TRES SEIS HANDICAP ON SUNDAY

COURTESY OF LOS ALAMITOS RACE COURSE

SNOWY ALIBI

GRADE 1 WINNER RUNS IN TRES SEIS 'CAP


Two-time Grade 1 winner Snowy Alibi will make a preparatory start to the November 3 $200,000 guaranteed Bayer Legend Derby Challenge when he faces seven rivals in Sunday's $18,000 Tres Seis Handicap at 350 yards.

Racing for D.D. Lightsey of Caldwell, Texas and trained by Janet Van Bebber, the gelding by This Snow Is Royal arrived at Los Alamitos after running third in the Grade 2 Sam Houston Derby. Three races back, Snowy Alibi won the Grade 3 Bayer Legend Texas Derby Challenge to earn a berth into the Bayer Legend Challenge. The bay colt has amassed $366,894 in his career bankroll.

Snowy Alibi won the $316,000 Sam Houston Futurity and the $343,305 TQHA Sale Futurity last year, a futurity double made him only the third horse in Sam Houston Race Park history to win both of those races. War Colors in 1999, trained by Steve Van Bebber, and Azoom, conditioned by Frank Cavazos in 1994, are the only other 2-year-olds to accomplish the feat.

After the Sam Houston Futurity, Van Bebber said the following about Snowy Alibi: "We brought this horse (in 2005) and he needed surgery following the yearling sale. That would have set a lot of (owners) back and given them a bad taste in their mouth, but I assured (the Lightseys) that everything would be okay; we just needed to be patient. We waited to start the colt; we gave him the time he required, both physically and mentally and now it's paid off. I feel so fortunate that we've had this success with him."

Van Bebber has enjoyed great success at Los Alamitos in the past, in particular when saddling Tailor Fit to victory in the 2001 Champion of Champions. She has won five Sam Houston training titles and trained two AQHA World Champions.

Fat Royality, winner of the Garden Grove Handicap, Go And Hide, winner of the Sgt Pepper Feature Handicap at 56-1 odds, Flysix, a stakes winner in 2006, and the multiple stakes placed runner Don Juan Bryan SA will also race. Voodoo Chilly, Keep The Sign and Fishers Chenille complete the field.


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The Tres Seis Handicap is named in honor of the 2001 AQHA Champion 2-Year-Old Colt. Tres Seis won six of 12 races in his career for earnings of $856,901. The son of Sixarun won the Golden State Futurity, finished second in the All American Futurity and All American Derby and was third in the Los Alamitos Million Futurity. He is now standing at JEH Stallion Station-Texas in Pilot Point, Texas.