Hall of Fame trainer
D. Wayne Lukas is the guest speaker at the Jan. 18 American Quarter Horse Association Awards night in Oklahoma City, beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern.
Each year a Canadian Champion is honoured and there are seven contenders foaled in Ontario up for the award along with three from Alberta. The list of contenders follows below.
You can watch the AQHA Awards on a livestream at www.aqha.com/racing.
The AQHA also issued its
Bank of America Challenge Regional series schedule of races and payments. There are three regional races at Ajax Downs in 2017:
https://aqha.com/media/16435/6300-17-52-challenge-regional-schedule.pdf
Dozens of Ontario horsepeople will remain in Oklahoma for the
Heritage Place Winter Mixed Sale on Jan. 19-21 and the catalogue and information can be found here:
http://www.heritageplace.com/services-view/2016-38th-annual-winter-mixed-sale/
2016 AQHA Racing Champion Contenders
CANADIAN CHAMPION
COUNTRYS COMIN BAC (ONT)
7-2(0)-2(1)-0(0) Earnings: $32,983
CRUISINFOURABRUISIN
8-2(1)-5(1)-1(1) Earnings: $30,573
FIESTY ICON (ONT)
7-3(1)-1(1)-1(1) Earnings: $50,802
HICKERSON (ONT)
5-2(0)-1(1)-0(0) Earnings: $28,878
HOME TO VEGAS (ONT)
6-5(1)-0(0)-0(0) Earnings: $40,973
IVORY LADY LEAGUE
7-3(1)-1(0)-1(1) Earnings: $30,697
PANTHER HERO (ONT)
6-2(0)-1(0)-2(1) Earnings: $27,093
POUTN ON THE WAGON
6-6(3)-0(0)-0(0) Earnings: $59,910
SPEEDOCRACY (ONT)
8-2(-0)-1(0)-2(1) Earnings: $29,022
SUGARMANS DELIGHT (ONT)
9-1(0)-2(1)-1(0) Earnings: $29,225
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