $107,284. She was bred by Eureka Thoroughbred Farm.

Bravo had a very simple future-plan for Cyndi Loper. “Just keep winning,” he said.

Giveitaspin (8-5) was second, followed by Inca Code (6-1) third, Den’s Dazzler (17-1) fourth and Momacya (18-1) fifth. Six Gun Sally scratched from the race early.

Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Aug. 29 with the first race at 6:30pm-Central.

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