SWEET RESULT: ISTAN’S TALENTED 3-YEAR-OLD ALBANO IMPRESSES IN THE SUGAR BOWL STAKES AT FAIR GROUNDS

Trainer Larry Jones has had great success with his talented Proud Citizen colt Mark Valeski over the last couple of years, highlighted by a win in the Grade 2 Peter Pan Stakes and the Grade 3 Mineshaft Stakes at Fair Grounds. Now, he’s hoping to duplicate, if not surpass, that success with Mark Valeski’s three-quarter brother Albano. A son of the underrated Istan, whose first-crop included top stakes horses Mr. Bowling and Atigun, this second-crop colt looks like a horse with a big future following his impressive score in Saturday’s Sugar Bowl Stakes at Fair Grounds. The win came on the heels of a good looking maiden special weight win over the same surface. Now being pointed for the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes, this talented and versatile colt looks like he is indeed capable of following in his older brother’s rather large hoofprints.