1/7/2023

  2  AQU     The Jerome [KYD]           

$150.000 (plus $22.50 for NY-breds)   3YO     1m  Dirt      122lbs +penalties

Where do we start with this one?  Mb Stables entrant paid $60.60… it was a filly (yeah, let that debate start)… we had two dead-heats.  The Jerome may have provided more questions, or fights, but in the end, I handed out the winner and we all go home happy.  Untidy opened a big lead and was able to keep it together to the finish, going under the wire in front by three-quarters of a length while stopping the clock in 1:35.03, over the main track here at AQU, listed as Fast.  Ancient Ways was able to draw in off of the AE list and made it a race late, closing from the far outside and grabbing the second spot over Long Cap and Cop With Coffee… that pair ending in a dead-head for the third spot.  Nine lengths covered the field

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