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Lee Berwick Memorial Futurity-RG1
MS JINGLES
by Stacy Pigott
Double A. Partnership’s Ms Jingles has been nearly perfect this year, winning five of six starts and two stakes races. Her most
recent win was also her richest, as she ran away with the $551,055 Lee Berwick Memorial Futurity-RG1 at Delta Downs on July 14, clos- ing day of the 2012 Quarter Horse season in Vinton, Louisiana.
The Lee Berwick win extended Ms Jingles current win streak to four, including the $252,317 Delta Downs Louisiana-Bred Lassie Futurity-RG2 on May 26. The only blemish on the filly’s record is a third-place effort in the Mardi Gras Futurity-G2.
“She should have won the Mardi Gras,
she just beat herself out of that race,” trainer Frank Cavazos said of Ms Jingles, who had set the fastest qualifying time to the Mardi Gras in her debut on Feb. 21 before returning for the March 10 finals. “She tried to false break
a little bit, and when she came back and set up, she kind of missed the break. I think that’s what cost her that race. She runs third and she loses it all by maybe four or five inches. Other than that, she’s been perfect. She’s won all of her other races easy, won them all by daylight.”
Indeed, in her next start on May 4, Ms Jingles won a trial to the Lassie Futurity by 1 1/2 lengths, and again ended up as the fastest qualifier. This time, things went her way in the finals, where Ms Jingles won by one length.
Returning for the Lee Berwick trials on June 23, Ms Jingles was impressive in winning by 1 3/4 lengths. She ceded the top qualifying spot to Fast Talkin Henry, yet was still the even-money favorite when the field returned for the finals on July 14.
Eddie Cox, who had ridden Ms Jingles
in all of her starts at Delta Downs, stepped aboard for the Lee Berwick. Leading into post position six, the filly stood like a statue in the gates and broke smartly. By the time the field reached the gap, Ms Jingles had taken com- mand of the race. She found another gear from there and opened a one-length lead, which was cut to an official winning margin of three- quarters of a length by the late challenge of 22-1 longshot Shiney Aufluential.
“This race, they say she won by three-quar- ters of a length, but she won it by daylight,” Cavazos noted. “She hasn’t really been asked
or pushed to run after the Mardi Gras finals. She’s just doing it all on her own. She’s the kind of horse you like to have in your barn, but they’re hard to come by.”
Ms Jingles took a roundabout way to Cavazos’ barn. Last year, she was a $7,000 sale yearling when consigned to the LQHBA Yearling Sale by breeder Easy Acres’ Performance Horses. She is the second foal of the winning mare Some Quick Dasher, whose other starter, Especially Effective, won three races and was twice placed in nine starts at a 3-year-old in 2011.
Jesus A. Andrade Jr. signed the ticket for the Bigtime Favorite filly, later selling her privately to Double A. Partnership, of Mexico City. Cavazos was already at Louisiana Downs, in Shreveport, when he received
a call asking if he would train the filly.
“She’s turned into more
what I thought she really was
when I first got her,” Cavazos
said. “We knew she was fast the
first time we worked her. She’s
a nice filly no doubt about it. She’s a profes- sional—a real easy going filly that takes care of herself. She just glides over the racetrack.
“It’s kind of funny, I’ve been talking to the breeder, and she tells me that the filly was really, really mean when she was a baby. She’d come
at you, bite at you and try to kick you. They couldn’t give her enough sedation the first time they were going to trim her feet, stuff like that. Now, she’s the opposite. She’s just as sweet as can
be. You can walk in her stall and do whatever you want with her. In the saddling paddock, she’s like saddling an old horse. Nothing bothers her.”
Cavazos indicated Ms Jingles is paid up in the Texas Classic Futurity-G1 at Lone Star Park. However, there is the possibility she could be paid up late in the Louisiana
Breeders’ Futurity-G1, with trials on Oct. 26 at Evangeline Downs.
Shiney Aufluential (First To Shine-Aufluential TB) was vanned off after making a huge late run to finish sec- ond. Kenny Roberts trains the filly, who is owned by Rodney Verret and was rid- den by Danny Lavergne.
Fastest qualifier Fast Talkin Henry (Heza Fast Dash-Streakin Cindy) held gamely for third under John
Hamilton. Heath Taylor saddled the gelding for owner Eric Johnson.
The top three were followed by Bigtime Beau (Bigtime Favorite-Bedawee Beau), Dreamers Fast Dash (Heza Fast Dash-Dashin In My Dreams), Jodys Crown (Special Crown Royal-Mayor Mae), Beer And Peanute (Coronas Leaving You- Streakin Attitude), and Special Anchine (Oak Tree Special-Anichini). Champions Passage and Si Santorini were scratched.
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Chicks Beduino
Bigtime Favorite
Ms Dashin Bigtime
MS JINGLES, ’10-f.
Some Dasher
Some Quick Dasher
Quicken
Ms Jingles wins her second stakes race in the $551,055 Lee Berwick Memorial Futurity-G1.
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