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Posted: Sunday, July 13, 2008 10:06 PM

La Equivocada first winner for freshman sire Smarty Jones


SMARTY JONES
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La Equivocada earned a front-running five-length victory in the fifth race at Hipodromo Camarero in Puerto Rico on Friday and became the first winner for dual classic winner and champion Smarty Jones.

Trained by Luis Adorno for owner S. Metal Stable, La Equivocada won the 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race in 1:04.77. The two-year-old filly is one of three winners from as many starters out of French Group 3-placed winner Dragonada, by Nureyev.

Smarty Jones stands for $100,000 at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky. A seven-year-old chestnut horse, he has 83 two-year-olds in his first crop.

Smarty Jones won the 2004 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) and earned the Eclipse Award for champion three-year-old male. He outran runner-up Lion Heart by 2 3/4 lengths to win the Kentucky Derby, and defeated Rock Hard Ten by 11 1/2 lengths to capture the Preakness. His Triple Crown bid ended with a runner-up finish to Birdstone in the Belmont Stakes (G1), the only loss in nine career starts for the Elusive Quality horse out of multiple stakes winner I’ll Get Along, by Smile.

Pennsylvania-bred Smarty Jones concluded his racing career in 2004 with $7,613,155 in earnings. He opened his sophomore season with six consecutive stakes wins, including the Arkansas Derby (G2) at Oaklawn Park, before winning the Derby and Preakness.

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