Just Howard

Just Howard needed six races to earn his first career victory, but once he reached the winner's circle for the first time, he turned himself into a frequent visitor. He followed with back-to-back wins at Laurel Park in the Caveat Stakes and the Find Stakes in July and August 2017. He then stepped up into graded stakes company and passed the test with flying colors with a win in the Grade 3 Commonwealth Derby Presented by the Virginia Equine Alliance and Virginia HBPA. In the Commonwealth Derby, Just Howard halted Voodoo Song's four-race winning streank and set a new course record for 1 1/8 miles in 1:45.81. Just Howard was unplaced in his final two starts as a 3-year-old.

Making his 4-year-old debut in the Grade 3 Dixie Stakes on the 2018 Preakness undercard, Just Howard finished third. Two starts later, he regained his winning form with an allowance victory at Laurel Park. He was unplaced in his final two races of the year.

After running fourth by three-quarters of a length in a stakes race at Laurel Park in April 2019, Just Howard finished third again in the Dixie Stakes and then third by a length in the Prince George's County Stakes at Laurel. He halted a five-race winless stretch in the Grade 3 Oceanport Stakes on July 20 when he held off determined runner-up Divisidero by a head to prevail at Monmouth Park.

A $37,000 purchase at the 2015 Keeneland September yearling sale, Just Howard is out of the winning Alphabet Soup mare Aruban Sandwich.