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SP Foursquare & Train Story win the 2020 World Chariot Championship under trainer/driver Jess Udy.
The 2019-2020 Chariot World Championship was decided on March 15 at the Golden Spike Event Center in Ogden, Utah. Traditionally a four day event held over two weekends, the American Chariot Racing (ACR) opted instead to reduce the Chariot World Championship to a two-day competition over just one weekend due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sponsored by C & R Auto & Trailer Sales, the Championship finals consisted of team Jess and Grant with SP Foursquare and Train Story; the Moon and Newbold team with Super Starr and LDS Me Bad; the Cowboy Up & Flying
T team with Had To Be Giggles and KD Easy Runner; and the Mont, Ted, Jay & Ralph team with Fantastic Minion and One Sweet Fool.
The four teams were led to the gates for the final Championship run with each team breaking well from the gates and fighting
a close race throughout. It was the Jess and
World Chariot Championship
By Heather Ridgway • Photos courtesy American Chariot Racing
Grant team, however, who took home the The 2020 World Championship Jess and
World Championship title, finishing the 440 yards in :22.54.
Finishing in second place was the team of Moon and Newbold, which consisted of Super Starr (Hadtobenuts-All Star Elite) and LDS Me Bad (Hadtobenuts-LDS Good Goin Gracie), who finished in a close :22.59 with Jake Newbold driving. The team is trained by Dave Newbold, co-owner with Dan Moon.
Third place went to the Cowboy Up
& Flying T team of Had To Be Giggles (Hadtobenuts-Chicks And Giggles) and KD Easy Runner (Jess Got Easier-KD Star), who crossed the wire in :22.72 under driver Zak Quinton for trainer Darcy Quinton.
Fourth place went to the Mont, Ted, Jay & Ralph team of Fantastic Minion (Fantastic Corona Jr-Gigarad) and One Sweet Fool (One Sweet Jess-Gigarad) under trainer/ driver Jay Pitcher.
Grant racing team is owned and conditioned by Jess Udy, who also drives the team along with co-driver Jeff Sandberg.
The Jess and Grant team included: 5-year- old sorrel gelding SP Four Square (Favorite Cartel-Fountain Bleu, Jess Louisiana Blue), a 5-time winner on the flat track including in
the 2018 Western States Breeders’ Derby and Wyoming Downs Renegade Sports Derby, with a career best 99 speed index and cumulative earnings of $39,299 before moving to chariots; and 7-year-old sorrel gelding Train Story (Freighttrain B-Perry Story, Mr Jess Perry), who won three races on the flat track including a third in the 2015 Black Gold 440 Futurity-RG3, with a career-best 101 speed index and total earnings of $80,884 before moving to chariots.
Jess and Grant can now add the title of World Champion to their list of accomplish- ments. Congratulations!
SP Foursquare and Train Story are joined by team Jess and Grant after their victory.
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