Quickick with Brian Hernandez, Jr., get the nose up for the win over Sayucan in the Iowa Oaks. (Prairie Meadows photo)
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—Oaklawn-raced horses shined during the annual Iowa Festival of Racing last weekend at Prairie Meadows, accounting for four victories in six stakes races with Oaklawn entrants.
The most lucrative and closest victory belonged to Quickick, who closed with a rush to win Saturday’s $225,000 Iowa Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles.
Ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr., favored Quickick ($4.20) rallied from last to edge Sayucan by a nose. Oaklawn-raced Paradise City finished another 13 lengths farther back in third. The winning time over a good track was 1:45.39.
The Iowa Oaks marked the first career stakes victory for Quickick, who was among the country’s most accomplished 2-year-old fillies after finishing second behind future Eclipse Award winner Immersive in the $600,000 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) Oct. 4 at Keeneland and third behind Immersive in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) Nov. 1 at Santa Anita. Both races were 1 1/16 miles.
Quickick opened 2025 with a fifth-place finish in the $500,000 G3-Honeybee Stakes Feb. 23 at Oaklawn. The 1 1/16-mile Honeybee was Oaklawn’s second qualifying race for the Kentucky Oaks, the country’s biggest event for 3-year-old fillies. Quickick finished seventh in the Kentucky Oaks.
Purchased for $550,000 at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Quickick is trained by Tom Amoss, who won 15 races at the 2024-2025 Oaklawn meeting to tie for 10th in the standings. Quickick has a 2-1-2 record from nine career starts and earnings of $560,400. Quickick is from the first crop of millionaire Grade 1 winner McKinzie. Quickick’s dam, Graeme Six, won the $50,000 Carousel Stakes for older female sprinters in 2008 at Oaklawn.
Goodbye QUICKICK you are an amazing horse & you gave us an unforgettable race. Good luck in the future. @bjfett’s barn seems a little empty now. Thank you to her owners & @TomAmossRacing for shipping her here. pic.twitter.com/tK2xn5Wdu7
— Prairie Meadows (@prmracing) July 8, 2025
In Friday Iowa Festival of Racing results involving Oaklawn-raced horses, odds-on favorite Glengarry ($2.80) won the $100,000 Iowa Sprint for 3-year-olds and up at six furlongs; Insensitive ($16.20) won the $100,000 Iowa Distaff and Won Happy Mama ($16.40) captured the $100,000 Saylorville.
Tyler Bacon, Oaklawn’s runaway leading apprentice jockey in 2024-2025, rode Glengarry to his 1 ½-length victory for co-owner/trainer Doug Anderson of Hot Springs, an Oaklawn regular. Arkansas-bred star Navy Seal, an Oaklawn stakes winner, finished a closing third. Anderson also co-owns and trains Insensitive. Oaklawn stakes winners Wild Bout Hilary, Corningstone and Hoosier Philly finished second, third and fourth, respectively, in the Iowa Distaff.
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— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) July 6, 2025
QUICKICK ($4.20) absolutely flew home in the $225,000 Iowa Oaks at @prmracing. @b_hernandezjr gave a perfectly timed ride on the daughter of @Gainesway's McKinzie. @TomAmossRacing conditions for owners Greenwell Thoroughbreds. pic.twitter.com/PLtLM1wL0t
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Favored Oaklawn-raced Willy D’s ($5.20) set a track record for 1 mile and 70 yards (1:37.98) in a front-running 4 ½-length victory in the $100,000 Michael G. Schaefer Memorial Stakes Saturday at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Oaklawn maiden special weight graduate This Is Uscar finished second. Willy D’s narrowly missed the North American dirt record for 1 mile and 70 yards (1:37.90), according to Equibase, racing’s official data gathering organization. The previous track record (1:39.25) was set by Quite a Handful in 2011. …
Favored Oaklawn-raced Alpine Princess ($3.40) won the $100,000 Mari Hulman George Memorial Handicap Saturday at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Oaklawn-raced Our Pretty Woman was second. …
Oaklawn-raced Dana’s Beauty ($8.20) surpassed $1 million in career earnings with a victory in the $100,000 Indiana General Assembly Distaff Handicap Saturday at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Oaklawn maiden special weight graduate Strikingly Spun finished second and Oaklawn-raced She’s Lookin Lucky finished third. …
Multiple Oaklawn stakes winner Coal Battle finished second in the $300,000 G3-Indiana Derby Saturday. …
Oaklawn maiden special weight graduates Heroic Move and Gould’s Gold finished second and third, respectively, in the $300,000 G3-Cornhusker Handicap Saturday at Prairie Meadows. …
Oaklawn-raced Boss Lady Bailey finished third in the $250,000 G3-Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes Saturday at Delaware Park. …
Oaklawn allowance winner Indy Bay finished third in the $175,000 G3-Victory Ride Stakes Thursday at Saratoga.
