From the Preakness Stakes Notes Team:
FALCON JET SOARING INTO SIR BARTON OFF MAIDEN TRIUMPH
Among 9 Stakes, 4 Graded, Worth $3.15 Million Preakness Day
LAUREL, MD – Six weeks after securing his elusive maiden victory, Falcon Jet will take his first stakes test Saturday in the $100,000 Sir Barton sponsored by Connelly Family Foundation to benefit TAA on the Preakness (G1) Day program at Laurel Park.
Named for the first winner of the Triple Crown in 1919, the $100,000 race is for 3-year-old non-winners of an open sweepstakes going 1 1/16 miles on dirt. It is the sixth race on the blockbuster program headed by the $2 million Preakness Stakes, Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown.
Falcon Jet, a son of 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify, was purchased for $750,000 and started his…
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