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Article: Jacksons' Showing Up Wins A Big One at Colonial Downs
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- The Washington Post
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- June 25, 2006
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For a brief moment, Gretchen and Roy Jackson had no answers. Their
colt, Showing Up, had just won the $1 million Colonial Cup on
Saturday against the best 3-year-old turf horses in the country, and
afterward they were asked how it felt to go from the tragic breakdown
of their Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro in the Preakness Stakes to
being a part of the emergence of a new star.
All they could do was stare blankly.
"I'm pretty speechless," Gretchen Jackson finally stammered. "It
seems like a composite of 35 years of racing in six months of all
that could happen."
"We don't know why this is happening," Roy Jackson added, "but we
know you have to enjoy the good times."
The victory by Showing Up ...