No Secrets Here
4-Year-Old Colt
(First Down Dash - Dicey Secret by Raise A Secret)

Qualified by finishing 2nd in the Z. Wayne Griffin Directors Trials

Lifetime Record: 19-6-7-4, $1,622,095 2008 Record: 6-0-4-0, $73,715

If No Secrets Here wins the Champion of Champions he will earn $375,000 and raise his lifetime earnings to $1,997,095. That would make him the richest racing stallion of all-time and third richest racehorse ever, only behind three-time Champion of Champions winner Refrigerator ($2,126,309) and last year's Champion of Champions winner Blues Girl Too ($2,032,328). After the Champion of Champions, No Secrets Here will begin his stallion career at Vessels Stallion Farm, where 2007 Grade 1 Los Alamitos Invitational Championship winner Strength In Numbers and 2008 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap winner Stylish Jess Br will head his first book of mares. "After he ran second in the Directors Trials, we left the option open to run in the Champion of Champions," said Vince Genco, the U.S. equine manager for Brazilian-based owner Benny Rosset. "We want No Secrets Here to give us a good showing and we're really excited about having him run in this race."

Owned by Benny Rosset and Vessels Stallion Farm, No Secrets Here earned his Champion of Champions berth following after the connections of Bank of America Challenge Championship winner WRS Special Shoe decided to bypass the Grade 1 classic for older horses. No Secrets Here was eligible to compete in this race based on his runner-up effort to Little Bit Of Baja in the Z. Wayne Griffin Directors Trials. His return to the Champion of Champions lineup is sweet redemption for his connections. Last year, the son of First Down Dash had to be scratched out of last year's race after getting cast in his stall on the days leading up to the race. No Secrets Here enjoyed a great campaign in 2006 after racing the 440 yards over a sloppy track to win the All American Futurity in :20.88. His effort surpassed the 440-yard stakes record of :21.00 set by eventual world champion DM Shicago in 2004. It also made No Secrets Here the first 2-year-old Quarter Horse to record a sub :21 second clocking.

No Secrets Here, the nation's leading earner of 2006, finished third in the Grade 1 Ed Burke Million Futurity and third in the first ever running of the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, only behind champions Blues Girl Too and FDD Dynasty. As a sophomore he ran second to Little Bit Of Baja in the Los Alamitos Super Derby. His mother is Dicey Secret, winner of 12 of 21 starts and $203,666. Cathy Monji campaigned Dicey Secret, whose victories included the 1995 Governor's Cup (RG1), PCQHRA Breeders' (RG3), and California Sires' Cup (RG3) derbies. Vessels Stallion Farm now owns Dicey Secret. No Secrets Here's sire is the legendary First Down Dash, the sport's all-time leading stallion and winner of the 1987 Champion of Champions.

Since 2001, trainer Paul Jones has saddled 20 horses in the Champion of Champions. He will add four more to that number in 2008, as he trains Frankie Shoots, No Secrets Here, Noconi and Stylish Jess Br. The six-time AQHA Champion trainer has won four of the last five runnings of the Champion of Champions. He won it with Co-World Champion Whosleavingwho (2002), The Down Side (2003), Cash For Kas (2004), and World Champion Wave Carver. Jones has also won two All American Futurities, including the 2006 All American with Champion of Champions contender

No Secrets Here. With only a handful of racing nights left at the current meeting, Jones will win the leading Quarter Horse title at Los Alamitos for the 11th straight year in 2008. Paul also holds national single season Quarter Horse records for most wins (309) and earnings ($6,483,552). Paul earned his 1,000 Quarter Horse win at Los Alamitos courtesy of Daves Best Man. Paul is the second all-time leading trianer only behind Hall of Famer Blane Schvaneveldt. Paul and his wife Marin have two young daughters, Mia and Allie.

As the founders of Los Alamitos Race Course, the Vessels family has a long and proud history in Quarter Horse racing. Continuing the tradition are Frank "Scoop" Vessels III and his wife Bonnie, who own Vessels Stallion Farm in Bonsall, California. Scoop and Bonnie have three sons, Colt, Kash and Bryan. Scoop is the third generation of the Vessels family involved in the American Quarter Horse business. Scoop's grandfather was enamored with the breed and acquired Clabber, the legendary "Iron Horse" that was the first world champion racing American Quarter Horse. Scoop was raised on the backstretch of Los Alamitos Race Course, the racetrack his grandfather founded in the 1940s and his father, Frank Jr., and later his mother, Millie, owned and operated until 1984.

Throughout its history, Vessels Stallion Farm has been associated with some of the leading racing American Quarter Horse sires, through Clabber, Alamitos Bar, Go Man Go, Duplicate Copy, Tiny Charger, Timeto Thinkrich, Tolltac and others. Vessels Stallion Farms' pride and joy is all-time leading sire First Down Dash, who is the winning sire of four of the last five Champion of Champions winners in the form of The Down Side, Cash For Kas, Ocean Runaway, and Wave Carver. Vessels Stallion Farm are part owner of Little Bit Of Baja, who will race in this year's Champion of Champions.

Benny Rosset is one of the most influential horsemen in Brazil, as the President of the Jockey Club in Sorocaba. In Brazil, Rosset runs a company that manufactures lingerie and swinsuits for Victoria's Secret and swinsuits for The Gap. Rosset will arrive to Los Alamitos on the morning of the 2008 Champion of Champions to watch, not only No Secrets Here, but also his filly Stylish Jess Br in the $750,000 classic.