Ex-NHL Player Keith Jones Living Equine Dream with All of the Above
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With the start of another NHL season right around the corner, former player Keith Jones, or “Jonesy,” remains heavily involved in hockey as an analyst for Versus and host of a sports talk show on Philadelphia’s radio waves.
However, Jones now gets his fix of the rush of competition from a New Jersey-bred three-year-old gelding named All of the Above, who he and his wife, Laura, and daughter, Adrian, purchased as a yearling in 2009, and was beaten just a nose in his last start in the $150,000 Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth Park on July 9.
“It’s like watching your teammate score a game-winning overtime goal in the playoffs. The excitement it brings is just incredible,” says Jones, who scored 119 goals and tallied 258 points in 491 games played over nine seasons in the NHL. “It’s a similar feeling to when I played hockey and I’ve missed that over the last 11 years now. It’s like being involved with a team, where my wife and daughter are part of that team.”
All of the Above was one of three yearlings (the other two are still winless after 14 combined starts) that Jones acquired from Casino Royale Farms, which was in financial difficulty and needed to find good homes for their young horses.
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