In , Smarty Jones was an immensely popular horse who was beaten in the Belmont, and then never raced again. When I went to work for Calumet Farm, I really felt like I had been signed by the New York … Pat and her husband Roy Chapman originally hired a trainer by the name of Bobby Camac to train Smarty Jones, but their plans went horribly wrong when Camac and his wife were brutally murdered.
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Dual classic winner Smarty Jones is returning to stud in Pennsylvania for , according to the stallion's majority owner, Pat Chapman. From the start, it was easy to see that Smarty Jones was one-in-a-million. Calumet-raced Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow lives in the stall next to Smarty Jones, with champion turf male English Channel across the hall.
Join Facebook to connect with Smarty Jones and others you may know. He is standing at stud there and his first crop of foals will be of racing age in Just two weeks later he took the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes by 15 lengths. Hearing footsteps approaching his stall, the compact chestnut contentedly munching hay in a shaft of afternoon sunlight lifts his head and listens for a moment before boldly striding through deep straw bedding to see who is there.
No part of this site shall be reproduced, copied, or otherwise distributed without the express, written consent of HorseRacing. Through his eyes, he demands acknowledgment. Smarty Jones occupies one of the most historic stalls in the main stallion barn at the farm, with the shiny brass plates outside the door indicating it was previously home to Calumet-bred Kentucky Derby winner Pensive and to his son, Kentucky Derby victor Ponder, also bred by Calumet.
Yes, he is still alive. Things looked promising for Smarty Jones as he started his training but went terribly off-course when Smarty spooked while being schooled at the starting gate, hitting his head and falling to the ground unconscious. His Facebook page currently has 7, likes, indicating how fans still remember him.
They visit his new home, Three Chimneys Farm, in droves. He achieved his Derby victory on a sloppy surface following a raging storm that flooded areas of Churchill Downs and sent fans scrambling to cover themselves in plastic bags in order to stay dry. The chestnut colt won the Kentucky Derby on 1 May in , and the Preakness on 15 May in A well-matched group goes to the post trying to secure some early Derby points at Oaklawn Park.
In his own special but brief career, Smarty Jones stirred the souls of racing devotees around the nation as he sought the elusive grail of the Triple Crown. Smarty Jones is somehow 18 years old today but people have not forgotten him. Smarty Jones is on Facebook. It remains to be seen if his offspring will show the same talent that he did.
He was nothing short of a phenomenon. Over time, however, the excitement for his services waned. Even if visitors did not recognize who they were seeing when encountering this horse in the hallowed shrine that is the Calumet Farm stallion barn, they would want to know. Three Chimneys estimated at the time that 15, people would visit Smarty Jones every year. It had been 26 long years since Affirmed won the Triple Crown in Joey Jones is a Marines technical bomber currently working as a contributor with Fox News.
All rights reserved. So the choice was made to retired him and not risk him. In an instant, the promising career of Smarty Jones looked be over before it started. Yet, after three weeks in the hospital and a month on the farm, Smarty Jones had made a complete recovery. Everyone loved Smarty Jones and everyone was betting on him. Smarty Jones romped to the finish line first in every race he ever ran until the Belmont.
But, for both Rosenberg and Chapman, the placement of Smarty Jones at Calumet is not just about mares and matings. Americans still love Smarty Jones. See where they are now. Please help us out and disable your ad-blocker.
On being examined by a vet it was established that he was still alive and he was immediately shipped to an Equine Clinic for a more accurate diagnosis. He was retired late that year due to bruising of his ankle bones. Smarty Jones is the ninth Kentucky Derby winner to call Calumet home, and the ninth Preakness winner the Lexington operation has stood as well. Oxbow, winner of the Preakness in , joins those two as the three classic winners currently active at Calumet.
Photo by Anne M. Farm manager Eddie Kane said the Calumet team is still getting to know Smarty Jones, but that he has been a class act since shipping from Northview Stallion Station. Two years later, when Ghost Ridge Farm announced it would be taking a step back from standing stallions, Smarty Jones was transferred to Northview Stallion Station's Pennsylvania division. Roy and Pat Chapman's Someday Farm, which bred Smarty Jones in Pennsylvania and retains a controlling interest in the stallion, decided to relocate the fan favorite to Kentucky this year.
He and English Channel are side by side and they are getting on well together. Smarty Jones so dominated all but the final 30 yards that a record , people were at Belmont Park for his final race. Everything went perfectly except the ending. Smarty left the track for stud duty at Three Chimneys.
He also spent some time in Uruguay during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season. Servis will be there. So will Pat Chapman. She's a very nice lady and treats Smarty Jones like a member of the family.
There were about people here. Everybody wanted their picture taken with him. He's got a lot of fans. His progeny, however, have seldom lived up to their daddy's lead. He produced some 1, winners and various stakes horses, but most of his best runners ended up in Asia or South America.
Chapman said there was little interest in returning Smarty Jones to Kentucky, where he stood at Three Chimneys Farm and Calumet Chapman considers Smarty Jones to be more of a regional sire and the move back to Pa.
One of his offspring is doing well locally.
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