{"id":10068,"date":"2012-03-20T22:19:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=10068"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=10068","title":{"rendered":"Wild Henny Kicks Down Door In Gr. 2 Davey Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wild Henny has been knocking on the graded stakes\u00a0door for a long time now, according to her owner, Rob, of Desperado Stables. <\/P>

And she finally kicked it down this weekend.<\/P>

The five year old scratch-bred daughter of Henny Hughes\u00a0got her first graded stakes win, when she stalked the leaders early and came on with a strong late push in the stretch\u00a0to beat Beth Phoenix by 1 \u00bd lengths in the Grade 2 Davey Jones Handicap in Florida on Saturday.<\/P>

\u201cIt was a big win,\u201d said Rob. \u201cBecause, while she has knocked on the door before, this is the first time she broke through.\u201d<\/P>

She did indeed break through this weekend, and Wild Henny did it impressively. <\/P>

She broke out of the gates and settled in fifth place much of the way, just a few lengths behind the early leader, Pickin\u2019 Winners, who had a 3 \u00bc length lead at the top of the stretch. That\u2019s just about the time Wild Henny finally kicked it into gear and cruised past horses in the stretch\u00a0to score her first graded win.<\/P>

\u201cWild Henny means a lot to me because she was the last of my strong (breeding) tries to Henny Hughes,\u201d said Rob. \u201cI have backed off due to his failure as a real life stud. The Henny x Wild Again nick worked for Henny’s first sim Grade 1 winner Henny Again, so I tried this one.\u201d<\/P>

It\u2019s a good thing Rob did, too, because now he says he\u2019s got a contender for the Breeders\u2019 Bowl in November, he thinks.\u00a0 At least that’s the plan, said Rob. \u00a0<\/P>

\u201cI will target the Breeders Bowl Filly and Mare Sprint as the end of the season goal,\u201d said Rob, after Wild Henny beat a pretty strong field here Saturday in the Grade 2 Davey Jones.<\/P>

She pulled the second 110 speed figure of her career in scoring the win. The only other time Wild Henny had a speed figure that high was when she popped a 110 in an allowance win last October in Michigan. Since then, Wild Henny has won three of her five starts, including a second place finish in the Grade 2 Blueberry in Ontario last season.<\/P>

\u201cThe speed figure was not too shocking,\u201d said Rob, who had two entries in Saturday\u2019s Grade 2 Davey Jones. \u201cBut she beat a strong field, and I look forward to the rest of the year.\u201d<\/P>

Pickin\u2019 Winners, the 7\/1 second choice in Saturday\u2019s race looked pretty hot early on in Saturday\u2019s race, wheeling and dealing on the front end early and playing catch-me-if-you-can with the field of 12 others.<\/P>

\u201cShe (Pickin\u2019 Winners) ran a good race,\u201d said her owner, Pete, of Denovo Stables. \u201cBut it\u2019s back to the drawing board now.\u201d<\/P>

Wild Henny ran the seven furlongs in a time of 1:21 2\/5. That was 2\/5 of a second off the stakes record of 1:21 flat, a record held\u00a0by 2009 winner Skidburg and 2011 winner Smoked Ya.\u00a0 It was the fourth running of the Davey Jones, an early season indicator of who just might be live for the Breeders’ Bowl Filly And Mare Dirt Sprint come November.\u00a0<\/P>

After second place finisher Beth Phoenix, it took a while for the guys in the photo booth to sort out the third, fourth and fifth place finishers in the Davey Jones.\u00a0 All three hit the wire together, and it was tough to pick them apart, but when the dust finally settled, the post-time favorite, Quit Whining Tom was third, with Il Pericolo fourth, and Pickin\u2019 Winners fifth.<\/P>

The 4-2 exacta with Wild Henny and Beth Phoenix, of Shamrock Stables, paid a pretty nice $176.10. The 4-2-9 trifecta with Quit Whining Tom third paid nearly a thousand bucks, $963.10. <\/P>

Wild Henny, who was sent off at a 9\/1 by the crowd in Florida, paid $20.00, $10.50 and $6.80 across the board.<\/P><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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