Smarty Jones, who stood for a $4,000 fee in 2015, is the sire of 23 stakes/graded stakes winners, including Grade 1 winner Centralinteligence and champions Better Life and Smart D N A.
Smarty Jones as a newly minted stallion at Three Chimneys.
At the beginning, Smarty was bred to 100 mares each breeding season. They sold their Pennsylvania farm and all of their horses. (Photo courtesy of Three Chimneys)Ultimately, like so many great champions, Smarty Jones the stallion failed live up to Smarty Jones the runner. With their trusted industry adviser now gone, they decided to shut down their thoroughbred operation. Servis tabbed a journeyman jockey named Stewart Elliott for the ride. (Photo courtesy of Three Chimneys) Just a few miles from Calumet lives another popular retiree, American Pharoah, who will forever be remembered for the 2015 Triple Crown; and though he came up a few feet short of the throne in 2004, we will never forget the fun we had at the Smarty Party. This horse could not lose.More than 120,000 people crammed into Belmont that day, still the largest crowd for a sporting event in New York. We’re talkin’ Tonalist, times 10. Well, nearly all of them. He will certainly receive the best care a horse can have and will “meet” his share of quality mares. They came for Smarty. His return to training was interrupted by persistent ankle bruises, and rather than risk his long-term heath, the Chapmans retired their superstar homebred. All of these races are important steps on the road to the Triple Crown, and winning them made Smarty Jones a solid favorite heading into the Kentucky Derby on May 1, 2004.The day dawned rainy and remained that way until post time. Smarty Jones, meanwhile, became a stallion in 2005, and even though he produced 1,500 winners he was never able to breed another horse to run as he did, with the heart he did. He was now 5 for 5 and poised for prime time.His next act was a dance with many of the country’s top 3-year-olds in the Grade II Arkansas Derby.
He’d saddled over 1,800 winners in his nearly 40 year career at the track, and had a knack for finding value.Camac, however, would never see Smarty Jones race. That bastard.
View results and future entries as well as statistics by course, race type and prize money. He also earned a $5 million bonus from Oaklawn Park. Smarty Jones was indeed something special.Two weeks later, Servis wheeled Smarty right back at Philadelphia Park for the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes.
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Pam Chapman named him Smarty Jones, the nickname of her similarly headstrong mother.
Smarty Jones, a champion and dual classic winner, will stand the 2019 breeding season at Equistar Farm in Annville, Penn., for an advertised fee of $3,500, BloodHorse reports.
Which is where we're different. His sire, Elusive Quality, was a stakes winning miler, and his dam was an accomplished sprinter.
They had been The crime rocked the local community and devastated the Chapmans.
Rambunctious and fast, Smarty Jones was poised to make his debut that summer, but there would be one more significant hurdle to clear.What was supposed to be a routine gate-schooling session early one July morning in 2003, ended in near disaster.
Going a mile on the dirt, Smarty Jones dismantled his foes as Elliott sat on autopilot.Smarty then shipped to Arkansas to prep for the Kentucky Derby at Oaklawn Park. The Chapmans and Camac were fairly optimistic about this chestnut colt’s future.Camac was more than an industry adviser to the Chapmans, he was a trusted friend.
It happens a lot. The young colt became spooked and reared up, hitting his head on the top of the gate.
Smarty Jones, who stood for a $4,000 fee in 2015, is the sire of 23 stakes/graded stakes winners, including Grade 1 winner Centralinteligence and champions Better Life and Smart D N A. Smarty Jones was thrust into the midst of tragedy and controversy early in life. Smarty Jones’s progeny continued to have moderate success and, at least locally, his star never lost its luster.Smarty Jones in April 2014, at Northview Stallion Station in Lancaster County, PA. (MICHAEL S. WIRTZ/Philly.com)The sprawling green acres of Calumet Farm, Lexington, KY. Not a bad place to hang one’s hat.At Calumet Farm, Smarty Jones will hopefully enjoy many more years of good health.
Based on Smarty Jones’s numbers of 2006, each year Big Brown will earn $100,000 x 112, $11.2 million. He has produced 1,500 winners and 35 stakes winners, but never the big horse, never a horse like Smarty Jones.
Not since Seattle Slew in ’77 had an undefeated horse won the Derby.
While his speed was unquestioned, some doubted whether he had the stamina required for the classic distances of the Triple Crown.
He will certainly receive the best care a horse can have and will “meet” his share of quality mares. Smarty Jones collapsed into unconsciousness and it was later determined that he had fractured his skull. His return to training was interrupted by persistent ankle bruises, and rather than risk his long-term heath, the Chapmans retired their superstar homebred.
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