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BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI
OPELOUSAS, LA—OCTOBER 5, 2021—Apollitical B Snow, a 4-year-old son of Apollitical Blood racing for Christopher A. Villatoro, put his three-race win streak on the line in Saturday’s 350-yard, $35,000 Mid-City Stakes (R) for Louisiana-breds at Evangeline Downs.
Apollitical B Snow won three stakes at three different distances during the Delta Downs meet, including the 440-yard, $75,000 Louisiana Classic (RG2) on July 31. The gelding has earned $111,798 from four starts this season.
Apollitical B Snow drew post 8 and will be ridden by Everardo Rodriguez for trainer Rosendo Valdez Jr.
Other contenders include Lifeinthefastlanes, a 4-year-old daughter of champion Jess Louisiana Blue trained by Kenneth Roberts Sr. for Thomas Lipar’s Paragon Farms LlC. Lifeinthefastlanes is coming off of a second-place finish to Apollitical B Snow in the Louisiana Classic. However, the mare has won three of her four outs at Evangeline Downs, including last year’s 400-yard, $274,000 Louisiana QHBA Breeders’ Derby (RG3).
Lifeinthefastlanes drew the rail post and will be ridden by David Alvarez.
The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments:
- Lifeinthefastlanes (David Alvarez)
- He B Swift (Leonardo Rodriguez)
- Black Blood (Juan F. Garcia Jr.)
- Swamp Eagle (Ubaldo Luna)
- Jrs Corona Toast (Arturo Alvarez)
- Sir Louisiana Dash (Raul Ramirez Jr.)
- Cason (Guadalupe Lucio Jr.)
- Apollitical B Snow (Everardo Rodriguez)
- TF Runaway Dashin (Rolando Cabrera)
- El Camino CL (Luciano Duenez)
All Evangeline Downs races can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.