Joyful Victory

Prep Race History

Date	Race	Grade	Distance	Finish	Chart	Video
Apr 10 2011	Fantasy Stakes Oaklawn Park	II	1 Mile 1/16	1	Fantasy Stakes.pdf
Mar 12 2011	Honeybee Oaklawn Park	III	1 1/16 Miles	1	Honeybee.pdf

Connections

Larry Jones

Trainer

Larry Jones trained 2011 Horse of the Year Havre De Grace who among other accomplishments defeated the males in the G-1 Woodward Stakes. Jones returned to training after a brief retirement and has picked right back up with a strong stable of stakes contenders. A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, has had success in the Kentucky Oaks with Proud Spell scoring a victory in 2008.

Fox Hill Farms (Rick Porter)

Owner

Porter became interested in racing after attending races at Delaware Park as a youth. He named his racing stable Fox Hill Farms after a home he purchased in Delaware in 1989. Fox Hill Farms has had two second place finishers in the Kentucky Derby with Hard Spun and Eight Belles in 2007 and 2008 respectively. Other top runners include Friesan Fire, Old Fashioned, and Rockport Harbor.

Pedigree

Joyful Victory is by 2004 Wood Memorial (G1) winner Tapit

In addition to his Wood score, the stallion went undefeated as a two-year-old when dominating a maiden field and the Laurel Futurity (G3)

Tapit ranked 12th on the 2010 Leading Sires list, with 111 winners from 195 starters having earned more than $6.5 million

From his first two crops Tapit sired 2008 champion and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) heroine Stardom Bound as well as 2009 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf victress Tapitsfly
Other progeny of note include 2009 Alabama S. (G1) queen Careless Jewel and Grade 1 scorer Tell a Kelly

Joyful Victory is a daughter of the winning Wild Lucy Black (Wild Again)

Her third dam is the unraced Black Eyed Lucy (*Prince Royal II), who is noted for producing 1982 champion two-year-old colt Roving Boy (Olden Times) as well as the dam of dual Grade 1 queen A Wild Ride (Wild Again)

Wild Again, sire of both Wild Lucy Black and A Wild Ride, captured the 1984 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)

The Tapit--Wild Again cross is also responsible for Grade 3 winner War Echo and stakes-placed Running Tap

Grade 1 hero Pyro, who is by Tapit’s sire, Pulpit, is also out of a Wild Again mare

Wild Again’s progeny include Grade 1 heroine Wilderness Song, who was second against the boys in the 1991 Queen’s Plate; Milwaukee Brew, back-to-back winner of the Santa Anita H. (G1); 2002 Belmont S. (G1) victor Sarava; and dual Grade 1 scorers Wild Rush and Shine Again