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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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