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jones juggle underway with ‘joyful’ and ‘grace’
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By Graham Ross, Staff Writer
NEW ORLEANS (Friday, February 10, 2012) – Fox Hill Farms and trainer Larry Jones, as expected, are quickly having an anticipated problem come into focus this weekend. However, it’s a nice problem to have.
Following Horse of the Year Havre de Grace’s first official breeze of 2012, recorded when she went three furlongs in 37.80 Friday morning at Fair Grounds, her first start of the year is increasingly likely to come at the
However, on Saturday, that same owner-trainer pairing are set to send out Joyful Victory in Fair Grounds’ $75,000 Tiffany Lass Stakes and that post time favorite in last year’s Grade I Kentucky Oaks is the 2-1 morning line favorite in this weekend’s local showcase attraction.
For Havre de Grace, Jones has considered possible appearances in either Fair Grounds’ $100,000 New Orleans Ladies on March 17 or the $400,000 Grade II New Orleans Handicap on April 1, but if Joyful Victory, who worked a bullet five-eighths in 1:00 flat Monday, runs back to that work, the New Orleans Ladies would also be given serious consideration as an added outing for her.
Obviously, Jones is not going to run the mare and the filly against each other, at least at this point in the year, so the ideal windfall for Fair Grounds would be to run Joyful Victory in the New Orleans Ladies and keep working Havre de Grace up to the New Orleans Handicap.
Of course, Havre de Grace would be running against males in the New Orleans Handicap, but that was no deterrent for either Jones or the mare based on last year. She won Horse of the Year honors for last season largely because she beat the boys in
“I am confident that she didn’t care for that turf course at all,” said trainer Carl Bowman this week when reflecting upon his mare’s disappointing performance this year at the local oval. “Certain horses just don’t like it, and she’s one of them.”
Both of those outings came over the local main track, over which Saturday’s Tiffany Lass will be run.
“She’s been training great,” said Bowman of Ravi’s Song’s four-furlong move in 48.80 over the main track rated good on Super Bowl Sunday. “She finished up that work getting the last eighth in (11.80) and I got her galloping out in 1:01. I think she’s ready for a big effort Saturday.”
STREET STORM GETTING THE CHANCE TO BLOW AWAY TIFFANY LASS FAVORITES – Right Time Racing’s Street Storm worked six furlongs in a bullet 1:14.60 last Friday in her final preparation for this Saturday’s $75,000 Tiffany Lass Stakes. The Steve Margolis trainee is 8-1 in the morning line for the upcoming event.
“She’s doing good but she’s in a tough spot,” said Margolis Thursday. “There’s three tough horses in there she’s going to have to beat, but James Graham (jockey) likes the way she’s been working so we’re going to give it a try. She won the ($75,000) Mardi Gras here last year, so we’d like to win another stakes here with her.”
ROSIE WINS RIGHT AWAY ON BIRTHDAY – Defending Fair Grounds jockey champion and current leading rider Rosie Napravnik turned 24-years-old Thursday and quickly celebrated the occasion, winning the first race of the day at Fair Grounds aboard Emerald Bay Stables’ Council Oak.
Then the native of
Napravnik did not ride the second, ran third in the third aboard Steve and Pat Roe’s Lydgate’s Proof, finished second in the fourth astride Tic Stables’ Plastique, did not ride the fifth or sixth, finished second in the seventh on Gary and Mary West’s Tiz Moe, and second once again in the eighth aboard Gasaway, Yarnot, Regan and Peppenberg’s First to Bingo before finishing out of the money in the afternoon’s finale.
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