Good horses overcome amazing odds and circumstances to win. We have
only to look at the efforts that Zenyatta has produced time and again
to remain unbeaten in 19 consecutive races.
Other times, horses seem to overcome those kinds of hurdles just to
become competitors. In the case of Jaycito, the 2-year-old colt who won
the Norfolk Stakes at Oak Tree on the same card as Zenyatta’s victory
in the Lady’s Secret, the bay colt became a Grade 1 winner with his
first victory from three starts and two seconds.
Furthermore, the colt is by champion Victory Gallop, now exiled to
stand in Turkey, and is the only living foal of his dam, the
12-year-old Ascot Knight mare Night Edition.
The best racing son of the Fappiano horse Cryptoclearance, Victory
Gallop was a champion at 4, earned $3 million on the racetrack, and won
the Belmont Stakes by slightly more than a nose hair from Real Quiet...
Read More