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RACING NEWS
Evangeline Downs Futurity-G3
JLA INDY ROGUE
by Michael Compton
JLA Indy Rogue closed out her freshman season on the racetrack in celebratory fashion, proving a game winner of the $315,080 Evangeline Downs Futurity-G3 at Evangeline Downs on Dec. 30.
The two-year-old daughter of Heza Fast Rogue entered the 400-yard main event as the third-fastest qualifier following a 1-length score in her Dec. 3 trial, which was accomplished in at time of :19.93.
With regular rider Russell Leblanc in the irons, JLA Indy Rogue broke sharply on top from the five-gate in the finals. The brown filly was in third at the first call nd pressed the early leaders in the contest’s early stages.
She was still in third at the top of the stretch and battled determinedly to the wire, gamely pushing past race favorite and fastest qualifier Mr Spud close to home and holding off Patriot Fireworks to score by a nose in an exciting 3-horse blanket finish.
Evangeline Downs
$315,080 • 400 yards :19.818 • si 90
HEZA FAST ROGUE
si 101
Bred by: Triple M Farms LLC Raced to 4 • $323,950 30-8(3)-4(3)-5(5)
131 f., 1 SW • $942,231
HEZA FAST DASH si 103 Bred by: Weetona Stanley Raced to 4 • $136,123 18-3(1)-5(1)-3
1,089 f., 68 SW • $35,845,450
Bred by: Joanie Gore
Raced to 2 $200,380 8-4(1)-3-1
MISS JESS ROGUE si 98 Bred by: Mike Abraham Raced to 5 • $125,159 17-4(1)-4(1)-2(1)
29 f., 5 SW • $1,389,367
FRENCH INDY TB
Bred by: Joseph J. Sylvester Raced to 3 • $13,170
2-1-0-1
9 f., 1 SW • $306,973
PROMISSORY
Bred by: The Thoroughbred Corp. Unraced
61 f., 0 SW • $721,914
FRENCH DARLING
Bred by: Red Oak Farm Unraced
6 f., 0 SW • $200,791
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JLA Indy Rogue and jockey Russell Leblanc winning the $315,080 Evangeline Futurity-G3 by a nose.
Coady Photography
JLA Indy Rogue, 19-f.