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Complimentary Steeplechase The & Eventing Volume 14, No. 3 A Publication of ST Publishing,T Inc. imes Friday, April 20, 2007 Jam (Bruce Davidson) Sloopy (John Williams) Who do ya like? Rolex 2007 full of contenders Le Samurai (Amy Tryon) Truluck (Phillip Dutton) Upstage (Karen O’Connor) Inside: Atlanta: Seafaring Man takes stakes • Manor: Fappa Fire wins timber battle SteeplechaseStrawberry NewsHill: News Swimming River keeps winning • Stoneybrook: Water Hunter prevails in feature. Steeplechase The and Eventing Entries: What’s Here and Where To Find It Here’s your newspaper – editor’s note, it’s a little late. The vagaries of publishing, travel schedules, personal Times lives and assorted other variables kept this one in the barn a few extra days. Steeplechase news through April 19 (how about that Seafaring Man?) appears here, along with some insights into the eventing com- petitors at Rolex. There’s also a new look to this publication – which may continue, depending on all those ST Publishing, Inc. variables mentioned above – but we hope you like it. See you on the course. 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Phone: (410) 392-5867 PAGES 6-7 Fax: (410) 392-0170 E-mail: [email protected] On the Web: www.st-publishing.com Rolex Preview Get ready for a fi ght. In the absence of superstar Win- some Adante, the competition will be keen at Rolex. The Staff David O’Connor helps us evaluate the contenders. Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy and Joe Clancy Jr. PAGES 9-10 Art Director: Kevin Titter Eventing Editor/Staff Writer: Joanie Morris Copy Editor: Jamie Santo Advertising Representatives: Bruce Davidson Debbie LaBerge (717) 529-2158 The man has done just about everything there is to do on National accounts/equine products Michelle Rosenkilde (410) 557-7652 horses – including riding in the Maryland Hunt Cup. At 57, Harford/Baltimore Co. Maryland he’s a player at Rolex. Reney Stanley (540) 837-1397 Virginia PAGE 15,16,18 Contributors: Tod Marks, Barry Watson, Brian Nadeau, Kate Sharon, Sheila Clancy, Sam Clancy, Anne Clancy, Joe Clancy Sr., Ruth Clancy, Atlanta Steeplechase Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy. Veteran competitor Seafaring Man gets an elusive stakes victory for Hudson River Farm, Jonathan Sheppard and Danielle Hodsdon. 2007 Publication Dates PAGE 20-21 March 9 May 18 October 5 March 30 June 8 October 19 April 20 July 13 November 9 My Lady’s Manor May 4 September 21 December 14 Fappa Fire moves up the ladder to win timber stakes for Pack Up Stable, Alicia Murphy and Blake Curry. Member: American Horse Publications American Horse Publications is the nation’s only asso- ciation of equine periodicals. AHP’s over 200 members are dedicated to promoting better understanding and PAGE 30 communication within the equine publishing industry. Pick www.americanhorsepublications.org Six Pick 6 On the Cover Just a few of the major In early returns, photographers Tod Marks and Sarah players in the Rolex Greenhalgh lead the way – where’s your stable? Kentucky Three Day Event. Photos: Friday, April 20, 2007 Friday, Steeplechase • The and Eventing I PICKED UP THE TIMES AT: Anthony Trollope imes ________________ and Shannon Brinkman Eventing T & Name: ___________________________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ Also by ST Publishing: / Steeplechase _________________________________________________________________________________________ The Saratoga Special, The Special At Keeneland, The Breeders’ Cup Telephone: _____________________________________ Email: ___________________________________ Special, Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, ST International racing If gift subscription, please list your name and address. 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All Rights Reserved. 2 Steeplechase The and Eventing Friday, April 20, 2007 Friday, • Eventing & / Steeplechase Times The • 3 News and Notes from around the circuit FOR STARTERS Worth Repeating “When in Rome, do as the Romans.” Trainer Mike Berryman, who sported an Atlanta Braves cap at the Atlanta Steeplechase “Does the horse get anything?” Young fan watching a winner’s circle ceremony, which included trophies for the owner, trainer and jockey, at Atlanta “That’s an old rider. They never give up.” Owner/trainer John Griggs, after Chip Miller engineered a late-running win by Hip Hop at Atlanta “My wife comes racing with me for the fi rst time since I don’t know how long and they’ve got Tiffany prizes for the jockeys . don’t they know I’m under enough pressure.” Jockey Xavier Aizpuru, whose day at Atlanta included a pull-up, a fall and a fourth. Oh, and no little blue box for Leigh. “He’s out with Eagle (Lion), telling lies.” Eventer Bruce Davidson, on what Little Tricky is up to. “If the reins were a little bit longer, I’d have stayed on.” Jockey Richard Boucher, who parted company with Riddle (but not without a fi ght) in the Georgia Cup at Atlanta “Oh, let’s take pictures of the little men.” Carolina Cup fan Lindsay Ford, aiming her camera at the jockeys weighing in after a race “Call me back when you’re not with your wife so we can really talk about it.” Trainer to amateur jockey, who declined an invitation to ride at My Lady’s Manor A Grand Jumper Irish-bred Karasi won the world’s richest steeplechase for the the third straight year, taking Japan’s Nakayama Grand Jump April 14 for jockey Brett Scott and trainer Eric Musgrove. The 12-year-old geldng – once advertised for sale in the pages of Steeplechase Times – beat out 14 of his juniors over the 4250-meter course to prevail by three-quarters of a length over Japanese-bred Reward Present. There was little American presence in this year’s re- newal, as the 15-horse fi eld hailed mainly from New Zealand, Australia and Japan, and no U.S. horse was invited. The Irish-bred winner is based Down Under. Storm Seiko, a 6-year-old Kentucky-bred by Charismatic, fi nished fi fth, while former Jack Fisher hand Jonathan Riddell, rode Real Tonic to a ninth-place fi nish. Tod Marks Reading Into Things ONE, TWO, THREE. As Riddle battled to stay on his feet at Atlan- The Norton Anthology of Poetry hasn’t been the most reliable of ta, jockey Richard Boucher tried to stay in the stirrups. Alas, he form books. lost the fi ght and hit the turf a few seconds after the third photo. While Keats And Yeats (by John out of William Butler) fi nished Neither jockey nor horse was injured. third at Virginia Fall last year, not since Ozymandias – “king of (the sport of) kings” – took the 1986 timber title has the world of verse had Not Your Basic Training success in the world of turf. Those seeking NSA winners in 2006 were It is generally assumed that in an NSA training fl at race it’s the Friday, April 20, 2007 Friday, better served by hunch plays on horses named for pop hits (Duke Of • horse who’s getting ready for bigger and better things. Kiwi jockey Earl), NHL goalies (Luongo) and Soviet generals (Zhukov). Isaac Lupton reversed that idea, using his fl at-race experience as But a page was turned at My Lady’s Manor when J. Alfred Prufrock, jumping-off point for a career highlight and a whirlwind world tour. a 7-year-old gelding named for a 90-year-old poem, won the amateur Lupton led off the Carolina Cup card March 31 with a win aboard highweight timber. Dark Equation. Then, not 10 days later, he rode to victory in the Great Eventing Those familiar with “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T.S. & Eastern Steeplechase – not in Eastern Carolina, but South Austra- Eliot’s maiden effort – probably weren’t busy buttonholing bookies. lia. After taking the area’s most valuable jump race, Lupton – a New The gelding’s literary namesake is a hesistating fellow, short on confi - Zealand dairy farmer by trade – followed up in grand style, getting a dence but long on self-defeating rationalization. mount in Japan’s Nakayama Jump April 14. He fi nished 12th aboard But while the poem’s Prufrock asked “Do I dare to eat a peach?” No Hero. his equine responded when asked, and would probably love a peach, / Steeplechase or perhaps an apple. The poem isn’t entirely devoid of racing knowledge, however, for Take A Number as every steeplechase fan knows: 8: Falls and lost jockeys from 32 jump starters at Atlanta April 14. “In a minute there is time, Times For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” 23,300; 22,900; 23,400: Eerily similar annual earnings totals The for Seafaring Man in 2003, 2004 and 2005. He blew those fi gures • – Jamie Santo away with a $45,000 payday in Atlanta’s Georgia Cup. 4 News and Notes FOR STARTERS Friday, April 20, 2007 Friday, Steeplechasing 101 • SPONSORED BY MIDATLANTIC FARM CREDIT Eventing Informing The Q: Do jockeys look for a distance at the jumps when they ride? & Reader About Seeplechasing A: Like event riders, steeplechase jockeys look for a distance (i.e.

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