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SARATOGA SPRINGS There’s a Grade III race with a $150,000 purse in January at Gulfstream Park that carries the name of Fred W. Hooper.
His stamp on Thoroughbred racing endures much more deeply than that, though, despite the fact that he died over 20 years ago, at the age of 102.
If you root around in the respective pedigrees of the last two Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018), you’ll find names like Olympia, Tri Jet, Zetta Jet, Crozier and Hoop Jr. These were all horses that Hooper campaigned as racehorses before sending them to the breeding shed.
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Lindsey Hebert celebrates her first win at Oaklawn Park
The last name is Hebert, the home state is Louisiana and the profession is jockey.
Got to be Cajun, right? Wrong.
Lindsey Hebert grew up in Delhi, a town of about 3,000 in northeast Louisiana, 40 miles west of the Mississippi River. While Hebert, 23, doesn t hail from south Louisiana, specifically, the famed Acadiana region, she does now have something in common with some of its most notable riding products, including Hall of Famers Eddie Delahoussaye, Calvin Borel, Kent Desormeaux and Randy Romero. Hebert is a winner at Oaklawn.
Hebert recorded her first career victory in Friday s third race aboard Time Heist ($31.40) for trainer Ron Westermann in a 5 ½-furlong sprint for conditioned $12,500 claimers. It was the 12th career mount for Hebert – all this year at Oaklawn – according to Equibase, racing s official data gathering organization. Time Heist, under a steady hand ride from Hebert, was a f
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