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BELIEVE YOU CAN ON TRACK FOR TIFFANY LASS
· Fair Grounds Meet Leaders at Season’s Halfway Mark
By Graham Ross, Staff Writer
NEW ORLEANS (Wednesday, January 30, 2013) – Brereton Jones’s Believe You Can, who parlayed a win in the Grade II Fair Grounds Oaks to another in the Grade I Kentucky Oaks last spring for trainer Larry Jones, breezed five furlongs Monday in a bullet 59.20 in advance of Saturday’s $100,000 Tiffany Lass Stakes at the Crescent City oval.
“That was her last ma
“Right now, we’re very happy with her,” Jones said of the 4-year-old daughter of Proud Citizen who has been away from competition since finishing third in the Grade I Mother Goose at
Regular rider Rosie Napravnik, Fair Grounds’ two-time defending
Last Saturday, Jones made a successful so
“That was a very good night for us,” said Jones, who also took Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Gray’s Icon Ike along to win the $75,000 Champion Energy Services Stakes earlier on the evening program. “I figured I might as well drive them up there myself. When I let them ride with me I always know how they got there.”
FAIR GROUNDS MEET LEADERS AT SEASON’S HALFWAY MARK – Last Saturday was the 42nd day of the 2012-2013 84-season at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots and the season’s
Leading rider at the time with 51 wins was Fair Grounds two-time defending
In third position with 39 wins was James Graham, who had five more victories than Miguel Mena, who was one in front of Shaun Bridgmohan and Richard Eramia.
Leading the trainer standings was nine-time Fair Grounds champion Tom Amoss with 20 wins, two more than Bret Calhoun, who had one more than Wes Hawley.
Ten-time Fair Grounds trainer champion Steve Asmussen and conditioner Larry Jones were tied for fourth position with 14 wins apiece.
The leading money-winner among the horses that have raced at Fair Grounds this season was Dale Ladner’s Sittin At the Bar, trained by Brett Brinkman, who had purse earnings of $123,369 based on her victories in both the Louisiana Champions Day Lassie and the Louisiana Futurity.
Charles Craig Smith’s String King, trained by Charlie Smith, was in second position with $121,000 garnered from wins in the Louisiana Champions Day Turf and Mr. Sulu Stakes, as well as a runner-up run in last weekend’s Grade III Col. E.R. Bradley Handicap.
Bluegrass Hall’s Oxbow, conditioned by Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, was in the third spot with $120,000 earned while winning the Grade III Lecomte Stakes.
Maggi Moss’s Delaunay, trained by Tom Amoss, had recorded earnings of $105,000 from his victories in the Thanksgiving Handicap and F.W. Gaudin Memorial.
Tied for fifth in purse earnings with $90,000 apiece, was James Miller’s Daisy Devine, trained by Andy McKeever, with wins in the Marie Krantz Memorial and Blushing K.D. handicaps, and Rebecca Farm and T. J. Dickey’s Heavy On Themister, trained by Shawn David, as the winner of the Louisiana Champions Day Classic.
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