Winning Ponies

Mr. Aiello previously the race caller at River Downs, has moved on to a bigger circuit and is now the voice of Hialeah Park and its Marketing and Publicity Director. He will talk to our host about his new job and will shed some insight into the upcoming Hialeah meeting which opens on December, 3rd. Mr. Larry Jones of Eight Belles' fame was born to a commercial farming family in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Growing corn, tobacco and soybeans was their primary cultivated products. Apart from cultivation, Larry’s family used to raise cattle and hogs on their ranch. Larry gained experience in making horses gradually, which actually helped him in his present profession of horse riding. Larry Jones took out his trainer’s license in 1982 and posted his first win with Captain Bold at Ellis Park in 1986. Larry is well known as ‘the trainer with the cowboy hat’ but his popularity is somewhere else. His Hard Spun created much uproar in the 2007 US Triple Crown. Jones knocked at the door of the winning title twice during the