| From a win in a level 4 handicap last October to earning Black Type with a second place in a Listed race filled with highly rated talent at Hanover. Such is JOPLIN, massively improved by trainer Dieter Fechner for her owners Stall Captain's Friends. Today, the five-year-old impressed with Cyrille Stéfan aboard, when she came from the back of the pack romping down the final stretch like a steam train to challenge the favorite Shafran MNM who she had to give way to by the whiff of a nose at the wire. |
