The travel arrangements were made. The horse was ready to go. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate. Snow in Louisiana?
So Richard Owens ended up watching the $750,000 Boyd Gaming’s Delta Jackpot Stakes (gr. III) from the warm confines of his Arizona home the evening of
Dec. 4. He certainly got his money’s worth when his homebred 2-year-old Uh Oh Bango just missed by a neck to victorious Rule on a track made sloppy by snow and rain.
“My daughter and I were going to go, but I looked at the dang weather forecast and decided not to go,” Owens said. “But I was very impressed with the horse.”
Owens, who owns and operates Triple AAA Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., has been breeding Thoroughbreds for about 30 years. He has had a slew of multiple stakes winners over the years, and some were very good as juveniles. But Uh Oh Bango may be the best at this stage of his career.
