Jess Send It tops Wild West Futurity field

When time trials were conducted for the $126,850 Wild West Futurity at Los Alamitos on Oct. 7, Jess Send It had the fastest qualifying time of 17.64 seconds for 350 yards, nearly a tenth of a second quicker than the other nine qualifiers.

Sunday’s final may be equally lopsided. Jess Send It, owned by Keith Nellesen and trained by Paul Jones, figures to be a strong favorite in a race restricted to horses who have started at least twice in Western states other than California, the upper Midwest, or the Western Canadian provinces.

Sunday’s field has runners who raced earlier this year at venues in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington state.

One of four fillies in the final, Jess Send It, who has won 3 of 6 starts and earned $43,994, won the Hadley-Giles Memorial Futurity at Weber Downs in Utah in her second start in May. She later finished second by a nose in the Sandy Downs Juvenile Challenge in Idaho before being transferred from Utah-based trainer Riley Moosman to Jones.

Jess Send It won her debut in California in a division of the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association Breeders’ Futurity at Los Alamitos in September, but was disqualified and placed third for causing interference.

There were no complications to Jess Send It’s win in the Wild West Futurity trials. Jess Send It won by three-quarters of a length over Ladys a Cartel, who is part of the field for the final with the second-fastest qualifying time of 17.73 seconds. Ladys a Cartel won the Pot o’ Gold Futurity in Idaho in May.

Five other qualifiers won divisions of the time trials – Kr Hi Fire (17.79 seconds), Jodee B Valiant (17.81), Staubach (17.81), Arizona Favorite (17.85), and Mister Fdd (17.87).

Arizona Favorite was second in the Pot o’ Gold Futurity.