FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  BROOKS EYES THREE-PEAT IN REMINGTON PARK FUTURITY  Amarillo, Texas, April 27, 2006 “ American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame trainer Jack Brooks is looking for his third consecutive Remington Park Futurity win as he brings three qualifiers to the $568,591 Grade 1 event Sunday at Remington Park.  Brooks, who has won the Remington Park Futurity three times “ with Six Gun Sage in 1990, Eye Yin You in 2004 and again with Crater Lake last year “ saddled six winners in the 12 qualifying heats, qualifying with the first, third and eighth fastest times. The six wins on the card equaled the Remington Park record for training wins during a single racing program. Jacky Martin was aboard each of the Brooks-trained winners.

 

Leading the Brooks-trained trio is fastest qualifier First Prize Robin (Mr Jess Perry-First Prize Dash by Dash For Cash), who broke her maiden with the trial win in :17.526 for 350 yards. Owned by the Claremore, Oklahoma-based partnership of William E. Smith and Lloyd Scherwinski, First Prize Robin made her first start in a maiden race on March 17 and finished a competitive second, beaten by a 1/2-length. Joan Crews Hoyt’s Voghts Gold (Shazoom-Blazen Maven by Blazen Bryan) has done everything right for Brooks with two wins from two starts. He broke his maiden at first asking with a 1 1/4-length victory as the odds-on favorite on March 30, then came back in his Remington Park Futurity trial to win by the same margin at 7-10 odds. His time of :17.704 was the third-fastest qualifying mark.

Brooks third qualifier was Jeff Jones Jess Strawflyin (Strawfly Special-Windy Perry by Mr Jess Perry), who finished strongly to win his trial in :17.836, the eighth-fastest qualifying time. Brooks, who was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2004, has trained the winners of a record eight All American Futurities and the earners of $35,791,971, a mark second only to that of fellow Hall of Famer Blane Schvaneveldt.

Among the freshmen looking to halt Brooks’ Remington Futurity win streak are a trio of Corona Cartels, any one of which could play the spoiler on Sunday. The Bill Price/Eddie Willis combination that campaigned multiple graded-stakes winners A Real Man and Southern Cartel in recent years will start ninth-fastest qualifier Cartel Success (Corona Cartel  Dashing Mariah by First Down Dash). He’s 2-1-0 in three tries and is the biggest earner headed into Sunday’s contest with $71,701 after a victory in the Choctaw Blue Ribbon Futurity (G2) on March 18.

Fifth-fastest qualifier Ivory James (Corona Cartel  Dashin Follies by Strawfly Special), owned by Sylvia Shaw Pitman and Bobby Cox and bred by Michael Pohl, is a full brother to PYC Paint Your Wagon who won the Texas Classic Futurity (G1) and the Lazy E Futurity (RG2), and was second in the Rainbow Futurity (G1) in 2005. Corona With Ice (Corona Cartel – Cairina by Duck Dance (TB)), also bred by Pohl, broke her maiden in her trial by 1 1/2-lengths and posted the 10^th fastest time. 

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