Union Bell ready for Triple Crown

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:09:05 +0000

UNION Bell delivered an impressive finishing kick to an undefeated season, winning the 2019 Philippine Racing Commission’s Juvenile Championship recently at the San Lazaro Leisure Park in Carmona, Cavite by five lengths and declaring himself ready for the bigger challenge of the new year – the Triple Crown series.

Elmer de Leon (right), owner of Union Bell, receives the Juvenile Championship trophy from Philracom Executive Director Andrew Rovie Buencamino. They are joined by jockey Jonathan B. Hernandez and the rest of Union Bell’s winning connections.

The Jonathan B. Hernandez-steered Union Bell (sire Union Rags, USA; dam Tocqueville, ARG) notched his fourth straight win in the Juvenile series for two-year-old horses, while grabbing the rich championship purse of P1.5 million for owner Elmer de Leon.

The two-year-old colt started his amazing streak with an emphatic five-length win in the 1st leg of the Juvenile Fillies and Colts Stakes Race at the Saddle and Clubs Leisure Park in Naic, Cavite last October, before making it two in a row in the 2nd leg at the Metro Manila Turf Club in Malvar, Batangas the following month.

Proving that he’s one of the country’s fastest-rising young horses, Union Bell completed a hat trick of sorts by winning the Juvenile Colts Stakes Race at the San Lazaro Leisure Park in December, before capturing the overall Juvenile crown during Philracom’s last offering for the year.

“Ready na ito sa Triple Crown, mas magaling ito next year,” said Hernandez.

After Party set the tone of the race a third of the way, before Union Bell made his move at the 700-meter mark. Exponential turned it into a three-way battle for the lead from there, but Union Bell began pulling away in the final 600 meters, bolting to the finish for a five-length victory that affirmed its status as one of the best horses to watch out for in the new racing season.

Union Bell submitted a clocking of 1:42.8, with quartert imes of 24, 25, 26, 27 seconds.

Exponential (jockey PM Cabalejo, owner Raymund Puyat), which was expected to give Union Bell a run for his money, placed a far second and received P562,500, while third placer Lucky Savings (jockey JA Guce, owner Antonio Coyco) got P312,000.

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