Larry Jones to quit after '09 season

[my miss storm cat]

... according to TDN.

http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com...TOKEN=92717711


Report Says Trainer Larry Jones to Quit
Updated: 12:37 PM ET (First posted: 12:28 PM ET)

According to a blog operated by turf writer John Piesen and obtained in a press release forwarded by the New York Racing Association, trainer Larry Jones has decided to stop training. The trainer of the ill-fated GI Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles as well as leading three-year-old filly Proud Spell, Jones broke the news to Piesen during a Tuesday morning phone conversation. "It's been a long, hard year," the conditioner told Piesen, "and it's taken its toll on me and my family. I've been thinking about quitting for some time now and I made the decision right after I won the Alabama with Proud Spell and the Iselin with Honest Man on the same day. I just figured, it can't get any better than this." Piesen reports that Jones has advised his major client Rick Porter of his decision and that Porter has hired Jeff Buckley, an associate of trainer Bob Holthus, to replace Jones.

edit - This piece says by the end of next year...

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