OQHRA

For Immediate Release - Wednesday, February 15, 2017

OKLAHOMA CITY – The top training race of the day took place in the first of 10 on Wednesday at Remington Park. Corona Carmelita flew over the 250 yard training race distance in near training race-record time.

Owned by Paragon Farms of Conroe, Texas and conditioned by Trey Wood, Corona Carmelita covered the training race distance in :13.055 seconds while under a hand-ride from jockey Edwuin Lujan. A 3-year-old Texas-bred filly by Corona Cartel from the First Down Dash mare The Creole Queen, Corona Carmelita’s time was only .100-seconds off the training race mark set by HYO Inseperable here in 2015.

The second day of training race activity was conducted under sunny skies with temperatures in the low 50s. All races were aided by northerly winds between 9-10mph for a steady tailwind throughout the day.

The Remington Park training races are streamed and available for review on the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association website at oqhra.online. More training races will take place at Remington Park on Thursday, Feb. 16, starting at 11am.

The 2017 American Quarter Horse Season at Remington Park will begin on Friday, March 10 and continue thru Saturday, June 3.

Tracked by over 117,000 fans on Facebook and 8,300 Twitter followers, Remington Park is the home of the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Futurity on Saturday, March 25. Remington Park has provided over $165 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Open daily at 10:30am with free parking and admission, Oklahoma City’s only Racetrack & Casino is located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District. For more information, reservations and group bookings please call 405-424-1000, 866-456-9880 or visit remingtonpark.com.