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2004, as well as taking home that same title at Saratoga and Belmont in 2000.
Evans works in New York but spends a lot of time at Spring Hill.
Trainer: Quality Road has had top handling since the start at the track. Conditioner James “Jimmy" Jerkens has a pedigree that might exceed the colt's: He is a son of legendary horseman H. Allen Jerkens.
Allen Jerkens is widely known as “the Giant Killer,” so-called since he’s made a habit of beating the sport’s best horses, at the top of their games. His Beau Purple beat champion Kelso, his Handsome Boy beat champ Buckpasser, and his Onion beat champion Secretariat, rightly earning him the nickname.
Allen Jerkens was the youngest inductee, at age 45, into racing’s Hall of Fame in 1975.
Following a 20-year stint as assistant to his father in New York, the junior Jerkens went out on his own in 1987.
While he has never saddled a Derby starter, he’s had some of the circuit’s top horses at his Belmont Park stable.
In 2004, he won the Breeders Cup Mile with Artie Schiller, who finished his career with more than $2 million in earnings. Jerkens
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