For a second straight year a Patricia Generazio homebred not only won the Grade 3 Jaipur Invitational Stakes but set a course and North American record in the process when Disco Partner rallied to a half-length victory in the $300,000 turf sprint.
For a second straight year a Patricia Generazio homebred not only won the Grade 3 Jaipur Invitational Stakes but set a course and North American record in the process when Disco Partner rallied to a half-length victory in the $300,000 turf sprint.
Early on in the six-furlong test on the Belmont Widener turf course, last year's Jaipur winner Pure Sensation blazed through a contested quarter-mile in :21.43 and a half-mile in :43.04 while Disco Partner raced off the pace in eighth. Turning for home, Disco Partner and Irad Ortiz Jr. rallied along the hedge and then split horses to surge past Pure Sensation en route to a half-length victory over favorite Green Mask.
Trained by Christophe Clement, Disco Partner was credited with six furlongs in 1:05.67 on the firm turf, which lowers by more than a second the previous course record set in last year's Jaipur when Pure Sensation won in 1:06.76. That effort also was the North American record for six furlongs on turf. Disco Partner finished second by a neck in last year's Jaipur.
The North American record for six furlongs on dirt was set in 2009 at Turf Paradise when Twin Sparks won a race in 1:06.49.–Frank Angst