OKLAHOMA HORSE RACING HALL OF FAME TRAINER C.R. TROUT SENDS OUT LETTA’S LEGACY FOR BULLET WORKOUT

Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer-owner-breeder C.R. Trout of Edmond sent out 3-year-old Oklahoma-bred filly Letta’s Legacy for an official workout Tuesday. She responded with a brisk effort.

Letta’s Legacy, named for C.R.’s late wife, stopped the clocker’s timer in a blistering :46.43 for the half mile, the fastest time of the day for 14 horses that tried the distance. Only two of those 14 horses broke the 48-second mark.

“She’s named after my late wife, Arletta, who must be looking down on her because she’s awfully quick,” Trout said. “We didn’t really intend to go that fast this morning. David Cabrera was on her and I approached him and he said, ‘I didn’t ask her for nothing. She did that all on her own.’”

Letta’s Legacy showed some promise last year as a 2-year-old at Remington Park when she ran second, beaten two lengths by Champion Horse of the Meet Miss Code West. That filly won three stakes races last fall – the Oklahoma Classics Lassie Stakes, Slide Show Stakes and the Trapeze Stakes (now the Toby Keith Stakes). Letta’s Legacy finished two lengths back of Miss Code West in the Lassie.

“I knew she was special when we broke her because even as a 2-year-old she was one of the calmest fillies we’d ever seen. You could stand her in your living room and she wouldn’t break or knock over a thing. The only reason she’s still a maiden is because she had a little bit of a breathing problem last year. I think we have that all figured out.”

Trout was inducted into the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2017 as one of the great success stories on the track at Remington Park as an owner-breeder-trainer. Trout began as an owner in the late 1970s in New Mexico before coming to Oklahoma in the early 1980s. When Remington Park opened in 1988, Trout asked for stalls and he has had them ever since. He moved to his farm in Edmond, Okla., in 1998, starting a breeding operation. In nearly 40 years in the business, Trout earned Hall of Fame status with such horses as millionaire Oklahoma-bred Shotgun Kowboy at $1,529,984, one of only two Oklahoma-bred horses to win the Oklahoma Derby, the other being Clever Trevor.

Trout also conditioned Maysville Slew, who earned $1,046,409 on the track. Both Maysville Slew and Shotgun Kowboy were graded stakes winners. Trout’s only Grade 1 winner was Shotgun Gulch. That mare won the Grade 1 Vinery Madison Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Kent. In 2011.

One of Shotgun Kowboy’s most impressive races came at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, when he beat Grade 1 winner Mubtaahij, out of Bob Baffert’s Barn. Mubtaahij previously had won the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita in California. Shotgun Kowboy beat Mubtaahij in the Grade 3 $200,000 Lone Star Park Handicap on May 27, 2018.

Trout bred Letta’s Legacy, a daughter of Practical Joke, out of the Sunday Break (Japan) mare Sundayville Break.

COMES THE SUN WORKS BULLET HALF MILE FOR DAVIDSON
Trainer Brent Davidson sent out 3-year-old gelding Comes the Sun for an official workout at Remington Park on Monday and got the bullet (fastest time of the day at the distance) workout at four furlongs. Comes the Sun, for owner-breeder Jennifer Stewart, went the distance in :48.57 handily (with some urging).
It was the bullet of six horses that received official workouts for four furlongs. Only one other horse was under 50 seconds. Comes the Sun has raced six times, with three third-place finishes to his credit, all in Texas. A pair of the third-place runs were at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas and another at Sam Houston Race Park, all in open maidens races.
Two horses tied for fastest mark at Remington, covering three furlongs on Monday – In Bond We Trust and She’s a Bond Too. Davidson trains both of those horses. They went three-eighths of a mile in :36.56 with urging.

The Thoroughbred Season at Remington Park begins Aug. 16 and continues through Dec. 13.

Remington Park has provided more than $354 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 simulcast racing daily and non-stop casino gaming. The 2024 Thoroughbred Season will begin on August 16. Must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.

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