Inside Job?
Larry Jones’ pick-up! (Hen Bros)
Trainer Larry Jones has been tampered with AGAIN. Less than a month ago Jones and Jim Squires had a positive drug test (which Squires is appealing) and now someone has been turning horses out at his barn!
The latest episode lead to an employee being fired and according to the article “Jones is confident he is not the target of other horsemen or activists”. To make it worse, not only did the culprit(s) turn out the horses, his stable pony, Pal, had blisters in mouth that were not the results of cuts… what the hell kind of message is that?
It took me a while to come around to Larry Jones. Swifty and I swung back and forth thinking he was an idiot to thinking he was a genius several times during our beloved Hard Spun’s 3yo campaign. I think ultimately his last 3 races and in particular his incredible finish in the last year’s Classic sold me. I thought, incorrectly, that Hard Spun should have gone in the Dirt Mile because he wouldn’t get the distance and while he didn’t win, he did turn in another strong performance.
I also hear it from some trusted friends that Larry and his wife Cindy are two of the nicest people you could ever meet! And c’mon, look at his truck. If Swifty still had a car I’d be pimpin’ his ride Hard Spun style for his birthday!
And if anyone has any ideas for a new poll, let me know!
Posted by dana on Jul 02 2008
Filed Under: 2008, Hennegan Brothers, Larry Jones, Hard Spun, Racing
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When i get a new car for business purposes, i’m gonna plaster photos all over it like that.
I am a big fan of ‘old school’ mentality. Like when Hostess changed there recipe for Twinkies and got rid of Twinkie the Kid, I started a petition at my high school about it. “Bring back Twinkie the Kid and the original recipe.” They brought back the Kid, but the recipe was never the same. (Twinkies kind of suck now.) Anyway, when it comes to Horse racing, certain aspects of the sport need to catch up a little bit. Every friggin’ barn, at every track, should have security cameras all over it! How could they not? anyone can walk by your barn and throw something into a stall and sabotage you and your horse. How could there not be cameras covering every angle of these barns? Especially when there are people around them 24 hourse a day? They was an article about a horse being “sponged” a few months ago. Sponged!! (stick a piece of sponge way up in a horse’s nostril to obstruct its breathing) That’s been going on since the 1800’s. If there were cameras inside the shed row, they’d know who had been tampering with the animal. If I was a trainer, I’d have live video feeds of my barn in my house, 24-7, no joke.
I read a book, I think it might have been about Ruffian, and her jockey Jacinto Velasquez ( i think). Anyway, the guy was young and needed to learn how to ride better etc., he was working for a trainer, taking care of the horses at night. well, to improve his riding skills, he was taking (sneaking) horses out to the track, in the middle of the night!! Secretly breezing the guy’s horses at 3 a.m.! Of course, when the trainer found out about it, he was fired. The jock swears that the guy’s horse ran better than ever, by the way.
Get some secutiry cameras! They are pennies today compared to even 10 years ago.
The sponged horse was Maren’s Meadow, last fall, trained by…Larry Jones.
Geez louise. unreal.