SHAKOPEE, MN – Leading Quarter Horse trainer Jason Olmstead swept the Cash Caravan and Cam Casby Stakes at Canterbury Park on Saturday evening to kick off Minnesota Made Day.

In the inaugural $20,000 Cam Casby futurity, Beep Beep Zoom Zoom broke a bit in the air from post two, but seized the lead and never was threatened, taking the 300 yard Futurity in 15.72.

“We are out of our minds excited,” said Maren Ludemann, who owns Summer Run Inc with her husband Paul.  “We raised this filly and loved watching her grow and develop.  You get a special bond with those.”

The fun name was part ode to Paul’s love of Looney Tunes and Maren’s habit of naming horses that track announcer Paul Allen can have some fun with (remember I Tink I Can I Tink I Can? Another Maren creation).

Olmstead had the full brother, Dickey Bob and Pyc Jess Bite Mydust in the $38,600 Cash Caravan.  Dickey Bob had beat his older brother in every one of their four previous meetings. Each time Jess would break poorly, close sharply and just miss at the wire.

The Cash Caravan started like every other meeting with Pyc Jess Bite Mydust breaking outward from the outside post and Dickey Bob breaking straight and true.  This time, however, by the time the field got to the wire, Jess got his nose up first, his high cruising speed being able to make up for the break – with an assist from a rogue stirrup.

“Both of them are really classy horses,” said Olmstead.  “They go out and they do their jobs.  Cristian [Esqueda, Dickey Bob’s jockey] lot his stirrup or he probably would have outrun him again.”

“We finally outran that horse,” beamed winning jockey Julian Serrano.

“We still don’t know who’s better for sure,” laughed winning owner Bruce Lunderborg.  “If Jess could just break straight he’d really be something.”