Custom font hover color fail

HTML

<a>Some Text Foo Bar</a>

<p>Hover over above text in chrome to see problem &uarr;</p>

CSS

@font-face {
    font-family: 'stephanie_marie_jfregular';
    src: url('http://www.prophoto.com/jsfiddle/stephanie-marie-jf-webfont.eot');
    src: url('http://www.prophoto.com/jsfiddle/stephanie-marie-jf-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('http://www.prophoto.com/jsfiddle/stephanie-marie-jf-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('http://www.prophoto.com/jsfiddle/stephanie-marie-jf-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('http://www.prophoto.com/jsfiddle/stephanie-marie-jf-webfont.svg#stephanie_marie_jfregular') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

a {
    font-family: stephanie_marie_jfregular;
    color: #000;
    font-size:50px;
    background-color: #777;
}

a:hover {
    color: #ff0000;
}