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Fastest Qualifier Mayleen PYC Returns in $240,910 Harrah’s Entertainment Futurity Final


Mayleen PYC will head a full field in Saturday's Grade 3 Harrah’s Entertainment Futurity (G3) at Louisiana Downs.

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BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

BOSSIER CITY, LA—MARCH 16, 2015—Leticia Contreras’ Mayleen PYC, the fastest qualifier, drew post 5 for Saturday’s 300-yard, $240,910 Harrah’s Entertainment Futurity (G3) at Louisiana Downs.

A bay daughter of Pyc Paint Your Wagon trained by Salvador Flores, Mayleen PYC made her career debut with a convincing two-length victory on a sloppy and sealed track in the third of eight trials on March 1. Ricky Ramirez will again ride the filly in the final.

Second-fastest qualifier TG Coronas Memory won the last trial by a nose for his owner, Tomas Gutierrez’s TG Horse Racing LLC. A sorrel colt by Jess A Chicks trained by Jose A. Garcia, TG Coronas Memory drew post 3 and will again be ridden by Alejandro Medina.

The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments—

  1. Ferarri GT (Luis Vivanco)
  2. A Kool Secret (Francisco Calderon)
  3. TG Coronas Memory (Alejandro Medina)
  4. Time For The Senator (David Alvarez)
  5. Mayleen PYC (Ricky Ramirez)
  6. So Smart (Saul Ramirez Jr.)
  7. Cartel Gigi (Jose A. Rodriguez)
  8. Ocean Jess Cartel (Jorge Linares)
  9. First Kool Lajolla (Eddi Martinez)
  10. Baby Separatista (Randy Edison).

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