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James Stevenson and Stephen Perry, who named their respective Her next start caught the eye of popular horse racing blog The stables after family members, experienced a year to remember last Racing Biz, which named her their “Big Move of the Week” for Dec. year, even being crowned Leading “B” Owner at Parx Racing. 13, 2015. “Lucy N Ethel was 1.10-1 when the gates opened at Parx Highlighting their small string of racehorses are the offspring of Racing in a first-level allowance for 2-year-old fillies on Dec. 8. By the Silver Ghost mare Kid Silver, who broke her maiden first time out the time the race was over, that seemed like extraordinarily generous but retired shortly thereafter when it was discovered that she had a odds, as she obliterated her five rivals, winning by over 13 lengths in slab fracture in her knee. Barbara Rickline of Xanthus Farms was a sharp time of 1:12.12. Older Pennsylvania-Bred fillies and mares, contacted about the possibility of breeding her, since she has an also in a first allowance condition, took about two more seconds to affinity for Silver Ghost mares. cover the same ground five races later.” “[Kid Silver] wasn’t Said then-trainer a big, good-looking, Ramon Preciado, “She strapping mare, just could be better than average looking. [The we thought. At the be- trainer] asked me if ginning we thought she I wanted her – she was a nice filly. Her first didn’t have much of a race, she impressed pedigree – but I liked us a little bit, but in her her,” said Rickline. second race, she really After a few foals exploded.” by former Xanthus Lucy N Ethel’s two stallion Buckle Down performances at Parx Ben, who were excep- Racing earned her a tionally good-looking nomination for Cham- but not racehorse ma- pion Two-Year-Old Filly terial, Rickline decided at the Bensalem track, to try an eNicks report though she ultimately on crossing Kid Silver lost to future Kentucky with a young stallion Oaks-G1 winner Cath- named During. Much ryn Sophia. to her surprise, “it was After shipping south the highest number I’d for the winter, Lucy N ever seen,” she said. “I just had to do it.” Ethel made her 2016 debut in the first stakes race of her career, the That foal was Jake N Elwood, who captured the $75,000 Dan- $100,000 Old Hat Stakes-G3 at Gulfstream Park. Sent off as the zig Stakes as a juvenile for J A G Racing and Jettany Thoroughbred overwhelming favorite in a compact field of six, Lucy N Ethel again Corp. Jake N Elwood won nearly $400,000 for Perry and Stevenson jumped out of the gate and gunned straight to the lead, drawing away during a career that included additional victories in allowance races down the stretch to win by nearly four lengths. at Saratoga Race Course, Parx Racing and Delaware Park. The duo Unfortunately, Lucy N Ethel came out of the Old Hat Stakes with decided to purchase Kid Silver from Rickline in 2011 and bred the a bone chip, which was promptly surgically removed. She spent the mare back to During in 2012. The following spring Lucy N Ethel was next few months at a farm in Anthony, Fla., before returning to a born. training center in New Jersey with Preciado’s assistant Chloe Brad- Lucy N Ethel made her career debut at Parx Racing on Nov. 16, ley, who prepared the filly for a comeback. 2015, in a $38,000 maiden special weight for 2-year-old Pennsyl- continued on page 4 PA THOROUGHBRED REPORT 3 LUCY N ETHEL continued from page 3 Lucy N Ethel returned to the races in a tough spot, the was a lovely group of horses. These are some of the best in $300,000 Prioress Stakes-G2 at Saratoga on Sept. 4, 2016 the world as far as sprinters go.” – eight months after her last start. Despite her unbeaten Following her Prioress score, a bit of controversy erupt- record, she went off as the third-longest shot of 10 starters. ed regarding the actual trainer of Lucy N Ethel, who was For this race, she was entered under Bradley’s name, as Pre- forcibly scratched out of two stakes races by the stewards ciado was serving a suspension. She was also ridden by a in New Jersey and New York. At the end of September, the new jockey, Jose Lezcano. The changes made absolutely no filly was transferred to Kentucky-based trainer Tom Amoss. difference – Lucy n Ethel again went straight to the front and While Perry emphatically states that Bradley had been train- ing Lucy N Ethel, he knows that the situation was a causing never relinquished her lead, gamely holding off her closest a whole host of problems. competitor from gate to wire by a half-length. “This is the best thing for the horse,” noted Perry to the “She’s a very nice filly,” Lezcano praised. “The trainer Thoroughbred Daily News on Oct. 3. “Tom is the right kind of told me to take her away from the pony and warm her up guy for the situation for our filly and we love his program.