From the Land of Lincoln, Team Block Sends Out Winner in the Bob F. Wright Memorial Stakes
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From the Land of Lincoln, Team Block Sends Out
Winner in the Bob F. Wright Memorial Stakes
Fair Grounds newcomer Jareth Loveberry deploys winning Tactics aboard Another Mystery
Photo: Hodges Photography
New Orleans, LA (November 27, 2021) – Clean trips are hard to come by for late closing horses. Another Mystery knows it well. Steadied twice and stuck in traffic before finishing sixth in the G3 Sycamore at Keeneland last out, this Illinois homebred by Temple City out of the classy broodmare Ioya Two entered Saturday’s $75,000 Bob F. Wright Memorial for Team Block with darkened form. With new pilot Jareth Loveberry guiding this late flyer, Another Mystery ($23.60) saved ground and found the lane needed to strut his best stuff in the stretch, passing the 1.10-1 favorite and Godolphin millionaire Pixelate to score a neck victory at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
Attracting a classy field with three graded stakes winners, this inaugural running of the Bob F Wright Memorial had the makings of a stunner from when the card was drawn. With four horses who knew how to win out front running across a turf course that has been kind to sent horses early in the meet, so much depended on the tactics each jockey would deploy.
“Trying to follow the right horse,” Loveberry said. “The 1 horse [Pixelate], I thought that was the one to follow and I just got the trip behind him the whole race. I saved ground and followed him.”
Running two lengths behind Pixelate early while tracking fractions of 24.88, 49.40 and 1:14.03 set by Forty Under, Another Mystery kept stride on the rail throughout both turns. He lacked room for a bid at the three-sixteenths pole. Fed up while awaiting a lane to open up, Loveberry tipped Another Mystery Out out and this Chris Block-trained bay 5-year-old kept to business finding more. He edged Pixelate to pull off the 10.80-1 upset It was another length back to the hard charging Monarchs Glen in third. The pacesetter Forty Under checked in fourth.
With the victory, Another Mystery raised his record to 22-6-2-3 with a bankroll of $282,850.
“Chris Block did a really good job training this horse, and I appreciate it a lot,” Loveberry said. “He was trained really good. I worked Another Mystery a couple times at Arlington. He brought it today.”
The newcomers to the jockey colony are shining on the opening weekend at Fair Grounds. Although Colby Hernandez leads with five wins, Reylu Gutierrez and Deshawn L. Parker have scored four apiece. With rides like the one he had on Another Mystery, Jareth Lovebery could give them all a run for their money.
“Finally got it off my back,” Loveberry said. “It was my first win.”
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