LETTA’S LEGACY WINS HER FOURTH RACE OF REMINGTON PARK SEASON
Letta’s Legacy won her fourth race in five starts this season at Remington Park on Wednesday night. She has definitely put in her bid for Horse of the Meet honors.
A 4-year-old Oklahoma-bred filly by Practical Joke, out of the Sunday Break (JPN) mare Sundayville Break, may have had to fight her hardest in this first-level allowance for fillies and mares, three and older. showing a lot of heart under jockey David Cabrera. A pair of fast-closing rivals were breathing down her neck in deep stretch of the 5-1/2 furlongs, but Letta’s Legacy bore down. It was like she knew it was for all the marbles and a chance at the top award of the meet.
Letta’s Legacy has already twice-beaten Miss Code West, the two-time defending Horse of the Meet. She also won a stakes race among her four trips to the winner’s circle, stamping her name first on the winner’s circle photo in the $130,000 Oklahoma Classic Distaff Sprint on Oct. 17.
The only loss for Letta’s Legacy came in a five-furlong race on the grass among allowance horses, finishing sixth, beaten 4-1/2 lengths, when owner-trainer-breeder C.R. Trout of Edmond, Okla., experimented with a different racing surface.
The Wednesday win was in open company for Letta’s Legacy, stepping away from Oklahoma-bred action. It was her ninth win from 18 starts lifetime. She was named for Trout’s late wife, Arletta. The swift filly has run first or second at Remington Park in 12-of-13 starts on the main track.
If this race put Letta’s Legacy in the hunt for Horse of the Meet, she will have earned that right. Trainers Sarah Davidson and Bret Calhoun didn’t make it easy on Letta’s Legacy in Wednesday’s allowance. The two of them had Flash Master (11-1 odds) and Haleakala (8-5 second betting favorite), respectively, chipping into the lead of even-money favorite Letta’s Legacy in the fight to the wire. When all was said and done, Letta’s Legacy had held on to win by a neck over Flash Master, who was another nose in front of Haleakala.
The early betting favorite in the race, Beautiful Twice, a second-time starter for top trainer Steve Asmussen, was the pacesetter in the race for the first half-mile, but faded to fourth, 1-1/4 lengths behind the third-place finisher. She went from 6-5 early to off odds of 4-1.
Letta’s Legacy hit the wire in 1:04.73 for the 5-1/2 furlongs, cutting into early fractions of :22.03 for the first quarter-mile, :45.40 for the half-mile, and when the clock for five furlongs clicked in :58.03, Letta’s Legacy had taken the lead.
This was a different realm of racing for Letta’s Legacy on this night. In her other three wins of the meet, she went straight to the front and was never headed. On Wednesday night, Letta’s Legacy broke fifth in a field of six and had to work her way to the front and pass horses for the first time this meet. That forced Cabrera to work with all his might to get her to the wire.
In the end, Letta’s Legacy’s heart was just too big to give up the lead for which she fought so hard. The race may have been a first-level allowance race, but the two horses pushing Letta’s Legacy to the limit had credentials. Flash Master was going for her third win in a row, winning against conditional $20,000 claimers who had not won three races lifetime in her last start. Flash Master won that race by six lengths to make her connections believe she could step up in class with the likes of Letta’s Legacy.
Haleakala was just a nose behind Flash Master and had not run worse than third in five starts in her career. Her speed figures have increased since shipping in from Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., where she ran third in a maiden special weight race on Sept. 15, losing by only 1-1/4 lengths. She broke her maiden last time out at Remington Park by three lengths.
Letta’s Legacy, a home-bred for Trout, paid $4 to win, $2.60 to place and $2.10 to show. She has won nine of her 18 attempts with six seconds and one third. The winning purse of $23,334 pushed her career bankroll to $325,599.
Remington Park 2025 concludes this week with cards scheduled Thursday and Friday with a first post time of 6 p.m. and then 12 races on Springboard Mile Night on Saturday with the first race scheduled at 5 p.m. All times are Central.
Remington Park has provided more than $402 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. The 2025 Springboard Mile, a 2026 Kentucky Derby qualifying points race, takes place Saturday, Dec. 20, the final night of the Thoroughbred Season. Guests must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or to enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.
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