Thoroughbred Racing Association of Oklahoma (TRAO)

22 hours ago

For Immediate Release
Saturday, November 15, 2025
by Richard Linihan

LETTA’S LEGACY GETS SECOND WIN IN ROW OVER TWO-TIME REMINGTON PARK HORSE OF MEET MISS CODE WEST

OKLAHOMA CITY – Some doubted Letta’s Legacy’s win over two-time Remington Park Horse of the Meet Miss Code West was for real when the former won a 6-1/2 furlong allowance race on Aug. 16.

Letta’s Legacy, a 4-year-old filly owned, trained and bred by C.R. Trout of Edmond, Okla., repeated that effort again Saturday night in a non-conditioned allowance race for Oklahoma-bred fillies and mares, 3 and older, sprinting 6-1/2 furlongs over the main track. Letta’s Legacy, sired by Practical Joke, out of the Sunday Break (JPN) mare Sundayville Break, won for the eighth time in her career and kept Miss Code West from scoring her 13th.

Miss Code West has nothing to despair in her four starts at the meet, winning two stakes races – the $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf at 1-1/16th miles on the grass and the $50,000 Bob Barry Memorial Stakes at 7-1/2 furlongs greensward. She hasn’t appeared as sharp, sprinting on the main track this meet, but she also has chased Letta’s Legacy when that filly has had an easy lead in those two sprints without much pressure up front.

Jockey David Cabrera was sitting chilly on Letta’s Legacy as they approached the turn for home while Floyd Wethey, Jr., was pushing Miss Code West’s neck, asking for more run. When it seemed like Letta’s Legacy had the race in the bag, Miss Code West finally answered Wethey’s call and showed her huge heart. She engaged the winner again down the stretch, but Letta’s Legacy had gotten the early jump and Cabrera had saved enough horse to hold on in gate-to-wire fashion.

Letta’s Legacy held on by a half-length over Miss Code West, the 4-5 odds-on favorite. The runner-up was another 2-3/4 lengths in front of third-place finisher Nice Neighbor (3-1). Artistic Vision (12-1) was fourth and Calebs Lady (14-1) ran fifth. Catale Winemixer and Eireann were both scratches.

Letta’s Legacy was 2-1 in the wagering and paid $6.80 to win, $2.60 to place and $2.10 to show. Running time for the winner was 1:16.79 on the fast track. She made every pole a winning one, setting interior fractions of :22.15 for the first quarter-mile, :45.06 for the half-mile, and 1:10.01 for three-quarters of a mile.

Letta’s Legacy, after Saturday night’s big run and win, has definitely claimed her ground as top older sprinting mare on the grounds among the Oklahoma-breds. She earned $26,400 from the $44,000 purse and improved to 17 starts, eight wins, six seconds and one third for a bankroll of $302,265.

Miss Code West, trained by Kevin Scholl for owners Jeffry and Julie Puryear of Denton, Texas, still has a sparkling record of 17 starts, 12 wins and three seconds for total earnings of $573,277. Scholl has hinted we may see her again in the She’s All In Stakes on closing night, Dec. 20. If Miss Code West were to rebound, stretching back out in that route race, she would have three stakes wins for the meet and would remain in the running for her third Horse of the Meet award, something only Welder has done at Remington Park. Welder is the all-time winningest horse in Oklahoma City with 16 wins at this track.

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Thoroughbred Racing Association of Oklahoma (TRAO)

22 hours ago

For Immediate Release
Friday, November 14, 2025
by Richard Linihan

WINNER OF FEATURED ALLOWANCE SEEMED EXTREMELY APPROPRIATE AS VICTORY FOR VETS WINS DURING VETERANS DAY WEEK

OKLAHOMA CITY – It had to happen. Victory for Vets, appropriately enough, was the winner of Friday night’s featured allowance at Remington Park, just days after the Veterans Day holiday week.

It was a tough fight for Victory for Vets, a 4-year-old Texas-bred gelded son of Tapiture, from the Smart Strike mare Diamondinthestream. He was all out against King Russell in the stretch, who dug in down on the rail to give Victory for Vets a tussle.

However, King Russell, who finished second, was disqualified for interfering with a tiring Classic Cut with just over a furlong left in the one-mile race. King Russell came off the rail as Big Bernie was bearing in slightly and Classic Cut, between them, was squeezed back. Meanwhile, Victory for Vets, under jockey Jose Alvarez, took advantage of the fight for space to his inside and rolled outside of the fray, down the middle of the track to win.

After the disqualification, Presidential was pushed up from third to second and Big Bernie was moved up to third place. Creative Minister was the eventual fourth place finisher after being elevated due to King Russell getting disqualified from second and placed last behind Classic Cut, the recipient of the interference.

Alvarez, riding for trainer Bret Calhoun, allowed the front-running battle early on with three horses engaging on the lead – Classic Cut, King Russell and Big Bernie – as he sat back in sixth in the seven-horse field. He cut into the early fractions of :24.80 for the first quarter-mile, :48.47 for the half-mile, and 1:12.29 for six furlongs. By that time, Victory for Vets was making his move down the middle of the stretch. He hit the 7-furlong mark in 1:24.78 and won in 1:37.46 over the fast track.

Victory for Vets won the allowance for horses that had not won two races since May 14 or had not won four races lifetime. These were 3-year-olds and older. The winning margin was 1-1/4 lengths for Victory for Vets as the 2-1 wagering favorite with Creative Minister also going off at 2-1. Victory for Vets paid $6.20 to win, $3.20 to place and $2.60 to show.

Victory for Vets earned $25,064 for owner James Stodola of Denton, Texas and improved his career mark to 21 starts, eight wins, three seconds and three thirds with total earnings of $334,459. He was bred by AsmussenEquine.com. Originally, Victory for Vets was sold for $57,000 at the Texas Thoroughbred Association Yearling Sale of 2022, but was then pinhooked into the TTA 2-year-old in Training Sale and that’s when Stodola picked him up for $70,000, just $13,000 more than his original sale price.

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