The LQHBA Breeders Futurity,
for two-year-olds bred in Louisiana, will be run at the distance of 400 yards
and features a field of ten juveniles who earned their way into this rich event
by recording the ten fastest running times during the 11 trials contested on
Friday, October 26. Traditionally the richest race offered annually at
Evangeline Downs, the LQHBA Breeders Futurity has offered a purse of more than
$500,000 for the past half-dozen years but with the backing of the LQHBA the
purse has been increased to this historic level for the 2012 running of the
Restricted Grade I event. In addition to the LQHBA Breeders Futurity, there are
three other stakes races on the rich ten-race program (the stakes races will be
run as the 6th, 7th,
8th, & 9th races) each to be run at the same distance
of 400 yards. They are the $40,000 Invitational Breeders Stake (the consolation
for the LQHBA Futurity featuring the second ten fastest qualifiers) and the EVD
Derby for three-year-olds going the distance of 400 yards which after being
oversubscribed has been split into two divisions each featuring a purse of $50,000.
T Boy C, who
recorded the fastest qualifying time of 19.639 of the more than 100 youngsters
who participated in the trials has been tabbed as the 4/1 lukewarm favorite in
the morning-line. Conditioned by Miguel Rodriguez, who won this event last year
with Rapid Transit, T Boy C’s speed index figure of 95 in his trial is the
highest recorded by any runner in the field. Raul Ramirez Jr., who has ridden
the gelded son of Sir Runaway Dash in all five of his career starts, will ride.
Owned by Jose Guzman, T Boy C has drawn post position #3 in the ten-horse
field.
Open Me a Corona
& Cougar Hill, who finished noses apart in their trial, recorded the second
and third fastest qualifying times of 19.667 & 19.674 and are listed at
odds of 9/2 & 5/1 in the morning-line odds and will leave the starting gate
side-by-side with regular riders David Alvarez & Jerry Lee Yoakum as they have
drawn post positions #6 & #5 respectively. Others who are expected to have
a say in the outcome include trial winners Heza Fast Snow, Perrys Runaway, and
Dashin Gage, who are all listed at odds of 6/1 in the opening odds.
Carded as the 9th
race on Saturday’s ten-race program, the approximate post time for the LQHBA Breeders
Futurity is 9:00 pm. The Invitational Breeders Stake is the 8th race
on the card and is set to run at 8:35 pm. The two divisions of the EVD Derby
are carded as the 6th and 7th races on the program and
are set to run at 7:45 pm and 8:10 pm, respectively. All post times are
Central.
Here is the field in
program order with odds for the $1,000,000 LQHBA Futurity to be run at
Evangeline Downs on Saturday, November 19, 2011
1. Perrys
Runaway Donald
Watson 6/1
2. Bigtime
Beau G
R Carter Jr. 8/1
3. T
Boy C Raul
Ramirez Jr. 4/1
4. Heza
Lucky Charm Alfonso
Lujan 20/1
5. Cougar
Hill Jerry
Lee Yoakum 5/1
6. Open
Me a Corona David
Alvarez 9/2
7. Logans
Mountain John
Hamilton 10/1
8. Dashin
Gage Stevie
Gillum 6/1
9. Heza
Fast Snow Danny
Lavergne 6/1
10. Special
Fine Corona Floriberto
Maldonado 20/1
For more information contact Evangeline Downs at
337-594-3000.
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