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Mark Valeski Overcomes Trouble in Mineshaft

Mark Valeski Overcomes Trouble in Mineshaft

Brereton Jones' homebred Mark Valeski overcame traffic troubles and ran down a cavalcade of horses in the stretch of the $148,500 Mineshaft Handicap (gr. III) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Feb. 23.

 Saturday, February 23, 2013
Peter Pan Preps Mark Valeski for Future

Peter Pan Preps Mark Valeski for Future

Connections were rewarded for their patience when Mark Valeski, making only the sixth start of his career, produced a decisive victory in the Peter Pan Stakes.

 Friday, May 25, 2012
Jones Non-Committal on Mark Valeski for Derby

Jones Non-Committal on Mark Valeski for Derby

Trainer Larry Jones did not commit to a potential start in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) for Brereton C. Jones' homebred Mark Valeski after the colt breezed five furlongs in 1:00 1/5 at Churchill Downs.

 Monday, April 30, 2012
Successful Sire Fortunate Prospect Dies

Successful Sire Fortunate Prospect Dies

Fortunate Prospect, a successful sprinter and broodmare sire, was euthanized March 15 at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center near Georgetown, Ky., because of complications from old age.

 Monday, March 19, 2012

Fortunate Prospect, 31, Dies at Old Friends

Fortunate Prospect, a top sprinter and broodmare sire, was euthanized due to complications of old age March 15 at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center in Georgetown, Ky.

 Friday, March 16, 2012
Z Fortune Moves up in LeComte

Z Fortune Moves up in LeComte

Zayat Stables' Z Fortune put himself near the top of trainer Steve Asmussen's 3-year-old list when he came from off the pace to take the $100,000 LeComte Stakes (gr. III) at Fair Grounds Jan. 12.

 Saturday, January 12, 2008

Menifee Filly Has Best Quarter Time at OBSC Under Tack Show

Morning Praise, a filly by Menifee consigned by Nick de Meric, agent, worked a quarter in :20 4/5 to post the fastest work at the distance of the second session of the Under Tack Show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2005 Spring Sale of 2-Year- Olds in Training.

 Thursday, April 21, 2005

Florida Stallion Fortunate Prospect Pensioned

Fortunate Prospect, a 24-year-old son of Northern Prospect, has been retired from the breeding shed and pensioned at Farnsworth Farms near Ocala, Fla.

 Monday, February 14, 2005

Lou-Roe Farm Lands Alex's Pal, Successful Appeal's Half-Brother

Alex's Pal, a half-brother to the 2004 leading first-crop sire Successful Appeal, will stand the 2005 breeding season at Lou Gurino's Lou-Roe Farm near Morriston, Fla. His fee will be $2,500 live foal. Alex's Pal is from the first crop of 2001 leading freshman sire Valid Expectations, who like Successful Appeal, is a son of Valid Appeal.

 Friday, January 07, 2005

Fortunate Prospect Filly Tops First Session of OBS Spring Sale

Hope for Love, a filly by Fortunate Prospect, brought the top price of $110,000 Monday during the first session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's spring sale of 2-year-old in training.

 Monday, April 22, 2002

Evansville Slew Filly Leads Way In OBS April Under Tack Show

An Evansville Slew filly breezed the fastest eighth of a mile Wednesday during the first under tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s April juvenile auction.

 Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Fortunate Prospect Filly Brings $475,000 At OBS

Bold World, a Fortunate Prospect filly, sold for $475,000 Tuesday to top the second session of the Ocala Breeders's Sales Company's spring sale of 2-year-olds in training. She was purchased by Amy Tarrant of Vermont.

 Wednesday, April 25, 2001

Fillies Turn In Fast Works in Ocala

Stormy Kris, a daughter of Whitney Tower, turned in the fastest eighth-mile work Wednesday during the first under tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's April auction of 2-year-olds in training. Consigned by Rising Hill Farm, agent, Stormy Kris covered the distance in 10 :2/5 seconds. The filly was produced from the 11-year-old Kris S mare Surely Kris.

 Wednesday, April 18, 2001

Fortunate Prospect's Fee $7,500

Michael Sherman's Farnsworth Farms announced fees for its stallions, and Fortunate Prospect leads the way.

 Friday, October 27, 2000