Keeneland: Holiday Stone Wins Wednesday’s Featured Diamond A Farms Purse

By Amy Owens —-

Holiday Stone Wins Wednesday’s Featured Diamond A Farms Purse

LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 23, 2019) – Susan and Jim Hill’s 7-1 choice Holiday Stone scored his second consecutive victory when he held off Jazzy Times by a half-length to win the $80,000 Diamond A Farms Purse at Keeneland before a Wednesday afternoon crowd of 9,091.

Ridden by Declan Cannon for trainer Eddie Kenneally, Holiday Stone covered 5½ furlongs on a turf course rated as good in 1:02.84. (Click here for a video of the race.)

Holiday Stone, a Keeneland sales graduate, is a 5-year-old son of Harlan’s Holiday out of the Horse Chestnut (SAF) mare Lucifer’s Stone, winner of Keeneland’s Appalachian in 2004. He earned $48,000 for Wednesday’s victory, which increased his career earnings to $398,099 with a record of 27-6-2-4. He has made all but one start on turf.

Holiday Stone paid $16.60, $8.80 and $5.40. Jazzy Times, ridden by Miguel Mena, returned $8.20 and $5.80. Finishing 2½ lengths behind in third was Undrafted, who paid $4 with Corey Lanerie aboard.

On Thursday, racing resumes at Keeneland with a nine-race program beginning at 1:05 pm ET.

Keeneland’s 17-day Fall Meet concludes Saturday.

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For more than 80 years, the Keeneland Association has devoted itself to the health and vibrancy of the Thoroughbred industry. The world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house, Keeneland conducts four sales a year, in January, April, September and November, and its sales graduates dominate racing across the globe at every level. In April and October, Keeneland offers some of the highest caliber and richest Thoroughbred racing in the world. Keeneland hosted the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in 2015 and will hold the event again in 2020. Uniquely structured, Keeneland is a privately held company with a not-for-profit mission that returns its earnings to the industry and the community in the form of higher purses and millions of dollars donated in support of horse industry initiatives and charitable contributions for education, research and health and human services throughout Central Kentucky. Keeneland also maintains the Keeneland Library, a world-renowned public research institution with the mission of preserving information about the Thoroughbred industry. To learn more, visit Keeneland.com.
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