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Complimentary Steeplechase The & Eventing 2007 Times Premiere Issue A Publication of ST Publishing, Inc. Volume 14, No. 1 • Friday, March 9, 2007 Steeplechasing Eventing 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 The and Eventing Entries 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 PAGES 37-41 March 9 May 18 October 5 March 30 June 8 October 19 April 20 July 13 November 9 List Mania May 4 September 21 December 14 Find out who’s in, who’s on the bench, where they’re headed and what they’re up to as we catch up with the Member: American Horse Publications American Horse Publications is the nation’s only asso- country’s best event riders. ciation of equine periodicals. AHP’s over 200 members are dedicated to promoting better understanding and communication within the equine publishing industry. PAGES 42-44 www.americanhorsepublications.org Eventing Features On the Cover Streaking Debbie Adams, Alison Springer and Adri- 32 stars to choose from in enne Iorio tell their early season success stories. 2007. Photos: Steeplechase Shannon Brinkman, The and Eventing I PICKED UP THE TIMES AT: Tod Marks, Mike McNally Times ________________ and Anthony Trollope Name: ___________________________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ Also by ST Publishing: _________________________________________________________________________________________ The Saratoga Special, The Special At Keeneland, The Breeders’ Cup Telephone: _____________________________________ Email: ___________________________________ Special, Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, ST International racing If gift subscription, please list your name and address. 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All Rights Reserved. 2 • 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 Northern Baby, 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 dressage 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 hit 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.