Always A Virgin to race in 2008

December 3, 2007


Always A Virgin, who won 13 of 20 starts in 2007 and $1,022,703 will race in 2008. He won the Messenger Stake and Cane Pace (in stakes record time), New Jersey Sires Stakes Final, Holmes, Bluegrass, Battle of Brandywine, eliminations of the Cane, Messenger, Meadowlands Pace, Jug and Breeders’ Crown. The betting favorite in his last 17 starts, he paced to his record 1:48.4 in winning a Meadowlands Pace elimination.

"We hope that Always A Virgin can follow in the footsteps of horses like his sire Western Ideal, Artsplace, Jenna's Beach Boy and come back to dominate at four. It should be fun.” commented Joe Holloway, Always A Virgin’s trainer.

"We're looking to race where ever and when ever we can, small or large track, US or Canada, " remarked Mitchel Skolnick of Bluestone Farms, who co-owns Always A Virgin with Joe Hurley, Marty Granoff, Lynn Jones, Bob Boni and Stuart Hankin.