Ageless Jon Court Voted Jockey Of The Week Sponsored by:
Jon Court with Willis Horton after Long Range Toddy s Rebel victory in 2019
A fan favorite at Oaklawn Park for 40 years, Jon Court proved he isn t slowing down as he recorded his 34th stakes victory and his 689th career victory at Oaklawn Park earning Jockey of the Week honors for Jan. 25 through Jan. 31. The award, which is voted on by a panel of racing experts, is for jockeys who are members of the Jockeys Guild, the organization which represents more than 950 active riders in the United States as well as retired and permanently disabled jockeys.
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Trainer Todd Pletcher sending Fighting Force to Sam Houston to contest the $200,000 Texas Turf Mile
Sam Houston Race Park will host its annual Houston Racing Festival on Sunday, January 31. A special post time of 1:45 pm (CT) has been set for the marquee day of the Houston, Texas, track s 2021 Thoroughbred meet with six featured stakes.
Two graded stakes will be contested, the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic and the Grade 3, $200,000 John B. Connally Turf. Full and highly competitive fields have been drawn for the remaining four undercard stakes, with an encouraging weather forecast for the Sunday afternoon program.
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Bill Mott-trained Nova Rags winning his debut at Belmont Park on Oct. 10
The winner of last year s $125,000 Gasparilla Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Tampa Bay Downs, trainer Mark Casse s Florida-bred Two Sixty, added to her laurels in July with a front-running victory in the Grade 3 Selene Stakes at Woodbine.
But it was fifth-place Gasparilla finisher Swiss Skydiver who just about set the horse racing world on fire last Jan. 18.
After missing the Tampa Bay Downs winner s circle in Oldsmar, Fla., by less than a length (her Equibase chart comment read, in part, “…was urged to challenge the winner four wide between foes leaving mid-stretch but was floated out by that foe late while losing her momentum and just missing for a share”), Swiss Skydiver put together a season that made her one of the most popular horses in training and the favorite for an Eclipse Awa