Hurley’s horse wins Fountain of Youth, may head to Kentucky Derby
Jersey City native Bobby Hurley, the former St. Anthony and Duke basketball All-American who spent six years in the NBA, has made the successful transition into another career – that being a stakes-winning thoroughbred race horse owner.
Hurley’s $1 million colt, Songandaprayer, shocked the field at the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park recently to win going away by almost two lengths and paid $38 to win, which had to make a lot of Hurley loyalists very happy.
Songandaprayer, ridden by Edgar Prado, jumped out for the lead early on and just kept motoring, all the way to the finish line.
Hurley promised that if his prize colt won at the Fountain of Youth, then the upcoming Florida Derby, that he would take the horse to race in the granddaddy of all horse races, namely the Run for the Roses, the Kentucky Derby, on the first weekend of May.
Well, one down, one to go. And you can be rest assured that there are countless friends from his hometown that are hoping they can head to Bluegrass country for that wondrous event in May…
Hoboken native Angela Zampella continues to make the most of her final season at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. The senior point guard is leading NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball point guards in assists per game…
Former St. Peter’s Prep hurler Tom Crohan earned his first collegiate victory as a starter recently, leading Rutgers University to a win over Old Dominion in one of the first few games of the college baseball season. Crohan, a junior lefty, is being touted as one of the Scarlet Knights’ top starters this season and veteran head coach Fred Hill is expecting big things from Crohan…
The high school basketball season is winding down to the last precious few days, and in fact, only two local teams remain in line for a possible state championship, namely the Friars of St. Anthony and the Lady Knights of Marist, both of whom can win their respective NJSIAA Parochial B North championships over the weekend…
Congrats to North Bergen wrestling coach Jerry Maietta, who was named the Region 4 Coach of the Year. It’s a great honor for a guy who worked his tail off to get the Bruins’ program back on track. Four Bruin wrestlers will compete in the NJSIAA state championships at the Continental Airlines Arena this weekend…
High school baseball and softball practices opened in gyms across the county on Thursday. Yes, gyms, because Old Man Winter doesn’t seem to want to go away. Hopefully, the white stuff will go away and the diamond heroes can take their places on the field to get ready for the first games of the season on April 2….
The NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament will announce its brackets this weekend and it’s certain that two Hudson County natives, namely former North Bergen standout Rick Apodaca of Hofstra and former St. Anthony standout and Jersey City native Anthony Perry will be participating in the Grand Dance. We’ll have more with both players in next week’s editions…