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Caption: Letta’s Legacy (4) returns to action with a victory on Thursday, September 3, 2026. The score was her fourth consecutive at Remington Park dating to fall 2025. Jockey David Cabrera was up.
Caption: Heavenville (5) wins an allowance on Thursday, September 3, 2026 at Remington Park, setting a new track record for 6-1/2 furlongs with a time of 1:13.81. Jockey Rene Diaz was up. The old record had stood since 1997.
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LETTA’S LEGACY CONTINUES SPRINT DOMINANCE AT REMINGTON PARK, WINNING THURSDAY OPTIONAL-ALLOWANCE FEATURE

For Immediate Release
Thursday, September 3, 2026
by Richard Linihan


OKLAHOMA CITY – Letta’s Legacy started her 5-year-old run at Remington Park on Thursday night the way she left off last year with her fourth win in a row in Oklahoma City.

The Oklahoma-bred daughter of Practical Joke, out of the Sunday Break (JPN) mare Sundayville Break, was so impressive last fall at Remington Park that she received votes for Champion Horse of the Meet. The way she ran Thursday night, it appeared she was dead set to take another run at that kind of trophy. Her three consecutive wins last fall came in the $99,600 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Sprint Handicap, restricted to Oklahoma-bred fillies and mares at six furlongs, and a couple of allowance victories. All those came on the main track, sprinting.

Letta’s Legacy scored Thursday against open fillies and mares under conditions of non-winners of two-other-than or non-winners of three lifetime or for a claiming price of $30,000. She was led to the winner’s circle by owner-trainer-breeder C.R. Trout of Edmond, an Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Famer. Trout gave jockey David Cabrera a leg up on Letta’s Legacy, who was named for Trout’s late wife, Arletta.

This win gave Letta’s Legacy her seventh win at Remington Park in 13 starts with six second-place finishes here as well. Only once in those 13 has she finished worse than second. She remained undefeated at 5-1/2 furlongs, going four-for-four at that distance. The mare won for the 13th time in her career after 23 starts.

“I was disappointed we didn’t get Horse of the Meet,” the 81-year-old Trout said before the meet began. “My whole family was, too. I thought we deserved it. She is a Godsend. She may be so sound because my (Arletta) is watching out for her.”

Miss Code West won Horse of the Meet for a third year in a row last fall despite losing to Letta’s Legacy twice in sprint events. Miss Code West, however, won three stakes races to Letta’s Legacy’s one.

On Thursday night, Letta’s Legacy had every right to lay down in the stretch after being tested on the front end the first half-mile by Curlin’s Lil Gal, who faded badly late. After that challenger quit, horses came up on the inside and outside of Letta’s Legacy, but she dug in like a gold miner striking it rich. She wasn’t about to give up the lead to the late runners – Naval Woman (7-1) and Golly Holly (6-1). Try as they may, they could not cut into the lead Letta’s Legacy held onto in the last 100 yards of the race. Letta’s Legacy covered the 5-1/2 furlongs in 1:02.68, just off the track record of 1:02.00 set by Run Johnny in 1997. Letta’s Legacy may have run the most determined race of her career as she held off her competitors and early fractions of :21.61 for the first quarter-mile, :44.57 for the half-mile and :56.44 for five furlongs.

The final margin of victory was two lengths as the 1-5 wagering favorite thrilled her fans with another win. She paid $2.60 to win, $2.10 to place, and $2.10 to show. The “Queen” of the Trout barn earned $24,000 from the $40,000 purse for the win and improved her lifetime record to 23 starts, 13 wins, six seconds and one third for a bankroll of $442,383.

Naval Woman held for second, a neck ahead of Golly Holly in third.

HEAVENVILLE SPRINTS TO NEW TRACK RECORD AT 6-1/2 FURLONGS, BREAKING MARK SET BY KANGAROO KING IN 1997
The racetrack was playing super-fast on Thursday night as several records at different distances were challenged. However, the only one that fell was at 6-1/2 furlongs, with Heavenville breaking the mark of 1:14.40 set by Kangaroo King in 1997 when he stopped the timer in 1:13.81. The new record took place in the eighth race of the evening, an open allowance for 3-year-olds and older.

Heavenville, a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred colt by Instagrand, out of the Street Sense mare Treasure in Heaven, survived fractions of :22.20 for the first quarter-mile, :44.27 for the half, and 1:07.52 for six furlongs. Jockey Rene Diaz was up for trainer J.R. Caldwell and owner Theresa Treloar and Steve Penta of Denton, Texas. The colt was bred by William & Corinne Heiligbrodt.

Heavenville ran his record to 22-7-3-3 with the victory and increased his lifetime earnings to $316,268.

Heavenville was sent off at 3-1 odds and sprinted away from runner-up McDude (2-1 favorite) by 6-1/4 lengths at the wire. Perfect Magic (5-2) checked in third, another 4-1/4 lengths back of the second-place horse.

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