Shotshell Wins $50K Prairie Meadows Qualifying Race for Claiming Crown

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Cecil Peters’ Shotshell rolled to a front-running 7 1/2-length victory in Friday night’s $50,000 Kent Stirling Memorial Iron Horse Claiming Crown Prep at Prairie Meadows, receiving an automatic berth in the corresponding Claiming Crown race Nov. 16 at Churchill Downs.

Trainer Jose Gonzalez, in his first year racing at Prairie Meadows after many years in New Mexico, said his plan is to send the 4-year-old Shotshell to the 1 1/16-mile Claiming Crown Iron Horse...