10-09-2012, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: The Natural State
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Originally Posted by pweizer
A nice mention in today's DRF for a really good guy.
Simon plays role in Joha’s win
Among the innumerable back-stories from the FallStars Weekend aftermath was the hidden role that owner-trainer Chuck Simon played in Joha winning the Grade 1 Dixiana Breeders’ Futurity on Saturday.
Simon, a former regular on the Kentucky circuit now working in Pennsylvania, bought Mujado, the mare of Joha, for $8,700 in January 2008 on what Simon, acting as agent for Bluegrass Equine Bloodstock, recalled as a “cold, miserable day.”
“That’s probably why we got her so cheap,” he said.
Bluegrass bred Mujado to Johar in 2009, and she produced Joha the following March.
Full article here: http://www.drf.com/news/keeneland-no...ders-cup-preps
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well done, chuck!
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