Oklahoma City, OK, July 23, 2025 – Miss Code West is attempting a Mount Everest type accolade this upcoming thoroughbred meet at Remington Park. She will attempt to become only the second horse in track history to be a three-time Champion Horse of the Meet.
In fact, no horse had ever done it two times until Welder was voted that title from 2018-2020.
“I’m hoping she’s capable,” said Miss Code West’s trainer Kevin Scholl. “I think she could.”
In her career, the 4-year-old Oklahoma-bred filly has won 10-of-13 starts for $465,934 in earnings. Owners Jeffry and Julie Puryear, of Denton, Texas, purchased her for $12,000 at the Texas Thoroughbred Association Yearling Sale in 2022.
Scholl said he sent out Miss Code West for a gallop on the Remington Park track on Monday morning.
“She looked really good, but she prefers the cooler weather,” Scholl said.
July temperatures have reached their norms for central Oklahoma, with training-hour levels creeping into the low-to-mid 80s.
Miss Code West is a daughter of Code West, out of the Kipling mare Inca Miss. She was bred in Oklahoma by last year’s top thoroughbred owner at Remington Park, Bryan Hawk.
Seven of Miss Code West’s trips to the winner’s circle have come at Remington Park and one more win here would put her halfway to Welder’s all-time record of 16 wins at this Oklahoma City track.
If you’re wondering if reaching that record is even realistic, don’t count Scholl as a non-believer.
“Right now? God willing,” he said. “It’s not out of the question because she is as sound as you can get.”
Scholl said there is an allowance race at Remington Park in the first couple of weeks that Miss Code West would fit into and use as a prep race for some stakes races on the schedule. He ran her in the Chicken Fried Stakes on the grass at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, and something extraordinary happened. Even though Miss Code West was 9-for-12 in her career going into that 5-furlong race on the turf course, bettors still ignored her, letting her go off at 5-1 odds in a five-horse field.
“A lot of people said that would never happen again,” Scholl said with a laugh. The even-money favorite in the race, Mischievous Gal, finished third, a length back of Miss Code West.
That win came on June 28 and was this Remington Park superstar’s first outing of 2025. She had not raced since winning the Useeit Stakes at Remington Park to finish off her Horse of the Meet campaign here on Dec. 13, 2024. Jockey Floyd Wethey, Jr., was in the irons for the Chicken Fried Stakes win and is her regular rider at Remington Park.
“That was by design and wasn’t,” said Scholl. “I wanted to give her some time off, but not quite that long. I entered her at Sam Houston Race Park earlier in the year, but had to scratch her because of an abscessed hoof. It doesn’t seem to be a problem now. She looked good winning at Lone Star.”
The logical reason for her going off at generous 5-1 odds in her win at Lone Star Park might be the long layoff, or it might be the one performance she had on the grass prior to the Chicken Fried Stakes was an eighth-place loss. Regardless, the layoff, the abscess nor the previous poor performance on the turf are all issues that appear to be in the rearview mirror. It even opens up opportunities for this filly to race on dirt or turf.
Miss Code West has only lost one race in eight tries here and that was against open company in the last year’s $200,000 Remington Park Oaks to a Brad Cox-trained runner named Alpine Princess. She was the runner-up to that filly in a keen effort. Alpine Princess is a multiple graded stakes placed filly who has earned more than $600,000 in her career.
A 2-year-old Kentucky-bred in Scholl’s barn has him excited about this meet as well. The Puryears also own this colt, Essential Storm, buying him at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale last fall for $105,000. The colt is by Essential Quality, out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Gaelic Gold. Essential Quality earned almost $5 million in his career, winning the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes and Grade 1 Travers Stakes, and running third in both the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
The 2025 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season will begin Friday, Aug. 8.
The 2025 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season begins Aug. 8. The new regular post time is 6pm-Central.
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Remington Park has provided more than $380 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. The 2025 Thoroughbred Season begins August 8. Must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.
