A trainer’s soaked hotel room floor

One minute he was winning the Kentucky Oaks and eyeing Kentucky Derby history, and the next he was waking up in a hotel room with a soaking floor. Such was the morning after for Larry Jones, the trainer of Kentucky Oaks winner Proud Spell and Derby filly entry Eight Belles. No trainer has won the Oaks and the Derby in the same year since 1952, and none has done it with two fillies.

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