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Shiner Sunshine Numbers romps in Carolina Cup

INSIDE: Country Cousin wins at Aiken • Tizsilk stays perfect at Stoneybrook 2 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 here&there... in Steeplechasing WEWEDDNESNESDDAAYY ISIS RRAACECE NNIIGHTGHT ATAT

Post Time is Before & After 5 o’clock Class Century showed with replays both sides of the Thoroughbred at the Carolina Cup – acting up on the through way out of the paddock (right) and rolling home in the $25,000 the evening maiden hurdle for jockey Xavier Aizpuru, trainer Todd McKenna and owner Nina Gardner. April 20 Atlanta

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Worth Repeating Music to His Mouth April 27 “That horse ran at a point-to-point, went foxhunting, broke the trainer’s leg, Timber horse Mu- Block House came down here and won – what am I doing wrong?” sic To My Ears walked Trainer Tom Voss, about Class Century into the Springdale Race Grand National (who defeated Voss’ Artic Cry in the Camden maiden) Course paddock looking like Trigger, Silver or some Middleburg “He’s the most intimidating horse I’ve ever sat on.” other cowboy’s horse. Plumstead Trainer Todd McKenna, about Class Century The timber veteran ran and jumped like anything Point to Point “I knew last year I was somewhere close but the uncertainty was fine. I but, however, winning the don’t want to know, I just want you to come up to me one day and say ‘Well $20,000 allowance by a Join us Tuesday, 4/26 done, you’ve just gotten to a hundred.’ ” nose over Wazee Moto. Jockey Xavier Aizpuru, who reached 99 American Richard Valentine went from 6 to 9:30pm for victories with a win aboard Class Century at Camden deep into the trainer’s Greatness and Goodness: closet and pulled out a Barbaro and his Legacy “I like to rock and roll, but I’m older and I prefer a little slower beat.” hackamore bridle as a way Jockey Jody Petty, about blazing away on the front end to help Music To My Ears’ by Alex Brown. aboard Sunshine Numbers in the Carolina Cup mouth. Event is limited, “He’s always been very “The most, the best. They’ve been my biggest supporters, they’re great sensitive about his mouth, call for reservations. friends, a constant in the development of my business here. It feels very but I hadn’t really thought Tickets, $150 per person, right to win it for them of all people.” of this until we were in Ai- include open bar from 6-7pm, Trainer Arch Kingsley, about winning ken this winter,” said Val- the Carolina Cup for clients Sue and George Sensor entine. “He was miserable dinner, lecture, Q&A, book down here, training like a and signing. All proceeds to Kingsley: “Any one of us could have ridden him the way he ran out there pig and just not fun to be Tod Marks today.” around.” benefit www.pdjf.org. ST: “Even cameraman Richard Bortz (who’s 6-foot-4 easy)?” Event rider Dornin North, who was galloping for Valentine at Aiken, sug- Kingsley: “It wouldn’t have been pretty, but he would have gotten it done.” gested the hackamore and happened to have one. Music To My Ears has Open 11:00am ~ midnight not had a bit in his mouth since January, and is all the better for it. Closed Tuesday Take A Number “I noticed a change right away,” said Valentine. “He works better, he’s happier, he’s a different horse. I still wasn’t sure we should run him in it 1383 North Chatham Road 1234: Hip Number of Pensy at the Keeneland January sale. though and was very nervous about it.” The move caught the attention of the stewards, who asked to be notified West Marlborough, 2: Winners bred by Mede Cahaba Stable and Stud in the season’s first next time, but the hackamore isn’t all that unique in jump racing. Trainer Pennsylvania 19320 two weeks. Class Mark and Class Century got the job done for Mignon C. Rusty Carrier utilized one on timber stakes winner Jamaica Bay and won Smith’s breeding program. the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup in 1994. The bridle works without a bit in the 610.383.0600 horse’s mouth, instead using pressure points on the horse’s face and chin thewhiptavern.com What’s In A Name? for control. “I don’t like to touch him in the mouth anyway so it’s not that different Silence (a conditioned claimer owned by Bill Pape) is a 7-year-old son of for me,” said Walsh. “He would jump very hollow and his head would come Quiet American. Silenced (a maiden owned by Irv Naylor) is a 4-year-old up as soon as you touched him before. With this, he’s not panicking and son of Quiet American. Lord help Tony Bentley if they end up in the same worrying about it so much. I schooled him with it (a week before Camden) Best English Pub race. Solar Panel (owned and bred by Edition Farm) is by Mr. Light out of and he’d jumped the best I’d ever schooled him.” Rent Free. – Joe Clancy

Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 3 Entries The Steeplechase What’s Happening and Where To Find It imes Here’s your newspaper. Edition 2 of the new year and after three meets the season has reached full speed. T Trainer Tom Voss is off to a quick start (three wins) as is two-time jockey champion Paddy Young (four). Country Cousin and Sunshine Numbers struck the first stakes blows, with One Giant Step, Good Request and ST Publishing, Inc. Tizsilk looking like a rising talents in the novice division. 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Pages 6-8 In the Heart of Fair Hill Horse Country

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Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 5 Smooth Tizsilk adds 2nd win to scorecard as Young steers home three winners by joe clancy stoneybrook steeplechase Paddy Young, an Irish steeplechase Saturday, April 9 jockey, has never been to McCarthy’s Irish Pub in Lexington, Ky. And Roger superstitious racehorse owner would O’Byrne, the owner of McCarthy’s, has understand. Tizsilk won six races on never seen his horse Tizsilk run. the flat with trainer Cody Autrey and The way things are going, both of caught Murray’s eye as a jump pros- those things should change soon. Young pect last summer at Delaware Park. The would be a hero at McCarthy’s and Kentucky-bred responded with a de- O’Byrne would love Tizsilk. but maiden win at Montpelier last fall The 6-year-old improved to 2-for-2 and further confirmed the opinion by in his fledgling steeplechase career by repeating the effort against more sea- running away with the $20,000 allow- soned foes at Stoneybrook. Jamey Price/Eclipse Sportswire ance hurdle feature at Stoneybrook in Tizsilk responded to an odd chal- Tizsilk (3) battles Chestermite in the allowance hurdle feature at Stoneybrook. Raeford, N.C. April 9. Tizsilk assumed lenge late. least two ahead of the pack). He started Now 6, he made his jump debut at command early and made it stand up “Going to the second-last, Air Mag- the hat trick with a maiden hurdle score the Virginia Gold Cup last year and fin- while winning by 4 3/4 lengths over gy jumped into the back of him and it aboard Hickory Tree Stable’s Slaney ished sixth after pressing the pace. He Chestermite (Xavier Aizpuru) and was as if someone stood behind him Rock. The Irish import made his early left that race with some minor sound- Twister Crossing (James Slater). and chased him,” said Young. “He took lead stand up, and outran Class Indian ness issues and went to the sidelines to “It’s turned out great, he’s my first off with me going to the last and won (Richard Boucher) by 3 3/4 lengths with await a 2011 campaign. Leslie Young horse in America and we’ve had a bit very nicely. After Montpelier, I didn’t Witham (Danielle Hodsdon) third. and owner Jim Treptow’s daughter of luck,” said O’Byrne, who came on know what improvement there would Slaney Rock came to the Youngs Cheris were classmates at Oldfields board at the suggestion of his friend be, but he’s made a huge improvement via a meandering road that included School, and the connection helped fos- (and Voss’ son-in-law Garrett Murray). over the winter. He still doesn’t know an Irish flat win with trainer Jim Bol- ter the patient approach. “I haven’t seen him yet and I might have how good he is.” ger in 2007, two American starts (one “We were worried we’d break him to keep it that way. He might get beat if win) with Graham Motion in 2008 and down if we kept going with him, so we I go see him.” • The feature win capped a triple for six tries in 2009 (including a flat win sent him home,” said Paddy Young. O’Byrne, brother to Irish bloodstock Young, the two-time defending jockey at Great meadow) with trainer Simon See stoneybrook page 8 agent Demi, was only half joking as any champion (whose four wins put him at Hobson. Newly Released with more than 100 interviews & 164 photographs, Greatness and Goodness details barbaro's life & his lasting legacy.

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6 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 7 Slaney Rock finished third on the flat at Piedmont and showed up prepared at Stoneybrook – Stoneybrook, racing up close early and Continued from page 6 skipping clear late. Slaney Rock makes his connections smile with an attitude “He came back this year and everything that dwarfs his stature. has been going really well for him. He’s “He’s a little tiny horse, but he’s a the reason I didn’t go to Aiken. I want- punk,” said Young. “He makes you like ed to go to Piedmont (Point-to-Point, him though. He’s got little man’s syn- March 26) and give him a nice race to drome, tough. He’s a star.” get ready.” • Trillium Stable’s Mischief broke through for Voss and Young in the maiden claimer to end an eight-race losing streak over jumps. The 7-year- old rated early and seized control in the stretch to defeat Bag Of Hammers (Slater) by 11 3/4 lengths with Hot Rize (Gus Dahl) third. “I couldn’t have had a more perfect trip on a horse,” Young said. “He set- tled behind the leaders and stayed there until a little gap opened at the third-last. He winged it and cruised away. It was a great confidence booster for the horse.” Mischief finished second three times over hurdles, once in 2009 and twice in 2010, while tangling with the likes of Tricky Me, Nationbuilder, One Gi- ant Step, Complete Zen, and Country Cousin among others.

• Owner/trainer Teddy Mulligan may Jamey Price/Eclipse Sportswire have discovered the secret to a nervous Slaney Rock shows the way in Stoneybrook’s maiden hurdle. horse. Spoil him rotten. Eamonn used been spoiling him and he’s much better “Liam described him as an improv- to barely eat. He used to need regular for it. He’s happy. The horse has never ing 9-year-old, which makes us laugh ulcer medication. Now he just soaks up eaten up after a race but this year he ran but he is,” said Mulligan. “He’s a cool attention. at Blue Ridge and Warrenton (point-to- dude and he’s on top of his game right “I gave him the stall next to the feed points) and ate up both days.” now.” room in our new barn and I tell any- At Stoneybrook, Eamonn blitzed five Mulligan turned Stoneybrook into a Jamey Price/Eclipse Sportswire body who works for me to give him a rivals in the $10,000 conditioned claim- long weekend with company from Jake Veteran Eamonn pulls away in the condi- pat on the nose and a carrot every time er. Liam McVicar rode the winner, who Dunning, Jordan Shull (who pocketed tioned claimer. they walk by,” Mulligan said. “We’ve thumped Class Classic (Boucher) by 4 $100 from Eamonn’s best turned out 3/4 lengths with Aiken winner Golden award) and pair of intrepid motorcycle Slammer (Bernie Dalton) third. riding friends. Mulligan found Eamonn at Colonial “They live in Berryville and have Downs in 2009 and was rewarded with Ducati bikes,” said Mulligan. “I told a debut win that September. them Old Dominion (point-to-point) Third twice in 2010, the son of Awad was right around the corner but they could be sitting on a big year in the rode seven hours to Stoneybrook. We claiming ranks. all had a great time.”

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10 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 11 8The 8 MARYLAND HUNT CUP

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what to do with him on the racetrack because he does what he wants,” said Camden – Kingsley. “I felt for a long time that he Continued from page 10 was that kind of horse but he needed to be given every chance to do it. Thank- He all but sprinted over the final three fully, he’s stayed sound and figured the fences and won in hand. game out. He saved enough to get home “I was feeling really good about the today. As much as he was keen and rap- way things were going but until you id, he was also smooth about it. That jump that last you’re still a long way was key.” from home,” said Kingsley. “I was just The Cup winner has won the last two looking at every fence the way every- New York-bred steeplechase champion- body else was. How are we going? How ships. are we going to jump this one? I kept checking back on the field. I knew if we • Good Request flew the Juddmon- could hold it together with any kind of te colors. He raced at Santa Anita, reasonable sustenance from the middle Saratoga, Belmont, Keeneland. He’s of the backside we were going to be by Dynaformer. His dam won almost good. We had an insurmountable lead. $800,000. His half-brother, Skimming, We just had to keep it together.” earned $2.2 million. Sunshine Numbers tests Kingsley And you can almost hear the 7-year- daily and the trainer manages the best old laughing about this steeplechase he can, utilizing Springdale’s many op- game. Last year, he finished second three 115th Running tions to mix a blend of fitness and pow- times before winning easily on the Co- er with control and sanity. lonial Cup undercard. The Coppertree “He can still, on any given day, take Farm runner opened 2011 with another off with you and there’s nothing you can win, in a $30,000 allowance hurdle, for Saturday, April 30 do,” Kingsley said. “It’s not a matter of trainer Tom Voss. Good Request (Pad- strength, it’s just a matter of steering dy Young) rated fourth of six early, ad- and keeping him out of holes and keep vanced on the final turn and ran down Worthington Farms • Glyndon, MD him from running into trees. He lets me the early leaders. know what he wants, I try to steer him But not before giving Young a scare. Gates Open 11 A.M. • Post Time 4 P.M. in the direction of what I want and in “They were going some gallop in the end we both get what we want.” front of us and I figured they had to The world’s oldest and most important timber race! Right now, that’s success. stop but they seem to stay on more here Sunshine Numbers has won three in than other places,” said the jockey. “I a row and five of his last seven. The son just let him creep into it and he ran right 4 Miles • 22 Fences of Polish Numbers and multiple steeple- up to them after the last. Then he did chase winner Saturday Sunshine started his best to decide his race was over.” Amateur Jockeys • $75,000 Purse his jump career with a maiden claiming Good Request eased up to the finish win at Stoneybrook in 2008 and has but won by 2 1/2 lengths over Best Alibi bounced up to stakes tries and down to with veteran Zozimus third. claiming runs since. He’s won the last “He jumped fantastic, that was a big Parking reservations two Hobkirk Hill starter allowance help all the way around and let us wait 8 8 races over the brush course at Camden’s until we needed to go,” said Young. General Parking ($35/car) may be purchased after April 1 at: Butler Store, fall meet. “He’s a very, very good horse.” Valley Motors, Wine Merchant, Dogwood Tack, The Filling Station at Shawan, Before steeplechasing, he won his career debut against fellow New York- • Go foxhunting. Misbehave. School and Unionville Saddle Shop • Patron Parking ($100/car) & General Parking breds at Finger Lakes in 2004 and la- over timber. Break your trainer’s leg. may be purchased on the internet at www.marylandhuntcup.com or send check bored through 19 more flat starts in Ship to South Carolina. Freak out be- New York, West Virginia and Mary- to Maryland Hunt Cup Association, P.O. Box 2342, Westminster, MD 21158. tween the paddock and the track. Win land. Trainer Ferris Allen claimed Sun- your first race. Advance Reservations Only. No Sales or Parking Available on Race Day. shine Numbers in 2006 and won two Class Century had some week. claimers with him the next year before After six seconds and a third in eight No Food Available for Purchase – Bring a Picnic. calling Kingsley about the project, er, career starts, he finally broke though NSA horsemen and member badges good for General Admission only. prospect. with a win – taking the $25,000 maiden “Half the riders would refuse to ride hurdle for Nina Gardner and trainer him, but he would be very hard to han- Photo by Douglas Lees dle on the racetrack; I wouldn’t know See Camden page 13

12 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 Carolina Cup PU. The Key To Honour 154 Boucher 5th. $50,000. Hurlde stakes. 2 1/4 miles. Camden – Camden, SC. Saturday, April 2. Turf Firm. Mgn: 1. Time: 4:12 2/5. Carolina Cup (Gr. III). Brush course. Continued from page 12 O: Nina Gardner. T: Todd McKenna. 1. Sunshine Numbers L 142 Petty 1st. Training Flat. 1-1/2 miles. B. g. 5, Century City (IRE)-Class Swing, Class Se- 2. Swagger Stick L 150 Dowling Todd McKenna. The Virginia-bred 1. Last Man Standing L 155 Crowley cret. Bred by Mede Cahaba Stable & Stud (Va.) 3. Spy In The Sky L 154 Young dropped back to last in the nine-horse 2. Not For Pride L 155 Dalton 3rd. $20,000. Allow. (NW2) Timber. 3 miles. 4. Tax Ruling L 154 Nagle field early, then charged through the fi- 3. Class Indian 155 Boucher 5. The Price of Love L 150 Hodsdon nal quarter-mile to win by a length over 1. Music To My Ears (Ire) L 165 Walsh 4. He’s A Conniver L 155 Petty Mgn: 27 1/4. Time: 4:23. Fog Island and Tifone. 5. Silenced L 155 McCarthy 2. Wazee Moto L 165 Young 3. Gather No Moss 165 Watts O: Sue Sensor. T: Arch Kingsley Jr. The race was full of drama. Three 6. Our Duet 155 Hodsdon 4. Plum Brush L 165 McCarthy Dk. B./Br. g. 8, Polish Numbers-Saturday Sun- 7. Ajeed 155 Walsh fences from home, Nickypalmer fell and 5. Gorgeous Charger L 165 Dalton 8. Hot Rize L 155 Dahl shine, Dahar. Bred by Dresden Farm (NY.) took Sol A Pino with him. At the last, 6. Determind Stand L 165 Petty Worried Man dove through the inside 9. Monstaleur 155 Nagle LR. Mecklenburg L 150 Dahl 6th. $15,000. F&M Mdn. Hurdle. 2-1/8 miles. wing while challenging for the lead. 10. Northern Skier 155 Watts Mgn: Nose. Time: 6:28 3/5. 1. Pensy 153 Hodsdon Class Century saved his thrills for 11. Class Grind 150 Price O: Anna Stable. T: Richard Valentine 2. Opera Heroine L 153 Dowling pre-race, stopping halfway up the chute 12. Oh Sweet Angel 150 Haynes Ch. g. 13, Phardante (FR)-Evas Charm (GB), Carl- to the race course, tossing Aizpuru, de- Mgn: 1. Time: 2:36 3/5. burg (GB). Bred by Eamonn McCarthy (IRE). 3. Well Fashioned L 143 Dalton O: Elkstone Group. T: Jonathan Sheppard. laying the race and causing general hav- 4. Upper Gulch L 153 Young B. g. 5, Monarchos-Sweet Carolina, Deputy 4th. $30,000. Opt. clm. hurdle. 2-1/8 miles. 5. Flying Friskie 145 McCarthy oc for horsemen, race organizers and Minister. Bred by Elkstone Group LLC (Ky.) schedules. NW1X or $25,000 clm. price. 6. Class Launch 153 Boucher 1. Good Request L 156 Young 7. Crossing Again L 153 Watts “He threw me off, then he stood 2nd. $25,000. SOK Mdn Hurdle. 2-1/8 miles. 2. Best Alibi (Ire) L 145 Nagle PU. Playful Majesty L 153 Walsh there. He wasn’t frozen. He was just 1. Class Century L 154 Aizpuru 3. Zozimus L 144 Walsh PU.Cape Town Queen 153 Aizpuru standing there,” said Aizpuru. “The 2. Fog Island L 154 Geraghty 4. Straight To It L 156 Dowling PU. Rose Colored 153 Geraghty guys were all trying to get him moving 3. Tifone (Chi) L 154 Hodsdon 5. Dugan L 144 Hodsdon and then throw me up on him but I said 4. Terko Service L 140 Dahl F. Devil’s Preacher L 144 Aizpuru PU. Queen Maddie L 146 Dahl ‘no, throw me up now and let’s see if 5. Artic Cry L 154 Young Mgn: 2-1/2. Time: 4:13. Mgn. 2. Time: 4:12 4/5. we can be nice to him, kid him along F. Sol A Pino L 154 Rafter O: Coppertree Farm. T: Tom Voss. O: Merriefield Farm. T: Jazz Napravnik. and maybe he’ll go on.’ Well, that didn’t F. Nickypalmer L 154 Crowley B. g. 7, Dynaformer-Skimble, Lyphard. Dk. B./Br. m. 5, Johar-Vina Del Mar, Theatrical. work. I just came off the once, but there LR. Worried Man L 144 Dowling Bred by Juddmonte Farms Inc. (Ky.) Bred by George Strawbridge, Jr. (Can.) were three close calls. We managed to get him out on the track and once the ner. Class Century finished second at day,” said McKenna. “He was acting feet, but broke a bone in his right leg. field came out, he went, the pony guys Great Meadow and Radnor, refused to up so we took off and went schooling. “What can you do? He’s not easy,” stayed with me and were great. If he start at Fair Hill and was second again Trevor was on him, I was on another said McKenna, who sported a walk- wanted to jog, we jogged, if he wanted at Philadelphia Park in June. The 2011 horse, and we jumped some three-rail ing cast at Camden. “I had him too fit to walk, we walked. Once we joined campaign started March 19 at Warren- fences just to show him who was boss. for this, too ready, and look what hap- the field to walk in (to the start) he was ton Point-to-Point but the goal was Then we switched and I jumped some pened. After he finally left the paddock never not going to go.” Camden. Early in the week, the horse fences on him. He did well.” I said he would win if he started but I McKenna was relieved but had a seemed too sharp and McKenna and his McKenna hopped off to reset the didn’t think he was going to start. He longer story than Aizpuru. After watch- brother Trevor opted for a day of fox- saddle for the ride home and was get- ran great and hopefully it’s something ing Class Century finish second for hunting four days before the race. ting back on when Class Century shied we can build on.” Lilith Boucher at Camden last spring, “I wanted to see if that might calm from his stablemate and dislodged McKenna bought the horse for Gard- his nerves, and he acted like he did to- McKenna. The trainer landed on his See camden page 15

Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 13 Tod Marks Good Request surges to the finish line in the optional claiming hurdle.

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14 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 Music To My Ears (right) leads Wazee Moto (left) Camden – and Gather No Moss at the last. Continued from page 13 • The horse’s name is Music To My Ears but jockey Robbie Walsh was hearing hoofbeats as the finish line approached for the $20,000 allowance timber. Just be- fore the last fence, Anna Stable’s Music To My Ears wrested control from Gorgeous Charger and Gather No Moss and looked home free until Wazee Moto un- leashed his kick to the wire. They flashed across as one, leaving most people guessing. Young, aboard Wazee Moto, shrugged his shoulders to say he didn’t know. Walsh shook his head no and dismounted. Others simply speculated about the angle, momentum, how much fun English book- makers would have taking wagers on the photo. The very unofficial television production put Wazee Moto on the big screen as the winner and he entered the winner’s circle for photos (and somewhere the steeplechase gods rattled their chains). The official re- sults board listed no numbers, then flashed 4-3-7 with the win going to Music To My Ears by a nose. “I could see Paddy, I could hear Paddy, I knew he was coming,” said Walsh. “My lad was waiting a bit. I Tod Marks didn’t want to be in front so soon in the first place but he was jumping well so I ended up there. I was lucky ment. In an effort to expand and upgrade her stable, about as big as a roll (the front part of a hurdle) in to win, but he did it well, he did everything right and she combed through the Keeneland January sale cata- there, otherwise I run out of room,” said Napravnik. deserved one.” logue in search of prospects. She started with 40 and “She never saw as much as a cross rail until the last Trained by Richard Valentine, the Irish-bred won whittled her list. week in January, but the first thing I noticed was even for the first time since 2008 after a host of solid efforts “Just for kicks I e-mailed (owner) Charlie Noell if she got in close, she could snap up and get over it in everything from stakes to amateur races with owner about a few horses, not really expecting much,” said quickly.” George Hundt aboard. Napravnik. “Halfway through the sale, he e-mailed Hodsdon saw the same thing, and was impressed me and said he liked two and asked me which one I with the mare’s acceleration late. • Merriefield Farm newcomer Pensy (Danielle liked. It was between her and this other filly someone “She’s so quick going short, that when we were Hodsdon) took the finale, a $15,000 filly/mare maiden else had pointed out. I liked Pensy better.” schooling I stopped asking her to go long,” the jockey hurdle, for trainer Jazz Napravnik. They spent $20,000 on the two-time flat winner said. “I just let her go short. She’s quick enough. At Bred by George Strawbridge in Canada, the 5-year- with $136,000 in career earnings. the second last I thought she might be getting a little old advanced to a striking position coming to the last Napravnik spent much of the winter teaching Pensy tired but we came around that turn to the last and she fence, then kicked on to catch Opera Heroine and to jump in the indoor arena and sent her to Camden was just all business. We landed from the last and I Well Fashioned in the stretch. The daughter of Johar with assistant Krissy Miller. never even touched her. She saw the targets and ran scored by 2 lengths, and rewarded Napravnik’s judg- “We do a lot of gymnastics in the indoor, I get them right on.”

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BY sean clancy Julie Gomena discovered Aiken when she was an event rider and knows the plan: escape the Virginia Tod Marks winter, utilize the southern circuit and the South Caro- Country Cousin (right) battles with Decoy Daddy at the last fence in Aiken’s feature. lina weather to get a head start on the season. 3/4 lengths. Former champion Mixed Up finished 35 might be a little too far, the Marcellus Frost would be She does it the same way for steeplechasing. lengths back in third. perfect.” For the second year in a row, Gomena stabled at Run over turf that had changed from firm to yield- Bred by Virginian Bill Backer, Country Cousin Mike and Iris Freeman’s Chime Bell Farm, skirted the ing because of afternoon rain, the Imperial Cup sig- won twice on the flat before Gomena purchased him harsh Virginia winter and started strong. This year, naled Country Cousin’s emergence as a true open from Speedy Smithwick and David Ross in the win- she won the Budweiser Imperial Cup at the Aiken stakes contender in a wide open division. Winner of ter of 2007-08. Over jumps, Country Cousin needed Steeplechase March 26 with Oakwood Stable’s Coun- the National Hunt Cup Novice at Radnor last spring, seven tries to break his maiden. He obviously learned try Cousin. Country Cousin made his open stakes debut at Aiken. something, he’s won four of his last six, including two The 8-year-old son of Lear Fan relaxed in the back “I can’t figure him out, he likes the soft going, the stakes. Rafter has ridden him in three of those wins. of the five-horse field before creeping into the race firm going, he likes terrain, I haven’t run him ona “I thought about bouncing out, but everybody with a circuit to go. Country Cousin engaged Noel flat track like Aiken since he ran at Colonial Downs, I wanted to be handy so I decided to sit third or fourth Laing winner Decoy Daddy and the duo ran past keep trying to find the best niche for him and he keeps but wound up fifth after getting shuffled back a little,” Mixed Up, Torino Luge and Red Letter Day, creating fooling me,” Gomena said. “I was planning on going Rafter said. “Mixed Up was struggling to keep up so I a two-horse race. Country Cousin (Carl Rafter) flew to Tryon but he’s no longer eligible. The options are See Aiken page 20 the last and drew off from the Irish-bred to win by 1 getting narrow, which is nice, the Temple Gwathmey

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20 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 to tap him on the shoulder because he was waiting on Demonstrative to come back up, like, ‘Is he coming up? Is he coming up?’ He did it pretty nicely.” A half-brother to the talented but fragile Three Car- at, One Giant Step made his debut at Virginia Fall in October, finishing third. On the season’s biggest day at Far Hills, he had a mountain to climb leaving the backside in the maiden and kicked past the field to win comfortably over next-out winner Good Request. Sheppard has always liked the horse, back when he was just another baby at assistant Amy Lippincott’s barn on Sheppard’s Pennsylvania farm. “One day Jonathan came over to Jim (Bergen’s) barn and said, ‘I want you to look at these young hors- es that I’ve brought from Amy’s, most importantly I want you to look at Three Carat’s little brother, his name is One Giant Step and I think he’s really spe- cial,” Hodsdon said. “He drug me out of the barn to look at this one horse who was going along with this group of babies, he looked like a plain bay horse. He said, ‘I really like this one, look at this one.’ ” Sheppard never pressed One Giant Step to be a flat horse and concentrated on building a perfect jumper. Hodsdon has watched the son of Mojave Moon de- velop in the morning and afternoon. “He came along like most of the other ones, he popped logs, a little of this, a little of that,” Hodsdon Tod Marks said. “He went to Presque Isle for a little education One Giant Step leads Demonstrative and Junood (right) over the last in the allowance hurdle. but Jonathan was real careful with him. He looks like settled behind Junood, hooked up with 3-year-old a plain bay, but for some reason, he always thought champion Demonstrative with a circuit to go, flew his this one was more special than that. He shocked me at fences down the backside and accelerated for the win. Far Hills, he was chipping in the whole way and I said, Aiken – ‘Come on let’s run up this hill,’ and suddenly he said Continued from page 20 Robbie Walsh aboard Demonstrative claimed foul on the winner for interference at the last but it was disal- OK. The horse has no clue of what he’s got.” vatively about Jonathan Sheppard’s One Giant Step. lowed. Junood wound up third. She sounded more like a mother sending her first child “Jonathan said no pressure, we’re just looking to • Ricky Hendriks watched his mentor, Hall of Fame off to school. With just two races in his entire career, get some seasoning and he stepped up, he jumped trainer Burley Cocks, prep horses for Aiken every year the 5-year-old lacked seasoning, probably wouldn’t much more confidently than he did in the fall, I was from his Camden base. Cocks was money in the bank like the tight oval at Aiken, would improve from the thrilled with him. I think he could be the real deal,” at Aiken. Hendriks isn’t too far off either. experience . . . Hodsdon said. “We picked it up the whole way and it Based in Pennsylvania all winter, the trainer point- One Giant Step skipped a grade. worked out because I got to ask him for a couple of ed three horses to Aiken. Despite a harrowing win- The homebred galloped to the first in front, then bigger spots and to kick on around the final turn. I had See aiken page 22

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Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 21 the back of the four-horse field in the conditioned claimer, rallied to the fore Aiken – on the final turn and staved off Class Continued from page 21 Tie by a nose. Silence wound up third. Teresa and David Beste bred Dispute ter, he managed to prepare Class Mark, This in Delaware and after three unsuc- Dispute This and Dance Faster for the cessful starts on the flat, their trainer season opener. The threesome jogged Mark Shuman asked Hendriks if he the roads, shipped to Fair Hill Training thought the horse might make a jumper. Center for breezes and headed south on Hendriks asked for two weeks to find a mission. out. “We were pointing for down there, Two weeks has turned into two wins. trying to go there before (Jack) Fisher Dispute This learned to jump in Hen- and (Tom) Voss got cranked up,” Hen- driks’ corral last summer and won his driks said. “It was brutal this winter. debut at Virginia Fall in October. He Brutal. They had hunter shoes on until was beaten a neck in his next start at the Tuesday before they shipped.” Morven Park and then unseated Young Two out of three got the money at at Montpelier to finish the year. He’s Aiken. now 2-for-4 over jumps. Owned by Debra Kachel, Class The Bestes own a farm in Warwick, Mark hit the board in maiden claimers Md. and a farm just across the state line at Colonial and Montpelier last fall and in Middletown, Del. They own about stepped up to open maiden company at 30 horses: flat horses, broodmares, Aiken. Warmblood pleasure horses and their The 5-year-old son of Not For Love one jumper. tracked Lake Placid before drawing off Tod Marks “We started because he was our Dispute This (left) catches Silence late in the conditioned claimer. to an 8-length score over Primero Peru. homebred horse that we raised and we Lake Placid faded to third. Brian Crow- didn’t want to retire him, my husband Slam crushed seven rivals in his jump Dalton said. “The plan was always the ley deputized for 2010 champion Paddy had a real strong bond with him,” Tere- debut. Golden Slammer (Bernie Dalton) maiden claimer at Aiken, you know Young who opted to go to Piedmont sa Beste said. “Because of his conforma- rated in the back early, surged to the Dave, he’s always got them ready, we Point-to-Point instead of Aiken. tion, I had several people say he would front after the second-last and won by thought he would win win or run really “Thanks to Paddy and Naum Santi- make a good jumper. He seems happy, 15 lengths over Reveillon and Sergeant well. I settled him in, popped around ago, we kept plugging away this winter. put on weight so he can do this for a Karakorum. and smooched to him, I turned around I kept texting Paddy, ‘Are you sure you while. He’s a really cool horse and he Claimed for $16,000 from trainer halfway around the turn and he was 20 can’t go?’ ” Hendriks said. “We had seems to have aptitude for it, so we’re Michael Pino and owner David Ross in front, I was like, ‘hold on.’ I did the Dance Faster for the maiden claimer so happy for him. He just needed to find (of Country Cousin fame) last April, the death grip on him to the last, popped it we entered him and it was a small field his niche and he seems to like the jump- winner won for a $5,000 tag at Turfway and let him flounder home.” so we said what the hell, let’s send him ing.” in December. He won six races on the Washer won three races with Junood down there too.” flat, including three times on the turf. in 2010. Christ Is King Stable’s Dispute This • Owner/trainer Dave Washer con- “I had very little to do with the horse, “It’s a great spot for a guy like me,” provided the second half of the road tinued his proficiency in the sport with I schooled him once, young David said Washer. “I need races like that, trip double for Hendriks. The home- a win in the maiden claimer by Golden Dunne who’s been riding for Janet had races these horses can win. He’s a nice bred son of Domestic Dispute rated in Slammer. The 6-year-old son of Grand done most of the schooling on him,” horse in the right race.”

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22 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 Punchestown USA_Layout 1 17/03/2011 11:17 Page 1 Irish Festival Fever The Punchestown Festival is the highlight of the Irish sporting and social calendar. Ireland's premier thoroughbred auction house Goffs will stage the first ever Punchestown Festival Sale, a boutique sale of top class Irish steeplechasers, at the racecourse on Thursday 5 May. Irish bred jumpers in USA include: Percussionist, Decoy Daddy, Meet At Eleven, Justpourit, Your Sum Man and Dalucci

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Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 23 Injured jockey Torres improves Injured steeplechase jockey Jorge formances by the equine crowd. Brian Torres remains at Palmetto Richland Hana won the race in 19:57 with jockey Memorial Hospital in Columbia, S.C. David Dunne checked in second overall with injuries sustained at the Colonial at 20:53. Former Carolina Cup market- Cup meet last fall but could be in line ing director Wendy Kingsley placed sec- for significant recovery with therapy, ond in the women’s race. according to friend Rae Fernandez. Sponsors of the race included SafT- “He’s gained weight and looks so Fence, Kennedy Insurance, Kirkwood much better,” said Fernandez, who saw Stable, Palmetto Equine, The Tack Torres in mid-April. “He’s coherent, he Room, Camden Equine, Fair Hill looks at you, he follows you around the Equine Therapy Center and Springdale room with his eyes. It’s encouraging.” Race Course. Torres suffered a head injury in the In addition to the 5K, horsemen have fall with the Fernandez-trained Class been raising funds through jockey photo/ Moon in the 3-year-old hurdle stakes autograph sessions at the Carolina Cup and has battled an extended case of and Stoneybrook meets. At Camden, the pneumonia. Fernandez said hospital sessions raised more than $1,000 for the staff told him Torres has a “very good Jorge Torres Assistance Fund with the chance” of significant recovery, though bulk of the work done by trainer Lilith the therapy process could last six Boucher and her daughters Mary and months or more. In addition to the head Mel. The Stoneybrook session raised injury, Torres (who is breathing on his $500 for the general injured jockeys own) sustained a broken hip and bro- fund. Boucher thanked race directors ken bones in his back. Jeff Teter and Toby Edwards for helping Fernandez and steeplechase horse- make the sessions possible and hopes to men in Camden held a Run for Jorge continue the efforts at future meets. 5K at Springdale Race Course Sunday, “It’s been a big hit with the pub- April 10 and raised more than $1,400 lic, it’s amazing how thrilled they are to help offset medical expenses. The to meet a jockey and to get to talk to race attracted 35 runners, a strong field Tod Marks of 15 dogs and featured strong per- See news page 26 Jockey Jorge Torres is showingExcellence signs of improvement. Apparel that embodies... in EquineExcellence Insurance The Passion of Horse Racing ™ in Equine Insurance

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Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 25 News – Thank You Continued from page 24 these guys,” said Boucher. “They ask very smart questions and are very interested in learning more.” To support the Jorge Torres Assistance Fund, contact Wachovia Bank in Camden at (803) 425-7760. – Joe Clancy Chalfin to benefit from maiden in Fisher barn for 2011 Trainer Jack Fisher gave injured jockey Jack Chalfin a choice – pick a horse and earn 10 percent of the horse’s earnings in 2011. Fisher provided Chalfin with a list of horses he owns or co-owns and told him to pick. Chalfin, who suffered a severe spinal chord injury in a point-to-point fall in September, chose Peace Fire. The 4-year- old maiden hit the board in several starts National Steeplechase Foundation Tod Marks last year and looked like the prime con- Peace Fire now races, in part at least, for tender among a group that included Cam- Jake Chalfin. Cup Benefit Golf Tournament den runner-up Opera Heroine and new maidens Brave Prospect, Grand Pride and Cannon’s Call. Thursday, March 31 “I just thought it was a fun way to give Jake a rooting interest and hopefully provide Jake with some money,” Fisher said. “I hope other owners and trainers will do the same thing. I know Paul Wooden with Across The Sky is going to do the same thing for Paul Rowland.” Rowland, a former trainer, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2010. Thank You to Our Sponsors As for Chalfin, he’s excited to have a rooting interest in 2011. “Jack’s idea was a surprise and very much appreciated,” said Chalfin who elicit- Hunt Cup Productions ed advice on which horse to choose from friends, bloodstock agents and Kingfisher Michael Sanger insiders. “It’s a total wild card and a fun concept and will keep me in the game. I’ll be watching the races, that’s for sure.” Sue and George Sensor After six months of hospital care and outpatient therapy, Chalfin returned to his Pennsylvania home in March and has returned to work at Laurel Valley Soils. Irvin Naylor Chasin For Chalfin, a beneficiary trust established for Chalfin, will host its second Ann and Henry Stern benefit April 23, after the Grand National races. “I’m getting stronger. I still have no use of my legs,” Chalfin said. “My injury is Britt Graham incomplete so there’s still a chance. With my upper body, I get out of it what I put Southern Mold Environmental into it. With some other things, it doesn’t work that way. But I’ve recovered more than I should have.” William A. Parkes See chasinforchalfin.com for more information. Susan and Charles Strittmatter Donation in memory of Bob Witham Mr. Hot Stuff tops Arundel disperal sale at $70,000 The Estate of Arthur Arundel dispersed three horses Monday, April 4 at trainer Western Hay Jack Fisher’s farm in Butler, Md. Mr. Hot Stuff, a full-brother to Travers winner The Fox’s Den Colonel John, drew the highest bid of $70,000. Fisher secured the 5-year-old for owner Gill Johnston. Third in the Grade III Sham Stakes and a runner in the Ken- The Tack Room tucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, the son of Tiznow should make his hurdle debut this spring. Last year’s champion owner, Irv Naylor, bought two horses from the sale. Nay- And our host Camden Country Club lor purchased 4-year-old maiden Union Army for $37,500, outgunning Fisher. The son of Dixie Union made four starts over hurdles last fall, finishing third at Far Hills and fourth at Camden. On his way to winning against older maidens at the International Gold Cup, he ducked inside a beacon and went off course. Trainer See you on the course again in November Tom Foley did the bidding on behalf of Naylor. Naylor also bought two-time winner of the International Gold Cup Seeyouat- theevent for $30,000. Fisher was the underbidder on the 10-year-old veteran who will most likely miss the spring season. “The three horses all sold well, it’s an end of an era and that’s always tough,” Fisher said. “I liked all three horses and am glad to keep Mr. Hot Stuff, he should go to Atlanta.” Foxhunter prospects Monte Bianco and Fifty Five failed to sell. A longtime steeplechase supporter, Arundel died in February. He presided over the Virginia and International Gold Cup steeplechase races held each spring and fall at Great Meadow Race Course in The Plains. Arundel purchased the property in 1982 and transformed it into the new home for the spring Virginia Gold Cup and adding the fall International Gold Cup meet. Arundel campaigned a strong steeplechase stable over the years. Sugar Bee won the Virginia Gold Cup and Maryland Hunt Cup over timber and the NSA timber championship in 1985. – Sean Clancy

NOTES: Retired amateur jockey Charlie Fenwick Jr. finished ninth in the Bob Alexandra Hundt, Beasie Patterson, Frances Raffetto, Laura T. Shull, Adair B. Stifel, Champion Cancer Trust Aintree Legends charity race on the English Grand Na- Susan Strittmatter, Guy J. Torsilieri, Richard Valentine, James H. Whitner IV tional card at Aintree April 9. The race brought back Grand National legends (Fenwick posted a historic American win aboard Ben Nevis in 1980) for a flat race 400 Fair Hill Drive, Elkton, MD 21921 • Phone: (410) 392-0700 • Fax: (410) 392-0706 to raise money for cancer research via former jockey Bob Champion’s foundation. Website: www.nsfdn.org The race featured former jockeys Marcus Armytage, Hywel Davies, Tony Dobbin, Charlie Swan, Peter Scudamore, Graham Thorner, Carl Llewellyn and others.

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Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 27 OBITUARY Racing journalist Ann Barker Retired racing journalist Elizabeth Ann Emerson Barker died peacefully at home Sunday, April 3, in Camden, S.C. Barker was born May 5, 1931 and was the youngest child of Dr. Jesse Rut- ledge Emerson II and Mary Ann Price of Gainesville, Fla. She attended PK Yonge developmental school in Gainesville where she was a member of the cheer- NSA Standings leading team. An avid horsewoman from an early age, she began her rid- TOP 10 THROUGH APRIL 15 ing career showing her American Sad- dlebred in local horse shows in North Jockeys (Races Won) Florida. Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings Win% Barker was a model for Life maga- Paddy Young ...... 8 4 1 1 $55,350 .50 zine in the early 1950s. She traveled the Danielle Hodsdon...... 10 2 0 4 37,450 .20 world, and nurtured her four children, Brian Crowley...... 8 2 0 1 16,500 .25 Jesse, Susan, Gerry and Ann with love Robbie Walsh...... 5 1 1 1 19,500 .20 and determination, always sharing her strong love of nature, plants and ani- Carl Rafter...... 7 1 1 0 30,350 .14 mals. Xavier Aizpuru...... 5 1 1 0 18,600 .20 Barker covered steeplechasing in Bernie Dalton...... 7 1 0 3 14,800 .14 the 1980s, contributing regularly to Liam McVicar...... 3 1 0 0 6,400 .33 The Chronicle of the Horse magazine, Jody Petty...... 2 1 0 0 30,600 .50 as well as the Daily Racing Form. She Richard Boucher...... 6 0 3 0 6,750 .00 helped produce the Oxmoor and Hard Ann Barker Scuffle races in Kentucky, as well as the Trainers (Races Won) Colonial Cup and several other races in Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings Win% the Carolinas and Virginia. expert, Ann also maintained a sharp eye Tom Voss...... 6 3 0 1 $39,250 .50 She became the beat writer for the for bargains she could restore to origi- Ricky Hendriks...... 5 2 0 0 15,500 .40 Racing Form for Atlantic City Race nal beauty. She is survived by three children: Jes- Leslie Young...... 4 1 2 0 16,200 .25 Course in New Jersey as well as the se, a retired Colonel, United States Ma- Richard Valentine...... 3 1 1 0 16,500 .33 winter meet at Calder, until she retired in the early 1990s. She also published rine Corps; Gerry, Commander, United Jonathan Sheppard...... 12 1 0 4 27,700 . 08 a booklet entitled “A Guide to Steeple- States Navy, and Ann, as well as three Dave Washer...... 3 1 0 2 9,500 .33 chasing in America” and was writing a nephews and two nieces. Todd McKenna...... 2 1 0 0 15,000 .50 novel before she died. She had six grandchildren and many Teddy Mulligan...... 2 1 0 0 6,400 .50 Barker settled in Camden and never friends who will miss her sharp wit, and Jazz Napravnik...... 1 1 0 0 9,000 1.00 gave up the hope of a college degree. her beloved Maude, a Scottish Terrier. Julie Gomena...... 4 1 0 0 27,300 .25 She promptly took advantage of the Her daughter, Susan, preceded her in free South Carolina educational oppor- death in 1973. Owners (Money Won) tunity at the University of South Caro- In lieu of flowers, contributions in Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings Win% lina, taking nearly a full degree course Barker’s memory may be made to Wal- Sue Sensor...... 1 1 0 9 $33,000 1.00 of studies while in her late 60s. She be- ter M. Crowe Animal Shelter, Camden, Oakwood Stable...... 1 1 0 9 27,000 1.00 came a certified Master Gardener, and S.C. On-line condolences may be sent Irv Naylor...... 7 0 3 1 21,200 .00 left every residence she owned prettier to the Barker family by visiting www. kornegayfuneral.com. Coppertree Farm...... 1 1 0 0 18,000 1.00 than she found it. 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28 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 Friday, April 15, 2011 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase Times • 29 The Last Fence... Editorial, Opinion, Comments & Columns

Times Editorial Delicate balance to Saratoga support Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard be- gan a 40-year business relationship with owner Bill Pape because Pape wanted a runner at Roll- ing Rock. The western Pennsylvania race meet was a destination. It made steeplechase owners; people played the sport because of Rolling Rock, which held racing on Wednesday and Saturday each autumn. In 1983, it ended. Saratoga is a steeplechase destination. Was a steeplechase destination? Steeplechasing faces its acid test this sum- mer at the famed track in upstate New York. Last year, six races were carded at the summer track and only five filled. This year, nine are on the docket. The feet are in the fire. The plea has been sent out; owners and trainers, please sup- port Saratoga jump racing. The distress signal has been called, now who’s going to answer it? Saratoga is vital to the sport. It showcases jump racing, puts it on national TV, recruits owners, shows off jump racing to fans. The sport used to travel to Keeneland, Churchill Downs, Pimlico, Laurel, Delaware Park, Calder, Tampa Bay Downs and so on . . . it needs that exposure to fans and horsemen who are already playing horse racing. While we put Saratoga at the forefront this year, the NSA and its horsemen must not lose sight that the race meets are just as important; we need them every bit as much as we need Saratoga. Without spring and fall race meets, Tod Marks there is no jump racing at Saratoga in the sum- Foul Weather Fan. Aiken tested the mettle – and umbrellas – of steeplechase fans. mer. The NSA needs to rally support for them as well as Saratoga. It’s not the conditions of the races that cause small fields; it’s the expense of the excursion, the demands put on the horse and the lack of “event” of the event. Saratoga has lost most of its luster for steeplechase owners and trainers; Special Places the jumpers are no longer the anchor tenants of the Annex, the Henleys and their cocktail party Horses make great hosts at another epic Festival are long gone, the jockeys don’t steal the canoe anymore, steeplechasing has faded (for lots of Ten trips to England in March. A full set of Chel- reasons) in people’s minds. tenham Festivals, 2002-2011. From Best Mate to Long To bring back the fun, the sport needs to host Run. The Inside Rail parties, golf tournaments, seminars, free coffee at My racing life changed forever when I traveled to By Sean Clancy Sheppard’s barn, doughnuts to the winners . . . the 2002 Cheltenham Festival, the greatest steeple- there is no right answer. The answer is everything. chase meet in the world. I shared a room in the Hunt- like they’re in a parade, all their connections upbeat, Do anything and everything to make it fun again. er’s Lodge and watched Istabraq pull up and Best Mate careers – lives – still in the balance. Specifically, owners and trainers don’t walk out rise up. No race meet would ever look or feel the same. It’s the moment of clarity; dreams fading on one the gate after the jump race. Stay at the races and There’s a place at Prestbury Park that epitomizes the side, and dreams unfolding on the other. support the rest of the card. meet for me. It’s not Cleeve Hill standing guard in Last year, Bensalem, a big, sleepy chaser, lost his As for horse inventory, start splitting those the distance. It’s not Guinness Village, serving morning dream when falling at the top of the hill, William Hill maiden races now NSA. Find the money and libations and reuniting old friends. It’s not the great Chase at his mercy. This year – on Opening Day March qualify maidens as fast as you can. Could the lawn where you can see all the jumps, all the drama. It’s 15 – he gets it right, jumping and traveling like he has NSA organize maiden races at Fair Hill in the not the Turf Club where they serve fish pies wrapped an ax to grind. He ambles back to the barn, his right early summer? Would horsemen use them? And in tweed. It’s not the third-last in the Queen Mother quarter over-reached and bloodied, but on his feet. we know this will make 400 Fair Hill Drive where careers are made and hearts are broken. Though What a difference a year makes. cringe, but how about reducing entry fees at all play a part in the tapestry of Cheltenham. Ruby Walsh officially returns. The all-time leading Saratoga? Owners get hammered by the cost – It’s on the horse path between the parade ring and Cheltenham jockey, sporting a black eye and a scar, licensing, shipping, insurance, hotel, travel for the pre-parade ring. It’s where the vanquished and vic- wins the opener with Al Ferof for Paul Nicholls. The jockeys and grooms and so on. On top of that, torious from the race before fade into memory, their big boys are on the board. the NSA collected $40,120 from owners for five Festival complete, and the runners for the next race Three races later, they meet again in the same place. But different. Walsh waits and delivers Hurricane Fly to Saratoga jump races last year. Owners and train- emerge, their Festival unknown. It’s quiet, as quiet as win the Stan James Champion Hurdle. Nicholls waits ers are being asked to support Saratoga at new you get at Cheltenham. for him at the mouth of the parade ring, he shakes his levels this year. The NSA should do the same. The soldiers from one race go home – cuts on stifles, hand, then slides out the side door. See, Willie Mullins, Rolling Rock and Saratoga were once king birch stuck in boots, missing shoes, under sweat-soaked coolers, staring at the ground, staggering from the test. the Irish Paul Nicholls, trains Hurricane Fly. Nicholls and queen of steeplechasing. And we lost the was simply there as a friend. king 28 years ago. The soldiers for the next race – platted manes, dappled coats, gazing at the horizon like surveyors, striding out See inside page 31

30 • Steeplechase Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, April 15, 2011 Inside – Continued from page 30 Walsh, in an interview before Chel- tenham, explains race riding. He says when you’re doing it right, only the arms move over a jump. Everything else is still; legs, back, head, hands, just the arms move to the motion of the horse. He doesn’t even move his arms when guiding Quevega to her third consecu- tive win in the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle. Walsh rides like Rodin: think- ing, waiting, watching, analyzing. After the first race, he wears the pink arm- band denoting the leader in the club- house, he keeps it all week. On Wednesday, Robbie Power takes off at the last in the Neptune Investment Novices Hurdle with his first Chelten- ham winner in his grasp. Oscars Well can’t stick the landing, losing his hind end and handing the race to First Lieu- tenant, a future Gold Cup winner. Chel- tenham taketh, Cheltenham giveth. A race later, young Power wins a thriller on Bostons Angel. A race after that, Sizing Europe and Andrew Lynch are the pulse of the Sportingbet.com Queen Mother Cham- pion Chase. Two-time winner Mas- ter Minded, spent at 8 years old, can’t match his Cheltenham exploits, fading after a blunder at the second-last. Cheltenham Racecourse On Thursday, Buena Vista makes his Long Run (with amateur Sam Waley-Cohen aboard) surges over the last in the Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup. seventh Festival start. The 10-year-old Sam Thomas implores the tank, Den- atorial battle we have today, no quarter Sam Waley-Cohen is the first amateur wins the Pertemps Final for the second man, who burrows down for the climb given and no quarter asked and Long to win the Gold Cup since Jim Wilson year in a row. “He’s what National and starts to edge away from the balle- Run showed that he had the heart for partnered Little Owl in 1981. Hunt racing is about,” says his trainer rina, Kauto Star. Then, the clock strikes the race,” he says. “Without the horse, Robert Waley-Cohen’s amateur ca- David Pipe, midnight. Long Run ranges to their out- you’re nothing, you have to try and form reer even extends to America. In 1973, The people’s champ, A.P. McCoy side and the page is turned. There is a a partnership, a unity, and he has to he rode three races on the U.S. point- wins two, including another Ryanair new champion. Long Run sees it out, trust me and I have to trust him, com- to-point circuit while serving as general Chase with Albertas Run, the crowd sa- galloping to the top of the hill. ing down to some of those fences it was manager of Christie’s. Waley-Cohen lutes their champion with a mighty roar. Both trained by Nicholls, Denman a real question of do or die, and he did. bought Crumaboo and competed in the Graham Lee hits the board yet again and Kauto Star make the long walk I always work hard to know the horse, heavyweight and owner/rider timber aboard the hill-climbing Kalahari King, back to the winner’s enclosure. Fans there are no hiding places, you’ve got to races in 1973. they walk into the winner’s enclosure call them by name, salute them, know- go in there knowing your preparation is Crumaboo finished fourth in his first again, again to the wrong pillar. Lee ing this could be the final time they’ll A1, otherwise, you have holes in your start at Brandywine, second at Rad- looks off in total disgust. see them. Denman’s head hangs low, armor. Horses take you to very special nor Point-to-Point and won the owner/ Unbeaten in his last 10 starts, Big he’s gone to the well. Kauto Star follows places. Long Run is a life changer.” rider timber at Orange County Point- Buck’s wins the World Hurdle again for him, spent. to-Point. That was his American career, Nicholls and Walsh. Long as a business “The old horses ran amazing, it’s U.S. connection to Gold Cup three races in 22 days. lunch, the French-bred 8-year-old does been a fantastic week, I love it,” Nich- A son of a baronet, Waley-Cohen will just enough to win, every time. That Cheltenham Gold Cup winning own- olls says. “You don’t like being second er (and father), Robert Waley-Cohen take over from Lord Vestey as chairman makes three World Hurdles. but today was just awesome, I didn’t epitomizes the amateur side of National of Cheltenham Racecourse after Vestey “Big Buck’s is a different class, he mind at all. I’m proud of them, it’s great Hunt racing. turns 70 in May. Waley-Cohen owned just does enough, brilliant,” Nicholls for racing.” Waley-Cohen rode as an amateur, 1999 Triumph Hurdle winner Katarino. says. “He’s a bit of a freak, walks his Forty minutes after the Gold Cup, serves as chairman of the Point-to-Point Sam Waley-Cohen, 28, owns Port- box and Ruby says he’s weird but he’s the field goes to the start of the Chris- board, trains point-to-point horses from man Healthcare, a chain of dental very good.” tie’s Foxhunter Chase. Willie Twiston- his home in Warwickshire and supports practices. He finished second board his My favorite horse in England, Junior, Davies, son of trainer Nigel, flings his son, Sam, who partnered Long Run father’s Oscar Time in the Grand Na- dominates the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir last year’s winner Baby Run at the big to an emotional win over former Gold tional at Aintree, just missing a historic Chase. It’s bittersweet at best, I bet out fences, putting stamina and bravery to Cup winners Denman and Kauto Star. Gold Cup/Grand National double. but wish he was in my silks, or my cli- the test, stringing out the full field. The ent’s silks. All my friends, who know 16-year-old rides like he’s never been the feeling, pat me on the back. George scared, until making a young mistake at and Candida Baker, Pat and Valerie the second-last, gunning for a long one; Murphy, they listen for a few minutes. Baby Run puts down and flings Willie Then tell me to shut up, get over it, have to the ground – stars in his eyes one a drink, find another. minute, tears in his eyes the next. Then it’s Friday. Gold Cup Day. Steven Clements, a kid who showed Old guards, Kauto Star, Denman and up on my doorstep in America looking Imperial Commander try to turn back for a ride home and a job a couple of time while the upstart, Long Run, the summers ago (he worked for Dr. Fisher youngest horse in the race by two years at Fair Hill), wins the finale in the fading tries to become the first 6-year-old to light of four days. Just a kid then, now win the Totesport Cheltenham Gold he looks grown up, riding into the Chel- “Now that I have barn cats, I don’t ever see Cup. The great Denman and the great tenham winner’s enclosure aboard Oi- mice in my feed bins.” ~ Susan Oxford, PA Kauto Star, both 11, put everyone on seau De Nuit, accomplishing a dream. the shuffle as the field goes down the At the end of the day, Sam Waley- Custom Homes & Cohen walks through the crowd, still in Barn Homes Needed Renovation Additions backside. Well, everybody but Long www.forgottencats.org Run and his amateur rider Sam Waley- a daze. Dream achieved. [email protected] Cohen. They’ve kept it together and run “It’s very much surreal, these things Contact Domenick Mingione down the hill, just off the heels of the are a lifetime ambition and it hasn’t sunk in yet. It’s the biggest race on the biggest 610-869-3629 Direct: 703-898-2499 old souls. 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