OPELOUSAS, LA—DECEMBER 4, 2009—World record holder Fast Prize Zoom will face nine rivals on Saturday night when she returns from a five-month layoff in the $50,000 Evangeline Downs Derby.

Racing for breeder Weetona Stanley and co-owner W.E. Smith, the grade 1 winning Shazoom filly is 3-0-2 from seven lifetime... Read More

HOBBS, NM—NOVEMBER 29, 2009—Weetona Stanley and William Smith’s FIRST PRIZE LEESA finished a second to All American Futurity(G1) winner Runnning Brook Gal, the 11-10 favorite, in the Grade 1, $305,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship on a blustery Sunday afternoon at Zia Park.

FIRST PRIZE LEESA ran a... Read More

MADILL, OK—NOVEMBER 8, 2009—Former Broodmare of the YearFirst Prize Dash produced two more winners on Saturday.

First Prize Kate, a two-year-old filly by Fly Jess Fly, won an $11,000 maiden outing at Blue Ribbon Downs on Saturday afternoon for owner Michael Pohl. The sorrel filly covered the 300 yards in... Read More

PURCELL, OK—AUGUST 17, 2009—Fred Stanley of Lady Bug Stallion Station announced today he has purchased ½ interest in the grade 1 stakes winner and grade 1 stakes sire Spit Curl Jess from Arbuckle Stables and moved the horse to Oklahoma Stud Ranch for the 2010 breeding season.

“We are very... Read More

ADA, OK—AUGUST 17, 2009—-Services for Lela Mae Barnes, 81, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Criswell Funeral Chapel in Ada, Oklahoma. Rev. David Sutton will officiate with interment following at Rosedale Cemetery.

Mrs. Barnes died on Friday, August 14, 2009, at a Madill, Oklahoma nursing home.

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