2011 Jerome Handicap (G2)

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Date/Track:
4/23/2011, Aqueduct
Post Time:
5:15 PM ET
Distance:
1 mile (Dirt)
Age/Sex:
3 M
Time:
1:36.81

What the Nation is saying about the 2011 Jerome Handicap (G2)...

Hard to imagine Cal Nation running last.
A deep field of promising 3-year-olds will come to the crossroads on Saturday when they compete in the 141st edition of the Grade 2, $150,000 Jerome, the featured race on closing day at Aqueduct Racetrack.   The Jerome, contested at Belmont Park from 1968-2009, returns to Aqueduct and to The Ne...Read More
Jess Jackson won't have a runner in this year's Kentucky Derby after announcing that Astrology has been withdrawn.Jackson, who campaigned the fabulous filly Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, and Curlin the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year, issued a press release stating that Astrology wou...Read More
  • arazi · It's interesting that they make the point of saying this before the Jerome. Is the horse that far behind that they won't consider it? Does he have problems that might limit him from winning the Jerome? What if he wins by daylight? Or is there a conflict of opinion in the co-ownership ranks here? Perhaps Jess Jackson wanted to make it a point to say that Astrology is out. Something makes me think we haven't heard the last of this. Not if he wins on Saturday. · 406 days ago ·
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Fresh Start Stable’s J J’s Lucky Train, who made an inexorable rally to take the Grade 3 Bay Shore at Aqueduct on April 9, could return to the Big A on April 23 to compete in the Grade 2 Jerome for 3-year-olds, trainer Bill Anderson revealed.   While the seven-furlong Bay Shore and the one-mil...Read More