Zia Park Championship tops big day for Quarter Horses

Zia Park will run five consecutive stakes for Quarter Horses on Sunday, and those races are worth a total of $595,000.

The main event is the Grade 1, $200,000 Zia Park Championship, led by Major Bites, a winner of four stakes in five starts this year, with his lone loss a runner-up finish to reigning world champion Jessies First Down.

The other Grade 1 on the card is the $150,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship, which matches Eagle Coast, winner of the Hobbs America Futurity at Zia, against Tyson Gay, who is 4 for 4.

Zia announcer John McGary and his guest Martha Claussen will discuss the card in a seminar that will be simulcast at 11 a.m. Mountain.

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