Thoroughbred Racing Association of Oklahoma (TRAO)

22 hours ago

OKLAHOMA HORSE RACING HALL OF FAMER C.R. TROUT WORKS MULTIPLE STAKES WINNER LETTA’S LEGACY AT REMINGTON Remington Park
For Immediate Release

Tuesday, August 4, 2026
by Richard Linihan



OKLAHOMA CITY – Owner-trainer-breeder C.R. Trout sent out multiple-stakes winner Letta’s Legacy for her first official workout of the Remington Park preseason on the final day of July. The talented sprinter is prepping for the upcoming meet.



Trout’s “Queen” of the barn has won six of her last seven starts and was a stakes winner at Remington Park last fall, winning the $99,600 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Sprint Handicap by a head on Oct. 17, 2025. Jockey David Cabrera, her regular rider, was aboard for that victory.



“Oh, yeah,” said Trout. “He loves her; he even wants to work her in the morning,” Trout said of Cabrera. Letta’s Legacy worked this past Friday, covering a half-mile in :48.80, handily over a fast track.



The 5-year-old Oklahoma-bred mare’s record coming into this meet is 22 starts, 12 wins, six seconds and one third for earnings of $418,383. Half of those trips to the winner’s circle have been in stakes races. Letta’s Legacy did get votes for Horse of the Meeting during the 2025 Remington Park season, after beating Miss Code West twice in allowance sprints. Despite the wins, Miss Code West was voted her third consecutive Horse of the Meeting honor.



“I was disappointed we didn’t get Horse of the Meet,” said the 81-year-old trainer from Edmond, Okla. “My whole family was, too. I thought we deserved it. It’s like they said, ‘Miss Code West won three stakes and we only won one.’ We might try something different this year. Miss Code West is a nice filly and I’m glad they won it if we didn’t.”



The only race she lost in her last seven is when she ran fourth at Lone Star Park in the Memorial Day Sprint Stakes there.



“I really shouldn’t have run her there,” Trout said. “The track was hard. The winner went in 1:08 and 4/5ths in that race. They shipped in from everywhere. You might see that winner (Thermal) in the Breeders’ Cup.



Thermal is a 5-year-old Ontario-bred mare, trained by John Sadler and was ridden to an 8-1/4 length victory in the Memorial Day Sprint Stakes on May 25 with jockey Luis Saez up. The winner had shipped from Santa Anita on the West Coast to run in that $100,000 race. Letta’s Legacy was more than double digits back in fourth.



The great thing for Trout, he said, was that she came out of that race in tip-top shape and has never really had a blemish on her chart of physicality.



“She is a Godsend,” he said. “She may be so sound because my (late) wife (Arletta) is watching out for her. She broke bad in Dallas and we spotted them eight to 10 lengths at the start.”



Letta’s Legacy was named as a tribute to the late Arletta Trout.



Since Letta’s Legacy won three races in a row to finish the Remington Park meet last year, the last one in allowance company on Dec. 17, the mare has continued her winning ways. Trout gave her some time off and she came back with two stakes victories at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., and one at Fair Meadows in Tulsa.



There were other prominent stakes winners that dotted the work tab the past few days, including:

Tuesday, Aug. 4

Sky Rocker – A 6-year-old Texas-bred mare by Sky Kingdom, out of the Special Rate mare Special Rockstar is trained by Mindy Willis and owned and bred by Star Bright Thoroughbreds. The mare worked Tuesday and got the bullet for four furlongs in :47.61, handily. She is a multiple stakes winner at Lone Star Park, taking the Lane’s End Danny Shifflet Scholarship Stakes in back-to-back years at Grand Prairie, Texas. The last win in that race came on June 13 of this year as she won by a full length at 7-1/2 furlongs on the turf. Record: 25 starts, 8 wins, 2 seconds, 3 thirds for earnings of $296,064.



Monday, Aug. 3

Mo For Us – This 5-year-old Louisiana-bred mare, conditioned by Steve Asmussen, a 20-time leading trainer at Remington Park, went a half-mile in :50.26, handily. She is a stakes winner in the Rosewater Stakes at Delta Downs on Dec. 23, 2025 for owners Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt and Jackpot Farm. She was bred by Adcock’s Red River Farm and Joe Adcock. The mare is by Mo Tom, from the Graeme Hall mare Bovell Road. Record: 19 starts, 6 wins, 4 seconds, 5 thirds for earnings of $326,075.



Sunday, Aug. 2

Optimist Cowgirl – This 7-year-old Texas-bred mare by Optimizer, out of the Dynameaux mare Dynamic Cowgirl, comes from the barn of owner-trainer Eduardo Cruz. The mare was bred by Richard A. Mays, DVM. She won the Fiesta Mile Stakes at Lone Star Park on July 5, 2025 and the Miss Bluebonnet Turf Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park in Houston on Feb. 15, 2025. Her record at Remington Park is 7 starts, 1 win, 2 seconds, 1 third for earnings of $42,047 with the victory coming against allowance horses on the turf in September 2022. She worked the bullet at a half-mile in :48.94, handily. Her career record: 29 starts, 6 wins, 5 seconds, 8 thirds for earnings of $277,051.



Among the other stakes winners that hit the track for workouts over the weekend were Miss Code West, Won Happy Mama, Connors Outlaw, Country Caper, Excaping the Blues, High Front, Dimatic, Ritzaphena, Sawasdee and Saline River.



The 2026 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season begins Friday, Aug. 21 and continues to Saturday, Dec. 19.



Remington Park has provided more than $417 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. The 2026 Thoroughbred Season at Remington Park will begin on August 21. Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. Guests must be 18 or older to wager on horse racing or to enter the casino gaming floor. Visit remingtonpark.com for more information. ... See MoreSee Less

Thoroughbred Racing Association of Oklahoma (TRAO)

6 days ago

THREE-TIME HORSE OF MEETING, MISS CODE WEST, BEGINS HER HUNT FOR HISTORY, PREPPING FOR REMINGTON PARK SEASON

by Richard Linihan

OKLAHOMA CITY – When Miss Code West races this fall at Remington Park, she will be trying to make history, doing something no other horse has ever done at this Oklahoma City track. She will be going for her fourth Horse of the Meeting title.



When Miss Code West won the award last year for the third year in a row, she tied the Oklahoma legend, Welder, for the most Horse of the Meeting trophies here. Welder, who won more races than any horse at Remington Park with 16, was owned by (the late Clayton Rash) Ra-Max Farms and was trained by Teri Luneack. He won his Horse of the Meeting trophies from 2018-2020. Miss Code West currently has 10 victories at Remington Park, nine of those in black-type company, two behind Welder’s local record of 11 total, all won consecutively. Miss Code West has won five stakes races in a row. She ran second in the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks on Sept. 29, 2024.



“I think there was a lot more pressure last year, trying to tie Welder’s record (of three Horse of the Meet trophies) than trying to break it this year,” said Miss Code West’s trainer Kevin Scholl. “But we’re definitely excited about going for it.”



The 5-year-old Oklahoma-bred mare by Code West, out of the Kipling mare Inca Miss, is owned by Jeffry and Julie Puryear of Denton, Texas, and was bred in Oklahoma by Bryan Hawk. Scholl, a former jockey, is Miss Code West’s exercise and workout rider and he sent her to the track for the first time this summer on Saturday, July 25. The multiple stakes winner worked a half-mile in :49.38 seconds, handily, as she began her preparation for the upcoming meet. The 2026 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season begins Friday, Aug. 21 and continues to Saturday, Dec. 19.



“She did really well (in the workout),” Scholl said. “She loves to run and she loves Remington Park.”



How does he know that?



“Oh, she knows she’s here,” he said. “When she got off the van (from the farm in Texas), she looked straight over to the grandstand.”



If her 2026 efforts at Remington Park are anything like the meet she had last year, Miss Code West with jockey Floyd Wethey, Jr., in the saddle should be a stellar one. She comes into this meet the same way she did last year, with only one race under her belt since she left here last December. In 2025 at Remington Park, she won three stakes races – the Bob Barry Memorial, the Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf and the She’s All In Handicap - and picked up two seconds in her five starts here. There aren’t a lot of stakes races that fit the conditions of this mare where Scholl and the Puryears want to race, so she enjoys a lot of time off after Remington Park’s annual meet.



After the 2024 season at Remington Park, Scholl laid her up from Dec. 13, 2024 to June 28, 2025. That is when he ran her in the Chicken Fried Stakes at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, on the turf at five furlongs, where she won by a half-length. He didn’t send her out again until an allowance race at Remington Park on Aug. 16, 2025. When her campaign was over in 2025 in Oklahoma City, she was laid off again from Dec. 20, 2025 to June 27 this summer when she once again won the Chicken Fried Stakes, again by a half-length.



“That was the game plan all along,” Scholl said. “We turned her out again and she felt good (after the rest) when she won the Chicken Fried Stakes again. I think she prefers the turf, but she can run on either-or. I think we will start her out in that grass stakes on Sept. 11 at 7-1/2 furlongs (the Shawn Bergquist Memorial Stakes, formerly the Bob Barry Memorial, won by Miss Code West last year). We are looking at running her in three stakes here.”



In her career, Miss Code West’s record is 19 starts, 14 wins and three seconds for $687,652 earned. She was purchased in the Texas Thoroughbred Association Yearling Sale in 2022 for $12,000.



Until last year, she had only lost once at Remington Park and that was to Alpine Princess in the open company Oaks. In 2025, she lost twice to Letta’s Legacy, who runs out of the barn of Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame owner-trainer-breeder C.R. Trout. Scholl said he wasn’t surprised Miss Code West won her third Horse of the Meeting last year despite losing to Trout’s mare twice.



“Not really surprised,” he said. “More grateful. Our horse won three stakes races and theirs only won one.”



Letta’s Legacy has made quite a name for herself as well, being a multiple stakes winner who has compiled a record of 22-12-6-1 with $418,383 in earnings. This 5-year-old Oklahoma-bred mare has won six of her last seven starts, four of them stakes victories. Her only loss in that sequence was a fourth-place finish in the Memorial Day Sprint Stakes at Lone Star Park on May 25 this year. She has won her last three starts at Remington Park, one of those in black-type company in the Oklahoma Classics Distaff Sprint Handicap.



Remington Park has provided more than $417 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. The 2026 Thoroughbred Season at Remington Park will begin on August 21. Remington Park presents year-round simulcast racing and casino gaming. 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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