Complimentary Steeplechase The & 2007 Times Premiere Issue A Publication of ST Publishing, Inc. Volume 14, No. 1 • Friday, March 9, 2007

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Photos by Shannon Brinkman, Tod Marks, Mike McNally and Anthony Trollope Enter Our COVER CONTEST! Identify the photos on our cover and win! See page 4. INSIDE: Steeplechase & Eventing Previews • Catching Up With McDynamo & Sur La Tete Steeplechase Entries The and Eventing What’s Happening and Where To Find It Times Here’s your newspaper. At long last, the fi rst paper of 2007. Miles have been logged on the roads, in the ring, in the hunt fi eld and over the gallops in preparation for another successful season. Change is afoot at the NSA, with a new president. The U.S. Eventing Squad has a very viable new option. The novices will be put to the test, ST Publishing, Inc. eventing continues without Radnor, it’s anyone’s Pick 6. Horses are back, a few have changed barns, others 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, careers, some are retired all together. It’s a new season – anything is possible. Elkton, MD 21921

Phone: (410) 392-5867 Fax: (410) 392-0170 PAGES 10-14 E-mail: [email protected] On the Web: www.st-publishing.com Open Stakes Preview McDynamo defends, Sur La Tete vies, Preemptive The Staff Strike returns and Mixed Up challenges. Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy and Joe Clancy Jr. Art Director: Kevin Titter Eventing Editor/Staff Writer: Joanie Morris PAGES 16-18 Copy Editor: Jamie Santo Advertising Representatives: Debbie LaBerge (717) 529-2158 Novice & Timber Preview National accounts/equine products Michelle Rosenkilde (410) 557-7652 Kilbride Rd, Orison and Best Attack come back for a Harford/Baltimore Co. Maryland second season. Miles Ahead tries to remain undefeated. Reney Stanley (540) 837-1397 Seeyouattheevent, Ghost Valley, Askim look to spoil. Virginia Contributors: PAGE 29 Tod Marks, Barry Watson, Brian Nadeau, Kate Sharon, Sheila Clancy, Sam Clancy, Pick Anne Clancy, Joe Clancy Sr., Ruth Clancy, Fantasy Stable Game Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy. Six Three conditions to fi ll in the annual steeplechase game. 2007 Publication Dates

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2 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 News and Notes from around the circuit FOR STARTERSSTARTERS Take A Number $3,116.36: Amount of the first check writ- ten to Somerset Hospital (now Medical Center) by the Far Hills Races in 1956.

$15,996,884: Estimated amount con- tributed by Far Hills since.

1: Also-eligible on the overnight at Little Everglades (a great sign, and we think the first in history). Worth Repeating “I think I have a major in crazy chestnut, but I think this might be the chestnut that pays off.” Event rider Alison Springer, on Arthur

“I’m very superstitious about changing their names. I didn’t even change my own name when I got married.” Event rider Debbie Adams

“I have a new dog, Speedbump – I found him in the middle of the highway on the way from Florida to Aiken. I ended up with a very funny looking Jack Russell crossed with a Chihuauua crossed with some mystery.” Event rider Adrienne Iorio

“Proving yet again that gravity does work.” Iorio again, this time describing a fall from one of her horses

“Ivorgorian, he could drive his own van to the races. He’s 15 so he could have a permit but he’d have to have (retiree) Young Dubliner in the passenger seat.” Barbara Livingston Steeplechase trainer Kathy McKenna, BYE BYE BABY. Top steeplechase sire , pictured here at Stone Farm in on aging timber horses 2006, died last month at age 31. See page 47 for more.

“I think he’s going to be good. He had no idea what shoulder-in and “Rommel, I Read Your Condition Book” travers were, we taught him on Thursday and he won the Steeplechase steward Ross Pearce stopped into the ST office on Friday.” with the following gem dug up from the history books of American Event rider Darren Chiacchia, steeplechasing – must be pretty slow this time of year. on his new ride Tragumna, who won his first Intermediate Pearce had the results from the Piping Rock National Plate, despite being slightly green at the level held June 9, 1913 on Long Island. The winning rider was “Lieut. G. Patton, Jr.” “I can find nothing good right now.I haven’t trained in a month. I Yes, that George Patton. While “Old Blood and Guts” is more easily tried to get some horses to Florida, but it’s just not happening. Now pictured sitting atop a tank than a horse, and possessed a greater I take one set a day to Pimlico, and the rest treadmill.” affinity for ivory-handled Colts than Thoroughbreds, Patton began his Steeplechase trainer Jack Fisher, Army career in the cavalry, and rode in several steeplechases. on training horses in Maryland In fact, the Piping Rock race was carded as a military affair: the during the winter jocks were all officers, riding either government mounts or horses owned by officers. Patton, then a 27-year-old second lieutenant, “It would have been a nice trip, but we’re going to Aiken! They’ve guided Zagg home by 10 lengths in a field of five. got a good sushi place in town.” Of course who would want to push their horse past a man who Steeplechase trainer Richard Valentine, would later say, “May God have mercy upon my enemies, because whose horse Mauritania was not invited I won’t.” to the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan Patton isn’t the only American general known to be handy with a horse. “I won’t rub it in, but . . .” George Washington was not only “first in war, first in peace and Aiken Steeplechase’s Girl Conger, first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was a first-rate rider. In on the 70-degree weather down south in late February fact, Thomas Jefferson called Washington “the greatest horseman of his age.” “And that’s not Celsius, is it?” However, with his imposing 6-foot-3-inch frame, Washington Stoneybrook Steeplechase’s Toby Edwards, weighed more than 200 pounds and might have had a hard time after being told the temperature 14 in Maryland with race conditions today. Ulysses S. Grant was something of horse whisperer even in his The Times: “How’s the big horse?” youth, known around Ohio for his ability to break fractious animals. Event rider Gina Miles: “He’s still big.” While his academic record at West Point wasn’t sterling, on horse- McKinlaigh is 17.2 hands. back he was gold. Performing at graduation exercises there, he cleared a jumping bar held higher than a sergeant’s head, setting a “Russell came home for spring break and worked him and gave his high-jump record that lasted for 25 years. approval, so I guess I’m doing OK.” During the Civil War, he covered hundreds of miles on horse- Trainer Bruce Haynes, on his son Russell’s back aboard a slew of impressive horses. His most-famous mount, assessment of timber horse Shady Valley’s readiness Cincinnati, was a son of the legendary racer Lexington.

TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 3 Major jump races get ESPN deal Steeplechasing on ESPN Voss injured in farm accident Ten major steeplechases will be featured on ESPN and Race Race Date Air Date/Time Trainer Tom Voss was injured in a training accident the network’s Internet site this year, thanks to an agreement at his Monkton, Md., farm Wednesday, March 7, and had between NTRA Productions and the NSA. Carolina Cup March 31 April 7, 5-6 p.m. Royal Chase April 20 May 5, Noon-3 p.m. surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to repair a The races receive improved time slots, with steeple- broken jaw the next day. chases airing as part of live weekend programming as May 12 May 19, 2-5 p.m. National Hunt Cup May 19 June 9, 3-5 p.m. Voss, 56, was kicked by a horse exercising on the farm’s opposed to midweek when steeplechasing was part of the indoor track – which Voss uses as a schooling area in the eWire to Wir r ecap show. Wire to Wire was canceled after A.P. Smithwick Aug. 9 Aug. 25, 4-5 p.m. winter. the 2006 season, opening the door for better positioning of All races on ESPN and espn.com. “He was actually really lucky because it could have been the NSA races. Also on espn.com: Temple Gwathmey, N.Y. Turf Writers Cup, a lot worse,” said Voss’ wife, Mimi. “He’s got a big wound The Carolina First Carolina Cup, Royal Chase, Iroquois, Somerset Medical Center Stakes, AFLAC Novice, Colonial Cup. right under his chin.” Mellon Financial National Hunt Cup and A.P. Smithwick Subject to change. Check local listings. Memorial will be featured on ESPN in 2007 (see schedule Despite her husband’s injury, Mimi Voss remained calm below). Each steeplechase will get a one-minute segment horse-racing section receives more than 595,000 unique in the face of a crisis. on a show centered around a major flat race: the Wood visitors and three million page views each month. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken Tom Voss Memorial, , Preakness, and Costs for the national television and Internet program to emergency rooms, and before they wheeled him into Travers. Total audience figures are estimated at 5.4 million are paid by the NSA, the National Steeplechase Foundation surgery he told me he expected me to take him home households. and the host race meets. tonight – I don’t think so,” she said. “His jaw is broken, but In addition to TV exposure, those five races (and five In addition to this schedule, TV plans for the Breeders’ there’s no other real damage and his chest is OK. He was in others) will be featured on espn.com with expanded news Cup Grand National at Far Hills in October have yet to be a fair amount of pain, but he’s going to be fine – maybe he’ll coverage and video as part of ESPN Motion. The Web site’s finalized. be able to quit smoking now.”

Previous Previews Prognostication is always a tricky COVERCOVER CONTEST thing. Combined with the ever-present vagaries of , and it is, INSTRUCTIONS: 1 ______(Person) 17 ______(Person) appropriately enough, quite a gamble. Identify as many of the photo- So while looking ahead to the season, graphs as possible according to 2 ______(Horse) 18 ______(Horse) their number. Fill in the forms 3 ______(Person) 19 ______/ (Horse & Rider) we took a quick glance back at prior at right by naming either the 4 ______(Horse) 20 ______(Horse) opening issues of The Times. The pre- horse or person in the photo as 5 ______(Person) 21 ______(Person) indicated. Complete your form 6 ______(Horse) season assessments were a mixed bag. and mail it to: 22 ______/ (Horse & Rider) 7 ______(Person) 23 ______(Person) While they ranged from rather insightful Joanie Morris ST Publishing, Inc. 8 ______(Horse) 24 ______(Horse) to groan-inducing, they generally fell 364 Fair Hill Drive, 9 ______(Horse) 25 ______(Person) into discernable categories. Elkton, MD 21921 10 ______(Person) 26 ______(Horse) A winner will be picked at ran- 11 ______/ (Horse & Jockey) 27 ______(Person) dom from all of the correct en- 12 ______(Person) 28 ______(Horse) Eerily Prophetic tries submitted. The winner will 13 ______(Horse) 29 ______(Person) receive a prize package of ST Sur La Tete, 2006: “Keeneland, Iroquois 14 ______(Horse) 30 ______(Horse) products valued at over $100. on agenda.” We didn’t mean to limit him All entries must be received by 4/1/07. 15 ______(Person) 31 ______(Person) Winner will be announced in 4/20 issue and 16 ______(Object) 32 ______(Horse) to those two. STEEPLECHASING

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Bubble Economy, 2004: “Aiken over 8 hurdles, thinking timber.” The power of positive thinking earned him the timber title that year. Understated 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mixed Up, 2006: “Had moments as novice in 2005.” Had a few “moments” last year 15 as well.

Kilbride Rd, 2006: “Looking for quick move to novices.” Pretty quick indeed, he ended up the division . 9 Steeplechasing It Again 12 13 16 Feeling So Pretty, 2006: “Gallant mare comes back for more.” You can’t go wrong with that caption/horse combo. 14 Sur La Tete, 2004: “Getting better all 10 11 the time.” Now that’s an evergreen assessment.

22 Miles Ahead, 2006: “Champ tries to 17 20 23 stay undefeated.” He may have lost his title belt, but still hasn’t lost.

Preemptive Strike, 2006: “Foot prob- lems still the issue.” Let’s hope this one 21 changes this year. 18 24 A Little Off “Mark The Shark, 2006: Switching careers.” Four miles on the front end? He stayed over hurdles and earned more 19 Eventing than $60,000. 25 26 28 29 30 31 Ron Greschner, 2006: “He shoots, he scores?” Well, he still has 179 career goals, if no jump wins.

Mixed Up, 2005: “May stick to flat; Pennsylvania-bred.” We were half-right. 27 32 Looks like jumps worked out OK.

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 5 Plenty of news for 2007 season BY JOE CLANCY STEEPLECHASE NEWS Like a school blackboard, the stee- racing and fl at racing.” plechase season begins each year as a The latter is a primary concern for blank. Clean when each new class en- Abbott. ters, it gets chicken-scratched, doodled, “It is critical that everyone under- erased, marked and remarked through stands we are all part of the same ex- the course of the year. citing game,” he said. “Steeplechasing And that’s the best part. Nobody brings a very important and different knows what’s in store. The 2007 sea- product to the Thoroughbred experi- son launches March 11 at Little Ever- ence. I’m looking forward to working Doug Lees glades way down in Florida. As usual with people in the racing industry in Diane Attwood and Miles Ahead exit the Virginia Gold Cup winner’s circle in 2006. much has changed since Thoroughbreds hopes that we can increase our expo- good for everyone.” last jumped a hurdle or timber fence in sure and position both nationally and trio of $75,000 tilts (Maryland Hunt The Iroquois meet continues to boost competition. internationally.” Cup, New Jersey Hunt Cup and Mason its purses with $415,000 in prize money The executive committee now con- Houghland Memorial) at the top of the available (including $30,000 in amateur NEW LEADERSHIP sists of Abbott, Guy Torsilieri (vice timber division. bonuses). The 2007 changes feature a The NSA elected longtime Radnor president), Doug Fout (secretary) and The purse increase will have an im- $20,000 bump to the Margaret Henley Races chairman Franny Abbott as presi- Sam Slater (treasurer). Sheppard will mediate impact – a big check for a tim- Stakes for fi llies and mares. The 2 1/4- dent. He succeeds Jonathan Sheppard, hold the largely ceremonial title of chair- ber horse – but the true results are yet mile test now carries a $50,000 purse. who held the post for three years. Ab- man. In other changes, the NSA board to come. The Carolina Cup offers a signifi cant bott brings a broad racing background, welcomes three new members: Austin “It does change your thinking a lit- purse increase as well, with $160,000 both fl at and jumps, and hopes to pack Brown, Dwight Hall and Ken Luke. tle, but there are other races too,” said in total money in celebration of its 75th plenty of new developments into his ten- trainer Jack Fisher, whose Gold Cup re- running. Atlanta also jumps up a notch ure. He’s big on development, will work NEW MONEY sume includes eight victories as a trainer to $170,000 including all but one race to improve the steeplechase climate for The Virginia Gold Cup set the and nine as a jockey. “The long-term at $25,000 or above. all constituents, sees great potential in new gold standard for timber purses: benefi t is important. Better horses will My Lady’s Manor raises its com- the sport’s race meets and wants “to $100,000. The May 5 classic is the fi rst get in the sport and you’ll see that down bridge the gap between steeplechase six-fi gure timber race and surpasses a the road a little bit. Higher purses are See NEWS page 8

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 7 plechase their class project, while alumni have helped promote the event at various horse cen- News – ters in the area. Continued from page 6 Starlight Starbright brings with it strong con- nections to the Atlanta business community. Board member Gina Christman’s magazine At- bined purse, and will offer a total of $50,000 for lanta Homes features a 32-page section on the a three-race, all-timber card. Fellow Maryland steeplechase while board member Chuck Dow- timber stop Grand National boosted its feature dle is the sports anchor at Atlanta’s WSB televi- to $35,000. Middleburg Spring continues to sion station. climb, offering $185,000 including a leg of the “It’s very exciting and has been great for us,” Steeplechase Crown. Willowdale bounced said race director Jean Bird. “Both groups are up to $75,000, its highest mark since 1994. Rad- going to be very involved. We’ve got support on nor jumped over the $200,000 barrier. both sides – the race committee and operations In all, eight race meets take part in the “Purs- on the day of the races.” es Do Matter” initiative, which strives for no In addition, Atlanta added secondary benefi - race worth less than $20,000 Carolina Cup, At- ciaries in the Coosa Valley Chapter of the Amer- lanta, Middleburg Spring, Maryland Hunt Cup, ican Red Cross and the Chastain Horse Park Queen’s Cup, Virginia Gold Cup, Iroquois and Therapeutic Riding Program. Radnor. New NSA president Franny Abbott (left) and new NSA board member Ken Luke. MILESTONES NEW NAMES Two meets celebrate major birthdays. The Aiken welcomes a new sponsor in the Southern agency and spent time on the pro-am circuit in Carolina Cup will be run for the 75th time March 31. Bank & Trust Company. Sponsor of the featured Im- Florida and Kentucky. He owns parts of two steeple- The races have taken place on the same site, Spring- perial Cup, the bank dates to 1901 and is based in chase horses, The Next Man and Go For Red N Gold, dale Race Course, since March 22, 1930 – taking off Mount Olive, N.C. and works for his family’s business Peoples Water Ser- in 1943, 1944 and 1945 for World War II. First run With the new sponsor on board, Aiken pushed its vice. over timber, the Carolina Cup itself moved to the spring purses past $100,000, including the $40,000 Unlike many steeplechases, the Hunt Cup does not Springdale brush course for many years and is now feature. benefi t an outside charity but relies on a large base of a novice hurdle race (the fi rst leg of the Steeplechase The Maryland Hunt Cup gets a new race chairman support to extend the race’s history. The committee Triple Crown). in Shockey Gillet, who takes over for longtime leader includes Worrall, race-course property owner Duck The Carolina Cup has long been a fi xture in Cam- Margaret Worrall. Gillet brings a long background in Martin, Ben Griswold, Bruce Fenwick, Peter Fenwick, den, S.C., on the steeplechase circuit and in the south- horses and racing to the post, and realizes leading the Liz McKnight, Alix Smith and Nancy Roberts. eastern . The 75th running will include a Hunt Cup is more about preserving the 111-year-old Atlanta picked up new benefi ciaries in the Starlight special exhibit at the National Steeplechase Museum race’s position than anything else. Starbright Children’s Foundation (which assists Geor- and a dinner/dance March 30 titled “75 Swinging “It’s an honor to be in this position,” he said. gia children with serious illness) and the University Years.” The event features music of Chris Daniels and “There are various models that work with race meets, of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine (to help the Kings, a Colorado-based band with 10 CDs in cir- and we’re lucky to have a strong subscriber base that fund a new hospital and educational programs). The culation. Their original “Jump, Jump, Jump” has been supports the association. We’re trying to keep amateur change ends a long association with the Atlanta Speech adopted as a Carolina Cup theme song for 2007. Call timber racing strong and preserve the tradition.” School, but also serves up plenty of opportunity with (803) 432-6513 for more information. Gillet, a cousin of steeplechase trainer and former volunteer commitments and promotional concepts. jockey Joe Davies, worked at the Fasig-Tipton sales Freshmen veterinary students have made the stee- See NEWS page 9 FOUR MARYLAND FARM AUCTIONS IN APRIL…

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8 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 invited to a “Friends and Families Re- union” Saturday, March 17, 2007 from News – 4-6 p.m. at the museum. Guests are Continued from page 8 encouraged to bring photographs, me- mentos or written memories or stories Virginia’s Strawberry Hill meet also about their time with the horses. The celebrates its 75th running, and will collection will be copied and the origi- again be held at Colonial Downs race- nals returned to the owners if requested. track in New Kent. Informally known A host committee will be on hand as as “Richmond” for years, the race meet well to help record stories for the future began as the Deep Run Races in 1895 exhibit. The committee consists of Vir- on Broad Street Road in Richmond. The ginia Carlos Furman, Mary Sue Trues- race meet moved to various locations dale, Mike McClendon, Dr. Althea Tru- including the city’s Ginter Park area itt, Tom Didato, Hope Cooper, Sheila and what is now the County Club of Maloney, and Dr. Ernestyne Adams. Virginia. The races were not held during The event is free and open to all who World War I, but returned in 1927 to have an interest. Steeplechase trainers, Curles Neck Farm on the James River. owners and riders from all states are In 1947, the races moved to Strawberry welcome to send in suggestions for in- National Steeplechase Museum Hill on Laburnum Avenue in Richmond clusion. Contact Cooper at (803) 432- In a photo from the archives, Melvin Ferrell (right) and Squeaky Truesdale school two and were held there through 1999 when 6513 or [email protected]. steplechasers at Camden. the course was sold to make room for expansion of the Richmond Interna- tional Raceway NASCAR track. Strawberry Hill moved to Colo- nial Downs in 2000, and has attracted large crowds to the racetrack setting. Plans call for a permanent home at The Meadow, birthplace of the legendary THE NATIONAL BANK , in Caroline County. Con- struction is in progress on a Virginia State Fair complex – including steeple- chase course and other equine facilities OF MALVERN – on the property. “Right now, it’s road work and tun- nels that have to be built under roads,” said race director Sue Mullins. “After those are complete and some utilities agreements get fi nalized, we can have a clearer timeline on the race course. We’re excited about it and look forward to a long history there as well.”

NOTES: Virginia horseman Gary Bak- er, a steeplechase owner and race-meet organizer, received a Pegasus Medal of Honor from the United States Equestri- an Federation. Baker was honored for his contributions to a variety of equine disciplines including Welsh Ponies, and horse shows. Baker holds several judg- ing licenses from the federation, and also holds several committee seats. Within steeplechasing, he is known as an owner/breeder and the chairman of the Virginia Fall Races in Middleburg. For the fi rst time in 15 seasons, the NSA spring schedule does not include Brookhill. The Raleigh, N.C., meet was canceled due to “uncertainty” of the fu- ture of the race-course property, accord- ing to a statement on the meet’s Web site. The Earp family, which owns the property, has been negotiating the sale of the Brookhill land.

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BY JOE CLANCY OPEN STAKES PREVIEW Somewhere in the distance a hound probably just glance over him because cries. A horn sounds. A little kid eats he’s perfect.” a while sitting on a pony. An McDynamo hunts like everyone else old man stares from the seat of his pick- out with Cheshire. He stops at checks, up, thinking of the glory days. And the jumps line fences, avoids the holes, pops country’s top steeplechaser gets ready to coops, crosses roads, keeps clear of the go. huntsman’s way, scans the horizon for Like many of the horses and horse- foxes and stays out for hours. men in Chester County, Pa., McDynamo “He’s as nice a hunter as you could went foxhunting this winter. He prob- want, he’s not nervous, he doesn’t jig ably didn’t complain as much when the and he’s smart about the whole thing,” weather went bad, but the 10-year-old said trainer Sanna Hendriks, who’s usu- Thoroughbred enjoyed his tours of the ally aboard the three-time champion in countryside – and his celebrity status. the hunt fi eld. “We don’t jump three- “It’s wonderful to see him out there, rail fences and I don’t fi re him over any- but it’s not surprising to me that he would thing big – not that he couldn’t do it. be good at it,” said longtime Cheshire But he’s not trailing around behind, I Foxhounds member Kathleen Cromp- hunt him.” ton. “Good horses are good horses, and For the novice out there, a foxhunt can be good at a lot of things. The good involves a pack of hounds, a group of Tod Marks ones seem to have a lot of brains and a horses with riders and several hours Preemptive Strike tries to relaunch his career for new trainer Sanna Hendriks. lot of sense and are willing to try some- (and miles) of activity – galloping, trot- thing else. McDynamo is very well-man- ting, jumping, walking, standing still and riders follow along. The sport is of- fi ve Eclipse Award winners in its short nered and seems to enjoy it. He’s just waiting for something to happen. The ten a retirement activity for former stee- history. McDynamo took the Grade the perfect horse out there. If you didn’t hounds rarely catch the fox, but they plechasers; it’s a less- pastime I in 2003, but fi nished third in 2005 know who Sanna was on, you would almost always chase one and the horses for current runners, especially horses of and struggled last season. He carried McDynamo’s caliber. 162 and 166 pounds in the last two ef- McDynamo the foxhunter will soon forts, respectively, and would surely be become McDynamo the racehorse as the top weight again this time around. the 2007 season begins to ratchet up Also a Grade I, the Iroquois is weight- the activity. Two major races – the Roy- for-age and a more logical spring start al Chase at Keeneland April 20 and the for the champion. Both races are worth Iroquois May 12 – rule over the spring $150,000, with the Keeneland test at 2 open-stakes calendar, and fi gure promi- 1/2 miles and the Iroquois at a daunting nently in Hendriks’ plans for the 2006 3 miles. champion. Beaten in the 2005 Iroquois and “We’re still leaning toward going to scratched with a fever before the 2006 the Iroquois, and not going to Keene- running, McDynamo will rely on some land,” said Hendriks. “He’s a little bit of that foxhunting fi tness for a 2007 older, we’re just going to pick one in try. SATURDAY, APRIL 14 the spring. The handicap helps us make “At its heart, (foxhunting) is interval the decision, but it’s still the most logi- training,” said Hendriks. “He might To Benefit Ladew Topiary Gardens cal thing. I don’t have to worry about gallop 4, 5, 6 miles out there, but he’s training him hard right now and it’s nice got his ears pricked and he’s having fun. not to feel the pressure of trying to get He’d never do that much at home. You couldn’t train that fi tness into him with- The 97th My Lady’s Manor to the middle of April.” Located on Jarrettsville Pike Run under handicap conditions, the out making him think about it.” Timber Stakes – Purse $30,000 (MD 146) at Pocock Road Royal Chase annually attracts the top rd See STAKES page 12 Gates open 10:00 a.m. The 83 John Rush Streett Memorial horses in training and has been won by Hunt Relays 11:00 a.m. Amateur Maiden Timber – Purse $15,000 First Race 1:30 p.m. The 6th John D. Schapiro Memorial Rain or Shine Amateur Highweight Timber – Purse $5,000 General Parking $50 and Family Parking $70 available at the gate The Yoicks Cup or purchase through www.mary- Foxhunter Timber – Trophy landsteeplechasing.com. Parking passes are also available through The Maryland Governor’s Cup Ladew Gardens (410) 557-9570 or www.LadewGardens.com Inter-Hunt Challenge Hunt Team Relay Races

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 11 • Meadow. The New Zealand import fl ashed on the 2006 scene with a victory Stakes – at Little Everglades for Sheppard and Continued from page 10 owner Calvin Houghland, but left just as quickly with a tendon injury. “He • McDynamo isn’t the only fox- bowed slightly so we gave him the rest hunter out there looking for Grade I of the year off,” said Sheppard. “I think hurdle success. Kinross Farm’s Sur La he’d be good in (the Grade I stakes). Tete, who won the 2006 Royal Chase He’s got speed, he switches off nice and and Iroquois, spent time with Orange he stays relaxed until you need him.” County and Piedmont foxhunts during the off-season and looks to extend his • Paradise’s Boss. Novice champion season into autumn for the fi rst time in 2004 and an open stakes winner since 2004. twice in 2005, the 7-year-old missed Now 9, Sur La Tete has managed to 2006 with a tendon injury. Trainer Jack miss both the Breeders’ Cup and Colo- Fisher eyes the Keeneland race, with a nial Cup the past two seasons – when prep somewhere before that. Little Ever- a win in even one of them could have glades was an early option until the ice meant a championship. Trainer Neil hit Maryland and changed the plans. Morris hopes that changes this time around. • Good Night Shirt. Competitive in “You want the Breeders’ Cup for the open division last summer with a him, you really do,” said Morris. “I Tod Marks Party Airs could parlay this win at Far Hills last fall into a spring campaign this year. win at Colonial Downs and a second would love to not miss the fall. The last to Hirapour at Saratoga, the 6-year-old two years, it just wasn’t in the cards. ing to ride him at home and get started pard won’t try the Iroquois, but could skipped the fall season and returns with He’s a good horse, and I hope he gets so we went foxhunting. He loves it. give Keeneland a whirl while trying to Keeneland on his agenda. Good Night his chance.” Hunting is really good for him. He’s dodge the two heaviest hitters. Atlanta’s Shirt may run on the fl at beforehand, For now, though, it’s the spring and sane, quiet, easy to ride. It fi lls up his Georgia Cup would be a goal, Sheppard but the Royal Chase will be his fi rst two races Sur La Tete loves. He goes to head. He’s been properly hunting, too said, as would the summer circuit. The jump start of 2007. Keeneland, where he will try to dupli- – jumping whatever and staying out for racetrack ideally suits the 8-year-old, so cate Hirapour’s 2004-05 sweep of the a while.” look for him at Saratoga after a spin in • Mark The Shark. He started 2006 Royal Chase with a second consecutive July’s Flatterer (for Pennsylvania-breds) as a timber prospect, but wound up victory. From there, it’s the Iroquois Beyond the Big Names at Philadelphia Park. competing at the Grade I level over again (and a chance to become the fi rst hurdles. He won twice, earned $68,000 horse to win the race three consecutive The stakes division includes numer- • Three Carat. A solid stakes horse and defeated eventual novice champion times). ous other contenders – some familiar of 2005, he did not start over jumps last Kilbride Rd early in the year. The 8- And for those looking forward to a from 2006, others from further back in season after coming up with an ankle year-old will aim for Aiken’s Southern McDynamo-Sur La Tete showdown, go time. injury following a training fl at run at Bank & Trust Imperial Cup and the to the Iroquois – or the hunt fi eld. • Mixed Up. He enjoyed a banner the Carolina Cup. Also trained by Shep- Royal Chase at Keeneland. “He did some foxhunting and I 2006 with more than $205,000 in earn- pard, the 7-year-old thrives at the lon- thought it would be horrible but it ings to place second to McDynamo in ger distances so might step in against wasn’t,” said Morris. “He was wild try- that category. Trainer Jonathan Shep- McDynamo and Sur La Tete. See STAKES page 14

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12 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 National Steeplechase Foundation Making History in 2006 The National Steeplechase Foundation closed its most successful year in history in 2006 by reducing expenses and realizing a record-breaking fundraiser in September. HIGHLIGHTS Lower Costs Successful Celebration Total operating expenses were reduced from $254,594 in 2005 to $164,561 GALA in 2006, primarily as a result of cost containment by overhead consolida- tion with the National Steeplechase Association personnel and offi ce. The The foundation’s celebration party raised net cash-on-cash income of $228,199 NSA does not charge the foundation “rent,” and have made Pete McGivney at the September 9 party at Win- available as the NSF recording secretary. He has done a superlative job in perpetuating our clerical/administrative responsibilities. terthur, Delaware. The foundation’s policies of openness and inclusion Investing In The Future were rewarded when 101 indi- viduals (twice the prior highest The foundation Trustees unanimously voted to transfer $50,000 from the operating account to the endowment number of donors) contributed. – increasing the endowment to $268,800. This most successful ever founda- The foundation benefi ts from 70 percent of the annual earnings of the tion celebration was primarily a endowment; the balance of earnings are retained in the endowment. result of the talented committee of Beasie Patterson, Gaily Thayer and Gretchen Wintersteen, to 2007 Budget whom we all owe a most sincere DRUG TESTING “Thank you.” $60,000 to fund drug testing of all NSA races. FOXHUNTER/AMATEUR RACES $15,000 for purses and rewards for amateur steeplechase participants. RACE COURSE INSPECTIONS $22,500 for expenses necessary to inspect each NSA race course. ARCA SUPPORT $10,000 to defray rider expenses (primarily travel) in the Amateur Riders Club of America. RESEARCH $4,000 to continue studies overseen by Dr. Nat White and NSF Trustee Dr. Reynolds Cowles at the Marion du Pont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va. to determine why/how horses are injured while steeple- chasing and what can be done to reduce those injuries is so vital to the sport. TELEVISION Foundation 2006 $18,000 to fund the NSA’s portion of steeplechasing’s features on the ESPN program “Wire to Wire,” a weekly news show that televises steeplechasing’s major races. National Steeplechase Foundation Board of Trustees • Irvin S. Naylor, President • Sanna N. Hendriks, Vice President • Samuel Slater, Secretary/Treasurer

Annual Appeal • G. Robert Blanchard • Austin A. Brown • R. Reynolds Cowles Jr., DVM • Jack S. Griswold • Pierre Manigault • Sally Jeff ords Radcliff e • Susan Sensor • Henry F. Stern • James H. Whitner IV. The foundation will conduct its annual appeal for 2007, starting in Sep- tember. The fund-raising eff ort will again remind our friends of the many 400 Fair Hill Drive, Elkton, MD 21921 fi nancial needs of American steeplechasing and of the endowment goals of the foundation. It’s also not too late to contribute to the foundation in 2006, • Phone:(410) 398-0700 • Fax (410) 392-0706 and receive a tax deduction for this year. The foundation would be pleased • [email protected] • www.nsfdn.org to receive your check or appreciated property. Photos by Elisabeth W. Harpham Educational Investment Many Thanks!

The Foundation will send NSA safety advsior Barry Watson to England where he will visit two steeplechase courses, several trainer yards and spend To the steeplechase community for supporting the foundation as never be- time with English starters and clerks of the course. Watson will study turf building and maitenance as well as the starting procedures used in English fore! Together, with your generous support, we can make American steeple- steeplechasing, and produce a report for the foundation, NSA and NSA race meets. chasing safer and foster amateur racing.

TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 13 and because he’d get a nice break in the weights, but we’d be inclined to not run Stakes – against them anywhere else,” said jockey Continued from page 12 Richard , who oversees the sta- ble’s winter training in South Carolina. • Mon Villez. The 8-year-old gave McDynamo all he could handle in the • Mauritania. Consistent yet win- 2006 Colonial Cup and won the Noel less in 2006, the veteran earned just Laing, also late in the year. Trainer shy of $70,000 with placings in the Bruce Miller hopes he’s “not tempted to Royal Chase, the Georgia Cup and the go to Keeneland,” and will aim at the A.P. Smithwick. Whitewood Stable and Iroquois for owner Calvin Houghland. trainer Richard Valentine hoped to take The trainer thinks he’s fi nally fi gured the 10-year-old to Japan for the Na- out the fl ighty French import. “We ran kayama Grand Jump, but no American him a fair amount late in the year, and horses were invited this year. Instead, that seemed to help him. Mostly, I think Mauritania will navigate some combi- he’s just mellowed out but we do a lot of nation of Aiken, Atlanta and Nashville. babysitting with him.” “We’d like to win a race with him, he certainly deserves to win one after last • Preemptive Strike. He hasn’t seen year. Taking on McDynamo and Sur La competition since September 2005, but Tete will not be our fi rst choice.” there is no debating his talent. Polaris Stable transferred its front-runner to • Party Airs. The star of owner Ken trainer Sanna Hendriks, who will try Ramsey’s steeplechase barn returned to restart a career that has included fi ve with a win at Far Hills last fall. A Grade wins, more than $300,000 in earnings I try at Keeneland could be on tap for and fairly chronic foot problems. “He this spring, though the summer’s Flat- could go to Keeneland,” said Hendriks, terer Stakes for Pennsylvania-breds will who got the horse in December. “He’s no doubt be enticing as well. still battling some foot issues which have been a little challenging. I feel like NOTES: The stakes division could in- we take two steps forward and one step clude any combination of others such back sometimes, but he’s a really nice as The Looper (who won three races in horse and we will give him a chance.” 2005 but hasn’t run since), Hidden Key (who will also be tough at the starter al- Tod Marks • Class Vantage. He won a novice lowance level) and Riddle (a restricted Three Carat heads back to steeplechase activity after missing 2006. stakes late last year at Callaway Gar- stakes winner in 2005) . . . Veteran mare dens, and moves up to open company Feeling So Pretty could crop up in the as a 5-year-old for Mede Cahaba Stable open stakes division (where she collected The Odds Are... and trainer Lilith Boucher. “We might two solid placings last year) again for give the heavy hitters a try at Keenel- owner/trainer Lee McKinney. Back for another year, ST oddsmaker Richard Hutchinson handicaps the fi elds for champion jockey and trainer in 2007. The lines are presented as fodder for discus- sion, not an open invitation to start booking bets, so have fun with them.

JOCKEYS

Matt McCarron ...... 2-1 Jody Petty ...... 5-2 Danielle Hodsdon ...... 11-4 Xavier Aizpuru ...... 7-1 Robbie Walsh ...... 20-1 Cyril Murphy ...... 22-1 James Slater ...... 25-1 Jody Petty Paddy Young ...... 25-1

TRAINERS

Jonathan Sheppard ...... 9-4 Sanna Hendriks ...... 5-2 Jack Fisher ...... 3-1 Doug Fout ...... 4-1 Tom Voss ...... 16-1 Kathy McKenna ...... 25-1 Bruce Miller ...... 25-1 Jonathan Sheppard Neil Morris ...... 25-1

Last year champion jockey Hodsdon was 8-1 and champion trainer Sheppard was 4-1.

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 15 Mixed Nuts Competition rules in wide open hurdle division it,” said Fout, who anticipates improve- BY JOE CLANCY NOVICE PREVIEW ment this year. “If everything’s going Kilbride Rd, Quem Se Atreve, Ori- right, there’s nothing in the barn that son, Rare Bush, Gliding, Mattssutter- Steeplechase Triple Crown can work with him.” run, Sermon Of Love, Orsay, a few • Mattssutterrun. He zoomed from other horses steeplechasing knows, plus Date Race Site unheard-of newcomer to talked-about some new names yet to be mentioned. March 31 Carolina Cup Camden, S.C. upstart with wins in his fi rst two starts last fall for Jonathan Sheppard and The 2007 novice hurdle division will, April 21 Temple Gwathmey Middleburg, Va. as usual, feature the jumbled fortunes of Cortie Wetherhill. Now 6, the Florida- relatively new steeplechasers. By defi ni- May 19 National Hunt Cup Radnor, Pa. bred will be a front-running threat. • Quem Se Atreve. Sarah Lyn Stable’s tion, the three spring races in the con- All races worth $75,000 and open to horses which have not won prior to March 1, 2006. dition are for horses “which have not Brazilian-born runner graduated from a won over hurdles prior to March 1, maiden win at Camden to open stakes 2006.” In reality, the races will attract • Kilbride Rd. The 2006 novice at the Carolina Cup and aim for the victory (over Mixed Up and Maurita- everything from unproven 4-year-olds champion began last year as a maiden Temple Gwathmey. nia) at Atlanta in 2006. Just as quickly, to Grade I stakes winners. In steeple- and fi nished it with nearly $100,000 in • Best Attack. From the barn of Bruce the rookie went to the sidelines for the chasing, “novice” plows a wide path earnings. Owned by Betsy Mead and Miller, the 6-year-old won twice in 2006 rest of the season with a suspensory in- and the horses gladly gallop down. trained by Doug Fout, the son of World- including a late-running allowance tally jury. He returns to the track for Jack Fittingly, even the trainers don’t al- ly Manner showcased his ability with a at Saratoga. He skipped the rest of the Fisher and would be a threat, especially ways know what they have. season-ending win in the Foxbrook at season when Miller got worried about at the Carolina Cup. “I think he’s a pretty nice horse but Far Hills. Fout expects further improve- “a little thing,” and returns as a major • Trainer Tom Voss should have an we’ll see,” said one. ment out of the 5-year-old chestnut. player in the novice division. Owned by impact on the division, no matter which “I think he’s going to be a nice horse, “We’ve been very careful and didn’t run Sally Jeffords Radcliffe, the son of Bahri horse he runs. Orsay, Langburg, Gryffi n- but he’s very particular,” said another. him over his head last year,” said Fout. could continue to improve. “Last year, dor and Dynaway all fi t the condition. Both were talking about novice stee- “He’s matured and grown again. I think he could have gone either way and I feel The former won twice last year before plechasers, and they spoke for everyone. he’s a real good horse – I don’t know if like he could be the best horse I’ve had closing out the season in October with It’s a bit like predicting the career path he’s as good as Hirapour, but he’s going in a long time, so I stopped with him,” a slog in rain-swept New Jersey. “He’s of kindergartners. to be more versatile than Hirapour and said Miller. “I’m going to give him every probably the best. He sloshed through Still, there are a few main contenders that makes him a little bit more danger- chance I can anyway. All he has to do the going at Far Hills, but didn’t like it. – for now anyway. ous.” Kilbride Rd will run on the fl at is stay sound. He’s got everything going Those races don’t tell me anything.” All for him.” Miller may bring Best Attack four are in training and aiming for the to Camden for the Carolina Cup, but he three novice stakes or allowance races if may wait for Middleburg. they are eligible. • Gliding. Hailing from the Fout barn, the New Zealand import fi n- NOTES: Underneath the top ones, and ished second to Mattssutterrun at Great depending on early-season allowance Meadow and won an allowance at races, other potential novice players in- Montpelier in the fall. Fout contemplat- clude 4-year-olds Jimmie Echo and Ser- ed a trip to Japan with the 7-year-old, mon Of Love (see separate story on the but no American horse was invited. latter) . . . The Fisher-trained Rare Bush, • Orison. EMO Stable’s 5-year-old second at Callaway last fall, also factors split two starts with Best Attack last with his best form . . . Sheppard’s deep spring/summer, and fi nished third in team includes Saratoga winner Sover- the novice stakes at Callaway Gardens eign Duty and Fra Diavolo . . . Bunt in November. Another Fout runner, the tries to recover from a fall at Saratoga enigmatic chestnut is plenty capable. last summer (which left him with a hy- “He’s got a ton of talent, but if things perextended hind ankle) and could turn don’t go his way he’ll tell you to forget up at Camden or Middleburg.

Tod Marks Kilbride Rd tries to build on his 2006 novice championship with a solid spring.

16 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Jump connections active at sale In other steeplechase-related action at the Keeneland January sale, Kinross Farm purchased three horses. Last year’s leading owner went to $60,000 for When The Saints, a 5-year-old son of Saint Ballado with two fl at wins, and paid $30,000 for Whycocomagh, a 4-year-old son of Cherokee Run who’s a maiden on the fl at. Both came out of the Fitz Dixon dispersal. Kinross also bought Sky Count, a yearling by Sky Classic, for $6,000. Trainer Jack Fisher paid $45,000 for Whistling Deputy, a 3-year-old son of Ber- trando, and $32,000 for Go For Red ’N Gold, a 4-year-old by Go For Gin. Fisher’s father, John, purchased Shiny Emblem, who ran twice over hurdles last year, for $20,000. All three horses were consigned by the Dixon dispersal. Trainer Ricky Hendriks put up $20,000 for Clickitorticket. The 5-year-old son of Pulpit is a full-brother to Signboard, a winner at Willowdale last spring. Hen- driks’ owner Debbie Kachel (owner of Jimmie Echo) bought 5-year-old Bond King for $15,000. Both horses came from the Dixon dispersal. Owner/trainer Dave Washer purchased Junood, a 4-year-old son of Cozzene, from Shadwell for $8,000. Equine herpres virus plagues Virginia One point-to-point has been canceled and two others rescheduled as Virginia deals with a winter outbreak of the Equine Herpes Virus-1. Tod Marks Six horses had tested positive for the virus and 10 facilities had been quarantined Sermon Of Love sold for $62,000 at Keeneland’s January sale. in the state. Offi cials fi rst quarantined the Virginia Tech Marion du Pont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg when the infection was suspected in three horses in late February. In response, several farms with horses that may have come in contact with the infected horses were also quarantined. Back in the Saddle Veterinarians canceled public horse auctions in the state, and the Casanova Hunt Point-to-Point (scheduled for Feb. 24) was also canceled. Rappahannock and Blue Ridge were postponed and will be run as a joint race meet at Woodley Farm in Pate buys 3YO winner at Keeneland, Berryvill March 31. The season is slated to begin again with the Warrenton Point- to-Point March 17. Restrictions were placed on horse movement and several race- sells to steeplechase owner Houghland tracks blocked Virginia shippers. In a March 7 press release announcing the lifting of quarantine status from one BY BRIAN NADEAU farm in Middleburg, offi cials were “cautiously optimistic that the neurological form of the EHV-1 virus is contained on the currently quarantined farms, it is too soon Danny Pate’s done fairly well pinhooking horses over the years. Premium to be certain at this time.” Tap, Pomeroy, Showing Up – that’s half a dozen Grade I stakes wins right there. But Pate knows a thing or two about the jumpers as well, and his purchase of Sermon Of Love has reconnected him to the sport he grew up with. “I have had some pretty good success pinhooking fl at horses,” Pate said. “But I go way back when it comes to the jumpers as well. I have been to a lot of the more-famous meets and race courses over the years.” For Pate, “way back” is his teenage years in Georgia, when he regularly rode steeplechasers as an amateur jockey. Th e “I have been involved with jumpers on-and-off since I was about 16,” said Pate, now 52. “I rode as an amateur with guys like George Sloan in Nashville. I really enjoy the sport, but there just aren’t as many opportunities out there. SALEM Flats you can race every day, whereas with the jumpers it is only a day or two at a time, or a weekend meet every month.” While Pate’s made his living with fl at horses, he’s quick to note the benefi ts of steeplechasing, especially on the personal side of the ledger. FARM “This sport is great, and the people really treat you well,” Pate said. “You go to those jump meets and they are so nice to you. If the people in the fl at business were half as nice and those in the jump business, it would be great. This is such a fun sport and I think the people within the industry are a major reason why. HOUSE It’s a great to see them have the passion that they do for their sport.” Sermon Of Love allowed Pate to combine business and pleasure. The 4-year- old gelded son of Pulpit was last seen winning the $25,000 Raymond G. Woolfe Memorial Stakes at Camden in November, and it was that performance which 3 garnered Pate’s interest. “He is a very impressive horse,” Pate said. “The race at Camden was very JARRETTSVILLE, MARYLAND nice. I thought after seeing that race that he could prove to be a useful jump- A CHARMING 1850 HERITAGE FARM HOUSE er.” Consigned in the dispersal of the F. Eugene “Fitz” Dixon’s racing stock, Ser- mon Of Love sold to Pate at Keeneland’s January sale. While $62,000 would 3 hardly cause a stir in the world of fl at racing, it’s a hefty price for a jumper. “It was a lot of money,” Pate said, “but this is a really nice horse and I felt he PERIOD FURNISHED TWO BEDROOM FARM HOUSE was worth it. I really thought I could make a profi t. And as it turns out, I was AVAILABLE FOR DAILY, WEEKLY AND MONTHLY RENTAL able to do so. The horse is already sold – Calvin Houghland bought him, and he has been sent to Jonathan Sheppard. Initially I thought I would still keep a piece of him, but the new owner wanted to own him fully.” 3 Pate acknowledged Sermon Of Love’s attractive fl at pedigree – he’s by Pulpit and out of the Ascot Knight mare Plenty Of Sugar, a multiple stakes-winner who MINUTES FROM ALL OF THE MAJOR MARYLAND HUNT MEETS banked more than $780,000 in her career – but he still thinks his future is over the jumps. Pate too may have a little more steeplechasing on his agenda. 3 “I defi nitely want to get some more,” Pate said. “It’s a business where I think I can make some money and have a great time in doing it. I really love this sport For Inquiries, please call and I look forward to buying some more jumpers down the line.” Pate’s renewed interest in the sport has him thinking globally. Ronald or Anne Walker “I’d love to get down to South America and try to fi nd a few nice horses,” Pate said. “Those horses down there seem so long-winded, like they can run forever. I think that would really transfer well to the jumps.” 410-557-2854 • 410-215-7360 Pate’s already made the leap himself.

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18 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Let’s Jump Rich Gold Cup lures talented veterans BY JOE CLANCY TIMBER PREVIEW Up and over – 18, 22, 23 times in a his two starts last year but did not run single race. Few horses deal with the after the Gold Cup. He’ll try to shed demands placed on steeplechasing’s some rust before the Gold Cup, most marathon men, the timber horses. likely at a point-to-point and then And never before have they been so Middleburg. important to owners, trainers, jockeys Trainer Jack Fisher, who won six and race meets, as the 2007 timber consecutive Gold Cups with Saluter game features its fi rst six-fi gure purse (and two more with Call Louis and – the $100,000 Virginia Gold Cup. The Push And Pull), will try to derail Miles spring season also includes two $75,000 Ahead with a virtual phalanx of hors- races, the Maryland Hunt Cup and the es. Mason Houghland Memorial. “For $100,000, we’ll run the barn,” Tod Marks “I think the Gold Cup will have a he said, only half-kidding. Ghost Valley (gray) will try to win the Virginia Gold Cup in 2007. lot of people taking a shot at it,” said Fisher’s Gold Cup contingent in- trainer Sanna Hendriks. “If you can run cludes Salmo, Mr Bombastic and Seey- HUNT CUP HEROES and you’ll know after that. I’d like to for $100,000, you will. You’ll see a lot ouattheevent. The fi rst two won stakes March is a diffi cult time to ask some- see him get a nice race in somewhere of hurdle horses go to timber quicker last year while the third chased Ghost one about their Maryland Hunt Cup fi rst to set him up.” as this continues, and you’ll see some Valley home in last fall’s International prospect, but the horses are out there, Stewart pointed out that in the “old of the other races step up their purses Gold Cup. even if the answers aren’t. days” Hunt Cup rookies would school too.” Trainer Richard Valentine points to While Northwoods Stable’s Bug Riv- over the treacherous third and 13th Hendriks will point 2006 stakes the Gold Cup with Straight Gin, whose er seeks to defend his title, trainer Re- fences – often in the opposite direction winner Ghost Valley to the 4-mile, fi rst timber season included a win (by gina Welsh was non-committal at best of the race course – before making their 23-fence Gold Cup May 5 at Great disqualifi cation) and a solid third in regarding his spring plans. Look for debuts in the world’s most famous tim- Meadow. The gray veteran stayed busy the International Gold Cup last fall. the 14-year-old to turn up at a point- ber race. last fall, winning over the Gold Cup Owned by Kim Zito and new partner to-point, or even the Foxhall team race “I wouldn’t do that now,” she said course in October and running second Whitewood Stable, the erstwhile Preak- (March 18) with a laugh. “I do put them in the pen fi ve times to fi nish third on the timber- ness starter will have an April prep be- Irv Naylor’s Askim, the 2006 NSA and get them jumping bigger fences. earnings list. fore the 4-mile test. timber champion, will detour off his I do it every year and some of them “We’ve got to beat Miles Ahead,” “If (jockey Chip Miller) is available, usual path to aim for the $75,000 Hunt smash them up but then go and jump said Hendriks of her Gold Cup chanc- we’ll probably send him to the Man- Cup. The last Saturday in April looms fi ne in the races.” es, “but he’s only one horse and he’s or,” said Valentine. “The Gold Cup is as a target, and trainer Ann Stewart sees Irish import Rosbrian tries to give got to get there.” the goal, but I don’t think Kim will be it. owner George Mahoney an elusive Kinross Farm’s Miles Ahead won there being as it’s the same day as the “He looks like he’s happy, but there’s Hunt Cup win. The veteran timber the last two Gold Cups and sports a Kentucky Derby.” no way to determine whether they’re horse fi nished second (beaten a head) 7-for-7 record over timber. Trained by Zito’s husband, Nick, will most like- going to enjoy the Hunt Cup or not,” last year and was fourth in 2005. Now Neil Morris, the 10-year-old captured ly have a runner in that one. she said. “There’s only their fi rst time See TIMBER page 20

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 19 non bone behind and had off-season surgery to insert a screw. She aims to run at Iroquois, Houghland’s hometown meet. • Doug Fout should have two English imports that bear watching. Eldon Farm recently purchased Chess Mr. Maiden Board, a 4-year-old with two hurdles wins in 2006 for trainer Phillip Hobbs. The son of Vettori is out of a half-sister to champion Ouija Board. Chess Board Alumni Hall begins won at Fontwell in September and Ludlow in October after winning once on the fl at. transition to jumps The horse was purchased to replace retired cham- pion Hirapour, though Fout won’t apply that burden. BY JOE CLANCY “I like the way he’s put together – he’s a nice, com- pact horse, quick . . . but let’s not compare him to Hi- Trainer Jonathan Sheppard’s barn features a new rapour,” said the trainer. “He’s just 4, we gelded him maiden worth talking about, which is nothing new and the main thing is I think I can improve on him. other than this maiden speaks for himself. He’ll come along after he’s acclimated.” Alumni Hall, a multiple graded-stakes winner of Fout also received word recently that English own- more than $740,000 on the fl at, will give steeplechas- er Carl Barnes will send over High Action, a 7-year- ing a try this year. The 8-year-old briefl y retired to old with solid fl at form and one hurdle win. Barnes stud but would not cover mares. His hurdle career is has horses with Ian Williams, who trained Hirapour a long-term project, but keep an eye on the maiden in England, and followed the champion’s American hurdle races in late spring or early summer. career with interest. Owned by Will Farish, an NSA fi xture in the 1970s “He called me out of the blue and told me about and 1980s with standouts such as Thrice Worthy, the horse,” said Fout. “Usually, guys just want to sell Alumni Hall will try to return the familiar green-and- you the horse when they call like that, but he wants yellow silks to a steeplechase winner’s circle. Sheppard to run him here. It will be great for our game if he can won’t predict greatness, but knows the son of A.P. have some success.” Indy packs plenty of talent in his chestnut frame. High Action fi nished fourth in the 2006 Ascot Gold “It’s hard to argue with it, because he could be quite Cup, after leading for much of the race at 100-1. The good,” said the trainer. “It’s a bit of a longshot in my American-bred son of Theatrical owns six fl at wins mind, real early, but he’s a fi ne looking horse – a big, and a top Racing Post fl at rating of 114. His lone hur- scopey type.” dle victory in fi ve starts came in 2004 at Wetherby. Alumni Hall is on Sheppard’s Pennsylvania farm The horse, who excelled on fi rmer turf in England, jumping logs and just embarking on some prep work. Barbara Livingston should arrive here in mid-March. Fout will wait until Previously trained by Neil Howard, Alumni Hall won Alumni Hall is giving steeplechasing a try this year. then to plan his American debut. nine times on the fl at, including Grade III scores at WHO’S WHO? • She’s not a rookie, but she’s back. Owner/trainer Keeneland in the Ben Ali and Fayette stakes. The full- Linda Klein unretired 2006 champion fi lly/mare Or- brother to Grade I-winning fi lly Secret Status didn’t Alumni Hall isn’t the only notable member of the chid Princess after tests revealed the 9-year-old would race until age 5. He campaigned three seasons before 2007 freshman class. have diffi culty getting in foal. Instead of becoming a being retired for stud duty earlier this year. His fee • Tom Voss has Ten Cents A Shine, who fi nished mother, she will continue racing. (initially, at least) was $5,000 live foal. eighth in the 2003 Kentucky Derby, in training for “They gave her a 5-percent chance of conceiving “They said there’s no physical reason why he isn’t owner Ken Ramsey. Now 7, he placed in the Grade II and carrying a foal,” said Klein. “Surgery at New fertile, he just isn’t interested,” said Sheppard. “I asked Kentucky Jockey Club stakes as a 2-year-old. Bolton Center would be an option, but that would be if I could (geld) him, but they said no so he might go • Sheppard hopes to bring New Zealand-bred mare risky and expensive, so she’ll go back to the races.” back and be a stallion someday.” Sweet Shani to the races. Imported last summer, the Orchid Princess will aim for a training fl at race at Other fl at standouts have made the transition to 7-year-old was a potential favorite for the Australian the Queen’s Cup in late April and then the Margaret steeplechasing, including Hodges Bay (a millionaire on Grand National before being purchased by Calvin Henley Stakes at the Iroquois. the fl at) and Uptown Swell (a graded-stakes winner). Houghland. Sent to Sheppard, she fractured her can-

to a horse that’s able to do a race like the Hunt Cup. We’re going to work on that Timber – water jump.” Continued from page 19 Last year, Rosbrian balked at the Wa- ter jump two fences from the fi nish yet 12, he gets another chance and will fi nd still nearly won. a prep once the weather and the Virginia herpes virus restrictions clear. SHINY NEW MAIDENS “Alternate plans might mean staying The spring could be fi lled with scads closer to home, instead of going to Vir- of timber newcomers including Grade ginia for one or two (point-to-points),” I hurdle winner Praise The Prince from said trainer Casey Randall, who is talk- Augustin Stables and trainer Sanna ing to James Slater about being Rosbri- Hendriks. The veteran enjoyed his fox- an’s jockey. “I’m happy to be connected hunting forays this winter and will get a chance at the races, though Hendriks will remain cautious. “If it looks like he enjoys that, we’ll go on,” she said. “He’s been doing a lot of hunting this year and really liked it. I’m not going to push it, but he’s sound MidAtlantic Horse Rescue and doing well.” Div. of Paws for Life, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization Hendriks will also send Irish Prince over the fences this year while her hus- Healthy sound young rescued band Ricky’s stable includes timber thoroughbreds always available. rookies New Jersey Devil, Irish Laddie Find your next star here! and Timmy R. Doug Fout converted New Zealand- bred Erin Go Bragh to timber. A stakes BE A PART OF THE winner over hurdles in 2005, he should SOLUTION! enjoy the added distance. Bruce Miller likes Irish import Fly- www.MidAtlanticHorseRescue.org ing Contraption, a lightly raced hurdle PO Box 403 • Chesapeake City, MD 21915 winner who scored two point-to-point 302-376-7297 victories last year. Kathy McKenna will send dual 2006 hurdle winner Scuba Donations tax deductible & greatly appreciated Steve to timber this spring.

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 21 Tod Marks Mon Villez (left) and Lone Arrow aim to make an impact on the stakes division in 2007. A LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL STARS OF 2007

The Times tracked down as many trainers as we could to fi nd out what’s happening with their horses this season. We broke it down into conditions and categories. In the following pages, catch up on your favorite stars and learn about some newcomers. If we missed Tod Marks someone we’ll make it up to them when they make the headlines. See horse lists on the web at www.st-publishing.com, too. Good Night Shirt Open Stakes Division

Bow Strada Mauritania Party Airs Calvin Houghland • Bruce Miller Whitewood Farm • Richard Valentine Ken Ramsey • Tom Voss Looking to jump into picture Dodges stars in search of win Owner wants Keeneland

Chivite McDynamo Preemptive Strike Calvin Houghland • Bruce Miller Michael Moran • Sanna Hendriks Polaris Stable • Sanna Hendriks Must build on Breeders’ Cup The best in the game Off since 2005; new trainer

Tod Marks Class Vantage Meadow Racey Dreamer McDynamo Mede Cahaba Stable • Lilith Boucher Calvin Houghland • Jonathan Sheppard EMO Stable • Doug Fout Gets in light at Keeneland Blazing start in 2006 Another back from vacation

Good Night Shirt Mixed Up Sur La Tete Sonny Via • Jack Fisher Bill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Dangerous at racetracks off layoff 1-9 for Philly race in July Keeneland/Iroquois again?

Hidden Key Mon Villez The Looper Eve Fout • Doug Fout Calvin Houghland • Bruce Miller Mill House • Tom Voss Capable sort, starter eligible Superb in Colonial Cup loss Won three in 2005; off since

Lone Arrow Moneytrain Three Carat Brigadooon Stable • Doug Fout Hudson River Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Jonathan Sheppard • Jonathan Sheppard Tries open company, plenty of potential Talented but fragile Injured early in 2006; returns

Mark The Shark Paradise’s Boss Toughkenamon Cohiba Stable • Jack Fisher Ann Stern • Jack Fisher Armata Stable • Kathy McKenna Stellar 2006 halted timber thoughts On target for return Heads to Florida early Tod Marks Sur La Tete

22 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 TIMBER DIVISION Airolo Incomplete Calvin Houghland • Bruce Miller Bob Kinsley • Ann Stewart Disappointed over hurdles The complete horse? Alison’s Trick In Kent’s Memory Alex Campbell • Jack Fisher Move Up Stable • Alicia Murphy Ex-fl at horse and show jumper Handled amateur group Askim Irish Laddie Irv Naylor • Ann Stewart Irv Naylor • Ricky Hendriks The champ turns to Maryland Promising maiden type Big Is Best Irish Prince Cary Jackson • Paul Rowland Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Hurdle winner in 2006 Timber next for New Zealander Tod Marks Mr. Fater (left) and Make Your Own will be active in the timber division. Bug River Iron County Xmas Northwoods Stable • Regina Welsh EMO Stable • Doug Fout One more time for the Hunt Cup? Hello again Bulawayo Lake Of Bays Greg Bentley • Rusty Carrier Ivy Hill Stable • Alicia Murphy Loomed big at Great Meadow Just one start in 2006 Coal Dust Lear Charm Armata Stable • Tom Voss Buddy Martin • Chip Miller Looked like a Hunt Cup horse early Budding timber talent Erin Go Bragh Make Your Own Brigadoon Stable • Doug Fout Laurence Oster • Charlie Fenwick Hurdle talent makes conversion Danced all year in 2006 Tod Marks Northern Thinking extends his career. Fappa Fire Miles Ahead Private Attack Pack Up Stable • Alicia Murphy Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Sportsman’s Hall • Alicia Murphy Tod Marks Hurdle stakes winner Erin Go Bragh moves Looked strong at Pa. Hunt Cup The streaker Third at Pa. Hunt Cup to timber. Father Paul Mr Bombasatic Ravens Rock Sharp Face Mike Freeman • Janet Elliot Sonny Via • Jack Fisher Holbrook Hollow Farm • Paul Rowland Kingfi sher Farm • Jack Fisher Close at Willowdale Big day at Far Hills in mud Winless in 4 hurdle starts 2006 Sitting on a maiden win? Flying Contraption Mr. Fater Rosbrian Straight Gin Augustin Stable • Bruce Miller Over Creek Farm • Julie Gomena Rosbrian Farm • Casey Randall Kim Zito/Whitewood • Richard Valentine Still trying to fi nd potential Hinted at big things Seeks Hunt Cup revenge Bright future in new career Foiled Again New Jersey Devil Scuba Steve Te Akau Five Dyson Dryden • Ann Stewart Irv Naylor • Ricky Hendriks Perry Bolton • Kathy McKenna Hound’s Cry Farm • Richard Valentine Potential in amateur races Too strong for show ring Flashed on hurdle scene 2006 Capable veteran in right spot Ghost Valley No Fast Moves Seeking Seattle The Bruce Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Shoots for payday in Gold Cup Bound for Nashville Tough in highweight division Will give Maryland a try Greyhame Northern Thinking Seeyouattheevent Timmy R Emery Taylor • Paul Rowland Acorn Hill Farm • Jack Fisher Nick Arundel • Jack Fisher Irv Naylor • Ricky Hendriks Decent hurdle form Superb in “funny” races Just missed in fall Gold Cup One of many in powerful silks Hotspur Praise The Prince Shady Valley Wee Highland Star Gregg Ryan • Julie Gomena Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Anne Haynes • Bruce Haynes Gail McGuire • Paul Rowland Plenty capable on best One-time super horse Maiden winner at Callaway last fall Newcomer from Genesee

TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 23 Once in your life if you’re lucky they say, We all deserve something in some special way. It can come in the form of some luck or some dough, To Michael and Anne it’s in McDynamo.

He was chosen for looks and potential speed, And what he’s returned is history indeed. Of excitement and tears he’s given us much, The records he’s set there’s not one can touch.

With each year that passes, he raises the bar, His many endeavors we admire from afar. He never gives up until each race is done, A few he has lost but so many he’s won.

A horse needs some help to show them the way, And to all Sanna’s team full credit we pay. They’ve kept him from harm and taken good care, Of the king of the brush, sure there’s none to compare!

If ever you crave for excitement and thrills, Just wait for October and head to Far Hills. The blue and brown colours have been carried with pride, I’m blessed to have been there, along for the ride.

Those who’ve been lucky to see him in fl ight, Would have to agree when he jumps, what a sight! The weight on the mantle may ensure that it dips, From a third little statue of the great horse Eclipse.

Michael you did it, you saw it from afar, Photos by Tod Marks The potential he had to be your superstar. Of speeches you’ve made there’s one that’s a winner, It’s of myopic squirrels in search of their dinner!

Some may call it luck, but I don’t think it’s true, You deserve what you get for all that you do. You’ve given so much to a sport you adore, So enjoy all the plaudits ’cause I’m sure there’ll be more.

Thank you for allowing me to be part of the madness! Well done to all who have made McDynamo what he is – A Superstar! – Mary Kelly

2006 Eclipse Award Winner • Steeplechase Horse •

Special thanks to Sanna, Jody, Brianne and the whole team for all that you do! – Michael and Anne

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 25 Gather No Moss Riddle ASSORTED HURDLERS DIVISION Buck Kisor • Mike Berryman High Hope Stable • Arch Kingsley Old pro can jump into picture Talented newcomer in 2005 High Action River Bed Carl Barnes • Doug Fout Move Up Stable • Kathy McKenna English import with fl at talent, jump win Old pro keeps showing up Hip Hop Sparkled John Griggs • John Griggs Jonathan Sheppard • Jonathan Sheppard Starts rarely, makes them count Closed 2006 in style Jazzitupgeorge Sound Blaster Merrifi eld Farm • Tom Voss Bear Creek Stable • Jack Fisher Ready to dance? Switches barns; looks to wake up Kilbeggan Lad The Next Man Patrick Kehoe • Bruce Haynes Barracuda Stable • Ricky Hendriks Tod Marks Irish import aiming for Block House Close in 2005 novice program Meneef tries to get his American hurdler career started for trainer Kathy McKenna. Aruso Church Ghost Luongo Understood Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Margaret White • Doug Fout Lucy Lindsay • Jonathan Sheppard Whitewood Stable • Richard Valentine New Zealand import Back for more action Tough in amateur races One-time stakes horse Barrington Class Sprite Meneef Armata Stabale • Tom Voss Mede Cahaba Stable • Lilith Boucher Calvin Houghland • Kathy McKenna Classy veteran Starting off in a stakes Much ballyhooed import Beyond Repare Corruption Motel Affair Tom Carroll • Jimmy Day Sue Sensor • Ricky Hendriks Blackwoods Stable • Tom Voss Looking for amateur jockey Claiming star of 2006 Could be trouble BK’s Double Jade Deb’s Delight Noblest Karen Gray • Karen Gray Jonathan Sheppard • Jonathan Sheppard Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Flat win at Foxfi eld last fall Gave trainer a milestone in 2006 Been resting Bonfo Extra Check Pleasant Pick Timber Bay Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Kinross Farm • Neil Morris High Hope Stable • Arch Kingsley Factor in the right spot Could fi ll many roles Scored at Montpelier Capital Peak Fabi’s Legacy Raise A Storm Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Linda Klein • Linda Klein Move Up Stable • Kathy McKenna Amateur hurdle or maiden timber Returns from layoff, bound for Aiken Hoping for rain Charlie Whiskey For And For Refl ector Fox Ridge Farm • Tom Voss Athene Noctura Stable • Allison Fulmer John Halley • Bruce Haynes Tod Marks One of many at this level in barn Winner at Florida last year Won at Foxfi eld in 2006 Luongo can be a factor in a variety of con- ditions, especially long-distance races. Keep your dog safe @ home with

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 27 NOVICE DIVISION Best Attack Sally Radcliffe • Bruce Miller Closes like Mariano Rivera Bunt Jacqueline Ohrstrom • Richard Valentine Hoping for a grand slam Cat’s Revenge Richard Klein • Janet Elliot Choice maiden win in 2006 Chess Board Eldon Farm • Doug Fout 4YO English hurdle winner Dynamite Flyer Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Tod Marks Cat’s Revenge exits a stylish maiden win On the shelf until summer at Montpelier last fall. Dynaway Look At Him Armata Stable • Tom Voss Bill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard Part of capable crew in barn Another weapon in big arsenal Fra Diavolo Looks Good Junic R.D. Hubbard • Jonathan Sheppard Hudson River Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Filling Mistico’s shoes? Nice allowance win at Aiken Fall Tod Marks Bunt showcased his talent in a maiden win at Iroquois in 2006. Gliding Mattssutterrun Brigadoon Stable • Doug Fout Cortie Wetherill • Jonathan Sheppard NZ import on the improve Two powerful wins in 2006 The 71st Renewal Gryffi ndor Orison Elkridge-Harford Hunt Dapple Stable • Tom Voss EMO Stable • Doug Fout Point-to-Point Races Awesome at Colonial Cup 1-1 vs. Best Attack In Pursuit Of Love Orsay Melinda Bass • Jonathan Sheppard Armata Stable • Tom Voss Aiken Fall maiden winner Could be a major player Jimmie Echo Quem Se Atreve Debra Kachel • Ricky Hendriks Sarah Lyn Stable • Jack Fisher 3YO champ eyes quick start On the bench since April 2006 Kilbride Rd Rare Bush Betsy Meade • Doug Fout Sheila Williams • Jack Fisher The leader in the clubhouse Good effort at Callaway Sarah Libbey Greenhalgh Atlanta Hall Farm • Monkton, Maryland Saturday, April 7, 2007 Langburg Sermon Of Love Blackwoods Stable • Tom Voss Calvin Houghland • Jonathan Sheppard Junior Races Start at 11:30 AM Also a talent on the fl at Changed hands, steps up First Race Post Time 1:30 PM Lead Us Not Sovereign Duty Featuring the Edward S. Voss Memorial open timber Bill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard Hudson River Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Good efforts late in 2006 Tough off Saratoga form TAILGATE PARKING Finish Line: $200 • Premier: $100 • Subscriber: $50 www.ehhounds.com Letspullthetrigger Zhukov Eldon Farm • Doug Fout Brigadoon Stable • Doug Fout www.marylandsteeplechasing.org 3YO winner in 2006 Aiming for summer return For advanced parking, call (410) 557-0781 NOVICE NOTE: Horses listed here fi t the spring novice condition, but could move into other divisions (allowance, claiming, open stakes) depending on performance and trainer decisions.

28 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Steeplechase ‘Pick Six’ Entry Form ______FANTASY STABLE GAME Stable Name Ever want to manage a string of steeplechase horses? 6Here’s your chance! Sign up for the ninth annual Hoffberger Insurance Group ‘Pick Six’, ______fantasy stable game. WIN PRIZES! Watch your stable succeed. Be the envy of your friends. It’s easy... Your Name Contest Instructions ______HOW TO PLAY Your Hometown and State Step 1: Pick a stable name. Be creative, but within the bounds of a family newspaper. Step 2: Pick six horses for your stable. Any six horses you want (from horses we’ve heard of to horses no one’s heard of). Limitations: Your stable must include at least one timber horse, at least one fi lly/mare, and at least one horse that started 2007 ______as a steeplechase maiden. See the lists inside this Your Telephone Number edition of ST for help or create your own list. Step 3: Forward your stable information (and your name, address, and telephone number) to us. Information must be postmarked or received by 1 p.m. April YOUR HORSES 14. With four spring dates before the deadline, savvy players get a head start. Step 4: Sit back and watch. We’ll keep score through- out the year. The contest results are based on 1.______earnings by your stable in U.S. steeplechase races during the 2007 racing season. One entry per person please, but feel free to sign 2.______up friends, family, co-workers, etc. 6 HOW TO ENTER (Entry deadline: April 14, 1 p.m.) 3.______Mail: Steeplechase Times, 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921. Fax: (410) 392-0170. • Phone: (410) 392-JUMP. 4.______E-mail: [email protected] Filly/Mare Online: www.st-publishing.com

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$2,000 IN TOTAL PRIZES 6.______(including two NSA Patron Memberships and $1,000 in gift certifi cates to ST Publishing or our advertisers) Maiden Hurdle Horse Name: A $50 gift certifi cate will be given to the most creative stable name in the contest. Monthly: Leading stable at the end of April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November receives $50 gift certifi cate to any ST advertiser. Entries must be received or postmarked by Season: The top two stables of 2007 receive one-year Patron Memberships to the National Stee- April 14, 2007 plechase Association (courtesy of past Pick Six champion Pauline Hutchinson). The top three stables of 2007 receive gift certifi cates for $300, $150 and $100 repsectively. Gift Call 410-392-JUMP certifi cates can be used with ST Publishing (subscription renewal, advertising, Tervis Tum- with questions. blers, custom lawn jockeys, Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, a discount on the ST Interna- tional trip, etc.) or any Times advertiser. Mail your Entry to: ST Publishing, 364 Fair Hill Drive, Sponsored by: Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Fax your Entry to: 410-392-0170 PUBLISHING, INC 410-542-3300 KC Email your Entry to: ST HOFFBERGER KC Enterprises [email protected] Insurance Group TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 29 Fire Island Jet Prep School MAIDEN HURDLE DIVISION Timber Bay Farm • Paul Rowland Timber Bay Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Fourth in Camden 3YO race Ready to graduate? Fiscal Storm Red Letter Day Arcadia Stable • Jack Fisher Greg Hawkins • Janet Elliot 5YO by Allen’s Prospect 4YO by Red Ransom Gigger Reel Legend Armata Stable • Tom Voss Timber Bay Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Better than record Stakes horse on fl at Haggard Socca Beat Kinross Farm • Neil Morris EMO Stable • Doug Fout “Very OK,” says trainer Tuning up on fl at at Florida Heir Apparent Sovereign Buck Kisor • Mike Berryman Virginia Kraft Payson • Tom Voss South African import with fl at form 5YO by ’s Song Hello Gerry River Arcadia Stable • Jack Fisher Long Lane Farm • Paul Rowland 5YO son of Malibu Moon Second at Aiken in fall Hero Among Us Tenacious Rhythm Tod Marks Crestview/DannyFox • Kathy McKenna Mike Ridall • Ricky Hendriks Ed’s Empire is part of a strong maiden contingent from Maryland trainer Tom Voss. Trainer pleased with new horse New jumper for fi rst-time owner Alumni Hall Class Deputy Highland Bowl Ten Cents A Shine Will Farish • Jonathan Sheppard Mede Cahaba Stable • Lilith Boucher Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Ken Ramsey • Tom Voss Major fl at form; can he jump? Decent 3YO form last year 6YO son of Pleasant Tap Former Kentucky Derby starter Across The Sky Code Cracker Hot Sky Tolhwin Type Lockhart/Rowland • Paul Rowland Lazy Lane Farm • Jonathan Thomas Bruce Gibbs/Fergus Galvin • Tom Voss High Hope Stable • Arch Kingsley 5YO son of Valley Crossing 6YO son of Cryptoclearance Chestnut son of Sky Classic Stakes winner at Ky. Downs Amador Cripple Creek Humdinger Triple Dip Sharon Sheppard • Alicia Murphy Greg Hawkins • Janet Elliot Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Randleston Farm • Jimmy Day Fifth in debut last fall Calling the Campanile magic Former Phipps fl at horse Second in soft at Far Hills Angel Del Viento Derby For Darby King Dingaling Victorycelebration High Hope Stable • Arch Kingsley Greg Hawkins • Janet Elliot Waterford Farm • Paul Rowland Nina Gardner • Chip Miller Argentine import Tough in NSA fl at races Now there’s a name Close several times last year Another Look Diego Cao Light Speed When The Saints Randleston Farm • Jimmy Day Brigadoon Stable • Doug Fout Cary Jackson • Paul Rowland Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Growing up, improving New Zealand import Son of Broad Brush $60,000 purchase at Keeneland Jan. Atrium Dynamont Lujan Why Cocomagh Clarke Ohrstrom • Richard Valentine Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Randleston Farm • Jimmy Day Kinross Farm • Neil Morris 5YO by Broad Brush 4YO son of Dynaformer Capable on the fl at, bright future $30,000 purchase at Keeneland Jan.

• • • Back To Even Ed’s Empire Most Bossest MAIDEN NOTES: Obviously, there are far more Duff Rathbun • Tom Voss Coppertree Farm • Tom Voss Linden Hope Stable • Todd Wyatt maidens in circulation than listed here (Jonathan Part of big crew from barn Close at Camden as 3YO Up and coming trainer Sheppard’s list simply noted “assorted maidens,” for example). Others to look for: Appalachia (Mike Berryman), Bold Turn (Arch Kingsley), Character Witness (Berryman), Clever Broker (Paul Row- Biblos Fantorini Planets Aligned land), Competence (Kathy McKenna), Corporate High Hope Stable • Arch Kingsley Sonny Via • Jack Fisher Fox Ridge Farm • Tom Voss Quest (Janet Elliot), Devil De Niro (Dot Smith- Starting early in Florida Claimed at Saratoga Tough claimer on the fl at wick), Gold Bull (Pete Levendis), Gossipmonger (Kingsley), Honour Emblem (Danielle Hodsdon), King Hoss (Tom Voss), Ninety Day Note (Allison Change Course Fershaw Plum Brush Fulmer), Rescigno (Smithwick), Sea Chatter (Kate Fitzpatrick), Silent Vow (Rowland), Sport Dale Thiel • Ricky Hendriks Eve Fout • Doug Fout Athene Noctura Stable • Allison Fulmer Coat (Kingsley), Valley’s Pride (Fitzpatrick), Wit- Still growing up Flat winner at Camden For And For repeat? sand Bay (Elliot).

30 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 THE 86TH RUNNING OF THE

Saturday, April 21, 2007 Glenwood Park Course • Middleburg, Virginia Post Time First Race 1:30 p.m.

Featured Races: $75,000 Temple Gwathmey $25,000 Paul R. Fout Maiden Hurdle $20,000 Alfred M. Hunt Steeplechase Six Races with Total Purses of $180,000 Photo Credit: Tod Marks

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TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 31 FILLIES/MARES HURDLE DIVISION Class Alibi Feeling So Pretty Guelph Jellyberry Mede Cahaba Stable • Lilith Boucher Lee McKinney • Lee McKinney The Fields Stable • Tom Voss Sally Radcliffe • Bruce Miller 4YO newcomer Tough as iron nails Summer or fall return Daughter of With Approval Dynaskil Footlights Imagina Lair Sally Radcliffe • Bruce Miller Arcadia Stable • Jack Fisher Augustin Stable • Sanna Hendriks Mimi Voss • Tom Voss Maiden daughter of Dynaformer Last seen winning stakes in 2005 Close several times in 2006 Could be a surprise Evidential Gold Mitten Isla Mujeres Less Tickles Lucy Lindsay • Jonathan Sheppard Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Brigadoon Stable • Doug Fout Linda Klein • Linda Klein Close in 2006 Back to old self at Camden 2006 stakes winner eyes fall return Newcomer from barn of champ Lonesome Too Sandy Bayou Stable • Jonathan Thomas Heading to Camden Love That Rhythm Jonathan Sheppard • Jonathan Sheppard Starting out vs. maiden claimers in Fla. Mary Kat Midnight Cry Stable • Jack Fisher 4YO fl at convert Monday’s Child Kinross Farm • Neil Morris Half-sister to Segregation Lane Orchid Princess Linda Klein • Linda Klein Champ puts broodmare career on hold Sailmaker Sheila Williams • Jack Fisher Attempts another return Shore Start Judy Tubman • Mike Berryman ST Maryland-bred maiden Slew’s Peak Timber Bay Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Solid win at Shawan

ST Suntara Jodi Rowland/Ted Weg • Paul Rowland In rehab until autumn

ST Sweet Shani Calvin Houghland • Jonathan Sheppard Off bench by way of Australia Topaz Cat Linda Klein • Linda Klein 4YO daughter of Scatmandu Try Me Twice Why Not Racing • Lilith Boucher 4YO by Deposit Ticket

32 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Steeplechasing 101 SPONSORED BY MIDATLANTIC FARM CREDIT Informing The Q: How much do steeplechase jockeys get paid? Reader About Seeplechasing A: According to the NSA condition book, professional jockeys are paid $120 per ride over jumps or 10 percent of the money earned by the horse, whichever is greater, with a minimum fee of $150 for a sec- Through The ond-place fi nish and $135 for third. In addition, jockeys are usually reimbursed for travel expenses to People On The and from the races and are free to have separate contracts with owners or trainers. Jockeys invoice own- Inside Of The Sport ers for the fees to be paid. Amateur jockeys are not paid to ride races, though they may be reimbursed for expenses and may hold paying jobs within the industry. Professional jockeys receive $35 for a ride in an NSA training fl at race.

TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 33 NSA SPRING RACE SCHEDULE Sunday, March 11 ...... Little Everglades Steeplechase P.O. Box 1359, Dade City, FL 33523 • (866) 770-5954 www.littleevergladessteeplechase.com

Saturday, March 24 ...... Aiken Steeplechase P.O. Box 360, Aiken, SC 29802 • (803) 648-9641 www.aikensteeplechase.com Saturday, March 31 ...... Carolina Cup Steeplechase P.O. Box 280, Camden, SC 29020 • (803) 432-6513 www.carolina-cup.org Saturday, April 7 ...... Stoneybrook Steeplechase P.O. Box 2468, Southern Pines, NC 28388 • (910) 246-9808 www.carolinahorsepark.com Saturday, April 14 ...... Atlanta Steeplechase 375 Pharr Road NE, Suite 114, Atlanta, GA 30305 • (404) 237-7436 www.atlantasteeplechase.org Saturday, April 14 ...... My Lady’s Manor Races P.O. Box 419, Havre de Grace, MD 21078 • (410) 557-9570 www.marylandsteeplechasing.org Marks Tod Saturday, May 5 ...... Virginia Gold Cup Races Saturday, April 14 ...... Strawberry Hill Races P.O. Box 840, Warrenton, VA 20188 • (540) 347-2612 www.vagoldcup.com P.O. Box 26805, Richmond, VA 23261. At Colonial Downs. • (804) 569-3238 www.strawberryhillraces.com Sunday, May 6 ...... Winterthur Steeplechase Friday, April 20 ...... Keeneland Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735 • (800) 448-3883 www.winterthur.org P.O. Box 1690, Lexington, KY 40588 • (859) 254-3412 www.keeneland.com Saturday, May 12 ...... Iroquois Steeplechase Saturday, April 21 ...... Block House Races 360 Vaughn Road, Nashville, TN 37221 • (615) 742-8691 www.iroquoissteeplechase.org P.O. Box 1095, Tryon, NC 28782 • (800) 438-3681 www.trhcevents.com Sunday, May 13 ...... Willowdale Steeplechase Saturday, April 21 ...... Grand National Races 101 East Street Road, Kennett Square, PA 19348 • (610) 444-1582 www.willowdale.org 2315 Geist Rd., Glyndon, MD 21071 • (410) 771-1756 www.marylandsteeplechasing.org Saturday, May 19 ...... Radnor Hunt Races Saturday, April 21 ...... Middleburg Spring Races P.O. Box 141, Chadds Ford, PA 19317 • (610) 388-8324. www.radnorhuntraces.org Box 1173, Middleburg, VA 20118 • (540) 687-6545 www.middleburgspringraces.com Saturday, April 28 ...... Foxfi eld Races Sunday, May 20 ...... High Hope Races P.O. Box 5187, Charlottesville, VA 22905 • (434) 293-9501 www.foxfi eldraces.com 4089 Ironworks Pike, Lexington, KY 40511 • (859) 967-9444 www.highhopesteeplechase.com Saturday, April 28 ...... Maryland Hunt Cup Saturday, May 26 ...... Fair Hill Races P.O. Box 224, Glyndon, MD 21071 • (410) 825-3722 www.marylandhuntcup.com P.O. Box 2334, Elkton, MD 21922 • (410) 620-3709 www.fairhillraces.org Saturday, April 28 ...... Queen’s Cup Steeplechase See www.nationalsteeplechase.com for updates and summer schedule. P.O. Box 70, Mineral Springs, NC 28108 • (704) 843-7070 www.queenscup.org For point-to-point schedules: see www.vasteeplechase.com, www.marylandsteeplechasing.com and www.dvaptp.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2007

34 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Save The Date The Carolina Cup Celebrates 75 Swinging Years!

Friday, March 30 at the National Steeplechase Museum in Camden, South Carolina

Music by Chris Daniels and the Kings

Hosted by the Carolina Cup Racing Association, Friends of the Camden Hunt, Friends of The National Steeplechase Museum.

In partnership with the Kershaw County Medical Center, Mulberry Plantation, Midlands Printing and Celebrations.

Tickets $100 per person. Reserved corporate tables for eight $750. For reservations or more information call the Carolina Cup Racing Association at 803 432-6513.

TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 35 Eventing News

Phillip Dutton Amanda Bader of Accord, N.Y., suffered a serious fall on the Preliminary cross-country course at the Ocala Winter II Horse Trials Feb. 17. She was fl own by MedEvac heliocopter to Shands Trauma Unit in Gainesville, where it was apparent she was suffering from a massive head injury. She died of her injuries Feb. 28. venting Memorial contributions may be made in c/o E of Windrush Farm, Therapeutic Riding Center, 31 Brookview Rd., Boxford, MA 01921

Kim Meier, a popular upper advanced level competitor from Worton, Md., suffered a seri- ous fall from her horse Test Run while school- ing in Ocala, Fla. Jan. 16. She was airlifted to the Orlando Regional Medical Center. Doctors operated the following day and discovered that her spinal column was comprimised. They in- Pamela Eckelbarger serted two steel plates into her neck. She re- Amanda Bader mains partially paralyzed. Meier arrived at Kessler Rehab in Orange, N.J. on Feb. 12 and is undergoing Thanks To exstensive rehabiliation and therapy.

Our Many Starting this fall, Bromont will offer a CCI**, CCI*, CIC** and CIC* in Sep- Sponsors! tember, in addition to their traditional June event which boasts the same levels. The 2007 dates are Sept. 27-30. With the loss of Radnor, Bromont will provide another autumun opportunity for two-star horses. Bromont is also planning to run a three- star at the venue in 2008. Located just outside of Montreal, Bromont was the site of the equestrian events during the 1976 Olympics.

The following riders were invited to participate in the USEF’s Developing Rider Program early this season. Olympic and World Championship veteran Kim Severson led the sessions. Five of the riders were later chosen to receive USEF training grants. Temecula, Calif., Jan. 30-31 Loreen Kay ...... Russian Lauren Keiffer ...... Snooze Alarm Andrea Baxter ...... Skywalker IV Emilee Libby ...... Cahir Jennie Brannigan ...... Kozmo Erin Spohr ...... Cornerstone IV Tiana Coudray ...... King Street Elisa Wallace ...... Jackson Grant Hemingway ...... Nieco Alternate: Shannon Lilley ...... Seacrest Laine Ashker ...... Frodo Baggins Kelly Prather ...... Ballinakill Glory Jolie Sexton ...... Killian O’Connor Aiken, S.C., Feb. 19-20 Lauren Whitlock ...... Kipling Jennifer Wooten ...... The Good Witch Emily Beshear ...... Woodburn Alternate: Rebecca Barron ...... Oberon IV Shannon Lilley ...... High Patriot Kate Ditchey ...... Belmont Melissa Hunsberger ...... Just Fun Stuff Ocala, Fla., Feb. 6-7 Allison Springer ...... Arthur Dana Widstrand ...... Relentless Pursuit Madeline Blackman ...... Gordonstown Alternates: Kristin Bond ...... Three Wishes Molly Bull ...... Kiltartan Nathalie Bouckaert ...... Icarus Ursula Brush ...... Bru Maguire Colin Davidson ...... Duchess

FEI World Rankings Jean-Michel Devoucoux Australian Andrew Hoy topped the FEI Eventing Riders World Ranking in 2006. Highlights of his year SELLIER-BIARRITZ-FRANCE included wins at Rolex Kentucky CCI**** and CCI****. He narrowly missed winning the Rolex Grand Slam, ending up second behind Lucinda Fredericks at Burghley.

The Top 4: Best of Luck Andrew Hoy (AUS) ...... 566 points. Fox-Pitt (GBR) ...... 433 points. Clayton Fredericks (AUS) ...... 432 points. Bettina Hoy (GER) ...... 425 points to Everyone Young Event Horse Schedule Ocala H.T. (FL) Feb. 21 ...... www.fl horsepark.com Sporting Days in Aiken (SC) March 14 ...... www.sportingdaysfarm.com Ocala H.T. (FL) March 21 ...... www.fl horsepark.com Ocala H.T. (FL) April 25 ...... www.fl horsepark.com Darren MCTA H.T. (MD) May 4 ...... www.MDCTA.com in 2007! Winona H.T. (OH) May 11 ...... www.Stonegatefarm.org Colorado Horse Park H.T. June 1-3 ...... www.coloradohorsepark.com Chiacchia H.T. June 1 or 2 ...... www.indyeventers.org Waredaca H.T. (MD) June 2 ...... www.waredaca.com Galway Downs H.T. (CA) July 5 ...... www.galwaydowns.com Genesee Valley H.T. (NY) July 6 ...... www.geneseevalleyhunt.org Phillip Dutton Eventing Maui Jim H.T. (IL) July 12 ...... www.mauijimhorsetrials.org Rebecca Farm H.T. July 26-29 ...... www.eventatrfarm.com 610-869-7705 River Glen H.T. (TN) Aug. 4-5 ...... www.river-glen.com Waredaca H.T. (MD) Aug 18...... www.waredaca.com West Grove, PA Richland Park H.T. (MI) Aug. 24 ...... www.richlandpark.com Lincoln Creek H.T. (WA) Sept. 8-10 ...... www.lincolncreekevents.com www.phillipdutton.com YEH Series Championships (IL) Sept. 13 ...... www.useventing.com Photo by Meri Hyoki Woodside H.T. (CA) Oct. 5 ...... www.horsepark.org

36 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 EVENTING NEWS – March 2007

The following horse/rider combinations have been named to the USEF Eventing High Performance List:

The United States Equestrian Federation adopted high-performance lists for competitors this win- A SQUAD ter and the eventing rosters include some of the biggest names in the sport. Riders on the lists par- Stephen Bradley ...... Brandenburg’s Joshua ticipate in winter training sessions with team coach Capt. Mark Phillips and top show jumper Laura Darren Chiacchia ...... Windfall Kraut, and the lists are used to help determine squads for international competitions. Training sessions are taking place in California, Florida and South Carolina in preparation for the Rebecca Holder ...... Courageous Comet in Rio de Janeiro this summer. Spring goals for the riders include Rolex Ken- Gina Miles ...... McKinlaigh tucky, Badminton and Jersey Fresh. The Times’ Joanie Morris caught up with some of the major Bonnie Mosser ...... Jenga names on the list for detailed profi les. Kim Severson ...... Winsome Adante Amy Tryon ...... Poggio II Jan Byyny B SQUAD Krisitin Bachman ...... Gryffi ndor ask Force, part of the U.S. Squad at the World Equestrian Games, is aimed toward Badminton. Jan Byyny ...... Task Force T Owned by Chips Chester, the energetic Austra- Jan Byyny ...... Waterfront lian Thoroughbred has fi nished sixth at Rolex Ken- tucky (twice) and at the World Cup Final in 2005. Darren Chiacchia ...... Better I Do It “Jedi (Task Force) is going to Red Hills then to the Will Coleman ...... Twizzel Fork, Fair Hill and hopefully Badminton,” said Byyny. “He feels strong. I’ve made some changes through the Bruce Davidson ...... Jam winter. You never know, I might have to revert back Will Faudree ...... Antigua to the old Jan-and-Jedi style. But I’d like to think that at 16 he’s fi nally maturing. The last time I thought Robyn Fisher ...... Lady Calido that, I almost fell off when he slipped and we missed Jonathan Holling ...... Lion King II Kentucky (in 2006).” Waterfront, runner-up at three consecutive three- Sara Mittleider ...... El Primero stars, will head belatedly to his fi rst four star at age 13. Owned by Byyny’s parents, the English Thorough- Bonnie Mosser ...... Close the Deal bred fi nds the sport easy. Bonnie Mosser ...... Merloch “Waterfront is strong in his body and feels really good,” said Byyny. “I’d love to get him to Kentucky Karen O’Connor ...... Let’s Make a Deal but I know I have to it take one day at a time with Karen O’Connor ...... Upstage him.” Operating out of her winter headquarters in Aiken, Nathalie Pollard ...... West Farthing S.C., Byyny prepped at Full Gallop and Pine Top. Kim Severson ...... Tsunami Byyny has also picked up a couple of new owners Anthony Trollope over the winter, and in turn added two more foreign- Amy Tryon ...... Le Samurai ers in an already international stable. Amy Tryon ...... Woodstock Dario, owned by Allie Lawaetz, is a 5-year-old The youngest member of Byyny’s string is also the Dutch Thoroughbred cross imported from France. smallest, but he makes up for his slight stature with Heidi White ...... Northern Spy The fl ashy chestnut has been learning the ropes of the plenty of jump and ability. Dr. B.B., a 4-year-old ex- Sharon White ...... Ronaldo Preliminary level this spring. Cordonelli, 6, is an Ar- racehorse owned by Laura Nafi s, has been cruising gentinian Thoroughbred owned by Dave and Debbie around Beginner Novice this spring, never fi nishing John Williams ...... Sloopy Hunt. Successful in showjumping in Argentina, Byyny worse than second. found him over the winter while traveling in South “I actually think he’s fantastic,” said Byyny. “He America. He has taken to his new sport very easily. can really move and jump. Halfway around the In a Feb. 20 announcement by the USEF, former “The two new ones are really quite fun,” said showjumping course at Sporting Days he got it. He Australian rider Phillip Dutton was named to the Byyny. “My plan with both of them is to just cruise ended up second there and he won the next two on around at Prelim this year. I had a stop and almost fell his dressage score. Laura is so excited. She told me High Performance List. Recently granted per- off at the last fence on Dario at Paradise – he doesn’t to keep him as long I want to have him in the barn. mission by the FEI to ride for the United States, like roofs, I learned. I’ve never really run into that be- They really love the sport.” Dutton joins the A List with The Foreman and fore. Cordonelli is very mature in his brain but weak Byyny, like everyone else, has been busy gearing in his canter. He has a very good walk and trot and a up for the season. Tru Luck and the B squad with Connaught. Dut- good gallop. Dario is just a little kid. They are both “The two training sessions were real helpful,” she ton has been participating in training sessions going to be really nice – I want them to get strong, and said. “It’s been busy, but it’s nice to know where you in Aiken, S.C. get Preliminary miles. Once they get those two things are early in the season. It’s nice to get the fi rst ones I think they’ll just accelerate.” over with and know where to go from there.”

Darren den, and continues to improve. priate for this time of year.” Now Chiacchia has found himself a worthy back- Chiacchia and his horses have been working hard in up in Adrienne Iorio’s Better I Do It. The 14-year-old the training sessions. Chiacchia Swedish Warmblood – “Gus” to his friends – landed “With Gus we’ve been working on getting him really in his barn last summer and the pair formed a quick strong and working on his connection in the dressage,” eigning Pan American gold medalist Darren partnership. said Chiacchia. “It’s helping him get to the next level. Chiacchia is having a little trouble planning his “He has been super,” said Chiacchia. “He’s go- He maybe doesn’t have the natural fl ash that Windfall R title defense. The problem: two horses with a ing to do all the standard things: Red Hills, Poplar, has but he’s getting it. He’s so steady and reliable, he’s chance at selection. The Fork and then on to Rolex. I’m really thrilled just a lovely type.” Chiacchia took home two gold medals at the 2003 with him. He’s been super in the training sessions. Windfall, a 14-year-old Trakehner stallion with a games aboard Tim Holekamp’s Windfall II, who’s He won at Rocking Horse, not that I was trying. He team bronze medal from the 2004 Olympics along still going strong. Windfall endured a disappointing and Windfall were the only ones to break 30 in the with his two Pan Am medals, is locked and loaded spring in 2006, but redeemed himself in October, dressage, he showjumped great and had single-digit placing fi fth at the World Cup Final in Malmo, Swe- time penalties on the cross-country which is appro- See PROFILES page 36

TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 37 He’s 14 this year, there assistant Cristin Stoop has taken over a majority of the Windfall are plenty of horses that riding of the young horses, something Chiacchia has Profi les – age but realistically he’s found invaluable to his program. Continued from page 35 on his fi nal run. The “Cristin does a great job with the babies,” said Chi- Olympics may very well acchia. “I’m still involved but having her takes some for the season – the question will be be his retirement. Any- pressure off me. If they are a special challenge I’ll jump where Chiacchia aims him. thing after that would on them. She gets them really confi dent and it works “I know I say this every spring be a bonus. Now that out really well.” but I can’t believe how he continues his foals are out there to get better,” Chiacchia said. “I’ve and doing well . . . the been working with Robert (Dover), goal was to keep him and he’s really going to the next out there until the foals level in the dressage. We just had an started to shine, and amazing training session with Laura that’s happening now. BRUCE DAVIDSON (Kraut). He jumped out of his skin. Having said that I can’t It’s a really hard decision to decide if imagine my competitive ruce Davidson is no I want to head to the Pan Ams. If I life without him.” stranger to the U.S. want to go I should probably sit Ro- Better I Do It, while Bteam. The most expe- lex out and just do Jersey Fresh, but accomplished at the rienced rider in the country that moves it that much closer to Pan Advanced level, has landed his beloved 10-year- Ams. On the other hand if he makes never had the opportu- old homebred mare Jam a his mark at the four-star level this nity to represent a team. spot on the list after a fourth year then he could just coast until Chiacchia thinks it’s a at the Fair Hill CCI*** last next year. This year’s goals and next chance he deserves. Im- fall. Jam has been practicing year’s (the Olympics) aren’t really ported from Britain in her dressage all winter and the same. He could show up at Ro- 2000 for Diann Roffe, was fourth at Rocking Horse. Anthony Trollope lex and then maybe sit out the Pan Better I Do It has had After checking in with Bruce’s son, Buck, about Ams . . . we’re having trouble trying Shannon Brinkmann four riders since. Sold to his busy Florida operation, Buck shed some light on to decide.” Steven Turilli late in 2003, he was quickly sold again to Jam’s winter. The Pan Am Games and the Olympics are at op- Abigail Lufkin as she made her push for the Olympics. “Jam’s going awesome,” said Buck. “Dad went posite ends of the Earth, with the former in Brazil and Better I Do It missed his chance there and was sold the winging around at Rocking Horse. She should have the latter in Hong Kong. following winter to Iorio. Her assistant Sarah Morton won, but he went off course in the dressage . . . it’s An active sire, Windfall has offspring all over the rode him last spring and he moved to Chiacchia’s barn fun to see him riding her. It’s like 10 years ago watch- eventing map. The oldest in the U.S. are 6 this year, in early summer. ing him riding Eagle (Lion), fl ying around those huge and Chiacchia knows the horse is closer to the end “I’ve had my eye on Gus since he came to the coun- courses, never missing. He’s getting her in the dres- of his competitive career than the beginning. Still, he try,” said Chiacchia. “Think how exciting he’d be if he sage too. No one else works as hard to get that much wants another shot at an Olympic medal. was a 7-year-old now? He’s such a worthy animal, to out of a horse. She can move better than some of the “Windfall is the Pan Am gold medalist. If he did it have the team on his record – it would be great for him rest of the ones he’s gotten it out of before. I don’t again that would be great, but what if he doesn’t do to go. He deserves a chance.” know if she’ll get it at Kentucky or wherever, but it twice?” asked Chiacchia. “I just don’t know, I want Team Chiacchia has been incredibly busy at its she’ll get it.” to be respectful of the owner’s desires. It’s a big mix. Florida base, with 56 horses in work and upwards of See PROFILES page 37 We do have to think about his breeding career too. 30 going off to the events every weekend. Chiacchia’s

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38 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Profi les – Continued from page 36 he was third at Fair Hill International, his fi rst CCI***. Dutton will keep the 10-year-old Thor- oughbred’s options open. Tru Luck is 2-for-2 this year, winning Intermediate divisions at Full Gallop Phillip Dutton and Pine Top II. “They are both entered for Kentucky, I’ll just see how the spring goes for Tru Luck,” said Dut- hillip Dutton will remember 2007 as the fi rst ton. “They are both entered for Red Hills and The year he rode under the American fl ag. A late Fork.” P addition to the list (after his new nationality Dutton’s partner for the 2006 World Equestrian was approved by the FEI), the Australian-born rider Games, Bruce Duchossois’ Connaught will begin has made the most of it, as three of his horses are his season at The Fork then head to the Jersey Fresh included. CCI*** in June along with Becky Broussard’s Lucky The Foreman, now 12, is owned by Annie Jones Stripe. The latter took the fi nal CCI** at Radnor and had a stellar 2005 placing second at Kentucky in 2006 and won his fi rst Advanced outing of the and Burghley. He won the CIC*** at Red Hills last 2007 at the third Pine Top. spring and then had a quiet autumn. He is back in Dutton took The Foreman and Tru Luck to the fi ne form this year winning his fi rst event, an Inter- training sessions in Aiken, S.C., and was glad he mediate division at Full Gallop. did. Tru Luck has been something of a prodigy, rel- “I did two days with Laura (Kraut) and one with ishing in the pressure of the sport as the intensity Mark Phillips,” said Dutton. “I thought they were Tru Luck increases. Owned by Jones and Shannon Stimson, good – very helpful.” Anthony Trollope

really pleased that the homework is paying off.” Holder hopes she can improve on her 13th at Becky Holder Kentucky this spring, where she was in the lead go- ing into the showjumping. She has produced the ecky Holder has been doing her homework former racehorse (owned by her husband, Tom) this winter. from the beginning. B Following Burghley – where, for the second “For a while everyone was searching for the right time in 2006, she and Courageous Comet were foot- answer, now we seem to have settled on a tech- perfect in the fi rst two phases of a CCI**** only to nique,” she said. “When he was in light work we be disappointed on the fi nal day – she went back to worked really hard on getting him strong behind Minnesota and back to basics. With a whole lot of – he has always been almost paranoid about rails hard work, she’s making another push for her fi rst on the ground. We did lots of cavalettis and poles team selection. on the ground. We played around in hand and un- While Holder’s been a traveling reserve for the der saddle, when it didn’t matter. He did tons of Sydney Olympics in 2000 and an alternate for the rails on the ground.” 2006 World Equestrian Games, the coveted pinque Holder hopes to return to slay her dragons in Courageous Comet coat continues to elude her. Kentucky’s main arena and earn herself team selec- “Comet’s 11 this year and he’s stronger and tion for the Pan American Games in the process. hopefully more trained,” said Holder. “We are still “Comet heads to The Fork to do the CIC and working on the show jumping. I think we are mak- then to Kentucky,” said Holder. “Hopefully we will ing progress with help of Laura Kraut and Mark get selected to go to the Pan Am Games. I have been (Phillips). We’re really starting to put it together. part of the team lead up a lot of times, but never We jumped a clear showjumping round last week- quite hit the mark. I’m really aiming towards the end and had just one down the time before so I’m Pan Ams.” Anthony Trollope

Jonathan Holling Lion King II

onathan Holling knows it’s time to get serious ling said. “I have him much more – the annual pre-Kentucky siren just sounded. controlled on the cross country. J “Every year around this time one day I wake They let me ride him in the train- up and the switch turns on and everyone goes, ‘OK ing sessions a little bit which has – Jon’s ready for Kentucky,” said Holling March 5. been great. I’ve been busting my “That day was yesterday. I didn’t realize it until the ass with Simba’s showjumping end of the day when Jen (his wife) took me aside with Mark (Phillips) and Laura and told me that I was on high alert.” (Kraut).” Holling has two horses heading to the spring Holling’s fortunes were up and CCI****, Lion King and Direct Merger. down last year. He was third in Lion King, a 13-year-old English Thoroughbred, a very competitive CIC***-W at is a veteran of Kentucky, Burghley and the World Red Hills, then retired Lion King Cup Final. He had his best fi nishes in 2006, fi nish- at Kentucky; placed fi fth at Jersey ing fi fth at Jersey Fresh and sixth at Fair Hill Inter- Fresh, won the CIC*** at Poplar Shannon Brinkmann national, where he led into the showjumping. Place, then had two stops at the World Cup Final. is originally from Canada, so they understand southern Direct Merger, another English import, has been He ended 2006 with a strong fi nish at Fair Hill. migration. a slower study for Holling but has copious amounts “I’m excited that it will be a better year than “It’s great, it’s totally insane,” said Jon. “I still have one of talent. Just 11, Direct Merger heads to his fi rst last year, even though last year was my best year to school, one to ride and a lesson to teach and it’s 4:30 in CCI**** for owner Janet Olsen. yet,” said Holling. “Hopefully I will be more the afternoon. Like everyone I’m a little overwhelmed this “The horses are fantastic,” said Holling. “They consistent. I want to have consistent results from time of year. Tomorrow I am going to the training sessions are going as well as they have ever gone. I rode show to show and not one up one down like last at Red Hills – I look forward to just focusing on Simba them both at the (Rocking Horse) one-day and year.” and Monty a hundred percent. They’ve been getting what they went well.” The Hollings own and operate Willow Run they need here, for sure, but it will be nice to go up there Lion King (aka Simba) fi nished fi fth in the Ad- Farm in Ocala, Fla., which is open year-round. with just the two of them.” vanced, Direct Merger sixth. The winter is their busiest season as students “I’m really excited about Direct Merger,” Hol- and horses descend. Jon is from Wisconsin. Jen See PROFILES page 38

TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 • 39 Profi les – Bonnie Continued from page 37 McKinlaigh ina Miles plans to prepare McKin- Mosser laigh, winner of last year’s Fair Hill onnie Mosser has three horses GCCI***, on the West Coast for his on the list for the fi rst time in fi rst trip to Badminton CCI****. The Bher career. She had a dynamite 13-year-old Irish Sporthorse won his 2006, starting with an impressive out- fi rst two outings of the year (at Ram ing aboard Jenga at Kentucky, her fi rst Tap and Twin Rivers) and is heading to CCI****. After training in England Thermal, Calif., for some showjumping with the U.S. team all summer, she practice. fi nished 11th with Jenga at Burghley “(McKinlaigh) totally feels so strong CCI**** (the highest-placed Ameri- and fi t and sound – knock on wood,” can), and backed that up by coming said Miles. “We just have to keep every- 13th with Close The Deal at Blenheim thing together. We had a good session CCI***. with Mark (Phillips). Now I’m heading Jenga, a 14-year-old English Thor- down to HITS Thermal, the new Indio oughbred, will kick off his 2007 cam- location, to do some showjumping.” paign in Florida at the CIC*** at Red Owned by Thom Schulz and Laura Hills. Coats, McKinlaigh’s early season last “He’s on his way to do the World year was plagued with an allergy prob- Anthony Trollope Cup,” said Mosser. “He’ll do this lems which caused him to bleed at The and The Fork and then go on to Ken- Fork and again at Kentucky. Miles got tucky. He’s in good form. I had a good it all right at Fair Hill and looks for- training session with Laura Kraut. He ward to her trip to England. Gina Miles jumped really well.” Plans call for a tuneup at Galway Owned by Rebecca Polan, Close Downs in Temucla, Calif. and then the tuning up the dressage. I’ve been get- “Everything is great out here,” she The Deal was supposed to accompany overseas trip. ting some lessons. It’s hard to get the said Miles. “It’s been a great season, Jenga to Red Hills but stayed home af- “My plan is to do the CIC at Gal- collected work and the fancy trot, he’s the courses are good, it’s nice to have ter a sore foot kept him from packing way and then we’re going to go on to just so big. Trying to get the fl ash and another Advanced course. It’s hard not his bags for Tallahassee. Badminton,” she said. “We are going to the collection is hard.” to have the intensity out here like back “He got his feet done yesterday and stay in California and fl y out the week McKinlaigh galloped onto the scene east – not going head-to-head with the is ouchy,” said Mosser March 6. “He’s before. Then hopefully come home and in 2002 and toyed with the cross-coun- other top contenders every weekend. sitting at home with his shoe off. It’s do the Pan Ams. Everything seems good try course at the World Equestrian So I’ve been trotting off to straight disappointing as he’s going really well. and his health seems great. I just want- Games in Jerez, Spain. He was third in dressage shows and doing the jump- He was so much improved in the train- ed to run him in a couple of horse trials, the World Cup Final the following year ers – it gives me a benchmark.You go ing sessions from last year. Usually he keep it light – he pretty much knows his in France, and Miles has her eyes on head-to-head with those guys and it was doing dressage in a double bridle, job. I want to keep him fresh and keep another team selection in 2007. helps.” See PROFILES page 39 Portraits by Beverly Wende “Stable Mates”

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40 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Profi les – The Rest of The Story... Continued from page 37 Jenga This year the USEF split the winter training list into two squads, “A” and now he’s in a Happy Mouth. He was been able to ride him at all.” “B,” with seven horses in the former Mosser’s third horse, Merloch, is less third in the OI at Pine Top – which was and 21 in the latter. Since the list was his fi rst run.” known. After winning the North Ameri- published, there have been a few no- Close The Deal has the selection trial can Young Riders’ Championship with for the Pan American Games on his ra- former owner Alexandra Zavoyna (a table happenings: West Farthing will be dar and won’t head to Kentucky. Mosser student of Mosser’s), Merloch will try the ridden in 2007 by Michael Pollard in- feels that asking the Dutch Warmblood next level. The New Zealand-bred cross stead of his wife, Nathalie; Robyn Fish- cross to make that kind of galloping ef- recently contested his fi rst Advanced at er put Lady Calido up for sale; Wood- fort would be unfair. She also wants him Pine Top, fi nishing fourth. stock was sold by Amy Tryon; and Will to have something left for Polan, who “I’m still trying to fi gure out how to Coleman’s Twizzel is on the bench with produced him to the two-star level. go fast on him,” said Mosser. “He’s a bit a shoulder injury. “He’s just going to do the mandatory too green at the bigger, wider tables to While The Times tried to catch up outing,” said Mosser. “He’s not a four- just gallop down there and take care of with as many people as we could, and star horse, and I’d hate to take his heart it. He’s improving in the dressage and came up with detailed profi les on many out halfway around the course. I’d like showjumping but he’s a little fl at at the (see preceding pages), some riders to get him selected for the Pan Ams and big tables, and they’re a little too wide proved more elusive than others. then Rebecca wants to do a three-star for that at Advanced. I’m not convinced Will Faudree and Antigua (both part on him next spring, so she will get him about him yet – he’s a very good horse of the gold medal winning 2003 Pan back in the fall. It would be really cool if but he’s still green at this level.” it comes full circle. I’m so lucky to have Am squad) won their fi rst start of the Mike McNally year in the Intermediate at Pine Top (March 3-4) beating Heidi White and Northern Spy by less than a half-point. Sharon White won the Advanced Inter- mediate there with Kristen and Kather- Amy Tryon Leyland ine Pratt’s Ronaldo. At the previous Pine Top, Kristin Bachman and her Gryffi ndor won the rmed with four horses, Amy Tryon dressage by going under 30 in the In- made her annual trek east during termediate. They took their time around A the last week of February. Last the cross country and ended up sixth. year’s bronze medalist from the World El Primero was sixth in his fi rst run Equestrian Games left her Redmond, of the year with Sara Mittleider, as the Wash., base on the two-month tour pair travelled from Kuna, Idaho, to Twin with Le Samurai, Leyland, Coal Creek Rivers in Paso Robles, Calif., to brush and In Any Event. off the dust. They hadn’t competed Prior to the big trip, Tryon headed since last summer in England. to California to shake the winter kinks Veterans Upstage and Karen out of her string at the Ram Tap Horse O’Connor fi nished second in the Ad- Trials. vanced at Rocking Horse II, adding just “The fi rst events of the year are al- ways a little crazy,” said Tryon. “The one rail to their dressage score. horses haven’t been out of the covered The elusive Kim Severson has been arena in four months and it’s a bit of a busy in Aiken, S.C. Riding for Plain free-for-all.” Dealing Farm, she was second in two Tryon’s road show is missing her Anthony Trollope divisions of Intermediate with Win- bronze-medal mount, as the acclaimed tained an uncommon injury for a some miles on his clock, doesn’t need some Adante and Tsunami at Pine Top Poggio will spend spring in Washing- horse his age after he returned from to do things just to do them, although II. Tsunami was third two weeks later ton. the World Games. he’s obviously in good form bucking in the Advanced, but Winsome Adante “I left Poggio at home, which was “He had a splint on the outside of a people off.” had two uncharacteristic refusals on very sad,” she said. “He bucked off this hind leg when he came out of quaran- Tryon cited Luhmuhlen (Germany’s course. girl that works for me the other day. tine, so he’s six weeks behind the oth- CCI****) as a possible goal for her Sloopy and John Williams get their The safest horse in the barn bucked er horses,” Tryon said. “It would be a stable star. season underway at their local event in someone off – I think he’s angry to be push to get him to Badminton – he’s Tryon is on the mend herself, as she Southern Pines, N.C. (March 16-18). left home.” pretty hard on himself. So my plan had a torn ligament in her shoulder re- The 15-year-old Thoroughbred sus- is to compete him at home, he’s got paired at the end of 2006.

tephen Bradley was hard to track are often selected for the CCI***. “It’s spring, but Joshua won’t compete until down between jumper shows in really up to the selectors – if he got to later this year. S Florida, but will focus on four- go that would be great and if not that The 12-year-old Thoroughbred star veteran From this season. would be fi ne too.” from Charles Town Racetrack didn’t At 14, From has been the victim of From hasn’t run at a horse trial accompany Bradley to Florida. bad timing around major competitions yet this year, but has been busy in the “He’s actually on vacation,” said and will head to the CCI*** at Jersey Bradley. “He starts back into work in Fresh in preparation for bigger things. the end of March when we get back. “The goal for this spring is to take It’s an off year for him, he’s already him to a three-star,” said Bradley. “It’s Stephen qualifi ed for (the Olympics) and he been a couple of years since he’s done hasn’t had a vacation in a while, I’ll do anything big. I talked to Mark (Phillips) some horse trials with him in the fall and (head selector) Peter Green and we Bradley to keep him ticking over, but otherwise decided that it might be a better choice he’ll have a quiet time. We’ll see what than trying to go to Kentucky.” jumper ring, picking up ribbons in the happens for him next year.” Bradley, who has won at Kentucky Level 4 classes. Bradley’s winter plans were affect- and Burghley over the years, eyes the The Virginia-based Bradley just ed by the EHV-1 Herpes restrictions, Pan Am Games with the Russian-bred missed a trip to the World Equestrian which delayed his trip to Ocala, Fla. gelding. Games last year with Brandenburg’s He arrived in the beginning of Feb- Brandenburg’s Joshua “I don’t know if he’s overqualifi ed,” Joshua. They were part of the gold- ruary with From, a couple of young said Bradley, referring to the fact that medal team at the 2003 Pan American horses as well as a host of students and horses on the way up through the ranks Games and were third at Kentucky last clients’ horses. Mike McNally

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wondering if Prelim was going to be all I could do. My balance is defi nitely not what it was – when things go wrong now, I fall off.” A Road to Recovery Despite downsizing her string to four – Intermediate horses Outfoxed and Dromore Boy, and two babies – the lack Healthy again, Iorio gets back to life with horses of mounts hasn’t effected the results. “The boys are great,” she said. “I’m hard, bought quality horses and was BY JOANIE MORRIS sults tell only part of the story. so happy to be back on. I fi nd myself just knocking on the door of the big time. Based in Florida for the winter and riding around smiling. It takes all the Over the course of a decade, Adri- Then real life got in the way. training with Darren Chiacchia, Iorio has pressure off. I used to be very competitive enne Iorio had built a booming training In 2006, a serious illness threw a wall picked up two wins and three ribbons in and always thinking about what the next business. She managed three facilities (in in front of her that no horse would fi nd six tries. event was going to be, now I enjoy it.” Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and South its way over. “It’s going pretty well,” said Iorio Outfoxed, a 12-year-old Selle Francais Carolina), upward of 15 competition One year later, she’s back in the sad- from Ocala Feb. 27. “I lost basically all gelding, had considerable success at the horses and countless lesson horses while dle, living an abbreviated version of her last year. I did a couple of events last fall Intermediate level and was just breaking gaining Olympic aspirations. She worked old life with a new perspective. The re- to see if I could do it. This spring I was into the Advanced ribbons when he went to the sidelines in 2004. The extravagant mover has made light work of this sea- son, winning the Preliminary at Ocala I, fi nishing second at Poplar (again in the Prelim) due to three showjumping time faults and placing third in the Open In- termediate at Ocala II. Dromore Boy, 11, was successful through the CCI** level, picking up a good fi nish last fall at Morven Park in the CCI* with Iorio’s former assistant Sarah Morton aboard. He’s returned to fi ne form in 2007, coming fourth at Poplar in the Prelim and winning the Intermediate at Rocking Horse. Though Iorio sold many of her horses while she was ailing, this pair of chest- nuts stuck around. “I know I shouldn’t have favorites, but they are,” said Iorio. “ ‘Foxy,’ there was no way I would part with him and ‘Sporty’ has the personality of a great pet. So I kept the pet. He’s enjoyed slow- ing down quite a bit.” Iorio also owns Better I Do It, whom Chiacchia piloted to a fi fth last year at Fair Hill International CCI***. Iorio planned for Chiacchia to sell him, not ride him, but she decided to see what life was like in the owners’ box. “Gus (Better I Do It) is fantastic,” said Iorio. “He won last weekend at Rocking Horse (in the Advanced). He’s over do- ing the training sessions as we speak. I was always kind of pushing to do team stuff myself but now I’m focusing on get- ting healthy and living my life. So I live vicariously through Gus. I’m doing the owner thing. I go over and pat him on the nose.” Another Advanced horse, Urban Leg- end, has been leased to young rider Julia Briskin. Iorio rode him last summer but his personality doesn’t jibe well with her new lifestyle. “Julia’s goal is to go Advanced on him,” Iorio said. “She’ll be ready to run him long before I will. He was so good this summer to let me goof around on him but he was pretty over it by the end.” Iorio’s plans for Outfoxed and Drom- ore Boy include Red Hills and Poplar Place (both CIC**) and Ocala (CCI**). Despite downsizing (her farm in Ai- ken is on the market), Iorio doesn’t have her feet up. She’ll stay in Ocala through the CCI** in April, then head north. She is organizing a horse trial at her family’s Apple Knoll Farm in Millis, Mass. “We will work our way slowly back to Pennsylvania,” said Iorio. “I’m already in full swing fundraising for another horse trial at Apple Knoll. It is a lot less chaotic than it was, now that I only have four horses. I got smart and hired a facility in Massachusetts.” 42 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, March 9, 2007 Eventing Feature Allison Springer Spring Ahead Time with Dutton helps generate good start to 2007 event season BY JOANIE MORRIS hemming and hawing about selling him Allison Springer has spent a number because he’s been so good.” of years trekking from Virginia to Flori- Springer’s success hasn’t stopped with da for the winter. This year she stopped Folklore. She ran Arthur at Full Gallop short, and started riding with Phillip (Feb. 3-4) in the Intermediate, his fi rst Dutton in Aiken, S.C. She’s been on a appearance since the Virginia CCI** tear since she got there. in November. Springer was delighted With a six-horse string headlined by that the now 8-year-old had done some the talented Arthur – who’s just mov- maturing over the winter. He ended up ing up to Advanced – and backed up sixth behind three CCI*** horses and by considerable talent at the lower lev- ran back and won at Pine Top II. Arthur els, Springer has had a strong hand this returned to Pine Top two weeks later for season. She’s won three times on three his fi rst Advanced, and fi nished an im- horses and hasn’t missed the ribbons. pressive fourth. All in all, the winter “has actually “It’s really, really exciting. He might been surprisingly good,” said Springer. be growing up,” said Springer. “He never “I’m enjoying Aiken more that I thought seemed to gallop in a straight line before I would. I’ve been working with Phillip and I didn’t get to cross-country school and it’s been very, very good for me. It’s before his fi rst event at Full Gallop. It defi nitely different, but it’s really helped was a new course that Tremaine (Coo- a lot with Arthur. I did the developing per) had built and it was solid. Arthur riders with Kim (Severson) and that was made such easy work out of it, he came awesome. It’s been really fun. That’s not out of the start box straight. He did that to say that I don’t miss going to the beach at Pine Top, too. Phillip says I need to on Mondays.” go faster – I was just so impressed he Folklore, a 6-year-old American Ha- was going in a straight line. I hope he’s noverian Thoroughbred cross owned by turned over a new leaf.” Katie Saunders has gone from strength Arthur’s old leaf wasn’t too bad. He to strength this winter. Folklore was the was fourth at Virginia CCI** and sec- reserve champion in both the 4- and 5- ond at the American Eventing Champi- year-old Young Event Horse Finals over onships at the Preliminary level last fall. the last two seasons and has impressed The 2007 plan incorporates the CCI*** Springer with his level of maturity. He at Jersey Fresh in June. won at Pine Top II in the Preliminary and Springer also has 11-year-old Kor- was second at Sporting Days after scor- rigan, formerly ridden by Allison Con- Anthony Trollope ing an 18.5 in the dressage. nard, heading to a two-star. Owned by Arthur jumps to greater things in 2007 as Allison Springer makes a new Advanced star. “He’s been fantastic, he’s getting Kris Rosmorduc, he was seventh at Full easier and easier,” Springer said. “The Gallop in the Prelim. the leggy gray gelding watching 2006 last fi ve years with Bonfi re, Tenacity horses that I buy with Katie have to be “He’s a brand-new ride,” said Spring- from the bench. and Presto, but is relieved to have fi - nice enough for me, vet to be a sale horse er. “He’s a little horse . . . He’s been an “I bought him a year ago in Wel- nally put together a string of quality and have a good enough mind. She also absolute blast. He’s a good jumper and lington and he promptly got kicked by horses. owns Tiamo, who won down here as a hard worker. He’s great for me to ride another horse,” Spring said. “He was “I’ve never really had more than one well. Folklore is for sale, but we haven’t well on. He’s a good horse, and he keeps out all last year, it was frustrating to horse doing much of anything at one been actively trying to sell him. I’m try- surprising me with how hard he tries. He see him standing around. I’ve done two time,” said Springer. “I feel very lucky. ing to get him to the point where he’d needs lots of work on the fl at but he’s re- prelims this spring, he’s heading to CCI It’s been a great winter, I feel a bit more be easy for anyone. He got a ridiculously ally exciting.” two-star. He’s getting stronger – fi gur- balanced, I’m having a lot of fun train- good score at Sporting Days, I think it Nine-year-old Destination Known ing it out. He has a great mind.” ing the horses and they’re having fun was a little generous – but I didn’t take rounds out Springer’s string. Springer Springer’s had success at the Ad- competing.” the test back and complain. We’ve been bought him last year but an accident had vanced level at various times over the

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rrange for a U-Haul and pack your on horsefl esh over the past few years. things. Event horses of all varieties Nathalie will continue to campaign her A were on the move this winter. Intermediate horse Iccarus. Bonnie Mosser im- Phillip Dutton also has proved her hand over a new ride, Augie Vettori- Shannon Brinkman the winter by acquiring no’s Match Play, a recent West Farthing will stay in the family, but Nathalie Pollard handed the reins to husband Merloch from a student. import from England. The Michael for 2007. The 10-year-old New fl ashy 9-year-old son of Zealand-bred and Alex- Mayhill will most likely American Games, where he was 13th Lucy Lippon. He’ll accompany Abigail andra Zavoyna were a head to the Bromont with Jose Ortelli Jr. Lufkin’s former mount Don’t Step Back force in the Young Rider CCI** late this spring. He A CIC one-star winner at Wayne in Lippon’s quality Californian string. ranks, culminating their won his fi rst U.S. start in (Ill.) with Stuart Black, Lissandro joined Twelve-year-old Pandora found her relationship with a gold the Intermediate at Pine Bobby Meyerhoff’s barn. way into Kristen Bond’s barn via Laura medal at the champion- Top. Virginia rider Christy Price went to Jones. Kim Severson was eighth on the ships last summer. “He’s very good on the England and came home with Noble mare in 2005 at the Foxhall CCI**. “Basically because fl at,” said Dutton. “He’s a Opposition, who fi nished ninth last In Any Event left Jessica Heide- Alex is going to college bit green still in the jump- fall with Sam Griffi ths at Blenheim mann’s barn for fellow Washingtonian and she decided to as ing.” CCI***. Amy Tryon. The New Zealand import her dad said, ‘hang up Lady Calido leaves British import Another Garrison, was fourth at Galway Downs last No- her spurs,’ they offered Robyn Fisher’s barn as the 11th at Bramham in 2004 and 19th vember. Murray to me fi rst to California rider decided to at Jersey Fresh CCI*** last spring, purchase,” said Mosser. Shannon Brinkman put the CCI two-star win- was sold out of Leslie Law’s barn to – Joanie Morris “I have a lot of respect Another Garrison went west ner up for sale. Fisher will for Alex, you can always to California. spend the spring in Eng- come back to the sport. land riding with David She is thrilled that she got Green after buying two to pick who was going to horses through him this ride Murray. I’m not con- winter. vinced that this is the next “It’s very sad for me big horse but I really like that I won’t be compet- Don’t just bet on him. He’s been pretty cool ing her anymore,” said to hang around and ride. Fisher. “I am looking for racehorses, I don’t think I’ve ever rid- a young rider that wants den a better mover.” to do one-stars or some Nathalie Pollard’s de- intermediates on her.” own racehorses. pendable West Farthing Esker Riada, Wener (two top 10 CCI four-star Geven’s World Equestrian fi nishes and the 2005 Fair Games mount was sold to Hill International win- young rider Cayla Kitya- With West Point Thoroughbreds you can own a percentage ner) will be under the ma. The Villanova Uni- of a high-potential racehorse, at a fraction of the cost. command of her husband versity student rides with Michael in 2007. Phillip Dutton. Now 14, “I needed a change of Mike McNally Esker Riada placed 16th pace, so it’s permanent Esker Riada will show the at Kentucky CCI**** last at least for this season,” ropes to a young rider. fall. said Nathalie. “It’s good Jos Ambition left Mara for Michael and we hope to take him to Dean’s barn and found his way to junior Badminton.” rider Arden Wildasin in Connecticut. Michael, an established four-star The 13-year-old Argentine import came rider in his own right, has been short to the United States via the 2003 Pan

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The Outside Rail

Joe Clancy ‘Advocate’ steeplechasing’s charity impact

okie Roberts called it “advocating.” Stand up for what you believe in. Speak up and get results. The ABC CNews commentator was talking about cancer treatment as the keynote speaker at the Feb. 28 opening of the Steeplechase Cancer Center in Somerville, N.J., but she could have been talking about anything. Especially steeplechasing and its impact on the outside world. Forget the horses, the trainers, the jockeys, the owners for a minute. Think of New Jersey cancer sufferers. The wildlife that inhabits Brandywine Conservancy land in Pennsylvania. The kids at Vanderbilt University’s children’s hospital in Nashville. All over the circuit, American steeplechase meets raise great sums of money for charities. And the sport needs to do a better job telling people. We’ll share some of the because we haven’t told the story well enough either, but a goal for 2007 should be to quantify the financial impact with real numbers, real details, real stories. Let the outside world know. In each race- meet city or town, individuals benefit from steeplechasing’s success. At the new cancer cen- ter in New Jersey, where Roberts spoke so elo- quently and humorously about her life and her family, the Torsilieri family deals with cancer Barbara Livingston on a personal level. As 400 guests dined on Leading steeplechase sire Northern Baby died in February at age 31. The sire of two shrimp, cheese and pasta in the lobby, Marc King of the Hill Torsilieri (a longtime race-meet volunteer and steeplechase champions, his progeny earned more than $3.3 million in NSA races. brother of Far Hills co-chairman Guy) sat in a Somerset Medical Center room battling pan- creatic cancer. The disease hits hard, hits every- one involved, and provides a dose of reality. Marc is one person, one example, one chance to advocate for better cancer treatment – and Radnor’s demise the impact of steeplechase racing on everyday people. At Far Hills, organizers toss around a $16 million figure for contributions to the hospital since the mid-1950s. The donations have pur- chased ambulances, upgraded equipment. And a sign of the times now, they’ve even sparked a tribute – the nam- Relevance, meet point. Steeplechasers, don’t turn the page quite yet, they lost it ing the new facility after the sport. The 63,000 I was told by one colleague that the first thing I wrote on your sacred ground. square-foot building houses state-of-the-art for this page, “has a point, it’s just not relevant.” The organizing committee of the Radnor Hunt treatments, a linear accelerator, high-energy X- Another said, “it’s like the answer to a question that no International Three Day Event in Malvern, Pa., decided rays, board-certified oncologists, digital mam- one asked.” It was about the trials and tribulations of a to no longer hold its annual fall competition. magrophy machines, doctors’ offices, a certain equine with a blowout awaiting his appointment After 33 years, the Radnor Hunt Club closed its hal- resource center for patients and families, meet- at the repair shop. lowed gates to eventing. ing space and much more. Oh, and photos of So here I go again. The organizing committee cited dwindling communi- McDynamo. With three paragraphs in a press ty support in the press release, a sad testament to a Horses (from the three-time champion to release, an event disappeared. When Event wealthy, very horsey part of the world. If we are losing the maiden claimers), sponsors, parking-space I opened my inbox Jan. 26, the events in the very definition of horse country, as a col- buyers, boxholders, the general-admission words stared back at me: “The Planning lective community we need to be on alert. crowds, volunteers – they all fuel the engine Organizing Committee feels it has The land encompassing the cross-country course Take away any one of them and steeplechasing come to a point where the quality of shrunk considerably over the last few years. Everyone wouldn’t work. competition will suffer should the Joanie Morris who frequented Radnor knew the situation was poten- The Steeplechase Cancer Center gets that. event continue.” tially grave a few years ago when word went around So does Marc Torsilieri. We all should. An event was being put down. that “the course wasn’t going across the road anymore.” L And eventing loses a piece of history in 2007. L See OUTSIDE RAIL page 47 See EVENT page 47

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wise, he sired eight champions and more than 100 The roster extends to It’s A Giggle (a Grade I win- Outside Rail – stakes horses – flat and jumps – in his 21 crops. He ner at Saratoga), Summer Colony (a phenom with 10 sired champion female turf runner Possibly Perfect, wins in four seasons), Hudson Bay (a hard-knocking I Continued from page 46 English champion 3-year-old Michelozzo, French claimer/stakes horse with in excess of $230,000 champion 3-year-olds Bairn and Thrill Show. earned), Moonstruck (a Carolina Cup winner), tim- Goodbye Champ: Northern Baby probably never But it was within steeplechasing that the son of ber veteran Dr. Ramsey, claiming hero Doubledarn, jumped a fence in his life, but his sons and daughters and the Round Table mare Two timber stakes winner Northern Thinking and on and did – like the progeny of no other North American Rings had his true impact. Through 2006, Northern on and on. Addinson and Geaux Beau won 3-year-old sire. The stallion produced nine Thoroughbreds that Baby’s progeny had won 119 individual jump races hurdle championships. Tough mare Class Yankee each earned more than $100,000 in American steeple- and amassed $3,369,065 in earnings. And they aren’t placed in a Grade I novice stakes. Salmo won a tim- chase races, including champions Highland Bud and finished. ber stakes last year. Warm Spell. At one time had three sons in the top 10 The two champions led the way as Highland Bud Owner Arthur Hancock always maintained that his earners of all-time. (1989) and Warm Spell (1994) would make anyone’s horse’s steeplechase success was purely accidental – and The NSA’s computer database listed 79 horses by list of greats. he was half right. Even today, few people actually try to Northern Baby, dating back to 1988 and continuing The former won two Breeders’ Cup Steeplechases, breed steeplechasers but Northern Baby surely made any today with still-active racers such as timber stalwart once at 4 and again at 7, for owner Margaret Henley owner or trainer at least listen when someone talked Northern Thinking. The retired sire died last month and trainer Jonathan Sheppard. Chestnut splashed about an available “Northern Baby horse.” When it at age 31, ending a life that began in Canada, ven- with white (lots of white), Warm Spell starred for came to him, breeding mattered. tured to England and Canada as a racehorse and Kentucky owner/trainer John Griggs and drew And we all noticed. Thanks. Ireland as a young sire, and finished at Kentucky’s acclaim for his 1994 battles with Lonesome Glory Stone Farm, his home for the past 25 years. Numbers- and Mistico. Joe Clancy is a co-founder of ST Publishing.

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onor it. Accept it. And most of all enjoy it. Stevens was motionless. John Velazquez was all over A P Valentine. Jorge Chavez had been at Dollar Bill for a quarter mile. And Bailey was about to get inhaled aboard E Dubai. came off the turn and collared E Dubai. The two battled, or at least appeared to battle. The problem was E Dubai was giving 100 percent and Point Given was barely past preheat. Stevens finally yanked him H to his right lead at about the eighth pole and he pulled away with ease. “I don’t know what percent it was but we didn’t get to the bottom of him,” Ste- Event – Point Given is the greatest horse in all the land. Forget the Derby defeat, the vens said. “I came into the stretch and I thought Jerry had more horse Haskell scare, the bar shoe, and all the rest. Point Given. That’s all you left than he did. I thought he would carry me to the sixteenth pole Get Your Copy of one of the Year’s Besthave to remember.Reads... and I’d get my horse to accelerate with him. All of The Travers was the latest court for him to hold. The giant a sudden I found myself in front without asking red colt played with eight rivals (or victims) and won the him to run. It was a lot like the Preakness. $1 million race by 3 1/2 lengths. It could have been 103 When he finds himself on the lead without 1/2. E Dubai finished second with Dollar Bill third. me chasing him, he tends to fool around I Continued from page 46 Point Given stalked the solid pace of Free Of Love with me. He was having a holiday from and E Dubai, just cruising along like a big ship. the sixteenth pole home. He was just Gary Stevens was sure to keep him in having fun, playing around a bit.” the clear about three off the fence. That’s what the racing world can do with the big float it’s As the country’s population swells and the mid-Atlantic becomes a sought- after destination, people are willing to “The Best of The Saratoga Special” 38 commute farther to live in the country. As featured in e Best of THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 2001 This creates a threat to events and race meets. Other individual issues – money, Thoroughbred Times: community interest and participation – can be crippling, but individually, can be overcome. A combination of things nailed Radnor’s coffin. These sports aren’t popular enough 52 to afford this kind of loss. I equate Radnor’s demise and the rise of the e Best of THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 2002 ike a man without a country, today is a day without a stakes. Virginia Horse Center (which runs a wants. Ran OK going a mile, longer today.” L Sixth Race, Feather Boa, 9-2. “Todd Pletcher. The first time she broke a little One of only seven cards without a black-type race slow, she should improve. Zito, Simon, during the six-week meet, today’s docket consists of Lukas. Look at this, (Carson’s Girl) worked in one steeplechase, three allowance races, two maiden 50 here on the training track. She can run, races, two open claimers, and one maiden claimer. you can believe that.” CCI** in November) to the decline of The seventh and eighth are the co-features. Seventh Race, Admiralty Arch, 2-5. “This Five 2-year-old colts meet up in the seventh (the is a nice horse, he’ll need more distance male counterpart to Wednesday’s filly feature) and the but he’s quick enough. Lukas is the one eighth attracted 10 fillies for a 1 1/16-mile turf test. tough horse, look who he finished third to Both are allowance races carrying identical conditions (Zavata).” of non-winners-of-a-race-other-than or non-winners- boutique stores and the increase of of-two races. Eighth Race, Hottentot, 7-2. “Pletcher. I’ve done everything with her. The filly who won John Velazquez rides seven of the nine races. We the stake beat her (Nunatall). Tommy Voss, caught up with him sitting in a borrowed cart Colonial Downs. Mott’s horse. Mark’s filly. outside the Oklahoma training track during the break. They must think a lot of Born Something, We put the Form in front of him and asked him to tell ran her in a Grade I over there in France.” us what he sees. Ninth Race, Sunshine Dreamer, 6-1. shopping centers – but without the neg- “First one is a jump race, the second I don’t ride.” “Klesaris, $40,000. I had her in the middle Third, Smoking Wine, 5-1. “First time for a price, of the track last time. The filly who won has first time Lasix, got a little shot,” Velazquez said. “Low already run twice since.” numbers.” “Not a bad day.” Fourth, Volkonsky, 2-1 favorite. “Todd Pletcher ative connotation that may be assumed. – Dad. This one has a shot. Never been on him, don’t know anything about him. Been working on the grass, by Deputy Minister out of a mare. This horse (This Guns For Hire) will be tough, alone on the lead.” The Virginia Horse Center is designed Fifth Race, Assmar, 10-1. “He runs whenever he VELAZQUEZ for one purpose: to hold equestrian 64 activities. It has hundreds of permanent stalls, a coliseum, a covered arena, a 2003 half-dozen all-weather rings and perma- n our third year, The Special Saratogamoved next door to the Saratoga Chamber of Commerce and, wow, nent infrastructure. There are offices, did things seem smoother.

Probably, nothing like what jockey John Velazquez and trainer Todd Pletcher real bathrooms (and showers), an actu- were feeling. The duo combined to set records for most wins in Saratoga history I– Velazquez pounded in 61 victories while Pletcher dumped 35 of his own. al kitchen. Organizers Penny and Brian Ten Most Wanted shipped in from California to take the Travers while enigmatic 3-year-olds Empire Maker and Funny Cide never got to make it happen Ross do one heck of a job, and can on the racetrack. handily run 600 horses over a long

weekend. The Kentucky Horse Park is e Best of THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 2003 designed for the same use. It may be a change of face for the sport. By no means is it easy, but it is possible. The committee at Radnor each year walked out into a field and started over. Tent stabling and grass parking lots on Empire Maker and Strong Hope

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DSet after set. Horse after horse. Story after story. Race annual headaches. The cross-country after race. Summer after summer. This right here in your hand has been in my head. The Saratoga Special, a daily newspaper covering it all for the six weeks at Saratoga. It’s been in there, rocking and banging needing to get out. And now it’s out. course ran through neighbors’ pad- Will it work? I’ll tell you in six weeks. It will work if passion counts for something. If good journalism still matters. If horse racing recognizes a good thing. And it doesn’t rain . . . the phones get hooked up . . . we get to sleep an hour or two a night . . . the ads keep rolling in . . . the readers flock . . . it will work. It will docks, when the long format still ran, work. It will work. I’m taping it on the tops of my shoes, the mirror of my car, the backs of my hands. It will work. Today is day one of the greatest race meet in the world and day one of a roiling six-week adventure of writing, selling and convincing from this corner of the office. I didn’t say corner office. competitors jogged all over the country- We’re the kids who started a lemonade stand because they were thirsty. Now we’ll see if our lemonade sells. I’ll be here every day – writing what I see, what I feel, what I hear in Saratoga. This paper is brand new, this column is working on its third year. I wrote my first jour- nal in 1999 and turned it into the book Saratoga Days side on roads and tracks. The trade fair, (still available in stores and out of my car trunk). Last year, I managed a half journal after breaking my ankle in a steeplechase race. This year, it’s strictly journalism as I retired in November and dove straight into this project. I’m sure I’ll always be classified as a steeplechase guy concessions and sponsors were all but don’t let that lull you into thinking this column, or housed in tents atop of a hill, prey to Order your copy today: the often angry October weather. e Best of THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 2003 The committee did what it could, as best it could, for as long as it could. ORDER FORM But a 30-year destination still QTY ITEM Price TOTAL became a memory. ______Best of The Saratoga Special $25.00 $______(Maryland Residents add 5% Sales Tax) ______Joanie Morris is the eventing editor of SHIPPING AND HANDLING: ($8 per book – please contact us for quantity orders) $______The Times. TOTAL $______133

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