Oklahoma may welcome a new horse into the millionaire club Saturday night and if it happens, it will make a Tulsa owner very happy.
She's All In, owned by Dr. Robert Zoellner of Tulsa, needs to run third or better in the $75,000 Edward J. DeBartolo Memorial Handicap at Remington Park in Oklahoma City to surpass the $1 million lifetime earnings mark
She has bankrolled $991,502 under the tutelage of Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer Donnie Von Hemel. He has won more training titles at Remington Park than anyone in the track's quarter-century history.
She's All In takes on the boys tonight in the 1 1/8-mile race on the turf, but if any mare can handle the cross-gender move, it is this one.
How good is she?
She twice has run right behind Royal Delta, a distaff horse known as the top female thoroughbred in the country. Royal Delta has won the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic the past two years and may add a third this year.
"She's not quite Breeders' Cup caliber," Zoellner said of his charge, "but maybe one of her offspring? This will be her last year to race and then I'd like to breed her to Malibu Moon or Tapit."
Those stallions have Grade 1 bloodlines, meaning an opportunity to sire a horse that could give Zoellner his first Grade 1 winner - and dare to beget dreams of the Kentucky Derby.
"Everyone in this business wants a Kentucky Derby winner," he said. "It's on my bucket list."
She's All In has a way to go before she catches Kip Deville, who earned an Oklahoma thoroughbred-record $3,325,489, including two wins in the Breeders' Cup Mile on the turf.
But Zoellner's mare certainly should garner some recognition among the top Oklahoma-bred fillies and mares of all time. As a millionaire, she would belong in the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame conversation.
She is a multiple-stakes winner and goes in this featured race around 10:15 p.m.
She's All In faces a field of six other horses and is listed as the 2-1 second choice behind 8-5 Daddy Nose Best, a 4-year-old colt who has gained recognition on the national scene for Eclipse Award-winning and Oklahoma hall of fame trainer Steve Asmussen.
This horse raced in the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, two legs of the Triple Crown.
Daddy Nose Best was best known for his win in the $800,000 Sunland Derby prior to the Kentucky Derby. He won again July 19 at Indiana Downs, when he dropped out of stakes conditions back to allowances.
He steps back up into stakes company tonight.
Richard Linihan is marketing director at Fair Meadows in Tulsa.
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