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This week’s featured guest is Orlando Gutierrez, Marketing Director and Publicity Director at Los Alamitos Race Course. Orlando provided us exclusive knowledge at one of the sport’s most influential racetracks.

In this week’s racing recap, Thompson and Ivey break down the stakes action from Zia Park, highlighting key performances from the Zia Stakes, while also recapping the two major races from Los Alamitos, where championship-caliber runners continued to shape the late-season narrative. The preview segment turns attention to Evangeline Downs, where 12 major stakes races are on deck.

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QH Racing Talk WEEKLY Podcast: Ep. 43 - December 10, 2025. Segments include: A Look At The Leaderboard in QH Racing, Racing Preview- Champion of Champions(G1) 2025, Trivia Contest Roll-Out, and a look at the 2026 OQHRA Hall of Fame inductees, and featured guest: Javier Rodriguez of La Feliz Montaña Ranch.

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Co-hosted by Greg Thompson and Bailey Ivey of StallioneSearch.com, QH Racing Talk – Weekly also expands the show’s conversational backbone. Each episode features special guests from across the industry—trainers, jockeys, owners, breeders, and others—who provide valuable context to the performances and storylines shaping Quarter Horse racing.

The premiere episode launches with Thompson and Ivey recapping stakes results from the weekend of November 22–23 and turns the page to one of the sport’s headline events: the $2 million Los Alamitos Futurity. The show features an interview with trainer Xavier Rodriguez, who discusses Grade 1 winner Political Twist and what lies ahead for the standout runner.

Listeners will also hear a timely update from Rick Baugh on the ongoing drive supporting the 2026 Ruidoso Downs race meet, alongside a conversation with Spence Kidney previewing the Champions of the Future Online Sale at Heritage Place.

The episode continues with Laura Joiner, who outlines details for the Sam Thompson Scholarship Fund stallion auction set for the 2026 Heritage Place Winter Mixed Sale.

A featured discussion brings in former AQHA Champion jockey Ricky Ramirez and Ruidoso Race Horse Hall of Fame trainer Blane Wood, who reflect on their win in the 2025 All American Futurity (G1) at Ruidoso Downs.

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StallioneSearch.com's Greg Thompson interviews multiple key players going into the 2025 Labor Day weekend at The Downs In Albuquerque. Interviews with: All American Futurity(G1) winning and former AQHA World Champion Jockey Ricky Ramirez, trainers Xavier Rodriguez and Luis Iturralde, and multiple AQHA World Champion Jockey Francisco Calderon. Racing analyst Tom Dawson also joins the podcast to discuss both the futurity and the derby fields going into the weekend.

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StallioneSearch continues the 2025 podcast season with the release of episode 40 of the Quarter Horse Racing Talk Podcast. This episode features a revisit with the shows first repeat guest in G.R. Carter, Jr., 10-Time AQHA World Champion and AQHA Hall of Fame Jockey.

Carter expands the discussion about his historic racing career as he recollects in depth about some of the legendary figures he was granted access to throughout this racing career that ended as him being the all-time leading rider in almost every category.

The host of the podcast, Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com, engages in a comprehensive discussion with Carter as he recalls stories ranging from the legendary figure of Walter Merrick, Robert Adair, Kip Didericksen, Jacky Martin, Joe Badilla, Cody Jensen, etc.

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In this episode, Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com interviews the son Ruidoso Racehorse Hall of Fame member, Walt Wiggins, Sr., with a broad discussion of Ruidoso Downs, from the history of the Ruidoso sale to the expansion to what we now know the track to be to this day. During his lifetime, Walt Wiggins, Jr. was exposed to the celebrities that visited that mountain-top racetrack in New Mexico, as well as the superstars of the sport that define what is considered legendary status in the sport.

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The 2025 Podcast season kicks off with a discussion with 5-Time AQHA World Champion, two-time Champion of Champions(G1) winner, and All American Futurity(G1) winning jockey Kip Didericksen.

Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch explores one of the more unique careers in QH racing history that results in five World titles in only seven-years of race riding.

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Ruidoso Race Horse Hall of Fame trainer Paul C. Jones, who is considered by many as one of the top trainers in the history of Quarter Horse racing, is the focus of episode 37 of the QH Racing Talk podcast on StallioneSearch.com.

The all-time leading trainer in earnings with over $90-million in career earnings, and the 14-time AQHA World Champion trainer talks with Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com about his illustrious career that has included six wins in the Champion of Champions(G1), and three wins in the prestigous All American Futurity(G1). According to AQHA records (as of October 23, 2023), Jones is also the all-time record-setter of stakes wins in his career with 459.

A native of California, who has been a regular at the famed Los Alamitos Race Course in Los Alamitos, California since childhood, Jones started through the ranks while working for his father, long-time trainer Paul T. Jones. Paul C. Jones took out his trainers license in the early-1990's, and continues to pad the statistics with his ongoing career in multiple categories where he is the all-time leader.