J. B.’s Thunder returns to races after the span of nine months and to start with an optional as a comeback
The Columbine Stable owned 3-year-old colt J. B.’s Thunder will return to the race track after being out of the action for nearly nine months. The Grade 1 winning colt is trained by Albert Stall and the Kentucky bred runner turned in a perfect debut for
his trainer.
The 3-year-old colt went on to win his maiden stakes in emphatic style, as he participated in a race run over a distance of 1 1/16 miles on grass at Saratoga.
J. B.’s Thunder under Shaun Bridgmohan ran almost a perfect race with strides going longer as he closed in on the finishing line on 21 August 2010, and won the race by downing his rivals Santiva and Legend of Navarone, who finished second and third respectively.
The winning time for J. B.’s Thunder was 1 minute and 43.31 seconds. J. B.’s Thunder will return to the races at Saratoga in the day’s seventh race to be held on 1 September, 2011.
The race is an Allowance / Optional run over a distance of 1 1/16 miles on grass.
This will be J. B.’s Thunder’s only second start on grass after his maiden breaker at Saratoga, since then he has run on synthetic surface at Keeneland and on Churchill Downs dirt.
Right after his maiden breaker, J. B.’s Thunder earned his way in the Grade 1 $ 400,000 Breeders’ Cup Futurity.
At Keeneland on 9 October, 2010, J. B.’s Thunder with a front running romp, dealt with his competition in fine style to land a Grade 1 race in his first attempt.
He was sent off as the 5 to 1 favourite, the 2-year-old cruised past other juvenile sprinters on the final turn in the 1 1/16 miles test, to win his first grade 1 race by four lengths under jockey Shaun Bridgmohan.
The son of Thunder Gulch then came back to compete over similar distance in the Grade 1 Breeders; Cup Juvenile, this time at Churchill Downs on dirt but couldn’t have the same impact and finished a disappointing seventh.
Albert Stall made it clear that if his 3-year-old does not win in his Allowance race on 1September, which he says he will not, then J. B.’s Thunder will go for the same race over again and go race by race to get back on track.
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