The big turning point for him seemed to be his huge upset in the Gotham on Like Now at like 35/1 odds.
Basically, the race was over-flowing with speed on paper...and all the other jocks seemed to keep their mounts quiet during the warm-up..and tried to rate them to avoid participated in what would seem like a destructive pace battle through fast fractions.
Jara, wisely decided to let his free-running cheap speed horse go, and he ended up setting very comfortable fractions, while fairly uncontested, and pulling it off late. Pretty much no one passed in that race. It was like a Merry-go-round.
Prior to that race, Jara had comically abysmal stats at the meet, as I remember....after that win, it seemed like good fortune could not avoid him.
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