New client gives Jacobson more firepower

Despite his diminished, nearly extinct relationship with Drawing Away Stable, trainer David Jacobson kept rolling, leading the trainer and owner standings in wins at Aqueduct’s winter and spring meets.

As he prepares for the Belmont spring-summer meet, which begins Wednesday, Jacobson has begun a relationship with a new client, James Costabile Jr., who is starting a claiming partnership that will race under the moniker Final Turn Stable.

Over the last week of the Aqueduct meet, Jacobson claimed six horses for $164,500 for Costabile (one horse, Bet the Power, was claimed in Jacobson’s name but will be transferred to Costabile in a month).

“We’re looking to build up a very strong, powerful racing stable in New York and Monmouth,” Jacobson said. “A lot of these guys are from [New Jersey], so they’re going to want to be there, too. I’m very excited and looking forward to working with James Costabile, a real gentleman and a real sharp guy.”

Costabile, 35, is a wealth manager from Brielle, N.J. He owned a few horses previously with trainer Buddy Carlesimo, including Raging Daoust, who won the Grade 3 Salvator Mile in 2013.

Costabile, who said his grandfather owned horses decades ago, said he has some friends and business associates who will be part of the stable. He said the stable will start relatively small but could expand depending on how things go.

“In our first conversation with David, we said the sky’s the limit,” Costabile said. “As well as we do will dictate as far as we go.”

Costabile said that when he heard Jacobson and Drawing Away were parting ways, he “jumped at the opportunity” to contact Jacobson to see if he would train for the outfit.

“Hard not to recognize the good work David has been doing,” Costabile said. “It’s clear he’s been a dominant force.”

The horses whom Jacobson claimed for Costabile last week were Gansett Bay, Seek to Destroy, Golden Itiz, Glickman, Don Dulce, and Bet the Power.

Be Bullish, the 10-year-old gelding, is one of the few horses Jacobson has left whom he owns in partnership with Drawing Away. Be Bullish won a $25,000 claimer last Friday at Aqueduct, his second win in as many starts this year and his 18th career victory from 86 starts.

“We’re going race to race,” Jacobson said. “If we’re 100 percent sure he’s up to running, we’ll run him again. If not, we’ll retire him. He will be retired very shortly, and he will go out a winner.”

When he is retired, Be Bullish will go to Old Friends in Kentucky.