Head of the Class Headley Britannia and Lucinda Fredericks Win Badminton
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Complimentary Steeplechase TheTimes& Eventing A Publication of ST Publishing, Inc. Volume 14, No. 5 Friday, May 18, 2007 Nice Shirt Good Night Shirt and Willie Dowling soar to Iroquois win Head of the Class Headley Britannia and Lucinda Fredericks win Badminton Inside: Salmo dominates Virginia Gold Cup Feeling So Pretty retired Jersey Fresh eventing preview Steeplechase The and Eventing Entries What’s Happening and Where To Find It Times Here’s your newspaper. The date stays May 18, but we pushed the deadline (half on purpose, half not) to include some more current information and get steeplechase fans off to Fair Hill with the most current information. The last few weeks have been fi lled with stellar performances – Salmo at the Virginia Gold Cup, Headley Brittania at ST Publishing, Inc. Badminton and Good Night Shirt at the Iroquois chief among them. Enjoy reliving them. 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Phone: (410) 392-5867 PAGES 6-7 Fax: (410) 392-0170 E-mail: [email protected] On the Web: www.st-publishing.com Steeplechase News Best Attack wins Steeplechase Triple Crown fi nale and Seeyouattheevent gives the Jack Fisher barn another stakes win; NSA top 10 standings; Super mare Feeling So Pretty retires; Summer schedule announced. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy and Joe Clancy Jr. Art Director: Kevin Titter PAGES 10-15 Copy Editor: Jamie Santo Editorial/Design Intern: Rebecca Walton Advertising Representatives: Debbie LaBerge (717) 529-2158 Iroquois Steeplechase National accounts/equine products Good Night Shirt shines in Grade I victory. Paradise’s Boss, Irish Michelle Rosenkilde (410) 557-7652 Harford/Baltimore Co. Maryland Prince, Orchid Princess play supporting roles on stakes-fi lled card. 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PAGES 28-29 www.americanhorsepublications.org Badminton On the Cover Steeplechaser Good Headley Britannia and Lucinda Fredericks ride to historic victory in Night Shirt fl ashes over English event. a fence in his Iroquois victory and eventing heroine Headley Steeplechase Britannia throws down The and Eventing I PICKED UP THE TIMES AT: some superb dressage ________________ work in her win at Times Badminton, England. Photos: Tod Marks and Anthony Trollope. 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All Rights Reserved. 2 • TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 18, 2007 Times TheTimes / Steeplechase & Eventing www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 18 , 2007 • 3 News and Notes from around the circuit FOR STARTERS Worth Repeating “Good thing you didn’t catch me in the bath, because I’d be quite cold by now.” Event rider Lucinda Fredericks, at the end of a 41-minute evening telephone call with a reporter “We saw every landmark in Monroe and none of them pointed to the race course.” Steeplechase fan Dick Ogden, on the drive to the Queen’s Cup Steeplechase “Franklin.” Brand name of the street-hockey shin guards used by trainer Jack Fisher’s timber horses “Even I enjoyed watching that. It was just something to watch. He jumped for fun.” Awestruck jockey Rob Massey, after watching Chip Miller and Salmo win the Virginia Gold Cup “Not so good – I haven’t won the Power Ball yet.” Willowdale Steeplechase gatekeeper Harvey Journey, to the simple question ‘How ya doin, Harvey?’ “I’m going into a career as a ventriloquist after this.” Injured jump jockey Robbie Walsh, whose jaw is wired shut “Now that’s a jumper.” Willowdale announcer Tony Bentley, as a horse-shaped balloon fl ew into the sky “If any of you lads are in front of Mark The Shark in a 3-mile hurdle race, you are out of your minds.” Steeplechase jockey Xavier Aizpuru, Tod Marks to a cast of amateur jockeys discussing FACE OF A CHAMP. McDynamo looked as good as ever while keeping his eyes on things at race strategy at the Iroquois the Iroquois barn before his seasonal debut. “He’s been kicked by the best.” Van driver Keith Cooper, a horse can be knocked down by another 17: “Steeplechase people” (at least) on on McDynamo’s pony companion Garth horse that fell and it still says ‘fell.’ He might Southwest Airlines Flight 1894 from Nash- have jumped perfectly fi ne, but it looks like ville to Philadelphia May 12. he made a hash of it.” Defi nitions, Defi nitions 138,500: Dollars earned by Jack Fisher- A jockey hitting the ground in a steeple- One Anxious Moment trained horses at the Iroquois – 36 percent chase is a jockey hitting the ground in a of the $390,000 paid out by the Nashville steeplechase – fall, lost rider, brought down The seemingly Skippy Creamy smooth meet run May 12. are all the same, right? trip around the Virginia Gold Cup course Not so fast. by Salmo and Chip Miller included one anx- 38: Antique carriages on parade at Winter- There’s a huge difference, especially to ious moment – two or three head tosses thur jockeys – who can live with F (for fall) but approaching the 11th fence. Miller laughed really don’t like LR (for lost rider). F means about it. 34: Rolls-Royces and Bentleys on display the horse fell. LR means the jockey fell of. “He was just doing his job and tossing at Winterthur Big difference. his head at me when I was trying to slow A recent conversation produced the fol- him down. He got a little quick away from 32: Program number of Rolex Kentucky lowing snippets: the noise of the crowd over there and I three-day event winner Ben Along Time and “I rode a horse once that jumped so bad- picked up my hands to see if I could get him Clayton Fredericks. ly that her belly and my heels were on the to come back to me a little bit – he didn’t ground while my feet were in the stirrups. want any part of it and was mad at me for a 32: Program number of Badminton winner Eventually I came off her, and of course it few strides, so I put my hands back down.” Headley Britannia and Lucinda Fredericks was listed as a lost rider in the results. That (Clayton’s wife). should have been a fall.” “All I could hear was the announcer say- Take A Number 6-1: Starting price of Headley Britannia to ing ‘and so-and-so has lost his rider’ and win the Badminton Horse Trials (yes, there the horse was lying on top of me. There’s 331: Pounds the quintet of steeplechase is betting on eventing in England). not much more I could have done.” fans Harry Walker, Tom Young, Trevor “In England, they’ve got a third choice McCarron, Jack Clancy and Nolan Clancy 11-10: Headley Britannia’s odds entering – brought down – which says a lot. 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