Jester Calls Nojoy Takes Another Crack at Black Type

Stuart Grant of The Elkstone Group isn’t any stranger to prime fillies. Up to now few years, the Delaware legal professional has owned in partnership twin Eclipse Award-winning champion Monomoy Girl  and champion 2-year-old filly British Idiom . Which is why when his homebred filly Jester Calls Nojoy  demolished a field of maidens Sept. 5 at Saratoga Race Course, the daughter of Maclean’s Music   looked poised to become Grant’s next stable star.

In her next start, the Oct. 3 Frizette Stakes (G1), Jester Calls Noyjoy bobbled at the start and was rushed into contention in the early stages. The bay appeared visibly unsettled in between horses before tiring during the stretch run to check in sixth behind likely Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) favorite Echo Zulu .

After two :48 1/5 half-mile works over the training track at Belmont Park for coach Todd Pletcher, Jester Calls Nojoy ought to respect the cutback in journey and softer firm within the Oct. 29 $150,000 six-furlong Myrtlewood Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Keeneland. Breaking from the within slot, the bay secures the companies of Joel Rosario.

Castleton Lyons’ Chi Town Lady , back to the dirt after an unplaced effort in the Oct. 10 Futurity Stakes (G3T) against the boys, should prove a formidable rival breaking outside from post 9 under Florent Geroux. The Wesley Ward trainee, a stakes winner on the turf at Saratoga, graduated by three lengths in her April 11 debut over the Keeneland main track.