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OKLAHOMA CITY -- April 21, 2018 - Weetonas Lafawn avenged her string of three consecutive seventh-place finishes by scoring her second lifetime stakes win in the $65,500 Mr Master Bug Stakes for 3-year-old Oklahoma-breds at Remington Park. Exactly 363 days earlier, she won the 2017 Remington Park Juvenile Stakes.

Weetonas Lawfawn was dispatched at 28-1 odds in the wagering and won by three-quarters of a length, covering the 350 yards in :17.151 over a sloppy track while under jockey G.R. Carter. A 10-time American Quarter Horse Association Champion Jockey, Carter earned his second stakes victory of the rainy Saturday evening.

The daughter of Valiant Hero from the Mr Jess Perry mare First Prize Fancy, Weetonas Lafawn is owned by Donald Cavenaugh of Walnut Ridge, Ark. and is trained by Clint Crawford. She earned $36,300 for the win to raise her lifetime earnings to $101,126 with four career wins from eight races.

Weetonas Lafawn paid $59.40 to win, $29.60 to place and $9.60 to show. La Vencedora was the even-money favorite, but closed too late, finishing second while paying $3.20 to place and $2.80 to show. Painted Wine Wagon ran third and paid $9.80 to show. 

Weetonas Lafawn was bred in Oklahoma by Weetona Stanley of Madill, Okla.

The Mr Master Bug is named after the 1982 All American Futurity winner who was bred and owned by Marvin and Lela Barnes of Ada, Okla. Mr Master Bug earned American Quarter Horse Champion honors in three consecutive years from 1982-1984 and retired with more than $1.7 million in earnings. 

Sunday, April 22 is Extreme Racing Day 2018 at Remington Park as the exotic animals compete throughout the afternoon, in between the regular American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa races. The exhibition races will begin the day at 1pm with the Express Ranch Clydesdales’ Match Race. The regular horse racing program starts at 1:30pm.  
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