Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted May 10, 2019 Journalists Share Posted May 10, 2019 Top steeplechase trainer Jack Fisher’s spring season last year was, in a word, crummy. He could hardly buy a victory, and he reached the summer recess with all of seven wins. Of course, he made up ground through the summer and fall to claim his seventh straight title by wins. What a difference a year makes. After sitting out the first week of the National Steeplechase Association season, he has had two or three wins every weekend. Through last weekend, he had accumulated 13 wins and more than $400,000 in earnings. He very likely will add to those numbers this weekend, and he especially has a chokehold on the spring’s richest jump race, the G1 $150,000 Calvin Houghland Iroquois in Nashville Saturday. The three-mile hurdle classic drew six entrants, and four of them reside on Fisher’s Monkton, MD, farm. Two of them, both owned by the Bruton Street-US partnership, have been champions. Scorpiancer (Ire) (Scorpion {Ire}), was voted the 2017 Eclipse Award principally on the strength of his 16-length win in that year’s Calvin Houghland Iroquois. Though he missed the rest of the 2017 season and sat out 2018, Scorpiancer came back with a sketchy effort in the G2 Temple Gwathmey Handicap in Middleburg, VA, Apr. 20. Fisher’s other principal threat, 2017 novice champion Moscato (GB) (Hernando {Fr}), picked up the slack and won the Temple Gwathmey by 3 1/2 lengths. Just for good measure, Bruton Street-US’s Jaleo (Ger) (New Approach {Ire}) finished third with a good effort and will run back in the Nashville race. Rounding out the Fisher quartet is Riverdee Stable’s Gibralfaro (Ire) (Dalakhani {Ire}), who graduated from novice races with a solid victory in the $100,000 Queen’s Cup MPC ‘Chase in Charlotte on April 27. Looking to deny Fisher another big weekend are Buttonwood Farm’s All the Way Jose (Senor Swinger), fourth in the Temple Gwathmey, and Wendy Hendriks’ Surprising Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}), a Grade 3 stakes winner last year who was fourth in the $50,000 Carolina Cup Handicap Mar. 30 in his only outing this year. The post Fisher Foursome Tops Calvin Houghland Iroquois appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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