Jumpin Junie Wins Woodbine's Princess Elizabeth Stakes
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Jumpin Junie captures the Princess Elizabeth Stakes at Woodbine
Jumpin Junie worked out a perfect trip, saving ground in second before making the lead after six furlongs and taking control of the Princess Elizabeth Stakes Oct. 16 at Woodbine Racetrack. The daughter of Midnight Lute went off at 13-1 odds and defeated 8-5 favorite Me and My Shadow by 1 1/4 lengths in the $180,721 race restricted to 2-year-old fillies foaled in Canada.
Kazushi Kimura, last year's champion jockey at Woodbine, rode the winner, who broke her maiden in her third career start for trainer Daniel Vella. She ran fifth in her debut and second last time. She paid $29.70 and earned $108,001, raising her total to $125,951 for Sea Glass Stables. The time for 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather track was 1:43.61.
Traffic problems hampered Me and My Shadow, who was forced out and bumped in the upper stretch before rallying to get second by a nose. Fortyfiveseventy , at 23-1, ran third, and Wickenheiser , the 2-1 second choice, was fourth.
The winner, bred in Ontario by Karen E. Carroll, is out of the Curlin mare Another Flashback , a California-bred. Taylor Made Agency sold Jumpin Junie for $30,000 to Sea Glass at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
Another Flashback did not reach her $57,000 reserve at the Barretts Equine Limited 2011 California Cup Yearling Sale before being sold by Lane's End Farm for $26,000 to James Everett, agent, at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton February Mixed Sale.