Jumping the Gun may make return in Weber City Miss Stakes
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Jumping the Gun has spent the better part of a month easing back into training at Delaware Park for Andy Simoff, most recently completing a four-furlong workout in 48.80 seconds last Saturday. If all continues to go well, Simoff said the filly will make her 3-year-old debut in the $150,000 Weber City Miss next month at Laurel Park.
“The Weber City Miss is two turns, so hopefully the weather and everything cooperates and we make that race,” Simoff said. “And then we'll see where we're at.”
Simoff said he hopes the Weber City Miss will open the door for his filly to run in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan, which will be run at Laurel in May.
A two-time state-restricted stakes winner at her home track, Jumping the Gun finished second in the last two starts of her juvenile campaign.
In the $100,000 White Clay Creek at Delaware, she finished 1 1/2 lengths behind Dazzling Dame, who came back to win the $150,000 Busanda by 11 1/2 lengths in January. In the Grade 2 Demoiselle at Aqueduct, she finished well behind Zany, the current favorite to win the Kentucky Oaks.
“She’d run hard, so we decided to give her the 60-day rest,” Simoff said. “There was nothing wrong with her. She's 100 percent sound. We just decide to rest her up, and I think it did her a lot of good.”
If she is entered in the Weber City Miss, she will jump right back into competitive stakes action off a four-month layoff.
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