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Wesley A. Ward

Wesley A. Ward

American jockey

Oct 23, 2026

48:05
But there you are at York, and you didn't go, right?
48:11
No, I didn't.
48:15
I'm from Seattle, Washington, or Washington State, at least.
48:19
And the majority of summers in my life growing up, I was at Long Anchor's Racetrack, a defunct track that went out of business there in 1992.
48:30
And the most coveted race up there is called the Long Anchor's Mile.
48:35
And so that race was on a Sunday.
48:42
This race was on a Friday, so for me to fly from Kentucky, I could only really choose one.
51:51
You think that's about right?
35:43
Talk me through his progression and winning the Nunthorpe States, because that's pretty damn amazing.
35:49
Yeah, he took a little time.
35:53
Tori is the one that gave me the horse.
35:55
She chose me as a trainer, which I'm extremely grateful as any trainer would be that trains a guy like this.
36:03
And they've been very patient with him because when he came up, he had some shins, just like a lot of the two-year-olds do when they come from a two-year-old training sale.
36:12
So we gave him plenty of time.
36:13
And he was training here in...

13 MINS LATER

49:39
Can this horse surprise people?
26:25
What sort of chance do you give him?
26:27
Well, he's undefeated this year, with this being, we've pointed for this race.
26:33
So he's come out on the polytrack at Turfway and won a $250,000 stake in March, and came back on the grass at Churchill, and he ran open links he won by.
26:45
So he hasn't taken on the company in America this year as he did last year in the morning.
26:51
But the morning was only off of maiden win.
26:54
He was a little bit less experienced than Gestad and the others in there.
26:58
So we're hopeful, especially with the ground being firm this week with the weather, that he's going to like it.
28:03
going to have three in the

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