Long On Value hitting at 50 percent

At this time of year, few stallions have reached a point where at least half of their runners have won at least one race. Long On Value has defied that statistic. The son of Value Plus has 10 starters and yesterday picked up his fifth winner; he’s 28th on Florida’s general sire list and only one stallion above him is also at 50 percent.

No. 5 for Long On Value is Constitutionalist, a 3-year-old filly who was so well-regarded she went off at 3/10 in a five-furlong maiden special at Mountaineer and paid $2.60. With Charle Oliveros in the saddle, the filly bred by George J. Kerr sat third early, moved after a quarter and was best by nearly three lengths at the wire.

Constitutionalist broke her maiden in her eighth start; she was clocked in 1:00.39 and collected a check of $9,570, boosting her total to $20,810.