See Me Do It Seeks Second World Title

See Me Do It, a 4-year-old filly, will try to wrap up World Champion honors for a second consecutive year in the $172,000 Breeders Championship Classic for quarter horses tonight at Los Alamitos.

She needs to defeat five rivals in the 440-yard highlight of Quarter Horse Breeders Classic Championship Day, consisting of eight stakes worth more than $400,000. Her opponents include two-time divisional champion Dash for Speed, a 5-year-old mare she has never raced.

“I think if she won this or the Champion of Champions (here Dec. 15), she’d be World Champion again,” trainer Bobby Turner said. See Me Do It, who won the Champion of Champions here last year, has won 15 of 18 starts--including her last four at New Mexico’s Ruidoso Downs--and earned $884,833.

See Me Do It will be making her first start in 11 weeks but Turner is not worried.

“She had been off nine months one time and ran her fastest quarter-mile ever in the Rainbow Derby trials at Ruidoso,” he said.

Dash for Speed, See Me Do It’s chief rival, has won 21 of 28 starts and earned more than $1 million but has finished third in this race the last two years. She finished fifth in the Charger Bar Handicap two weeks ago under high weight of 127 pounds. All starters carry 122 tonight.

Blane Schvaneveldt, a 56-year-old Idaho native, will saddle Dash for Speed as well as Wicked Dash, another daughter of Dash for Cash, in the Classic. Dash for Cash has sired all three previous winners of this race and Schvaneveldt has won a record six Breeders Championship races.

Altogether, Schvaneveldt will have 12 horses running tonight and be represented in all the stakes except the Marathon.

A quarter horse celebration, including barrel racing, steeplechasing and a chariot race, will precede the program at 6 p.m.