Franklin beat out Ronald Ardoin for the riding title at the 1982-1983 Fair Grounds meet. I don't recall if he rode the next year at Fair Grounds, which was where Delp wintered at the time. He might have been injured or on the outs with Delp, because he wasn't riding Delp's big 3yo Silent King in the spring of 1984. The next year, he won some stakes at FG for Delp, and won the Fair Grounds Oaks aboard Marshua's Echelon for Louisiana connections. He pretty much dropped out of the limelight at Fair Grounds after that.
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Still trying to outsmart me, aren't you, mule-skinner? You want me to think that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is you really don't want me to go down there!
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