Tumbarumba. (Jenny Doyle/Beyond the Wire)
Beyond the wire staff
Henderson, Ky.— Ellis Park offered a lot of competition for older horses with the $ 200,000 RA “Cowboy” Jones Stakes on one mile for 3-year-olds and up in a field with two 4-year-olds and 8-year-old three techniques.
Trained by Brian Lynch, Wathnan Racing’s Tumbarumba Jockey Tyler Gaffalione would give his second of four bets with five in the day.
Frosted Departure broke first and showed the road in a first quarter of 23.63 with Prince of Power in Hot Pursuit after he was Antsy in the Startpoort.
Prince of Power bumped with this, USCAR is already early and then pushed outside the matte departure of the three path to the rear streets.
Tumbarumba followed from the four path around the distant turn and varied to offer outside the leaders who entered the track. In the long turn and forged a Prince of Power and forged an advantage on the five sixteenth posts and groove between challengers around the bend deep in Stretch, but Tumbarumba dubed in the last furlong and came by late.
Frosted Departure was led by an outer pressure on the five sixteenth pole and staggered and staggered between horses who entered the track and drove out as he weakened to fourth place.
Three techniques that broke into the air and saw the rest of several lengths at the beginning completed the order of finish.
Bannen and Cagliotro were scratched.
The race was disputed on dirt in a recent period of 1: 35.38 with fractions of 46.05, 1:09. 80 and 1: 22.25.
Bred in Louisiana by Coteau Grove Farms, LLC, the 5-year-old gelding is conceived by Oscar performance from Sense Mare street naively enough.
An Ellis Park Derby winner in 2023, Tumbarumba has six victories (seven seconds, four thirds) in 23 career-starch, including the degree 3, Fred W. Hooper in Gulfstream Park in 2024. Add to $ 138,000 to career income brings more than 45 minutes more million.
The race is named after the legendary rider RA ”Cowboy Jones.
“The structure of Ellis Park is Cowboy Jones,” said Ellis Racing Secretary Dan Bork.
Jones, who officially started driving in 1959 after he spent time on the Bush tracks around South Dakota, won at least one race in six different decades and did not get his attempt to make a record. For the last part of his career he would only ride a few races per meeting, but was out every morning to get on horses until the stewards finally let him hang his saddle.
But Cowboy was not done with the sport he loved. You would see the old Henderson -resident every day that Ellis Park ran, always smiling, talking to fans, enjoying his photo while wearing a huge cowboy hat and serves as an ambassador for the track and racing.
“He was an icon in Ellis Park and let’s not forget Miles Park,” said trainer Rick Hiles, who first met Jones in the 1970s, in reference to the Lang-Shuttered Spoor in West Louisville, where Cowboy was the Koning. “He was fearless and he was the Kingpin – one of the top drivers in the area. He gave it everything. That was what he loved doing, and he was a character.”
Cowboy Jones died on April 25 at the age of 79 and left legions of fans with countless memories and affection for the number 1 personality of the song. Other Jockeys have won more races and riding titles than the three meeting championships of Jones in Ellis Park. Nobody comes close to a folk hero.
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