World Champion Oak Tree Special Gets First Stakes Winner

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World Champion Oak Tree Special Gets First Stakes Winner



Hijo de Villa became Oak Tree Special's first
stakes winner in the Heritage Juvenile.

—JUNE 3, 2007—The 2003 American Quarter Horse Racing World Champion Oak Tree Special got his first stakes winner on Sunday evening when Hijo de Villa won the $25,000 Heritage Place Juvenile Stakes at Remington Park.
A home-bred racing for Maria M. Velasco Gutierrez, the black gelding is out of the Jet View mare Miss Brd. Guillermo Valdiva saddled the winner with Debbie Freeman aboard to pick up the winners share of $15,000.

Oak Tree Special also got his first stakes-placed runner later on the card when Furrtreeous finished third in the grade 1 $649,400 Heritage Place Futurity. The brown colt owned by Richard Joneson and bred by Vessels Stallion Farm and Joneson picked up $61,044 for his effort.

Owned by Raul Rubalcava, Oak Tree Special earned $628,470 and picked up grade 1 stakes win in the Texas Classic Derby(G1), TQHA Sales Futurity(G1), Dash For Cash Derby(G1), Retama Park Derby(G1), and the Remington Park Derby(G1). He was also named the Racing Champion Three-Year-Old and Three-Year-Old Colt.

The son of Special Task whose first crop is racing this season stands at JEH Stallion Station's Oklahoma Division in Wynnewood.