Jones Hopes Street Band Gets Untracked in Groupie Doll

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Photo: Coady Photography
Larry Jones aboard Street Band

Trainer, co-owner, and co-breeder Larry Jones hopes a class break will help Street Band return to winning form Aug. 9 at Ellis Park when the 4-year-old daughter of Istan starts from an outside post in the $100,000 Runhappy Groupie Doll Stakes.

Street Band will break from post 12 Sunday at Ellis, where an overflow field of 15 fillies and mares were entered (there are three also-eligibles).

The one-mile Groupie Doll is one of four $100,000 stakes races scheduled, leading up to the featured $200,000 Runhappy Ellis Park Derby. All five of the stakes races on the card are sponsored by Runhappy and they include the Juvenile Stakes, Debutante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, and the Audobon Oaks for 3-year-old fillies. All three of those last-mentioned stakes will be contested at seven furlongs.

Last year Street Band earned more than $1 million and captured the grade 1 Cotillion Stakes at Parx Racing. In the Groupie Doll, Street Band will try to end a four-race skid dating back to the Cotillion, when she rallied to post a clear victory over favored Guarana in that 1 1/16-mile race in September.

Since that effort, Street Band has raced exclusively in graded stakes, adding a grade 3-placing in this year's Houston Ladies Classic Stakes. She'll be making her first start since a fourth-place finish in the Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) in April at Oaklawn Park.

Jones has yet to see improvement off of last season from Street Band.

"I think she had reached her peak early fall last year, late summer," Jones said. "She was really doing well. She's doing just as well now, but she just has not looked like (she's) doing better. She looks like maybe she matured early, and we have not been as busy with her, and some of it is due to the COVID situation (forced schedule changes)." 

Awaiting Street Band  will be this year's Houston Ladies Classic winner, Lady Apple, who is trained by Racing Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen. When she breaks from the rail Sunday, the 4-year-old daughter of Curlin  will try to end a three-race skid and she's entered off a third-place finish in the Obeah Stakes June 17 at Delaware Park.

In the other three stakes on the Ellis card:

• Asmussen will send out Cowan in the Juvenile as the son of Kantharos  will make his stakes debut after an impressive maiden debut May 22 at Churchill Downs. In that 4 1/2-furlong test, Cowan started from the inside, edged away in the turn, and cruised to a 2 1/2-length score. He'll break from the rail again. Libertyrun, from Runhappy's first crop, will draw some attention.

• The Debutante will see Phoenix Thoroughbreds' Crazy Beautiful make her first stakes star—and first start on dirt—after the daughter of Liam's Map  rallied from fourth early to post a 3 1/2-length victory in her maiden debut, a one-mile turf race July 5 on the Ellis turf. Crazy Beautiful is trained by Ken McPeek.

• In the Audobon Oaks, Lloyd Madison Farms homebred Sconsin will try to nail down her first stakes win after running second in her stakes debut in the July 10 Beaumont Stakes Presented by Keeneland Select (G3) at Keeneland. Trained by Greg Foley, Sconsin has a 2-2-0 record from six starts and earnings of $105,962. Casual seeks to bounce back from a sixth-place effort behind Gamine in the June 20 Longines Acorn Stakes (G1).


Entries: Runhappy Juvenile S.

Ellis Park, Sunday, August 09, 2020, Race 4

  • STK
  • 7f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 2 yo
  • 2:14 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Cowan (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Corey J. Lanerie 120 Steven M. Asmussen 1/1
2 2Perfect Mistake (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Rafael Bejarano 120 John Alexander Ortiz 15/1
3 3Medicine Tail (KY) Joseph Rocco, Jr. 120 Dane Kobiskie 3/1
4 4Pico d'Oro (KY) Joseph Talamo 118 William E. Morey 15/1
5 5Libertyrun (LA) Miguel Mena 120 Laura Wohlers 8/1
6 6Waist Deep (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Baze 120 Anthony Farrior 4/1
7 7Heart Rhythm (KY) Edgar Morales 118 Cirilo Gorostieta 20/1

 


Entries: Runhappy Debutante S.

Ellis Park, Sunday, August 09, 2020, Race 6

  • STK
  • 7f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 2 yo Fillies
  • 3:10 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Mania (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Sophie Doyle 118 Pavel Matejka 20/1
2 2Wholebodemeister (KY) Miguel Mena 120 Juan Carlos Avila 12/1
3 3Tourrista (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Baze 120 James K. Chapman 30/1
4 4Crazy Beautiful (KY) Rafael Bejarano 120 Kenneth G. McPeek 3/1
5 5Yogurt (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Carlos A. Diaz 120 Tommy C. Short 12/1
6 6Seguro (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Gerardo Corrales 120 James K. Chapman 20/1
7 7Maci's Jamming (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Gabriel Saez 120 Tommy C. Short 20/1
8 8Xtrema (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate James Graham 120 J. Keith Desormeaux 15/1
9 9Hipnotizada (PA) Joseph Talamo 120 Anthony Pecoraro 7/2
10 10Fabricate (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 120 Ian R. Wilkes 8/1
11 11Lacey Boss (MD) Corey J. Lanerie 120 Steven M. Asmussen 4/1
12 12Puye Timing (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Julien R. Leparoux 120 Norm W. Casse 8/1

 


Entries: Runhappy Audobon Oaks

Ellis Park, Sunday, August 09, 2020, Race 8

  • STK
  • 7f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo Fillies
  • 4:10 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Lastchanceforlove (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Rafael Bejarano 118 Brendan P. Walsh 10/1
2 2Hello Beautiful (MD) Julien R. Leparoux 118 Brittany Russell 4/1
3 3Misty Blue (KY) Gabriel Saez 118 Michael J. Maker 20/1
4 4Sconsin (KY) James Graham 118 Gregory D. Foley 7/2
5 5Casual (KY) Corey J. Lanerie 118 Steven M. Asmussen 5/1
6 6Street of Dreams (KY) Chris Landeros 118 Ian R. Wilkes 10/1
7 7Ocean Breeze (KY) Joseph Talamo 118 Wayne M. Catalano 8/1
8 8Spartanka (KY) Miguel Mena 118 Michael J. Maker 20/1
9 9Truth Hurts (ON)Keeneland Sales Graduate Adam Beschizza 118 Chad Summers 15/1
10 10Mundaye Call (KY) Florent Geroux 118 Brad H. Cox 9/2
11 11Compelling Smile (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Baze 118 Michael Puhich 20/1

 


Entries: Groupie Doll S.

Ellis Park, Sunday, August 09, 2020, Race 9

  • STK
  • 1m
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 4:40 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Lady Apple (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 124 Steven M. Asmussen 4/1
2 2Inthemidstofbiz (KY) Martin Garcia 122 Cipriano Contreras 15/1
3 3Istan Council (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Gabriel Saez 122 J. Larry Jones 30/1
4 4Sara Sea (KY) Joseph Talamo 122 D. Wayne Lukas 20/1
5 5Offspring (LA) James Graham 122 Carlo Vaccarezza 15/1
6 6With Dignity (KY) Julien R. Leparoux 122 Ian R. Wilkes 8/1
7 7Lady Kate (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Florent Geroux 122 Eddie Kenneally 5/1
8 8New Roo (KY) Colby J. Hernandez 122 Thomas Drury, Jr. 12/1
9 9Dos Vinos (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Mitchell Murrill 122 W. Bret Calhoun 6/1
10 10Divine Queen (KY) Calvin H. Borel 122 William B. Bradley 20/1
11 11Club Car (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Corey J. Lanerie 122 Ben Colebrook 12/1
12 12Street Band (KY) Sophie Doyle 122 J. Larry Jones 3/1
13 13Grandaria (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Rafael Bejarano 122 Brendan P. Walsh 15/1
14 14Timeless Curls (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Miguel Mena 122 Norm W. Casse 15/1
15 15Red Dane (ITY) Tyler Baze 122 Charles Lopresti 30/1