Unbeaten Tres Crystals faces deep cast in Heritage Place Futurity

The 95-year-old Elizabeth Logan has one of the best young horses at Remington Park.

Tres Crystals will be looking for his second major stakes win at the track’s Quarter Horse meet Saturday night in the Grade 1, $1.1 million Heritage Place Futurity.

Earlier in the season, Tres Crystals captured the $440,000 Oklahoma Futurity.

The Heritage Place is one of 10 stakes on a closing-night card that includes an appearance by reigning world champion Danjer in the Grade 1, $250,000 Debbie Schauf Remington Park Championship. Purses for the program top $2.5 million. The card starts at 5 p.m. Central.

Logan, of Oklahoma, has watched Tres Crystals win all three of his career starts this meet at Remington. He won his trial for the Oklahoma Futurity by a length and a quarter in his March 5 debut, then won the finale by a head March 19.

Tres Crystals went on to capture his trial for the Heritage Place Futurity on the second night of trials May 6. He covered 350 yards on a fast track in 17.42 seconds. Bryan Candanosa was aboard for trainer Dee Keener and will be back aboard for the finale Saturday.

Despite his record, Tres Crystals could go off as third choice in the Heritage Place.

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Fancy Scarface could go favored for the dominance he displayed in his trial. He was a three-length winner May 6, in a time of 17.35 seconds. It was the fastest qualifying time that night at Remington

Ivory Senator might be the second choice as he comes armed with the fastest overall qualifying time of 17.27 seconds, achieved on the first night of trials May 5.

Juan Pulido was aboard both qualifiers for Remington leading trainer Santos Carrizales Jr. The horses were not entered with riders as their jockeys were to be named on Thursday, according to a press release from Remington.

Danjer is part of an eight-horse field for the Remington Park Championship. He is making his second start of the year after losing all chance at the break in his 6-year-old debut April 30 when eighth in the Grade 1 Leo Stakes at Remington.

Jess My Hocks and Instygator, who finished one-two in that race, both return for the Remington Park Championship.

Danjer will break from post 4 under regular rider Cody Smith. Dean Frey trains Danjer, who won this race a year ago. Frey co-owns Danjer with Downtime Enterprises.

Danjer is one of three millionaires in the field Saturday night, alongside Instygator and Los Alamitos invader Flash Bak.

Jess My Hocks will be looking for his third straight win at the meet, with his streak starting in the Grade 2 Remington Park Challenge qualifier for the Challenge Championship. He’s the “Clydesdale” of the starters in the Remington Park Championship, having weighed 1,326 pounds going into the Challenge qualifier and 1,309 into the Leo, according to a press release from Remington.