Easy Dashin Sixes
-photo by Sandra Beck/Coady Photography

Wowzer Won
-photo by Sandra Beck/Coady Photography

Easy Dashin Sixes, Wowzer Won Top Qualifiers for Bank of America Texas Challenge Championship and Merial Distaff Texas Challenge at SHRP

(Houston, Texas - Saturday, June 26, 2010) - The trials for the Bank of America Texas Challenge Championship for three-year-olds and upward going 440 yards and the Merial Distaff Texas Challenge for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and upward, going 400 yards were held on Saturay, June 26 at Sam Houston Race Park.

In the Bank of America Texas Challenge Championship trials, Jesus Huitron's favored Easy Dashin Sixes emerged as the fastest qualifier, rallying to the lead and pulling clear to a 1 1/4 length victory in :21.632. The five-year-old bay gelding by Streakin Sixes out of the Dash For Cash mare Easy Dashin Flo earned a Speed Index of 97 for his effort. He is trained by Eusevio Huitron and was ridden to victory by David Pinion.

Below is the full list of qualifiers for the final, which will be held on Saturday, July 10:

Horse Jockey Trainer Qualifying Time
Easy Dashin Sixes David Pinion Eusevio Huitron :21.632
Double Chiseled Jeremy Garcia Albert Franco :21.814
Special Headlines Saul Ramirez, Jr. Christian Rubalcava :21.817
Teton Snowman Rodrigo Sigala Vallejo Erasmo Hernandez :21.920
Stolis Winner G. R. Carter, Jr. M. Heath Taylor :21.923
XO Kate Santos Carrizales Javier Noel Contreras :21.947
Classified Bull Luis Ramirez Paul Ramirez :22.034
Mr La Bubba Dewel Paul Smith Jonathan Castaneda :22.079
Kid Perry Danny J. Lavergne Larry Kopycinski :22.089
A Stoli Mate David A. Alvarez Robert J. "Bobby" Touchet :22.225

Kathleen O'Matey's Wowzer Won was the fastest qualifier for the Merial Distaff Challenge for fillies and mares going 400 yards. The five-year-old mare by Streakin Sixes out of the Calyz mare Four Oh Won managed to get up at the wire for a neck win over Coeur D Alene in :19.884 to earn a Speed Index of 97. She is trained by Judd S. Kearl and was ridden to victory by Rodrigo Sigala Vallejo.

Below is the full list of qualifiers for the final, which will be held on Saturday, July 10:

Horse Jockey Trainer Qualifying Time
Wowzer Won Rodrigo Sigala Vallejo Judd S. Kearl :19.884
Coeur D Alene J. R. Ramirez Edward Ross Hardy :19.915
Dashin Chick Jerry Lee Yoakum Jesse Yoakum :20.124
Shadaisy 123 Jerry Lee Yoakum C. Dwayne "Sleepy" Gilbreath :20.272
Southern Hills Cipriano Uscanga Vidana Manuel Vega, Jr. :20.295
La Jolla Suspect Santos Carrizales Jorge Haddad :20.351
A Relagate High Cipriano Uscanga Vidana Francisco Javier Vega, Jr. :20.368
Lethal Star Gaspar Garcia Guy Hopkins :20.380
ICU Can Zoom Saul Ramirez, Jr. Bobby Martinez :20.392
Sweet Violets Julian Cantu Eusevio Huitron :20.402
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