Adore, riding winning streak, targets Ricks Memorial

Adore is headed back to stakes competition after winning her third straight race in a recent allowance at Remington Park.

Trainer Steve Asmussen said Adore is on pace to run in the $75,000 Ricks Memorial on Sept. 30. The 1 1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares is on the Oklahoma Derby undercard at Remington.

Adore won on turf for the first time in the Aug. 31 allowance. She led throughout for a threelength win and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 84.

Adore’s streak began in May with a win in an off-the-turf allowance at Lone Star Park. She proceeded to capture the $75,000 Spotted Horse at a mile on the main track June 23 at Evangeline Downs. Adore’s last three wins have come by a combined 13 lengths, with her best career Beyer, a 92, coming in the Spotted Horse.

“She’s good at winning,” Asmussen said. “She’s 8 for 18 overall, so I feel good about that.”

Adore is a 5-year-old mare by Big Brown who races for Winchell Thoroughbreds.

Stakes double at Remington

Remington puts on a pair of Oklahoma Stallion Stakes divisions on Friday night. The races are for 3-year-olds over seven furlongs, and each has a purse of $30,000.

The fillies’ division goes as the first race on the program, and Three Chords will get good support for a starter-allowance win two races back at Oaklawn. She romped by 10 3/4 lengths, and the Beyer Speed Figure of 80 that she earned is the best career number in the Oklahoma Stallion Stakes field.

Alex Birzer has the mount for Dream Walkin’ Farms and trainer Kenny Smith on Three Chords, who is making her first start since April.

The chief threat could be Annieruok, who has a recency edge on the top choice, having last raced in August.

The colts-and-geldings division goes as the second race and drew a well-bred pair in Shotgun’s Night and Shannon C. Shotgun’s Night is a halfbrother to Shotgun Kowboy, a multiple Grade 3 winner who has earned $1.2 million. Shannon C is out of the mare Miranda Diane, a six-time stakes winner who earned $416,258.

Zippit E retired at 5

Zippit E, a four-time stakes winner, has been retired, said trainer Bret Calhoun.

Zippit E was second by a nose in the $50,000 Fiesta Mile in her career finale Aug. 4 at Retama Park. She retires with a record of seven wins from 19 starts and earnings of $216,891. Zippit E, the reigning Texas-bred older filly or mare, raced for her breeders, Wayne Sanders and Larry Hirsch.

“Zippit E is retired, and we pretty much had that plan before the last race,” Calhoun said. “We felt like there weren’t going to be a lot of opportunities for her to run, so we thought this was a good stopping point.”

There is no racing in Texas until the Sam Houston meet opens in January, and the Texas Champions stakes have been pushed back two months to March. Zippit E won a pair of stakes this year, one on dirt at Sam Houston and the other on turf at Lone Star.

“She’s very consistent,” said Calhoun. “We asked her to do a lot of different things, and she was able to do a lot of different things. We ran her short, ran her long, on the dirt, on the grass. She won just about every place we put her. She was able to do all of it.”

Calhoun said breeding plans are being determined. Zippit E is a 5-year-old by My Golden Song.

◗ Supermason, the winner of the Assault Stakes in his last start July 15 at Lone Star, is being freshened, said Calhoun. He is turned out at owner Brad Grady’s farm in Ocala, Fla. Supermason is a seven-time stakes winner who has earned $408,125.