The Weekender Pedigree: Jaycito

Good horses overcome amazing odds and circumstances to win. We have only to look at the efforts that Zenyatta has produced time and again to remain unbeaten in 19 consecutive races.

Other times, horses seem to overcome those kinds of hurdles just to become competitors. In the case of Jaycito, the 2-year-old colt who won the Norfolk Stakes at Oak Tree on the same card as Zenyatta’s victory in the Lady’s Secret, the bay colt became a Grade 1 winner with his first victory from three starts and two seconds.

Furthermore, the colt is by champion Victory Gallop, now exiled to stand in Turkey, and is the only living foal of his dam, the 12-year-old Ascot Knight mare Night Edition.

The best racing son of the Fappiano horse Cryptoclearance, Victory Gallop was a champion at 4, earned $3 million on the racetrack, and won the Belmont Stakes by slightly more than a nose hair from Real Quiet...