Old Fashioned
20 February 2009
Old Fashioned is wearing me down. When Derby prep season started I admired Old Fashioned but rooted on Chocolate Candy, Hello Broadway and Capt. Candyman Can, among others. I still do like those three very much. But at the moment,
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7 February 2009
the trainer of Hard Spun, Eight Belles, Proud Spell, and this year's potential three year old star, Old Fashioned, talks of retirement as if he's overdue for the rocking chair, but the real problem is that Jones has become worn out by the price of success. As the demand for his services have increased and his operations have expanded, Jones was becoming a Todd Pletcher-style trainer/racing manager/executive - an achievement about which most trainers can only dream. Jones hates it.
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30 January 2009
There's a lot to like about Old Fashioned, the precocious son of Unbridled's Song who won the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct under a hand ride. He gives the impression of mental maturity, a confident and endearing intensity. He was all business. And unlike some of the promising California contenders, he won on dirt. (The trainers who don't intend to run their best three year olds over the dirt en route to the Kentucky Derby are nuts.)
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