Editing Smarty Jones (section)

===2003: Two-Year-Old Season===
In 2003, the Chapmans gave Smarty Jones to [[John Servis]] for training. They sold the Someday Farm property and moved into a smaller home, training only four horses. On July 27, 2003, Servis was schooling Smarty Jones at the starting gate when the colt spooked, reared, and smashed his head on the top of the gate. He fell to the ground unconscious, blood pouring from his nostrils. Servis thought the horse was dead, but Smarty Jones regained consciousness and was treated by Dr. Dan Hanf, who stopped the hemorrhaging and treated him for shock. After the bleeding stopped, the colt's head began to swell from the middle of his forehead over to his left eye. Dr. Hanf and assistant trainer Maureen Donnelly kept watch on the horse and kept him at the barn overnight. Hanf had seen the eye before the swelling and was confident the eye itself was not damaged but knew the horse must have sustained a fracture due to the excessive swelling. The colt was sent the next day, July 28, 2003, to the [[New Jersey]] Equine Clinic for x-rays. There he was diagnosed with a fractured skull. The bones around his left eye were so badly damaged that the veterinarians thought they might have to remove the eye. Smarty Jones overcame his injuries after three weeks in the hospital and spent more than a month recuperating on the farm. Two of the other entrants in the 2004 Kentucky Derby lacked sight in one eye, and Smarty Jones could have been the third.<ref name="About">{{cite web |url=http://horseracing.about.com/cs/news/a/aa050204a.htm |title=The Story of Smarty Jones |website=horseracing.about.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050515074940/http://horseracing.about.com/cs/news/a/aa050204a.htm |archive-date=2005-05-15}}</ref>

Servis led him back into training and by early November 2003, the colt had recovered completely and was ready to make his racing debut at nearby Philadelphia Park. now known as [[Parx Casino and Racing]], a racetrack in [[Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania]], a suburb of [[Philadelphia]]. [[Canadians|Canadian]]-born [[jockey]] [[Stewart Elliott]] was hired to ride Smarty Jones initially for the Bensalem race but took over a more permanent position when the horse began his winning streak. Elliot had won 3,300 races and was the son of jockey <ref name="About"/> Dennis Elliott, Smarty Jones won the six-[[furlong]] {{convert|.75|mi|km}} race by {{frac|7|3|4}} lengths. Two weeks later, he won the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes by 15 lengths, earning the best speed figure of his generation and among the best of any Derby winner as a 2 year old.