TDN Writers' Room Podcast, Episode 55 with Guest Kevin Attard | September 23, 2020

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more successful claim in the past decade than Blue Heaven Farm's Starship Jubilee (Indy Wind). Plucked for $16,000 from Jorge Navarro of all people in February of 2017 at Gulfstream, the now 7-year-old mare has taken trainer Kevin Attard on the ride of a lifetime, and scored her greatest triumph yet with a victory in Saturday's GI Woodbine Mile S., becoming a multimillionaire in the process. Wednesday, Attard joined the TDN Writers' Room podcast presented by Keeneland as the Green Group Guest of the Week to tell he and Starship Jubilee's rags-to-riches story.

Now with 19 wins in 38 starts and hardly any duds in her past performances, it's clear that Starship Jubilee has something special about her. Attard tried to pinpoint what it is that makes the mare so consistent.

Elsewhere on the show, the writers reacted to the development of the first guilty pleas stemming from March's FBI indictments and debated the wisdom of restrictive new whip rules. Then, in the West Point Thoroughbreds news segment, they discussed Tiz the Law (Constitution) skipping the GI Preakness S. to train up to the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic.

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