20 June, Aurora, Colorado – Uptown Dannys Boy is making his mark at Arapahoe Park. In his first start at the Colorado track on 22 May, the 4-year-old gray colt broke a 15-year-old track record for five furlongs. Then on Saturday, 18 June, the colt by Burning Sand prevailed in an exciting stretch duel in…
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Two Stakes Wins in Two Days for Ms Dixie and Arapahoe Park
Arapahoe Park Closing Day Results17 August 2014, Aurora, Colorado ~ Ms Dixie (Burning Sand x Dixie Darlene by Wiking) accomplished something that no horse ever has at Arapahoe Park by winning two stakes races in two days at the Aurora, Colorado, track. On Saturday, the filly cruised to a 10-length victory in the COBRA Distaff Sponsored by Soaring Eagle Ranch,…
Breezell LZP Dominates Wathba Stud Farm Cup in Colorado
9 August, 2014, Aurora, Colorado ~ Breezell Lzp (Burning Sand x Lzp Diamond Zell) romped home to an easy win in the 8 August race, the third HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s Wathba Stud Farm Cup race held at the Arapahoe Park in Colorado. Once Breezell Lzp took the…
Marque Arabian Races Climax Arapahoe Park Season
4 August, 2014, Aurora, Colorado ~ Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colorado, will host the Wathba Stud Farm Cup on August 8, the Grade 3 COBRA Distaff Sponsored by Soaring Eagle Ranch on August 16, and the Grade 3 COBRA Classic Sponsored by Crow Valley on August 17 in the final two weeks of the 2014…
Paddys Day Far the Best At Arapahoe Park
25 July, 2014, Arapahoe Park, Colorado ~ Paddys Day (Burning Sand x AK Loretta by Virgule al Maury) ridden by Dennis Collins was another winner in the Arapahoe Park Race-Day Free Medication program on 25 July. Paddys Day set the pace and drew away from the field, looking like a one-horse race. Winning time 1:19:38 –…
Sammy V Gives No Quarter in the Colorado COBRA Sprint
June 25, 2014, Aurora, Colorado ~ Sammy V went straight to the front and never looked back to win the 22 June COBRA Sprint at Arapahoe Park. The speedy gray horse with a name that mirrors owner Sam Vasquez built a quick two-length lead at the end of a quarter-mile and held on for a 1 1/2-length victory over Ms…
Rematch of MS Dixie and Sammy V In COBRA Sprint At Arapahoe Park
June 19, 2014, Aurora, Colorado ~ Ms Dixie, one week removed from winning the COBRA Distaff Sprint for the third year in a row, and Sammy V, coming off a fast allowance victory over Ms Dixie in May, head a talented field of seven for the COBRA Sprint at Arapahoe Park on Sunday, June 22. The…
MS Dixie Goes For Third Cobra Distaff Sprint in Colorado
14 June, 2014, Aurora, CO ~ Ms Dixie, the Darley Award winner as champion 4-year-old filly in 2012 and champion older mare in 2013, will try to win her third straight COBRA Distaff Sprint for Arabians at Arapahoe Park on Sunday 15 June. A field of seven fillies and mares is entered for the $20,000 stakes…
ETRES CHIC Wins First Wathba Stud Farm Cup in Colorado
Wathba Stud Farm Cup Makes Debut at Arapahoe ParkMay 26, 2014, Arapahoe Park, Aurora, Colorado by Jonathan Horowitz ~ Etres Chic picked an ideal time to win her first race at Arapahoe Park in the first Wathba Stud Farm Cup for Arabians held at the Aurora, Colorado racecourse. Jockey Kelsi Purcell gave the 5-year-old bay mare owned…
Mufv It On Over tops at Pleasanton while Mahra T wins again in Colorado
June 23, 2013, Pleasanton, California ~ In a 10 race card, the second race winner, Mufv It On Over (Kador De Blaziet x Mufka PASB) topped the field at the Pleasanton, California, racetrack by such a margin that the race caller had to end with, “wins by a distance!” Out the gate in 4th, the bay…
Mahra T Sets Track Record with Colorado Win
June 16, 2013, Aurora, Colorado ~ Sunday, Race 6 at Arapahoe Park, Colorado, was the Colorado Owner/Breeders of Racing Arabians (COBRA) Sprint Handicap 3 yrs +Purse $19,500, winner 60% Mahra T with Kelsi Purcell up made a good end run, coming in ahead of Golly Bret under Travis Wales for a new track record of 1:16:92 for…
