Inside Good Night Shirt Triumphs in Iroquois

Steeplechase Complimentary The & Eventing

A Publication of ST Publishing, Inc. Times Vol. 15, No. 5 • Friday, May 23, 2008

Inside Good Night Shirt triumphs in Iroquois. Allimac, Dr. Bloomer, Guelph shine on Iroquois undercard. Jersey Fresh, Fair Hill Eventing News. Sure Thing Upstart Be Certain (left) takes the National Hunt Cup Steeplechase Entries The and Eventing What’s Happening and Where To Find It Time s Here’s your newspaper. Number five on the year, and we’re in the homestretch for the spring season with Fair Hill upon us and summer racing on the horizon. Good Night Shirt reaffirmed his class on a star-packed racing program at the Iroquois and Be Certain emerged as a potential player at Radnor. Over timber, Allimac and Monte Bianco stood up for Ireland with ST Publishing, Inc. stakes wins. On the eventing side, we’ve got updates from Jersey Fresh and Fair Hill. 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 PageS 6-8 In the Heart of Fair Hill Horse Country Phone: (410) 392-5867 Fax: (410) 392-0170 New Kid in Town E-mail: [email protected] Four-year-old Be Certain upsets Planets Aligned in National Hunt Cup On the Web: www.st-publishing.com sweep by trainer Tom Voss; Monte Bianco surprises timber stars in Rad- nor Hunt Cup. The Staff PageS 10-11 Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy and Joe Clancy Jr. Copy Editor: Jamie Santo Staff Writer: Brian Nadeau Advertising Representatives: Tower of Strength Michelle Rosenkilde (410) 557-7652 Locals shine at High Hope as Normandy Tower (for owner/breeder Nor- Harford/Baltimore Co. Maryland mandy Farm) and Slip Away (Ken Ramsey) pick up victories at Kentucky Reney Stanley (804) 449-2388 Virginia race meet. Contributors: Barry Watson, Katy Carter, Tod Marks, Pages 12-13 Cathy Roelke, Karen Aspinwall, Sam Clancy, Anne Clancy, Joe Clancy Sr., Ruth Clancy, Ryan Clancy, Casting a Spell Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy. Gryffindor carries the steeplechase flag for Dapple Stable with victory at Willowdale; Western Fling wins a laugher for Crestview Farm. 2008 Publication Dates ‘Pick March 19 May 23 October 10 April 9 June 6 October 24 Pages 14-17 April 25 July 18 November 14 Six’ May 9 September 19 December 12 Kings of the Hill Don’t Forget to Advertise! Steeplechasing’s second-richest stop (and tops on the spring circuit) Iroquois hosts plethora of powerful performances – by Good Night Shirt, Dr. Bloomer, Guelph, Allimac, Mon Villez and Dreadnaught. Member: American Horse Publications American Horse Publications is the nation’s only association of equine periodicals. AHP’s over 200 members are dedicated to promoting better understanding and communication within the equine publishing industry.

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Eventing News On the Cover Catching up with the scores from Jersey Fresh and Fair Hill. Be Certain and Matt Mc- Carron skim the wing to catch Planets Aligned in the stretch of the BNY Mellon National Hunt Steeplechase Cup and give trainer Tom T I PICKED UP THE TIMES AT: h e and Eventing Voss a 1-2 sweep of ______the Steeplechase Triple Ti m e s Crown’s finale.

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2 ȱ KESWICK LIFE Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 3 Take A Number 6: Position of McDynamo on the progey earnings list of his sire News and Notes Dynaformer. The retired three-time steeplechase champion earned from around the circuit more than $1.35 million and trails only Perfect Drift, Dynever, Bar- baro, Film Maker and Riskaverse.

4: Times owner Sonny Via rang the Iroquois bell at the post position draw Thursday. Moments later, Via’s horse Good Night Shirt FOR STARTERS was assigned post position four.

3: Daughters of steeplechase starters in the Margaret Currey Hen- Tod Marks ley Memorial stakes for fillies/mares at Nashville. Distant Drum- WESTWARD BOUND. Western Fling sails roll, a hurdle winner in 1999, produced winner Guelph; three-time over the water jump in his one-sided victory hurdle winner Strawberry Angel produced runner-up Jellyberry in Willowdale’s open timber. and two-time hurdle winner Skillogalee produced fourth-place finisher Dynaskill.

3: Photo-finish wins (neck or less) by Dreadnaught in 45-start flat and jump career.

8: Photo-finish defeats (neck or less) by Dreadnaught in 45-start flat and jump career. Correction Blame the research department (if we had one). Steeplechase photographer Douglas Lees has attended 40 consecutive runnings of the Maryland Hunt Cup – not 41 as we reported in the May 9 edition. Lees arrived at the 1969 Hunt Cup and set up at the third and 13th fences – he’d heard they were the biggest on the course – and has been there ever since. The Maryland Horse published Lees’ photo of Moonlore clearing the third. Landing Party, ridden by Dr. John R.S. Fisher, won the race that year and started Lees’ streak that reached 40 with Askim this spring. Lees shoots the paddock scene before the race, the action at the third and the 13th and then sprints across Tufton Avenue to the finish line – he didn’t realize that was possible until about 1972. Now That’s A Typo Each year, the Iroquois program reserves a half-page for a photo of the previous year’s winner. The 2008 program featured a shot of 2007 race winner Good Night Shirt skillfully clearing a fence and listed the owner, trainer and jockey. The trouble came in the headline which listed Good Night Shirt as the 2008 Iroquois Steeplechase Winner. The horse was the favorite and all, but the program designer might be a psychic. “We make pretty good groupies.” Maryland Hunt Cup Mounts Worth Repeating Quem Se Atreve’s owner Carl Gessler, who led a happy Career leaders in Maryland Hunt Cup Radnor sponsor tent attendee, after listening to a ‘how to read entourage to the winner’s circle after Good Night Shirt won the mounts by jockeys (*-denotes active): the program’ lecture from ST’s Joe Clancy: “I’ve got one more Iroquois for Sonny Via and Gessler’s trainer Jack Fisher question for you. Who’s going to win the first?” Jockey Mounts Clancy: “Number 2, Dynaski.” “Just the way I envisioned it.” Paddy Neilson ...... 21 Same fan, one race later: “OK, who’s going to win the second?” Trainer Tom Voss, after his trainees Be Certain and Planets Jervis Spencer Jr...... 20 Clancy: “Number 1, Rainierio.” Aligned finished 1-2 in the National Hunt Cup at Radnor *Billy Meister...... 18 With a perfect score, a happy customer and nowhere to go but Jack Griswold...... 16 down, Clancy left the tent before the stakes got higher. “Yeah, that’s me – a long time ago. I look pretty good, don’t I?” Charlie Fenwick Jr...... 15 Voss, looking at a photo with “Voss the boss” headline Buzz Hannum...... 15 Paddy Neilson “The only thing I have done with more consistency than attending from a recent Irish Field. Despite the trainer’s assertion, Redmond Stewart...... 15 the Maryland Hunt Cup is having a birthday.” the photo features top German show rider Thomas Voss George Brown Jr...... 14 Steeplechase enthusiast and 1975 Hunt Cup winner Russell (an Olympic hopeful) in action at a recent competition. John Bosley Jr...... 13 Jones, who has attended every Maryland Hunt Cup since 1949 Joe Davies...... 13 Jay Meister...... 12 “He got a little stirred up on the trailer so we took him off. The It Pays to Help Out Mikey Smithwick...... 12 truck and trailer and the horse got here at about the same time.” ST enlisted the support of trainer Kathy McKenna (and as- John Bosley IV...... 10 Owner/trainer John Griggs, on the final stages of Hip Hop’s trip sistants) to get some newspapers to Lexington, Ky. for the High Bruce Fenwick...... 10 to the Iroquois. Griggs and Dick Richards traveled the 200 or Hope Races last week and the stable picked up a win with Scuba Janon Fisher III...... 10 so miles from Lexington, Ky. with the horse – who walked the Steve. Gene Weymouth...... 10 last 2 (with Richards) due to traffic problems. BIlly Meister Thank you Team McKenna, and congratulations.

4 • Steeplechase & Eventing Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 23, 2008 News and Notes from around the circuit SOTA & NSA Steeplechase Conference FOR STARTERS Saturday, June 28 Noon to 9 P.M. Everybody’s Dulles Marriott Hotel Dulles Airport, Virginia Invited!

Schedule Noon to 1 p.m. Lunch 1 to 6 p.m. Question & Answer 6 to 7 p.m. Cocktail Hour 7 to 9 p.m. Dinner

Meeting Format: We plan to have a head table at the front of Location: Dulles Marriott Hotel is located just before the the room with various individuals representing different factions airport off the Dulles Access Road. of our sport (Owner, Trainer, Rider, Race Meet Ofﬁcial, Race Cost: $100 for entire day, which includes lunch, cocktail hour Meet Director, NSA Ofﬁce, NSA Board, SOTA). All of these and dinner. people will take questions and hopefully we will come to a consensus on several topics. Overnight accommodations: Sleeping rooms available at $79 Please include questions and topics of interest on the reply plus tax. Contact Dulles Marriott Hotel at 703-471-9500 to make form below. a room reservation. Tod Marks photo

Yes, I would like to attend the Steeplechase Conference!

Number attending Name: ($100 per): Address: Please remit payment to: SOTA c/o W. Gary Baker P.O. Box 2122 Middleburg, VA 20118 Telephone #: Phone: (540) 687-3455

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Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 5 radnor Hunt Races Saturday, May 17 Certain Victory BY Jamie Santo MALVERN, Pa. – Things were different a year ago. Be Certain hadn’t yet seen a race course, let alone a National Fence. Planets Aligned had just tasted his first success following two disastrous steeplechase Tod Marks starts. And Chip Miller caught Matt McCarron at the Be Certain (left) battles Planets Aligned wire to win the National Hunt Cup. near the finish of the National Hunt Cup. Some 363 days and 4:54 later, everything had changed. Be Certain posed for a third win picture, Planets After rating comfortably, he crept into contention in Planets Aligned entered the Grade II stakes as the Aligned tasted defeat after having grown accustomed the stretch, where the 4-year-old – toting just 139 favorite after taking the 2007 NSA novice champion- to victory and McCarron flashed a smile at the finish. pounds – surged forward to head a gutsy but tired ship and kicking off this year’s campaign with a win in The 2008 renewal of the $75,000 BNY Mellon Na- Planets Aligned at the wire. The duo completed a Tom the Temple Gwathmey. But all that success earned the tional Hunt Cup drew a field of eight novice hurdlers Voss-trained exacta, finishing nearly 16 lengths clear 7-year-old highweight of 157 pounds under the allow- eager to take home the third leg of the Steeplechase of The Price Of Love (Danielle Hodsdon) in third. ance conditions. Alnoff Stable’s Be Certain, recently Triple Crown. “He was as game as could be,” said McCarron, im- crowned champion New York-bred steeplechaser of Sunshine Numbers (Arch Kingsley) ran to daylight pressed after his first ride on the winner. “Chip tight- 2007, had surely come a long way in a short time, but early, followed by Planets Aligned (Miller), and the ened it up a good bit on me coming to the last fence as a 4-year-old with only one allowance win he got in pair distanced themselves from the field for most of and for a 4-year-old to pick up for me when I needed with a feathery 139. the proceedings. Approaching the second-last, Planets him to was phenomenal. It just shows you how much “Well, he got lucky today,” said Voss of the winner. Aligned had eclipsed the fading pacesetter and ap- grit and determination he has. He landed, picked him- As for Planets Aligned, “it was not his kind of race. peared ascendent. But Be Certain (McCarron) wasn’t self up, locked back on to Planets Aligned and wore He was a little on the muscle early. I thought they’d content to simply witness his stablemate’s coronation. him down.” See radnor page 7

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6 • Steeplechase & Eventing Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 23, 2008 Radnor – Continued from page 6 all come up, but they all just sat in behind him. He was in front way too early. He just sort of had to run into that. And 18 pounds makes a big difference, I don’t care what you say.” Miller didn’t use the weight as an excuse, but wondered if success hadn’t gone SAVINGS ON to Planets Aligned’s head. “When I rode him last year I always broke sharp and I could take him back NEW JOHN DEERE and I could basically do what I wanted. Today, he was a horse that had been win- EQUIPMENT ARE ning races, so he was a little braver, a little cockier – ‘I want to go where I want to go.’ You couldn’t just get him to switch ONLY A PHONE off and come back a little bit.” Be Certain entered the day a novice CALL AWAY. among novices. Bred in New York by Sugar Maple Farm, he made two flat Tod Marks starts against state-bred maiden company Monte Bianco (Xavier Aizpuru) pulls away from Erin Go Bragh at the last fence in the Radnor Hunt last year (placing seventh and eighth) for Cup over timber. trainer Roger Horgan before being trans- ferred to Voss’ barn after an impromptu school at Saratoga. him up but luckily when he got to the front he actually started The chestnut son of Thunder Gulch didn’t go for his first to relax a little bit.” proper school until September, but finished third in his debut Running in second, Private Attack fell over the 17th and and won his second start, the Raymond Woolfe Memorial at Irish Prince (Jody Petty) picked up the chase, followed by Erin Camden in November. He came to Radnor off an allowance Go Bragh (Young) and Miles Ahead. NTRA ADVANTAGE victory at the Virginia Gold Cup May 3. Monte Bianco ratcheted up the pressure as the field began “He ran a really good race there, a real gutsy race.” said the uphill swing for home, and Irish Prince countered, draw- MEMBERS CAN ENJOY ing even with two fences remaining. Bubble Economy didn’t Voss. “It was sort of a second thought to run him here. But EXTRA COUPON SAVINGS* the weight was right for him. There wasn’t a whole lot for go on with it but Miles Ahead, mired in traffic for much of him at Colonial (Downs in the summer). It’s tough there, hot, the running, finally got clear and the pieces were in place for WORTH UP TO $250 ON a long ship – might as well run him here and just put him a stirring stretch drive. away until Saratoga or something. That’s what I thought, But Monte Bianco never let it develop. Like Shaquille SELECT AGRICULTURAL O’Neal posting up Spud Webb, Monte Bianco shrugged off that’s what we did and it worked out. One of those things EQUIPMENT, AND UP that sometimes work out.” the challenge of Irish Prince and drove to the hoop, crossing the line comfortably ahead of a hard-charging but too late TO $1,000 ON SELECT • Like a shelf of Wheaties boxes, the $40,000 Bellevue Miles Ahead, who caught Irish Prince for second. Radnor Hunt Cup was stacked with champions. Yet despite Not quite how Aizpuru drew it up on paper, but not all LAWN AND GARDEN CARE that bad either. the presence of timber titlists Bubble Economy (2004), Miles EQUIPMENT – IN ADDITION Ahead (2005) and Irish Prince (2007), the day belonged to “When Irish Prince came to him at the top of the hill I Nick Arundel’s Monte Bianco, who flashed championship actually thought we would jump the last couple of fences to- TO CURRENT JOHN DEERE form of his own as he coasted to a 2 1/2-length victory under gether and see which horse was the best,” the jockey said. Aizpuru. “But we hit level ground and I gave him a little tap on the INCENTIVE PROGRAMS THAT shoulder and he absolutely flew home.” Monte Bianco put in a great effort at Great Meadow, com- ARE IN EFFECT. ing within a length of taking the Virginia Gold Cup, only Though Aizpuru had been impressed with Monte Bianco’s run in the Gold Cup, he headed to Radnor not knowing if the to settle for honorable mention as Bubble Economy, Miles Call and tell us about Ahead and Hot Springs all squeaked home ahead of him. At 7-year-old would handle the tricky course. Add in the stiff Radnor, the Jack Fisher trainee enjoyed the cutback from 4 to competition, and last season’s champion jockey was as cau- the product you’d like to 3 1/4 miles and enjoyed his biggest victory, holding off Miles tious as he was optimistic heading into Saturday’s test. Ahead and Irish Prince through the stretch to win in a final “Horses either like Radnor or they hate it, but I thought if purchase and your nearest he took to it he would be a pretty tough horse,” Aizpuru said. time of 7:15 2/5. dealer, and we’ll ensure Aizpuru set the Irish-bred to stalking Grand National win- “Unless there’s genuine pace in the race I’m always going to ner Private Attack (Billy Santoro) early, only to find himself be nearer to the front than the back and those horses like you’ll receive your very best on the lead after less than a mile. to come from behind, Miles Ahead, Bubble Economy, Irish “There was just no genuine pace out there and I didn’t Prince, so it gets to the point where you just have to focus on deal. Discounts only available your horse and ride your race. 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Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 7 08-500-247 PhoneCall_2.375x13.5_1 1 5/6/08 12:28:03 PM • Augustin Stable’s Rainiero looked strong in the second, taking the $30,000 Radnor – allowance by 1 1/4 lengths over Look At Continued from page 7 Him (Hodsdon) and Delacroix (Willie Dowling). Trained by Sanna Hendriks, the • Tom Petty got it wrong – the wait- winner covered the 2 3/8 miles in 5:03. ing isn’t the hardest part. It’s not even Put into the race immediately, Raini- hard. Just ask Chip Miller, who won ero (Petty) clung to pacesetter Look At the opener with a patented, patient ride Him for the first 2 miles. As the field en- aboard Armata Stable’s Dynaski. tered the stretch the pair made it a match “At my age (37), when you’ve ridden race, powering 8 lengths ahead of the long enough, you’re willing to take your field. Rainiero began to edge clear with chances and sit chilly where if he’s good two jumps remaining and held sway enough you’ve still got plenty of time.” under the line. Look At Him finished Aboard the maiden son of Dy- a neck to the good of Delacroix, who naformer for the first time, Miller com- closed well after balking at the start. fortably stalked the pace as the field “He was a real bearcat and really on made its preliminary passes of the fin- his game,” Petty said of his mount. “He ish line. Heading for home, Dynaski was strong and jumped his way right loomed like a fun-house ghost, ready to into it for me today. He ran huge, it was pop-out and scare the unsuspecting trio one of his best efforts.” of Coupe De Ville, Rainbows For Luck A 6-year-old Chilean-bred son of Af- and Nat Grew. Miller was right where rican Dancer, Rainiero made his stee- he wanted to be. Tod Marks plechase and U.S. debut with a maiden Dynaski (right, Chip Miller) catches Nat Grew at the last fence in the Radnor opener. “I was on the best horse and found score at Philadelphia Park last October. myself in the perfect spot,” Miller said. Fifth in the Foxbrook novice at Far Hills, pacesetter Zozimus (Young) and Happy two distant finishes. The learning curve “I could have tried to win the race com- he was given the rest of the season off, Seamus. But having taken a short lead is now on the upswing. ing up the hill before we got to the sec- and returned for 2008 at Aiken, where into the second-last, Happy Seamus “He’s run a few times, he was second ond-last but we still had a long way to he fell while in front at the last. Raini- stumbled over the fence and lost Robbie at Middleburg,” said Wyatt. “He got go and on a day like this the race course ero built some momentum at Strawberry Walsh, leaving the way clear for Clos- the job done today, that was nice. is really difficult; you jump a lot of fenc- Hill, where he was second behind Lead ertoyourheart. He pulled away to finish Murphy didn’t receive too many pre- es, soft ground, so I just thought I would Us Not, and things peaked at Radnor. 3 1/2 lengths clear of Zozimus, in 4:55 race instructions from the trainer. take my chances and wait as long as I “He fell at Aiken and I got stuck at 3/5 for the 2 3/8 miles. Meadow Lark- “Maybe just keep him tucked in.” could because all that stuff adds up.” the last at Strawberry Hill, so I throt- ing (Aizpuru) ambled home a distant Wyatt said. “Get a good lead, he’s hon- It added up to victory. Fresh and full tled him down and tried to stay behind third. est, he’d like the trip.” of run, Dynaski charged past Nat Grew Danielle,” Petty said. “I wasn’t sure if A 5-year-old son of Awad, Closertoy- The Irish-born jockey liked the trip (Carl Rafter) in the stretch to score by he would handle the soft ground but ourheart gave Wyatt his first victory af- as well, as he notched his 15th career three-quarters of a length, with Coupe he impressed me a lot. I think he’s just ter leaving a job as Voss’ chief assistant, victory. The win marked the end of his De Ville (Paddy Young) third. coming into his best form. He might winning a flat race at Pimlico last spring days as an apprentice, which began Dynaski’s trainer, Tom Voss, was have been a little rattled last time, from under the trainer’s wife, Blair. After scor- more than six years ago. rewarded for his patience as well. The the fall at Aiken, but he had his game ing once more on the flat, he switched With additional reporting by Brian Na- 5-year-old didn’t make his steeplechase face on (at Radnor).” to steeplechasing, closing out 2007 with deau and Joe Clancy debut until May 3 at Great Meadow. “I love him. Just love him. He took • At this point, anybody surprised by 4th. $75,000. Nov. hurdle stakes. 2 3/8 miles. a long time to get jumping, he was real Radnor Hunt Races Duke Of Earl simply hasn’t been paying Malvern, Pa. Saturday, May 17. Turf: Yielding. National Hunt Cup (Gr. II – Novice) safe,” Voss said. “He’s so big and heavy, attention. The little claimer that could 1. Be Certain L 139 McCarron I tried to give him a flat race, just to get notched his seventh career hurdle score 1st. $25,000. SOK mdn. hurdle. 2 3/8 miles. 2. Planets Aligned L 157 C. Miller the flab off more than anything else. It Saturday, taking the $25,000 Sport of 1. Dynaski L 154 C. Miller 3. The Price Of Love L 148 Hodsdon just never worked out. But he’s fitter Kings claimer for owner Ann Stern. Aiz- 2. Nat Grew L 141 Rafter 4. Swagger Stick L 148 Dowling than I thought he was, anyway . . . The puru and Fisher paired for their second 3. Coupe De Ville L 140 Young 5. Sunshine Numbers L 148 Kingsley first time he ran, I thought he’d be green, win on the card as the Duke scored for 4. Dubai Sunday (Jpn) L 154 McCormack F. Imagina (Chi) L 149 Petty safe, but he ran very well. If we’d tried 5. Expel L 138 J. Murphy F. Run The Light L 148 Read the fourth time in his last six outings, a PU. Orpington L 151 Aizpuru real hard, he could have won the race. string of success that dates to last July at 6. Rainbows For Luck L 154 Walsh But he closed real good and finished sec- 7. Right Hand Red L 149 Santoro Mgn: Head. Time: 4:54. Colonial Downs. 8. Seer L 140 Dowling O: Alnoff Stable. T: Tom Voss. ond. Came back real fresh, like it wasn’t “He’s such a cool horse,” Aizpuru Ch. g. 4 Thunder Gulch-Do Mountain Doo, anything for him, and he’s still fresh af- 9. Seeking No More L 140 Aizpuru said. “He’s so little but he’s got the heart PU. Beech Cay L 140 Petty Mountain Cat. Bred by Sugar Maple Farm (NY). ter this race. You get a good turn of foot and the try in him.” PU. Magic Boots L 149 Carter when you go, which I didn’t think he Duke Of Earl rated comfortably in Mgn: 3/4. Time: 5:00. 5th. $25,000. SOK clm. hurdle. 2 3/8 miles. had. He’s a real good horse, I think.” third, used his push-button acceleration O: Armata Stable. T: Tom Voss. Min. claiming price $15,000 to draw clear in the stretch and B. g. 5 Dynaformer-Ski Racer (Fr), Ski Chief. 1. Duke Of Earl (Ire) L 145 Aizpuru never looked in any danger. He fin- Bred by Budget Stable (Ky). 2. Pleasant Pick L 148 Kingsley 3. Four Schools (Ire) 155 McWade ished in 4:58, 6 1/4 lengths clear of 4. Sweep Domino (Chi) L 145 McCarron Pleasant Pick (Kingsley), with Four 2nd. $30,000. Allow. hurdle. 2 3/8 miles. NW1X Or NW2. 5. Zhukov (NZ) L 156 Young Schools (Richard McWade) third. 1. Rainiero (Chi) L 152 Petty 6. Free Admission L 150 Hodsdon Aizpuru acknowledged that 2. Look At Him L 144 Hodsdon PU. Kirimbai L 145 Walsh those viewing the diminutive Duke 3. Delacroix L 144 Dowling Mgn: 6 1/4. Time: 4:58. have reason to doubt the 9-year-old 4. Red Letter Day L 148 Walsh O: Ann Stern. T: Jack Fisher. Irish-bred. 5. Gigger L 156 C. Miller Ch. g. 9 Ali-Royal (Ire)-Faye (GB), Monsanto. “Every time you see him in the PU. Discreet Charmer L 142 Young Bred by Noel Finegan (Ire). paddock you say, ‘How’s he going PU. Sparkled L 144 Slater 6th. $20,000. Mdn. clm. hurdle. 2 3/8 miles. to compete with these horses?’ But Mgn: 1 1/4. Time: 5:03. O: Augustin Stable. T: Sanna Hendriks. Claiming price $30,000-$25,000. then he goes out there and gets the 1. Closertoyourheart L 143 J. Murphy job done, and that’s what sets him B. g. 6 African Dancer-Ultramar (Chi), El Mor- gon. Bred by Haras Dadinco (Chi). 2. Zozimus L 148 Young apart.” 3. Meadow LarKing L 148 Aizpuru 3rd. $40,000. Timber stakes. 3 1/4 miles. 4. Rosemont Runner L 148 Carter • Closertoyourheart further Radnor Hunt Cup LR. Happy Seamus L 148 Walsh endeared himself to trainer Todd 1. Monte Bianco (Ire) L 160 Aizpuru PU. Path Of Perfection L 148 Rafter Wyatt, closing out the card with a 2. Miles Ahead L 160 Read PU. Ole Boy L 142 McCarron maiden-breaking score for owner 3. Irish Prince (NZ) L 165 Petty PU. Mornin’ Eddie L 148 Dowling Richard Stokes. 4. Erin Go Bragh (NZ) L 165 Young PU. Ravens Fan L 138 Slater Trying hurdles for the fourth 5. Hall Of Angels L 155 Walsh Mgn: 3 1/2. Time: 4:55 3/5. 6. Fappa Fire L 160 Curry O: Richard Stokes. T: Todd Wyatt. time, the chestnut sat comfortably Ch. g. 5 Awad-Lotsbrass, Dixieland Brass. in the middle of the pack early in F. Private Attack L 160 Santoro LR. Straight Gin L 155 McCormack Bred by Wayne Rhodes (Md). the $20,000 maiden claimer. As PU. Bubble Economy L 165 C. Miller the field, which had dwindled from Mgn: 2 1/2. Time: 7:15 4/5. nine to five, headed for home, it O: Arthur Arundel. T: Jack Fisher. Tod Marks was a three-horse race between B. g. 7 King Of Kings (Ire)-Creme Caramel, Closertoyourheart (1, Jeff Murphy) jumps early in his Septieme Ciel. Bred by Mrs. C.A. Waters (Ire). Radnor maiden claiming win. Closertoyourheart (Jeff Murphy),

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Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 9 Standing Tall Recent convert Normandy Tower shines in jump debut for Sheppard by brian nadeau high hope steeplechase In the Italian countryside Normandy Sunday, May 18 Tower is a pillar of strength, a mas- sive structure in the city of Naples that foes at Keeneland April 19, Sheppard has survived the ravages of war during thought it was time to try something he Frederick II’s reign almost 800 years had in mind all along – jumps. before. May 18 in the Lexington blue- “We have schooled him on and off grass Normandy Tower was a graceful over his career, even back when we first Thoroughbred, soaring to victory at got him, and I always thought he could the Kentucky Horse Park’s High Hope be an above-average jumper,” Shep- Steeplechase. pard said. “He stays all day long and Normandy Tower won his jump de- has that long stride, and he has a high but for Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan cruising speed for a steeplechase horse. Sheppard in the third, a $25,000 maiden The question for him was can he put it Suzie Picou-Oldham hurdle and the meet’s feature. Normandy all together?” Normandy Tower (Danielle Hodsdon) sails a fence en route to his maiden hurdle win. Tower (Danielle Hodsdon) scored by 3 Sheppard recalled Normandy Tower Sheppard found out that Normandy ing to the Churchill race and it’s right 3/4 lengths over Master William (Xavier when he was an unraced maiden in ear- Tower was a talented, albeit unproven, here in your hometown.’ So, it worked Aizpuru) and Cuse (Robbie Walsh) in ly 2005, when “putting it all together” runner. After three years and 13 starts out really well and as you can tell the 4:08 2/5 for the 2 1/8 miles. was indeed a $64,000 question. on the flat, Sheppard finally got Nor- horse seems to have some ability to On the flat, Normandy Tower en- “He was a real stud horse when we mandy Tower introduced to the steeple- him.” joyed mixed success for Nancy Polk’s first got him; really difficult to deal with chase game at High Hope with the help Normandy Farm, a 260-acre operation and very tough to ride,” Sheppard said. of a convincing phone call. • Two years ago Mark The Shark in Lexington that has upward of 45 “So we schooled him over jumps a few “I was just looking for an excuse to was on the verge of threatening the best broodmares. The son of Lion Cavern times in an effort to try and calm him try him over jumps,” Sheppard said. open stakes horses on the circuit. Solid broke his maiden on the main track at down and try and learn a little bit about “The owner wanted to run at Churchill efforts in the Zeke Ferguson (where he Tampa Bay Downs in January 2007 and him, see what’s in his head. We do that Downs in June on the grass, but that finished third behind Good Night Shirt) twice ran third in turf claiming races this with a lot of our horses. It helps us see race was still about 15 days away, so I and the A.P. Smithwick preceded a close winter at Gulfstream Park. After seeing how athletic they are and what they called and said ‘Do you want to run at the horse finish sixth against allowance might be.” High Hope? It would be the perfect tim- See high hope page 11

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10 • Steeplechase & Eventing Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 23, 2008 High Hope – Continued from page 10 third to Mixed Up in the Grade I Turf Writers at Saratoga. The Jack Fisher- trainee looked to have a bright future for Cohiba Stable as 2007 opened, but the son of Summer Squall never got un- tracked and ended his season after fail- GET A FLAT ing to finish a Saratoga allowance. At High Hope, the 9-year-old returned to form with a 4 1/4-length vic- SCREEN FOR tory over Barrington (Xavier Aizpuru) and Sheriff Dillon (Carl Rafter) in the A FLAT-OUT $20,000 starter allowance hurdle. Though he’s done his best work on the front end, Mark The Shark rated in GREAT PRICE. third for most of the way before taking charge and drawing clear in 4:09 3/5 for the 2 1/8 miles. “He seemed pretty happy and traveled well. He might be getting back to his old form, back to his best. Two years Suzie Picou-Oldham ago he ran some big races, he was only Slip Away (Xavier Aizpuru) coasts to the line with a win to give trainer Tom Voss his second consecu- beaten 2 1/2 lengths in the Turf Writers, tive three-win weekend. so it would be great to see him get back acquired Scuba Steve shortly after that to that form,” jockey Willie Dowling win, but the horse bowed a tendon after High Hope Steeplechase. said. “Last year he just didn’t fire but this two starts for his new connections. Lexington, Ky. Sunday, May 18. Turf: Good. year he ran good against Duke Of Earl He returned this spring over timber (at Great Meadow), and that one came at Winterthur, checking in third behind 1st. $20,000. Str. allow. hurdle. 2 1/8 miles. back to run well at Radnor, so I’m look- South Monarch. There was never an Claiming price $20,000 or less in 2007-08 ing forward to the summer with him. anxious moment at High Hope as Scuba 1. Mark The Shark L 142 Dowling Sunday was more of a confidence builder Steve coasted over Major Vernon (Cal- 2. Barrington L 146 Aizpuru than anything else. It got his head going vin McCormack) and Feeling So Pretty 3. Sheriff Dillon L 144 Rafter in the right direction and we can really (Robbie Walsh) in 6:21 3/5 for the 3 1/8 4. Ordered To Listen L 137 McCarron 5. Sussex County L 142 Young UP TO 25% DISCOU N T build off of this effort.” miles. The win was especially satisfying 6. Gather No Moss L 146 Walsh for McKenna, who had to work over- 7. Dromineer L 152 Traurig OFF T OSHIBA D IRECT • In the second race, a $15,000 maid- time to get Scuba Steve ready to greet Mgn: 4 1/4. Time: 4:09 3/5. LIST PRICE. en hurdle, Slip Away delivered on the the starter in the afternoon. O: Cohiba Stable. T: Jack Fisher. promise he showed in the fall of 2006 – “It was difficult getting him back to Ch. g. 9, Summer Squall-Miss Waikiki, Mis- Visit Toshiba Afﬁnity when he placed in a 3-year-old stakes – the races and it was a little frustrating waki. Bred by Morven Stud (Va). with a front-running score for Aizpuru, because he’s a temperamental horse that Program Web site 2nd. $15,000. Maiden hurdle. 2 1/8 miles. trainer Tom Voss and Kentucky resdient can be hard on himself. If anything, it ToshibaDirect.com/ntra-aff Ken Ramsey. made me appreciate what a good train- 1. Slip Away L 154 Aizpuru The son of Skip Away shined like er and good horseman Mike Berryman 2. I’lltellyounolies 154 Young or call 800-405-3704 3. Delta Park L 144 Dowling Fred Astaire’s shoes, making the lead is,” McKenna said. “It took awhile to 4. Charismic American L 154 Hodsdon (Program Code: EPNT). immediately and cruising home by 4 get to know him but I think we have 5. Decisive Play L 154 Walsh 3/4 lengths over I’lltellyounolies (Paddy things worked out now and he’s come 6. Dynamont L 154 Rafter That’s the NTRA Advantage Young) and Delta Park (Dowling) in back in good form this year. He just gal- 7. Bone Dry L 154 McCarron 4:08 2/5 for the 2 1/8 miles. loped. The ground was great and the 8. Blue Ribbon Award 154 Traurig — getting you more from your “He jumped really well and I made course was in excellent condition and Mgn: 4 3/4. Time: 4:08 2/5. membership. all the running, though that wasn’t real- he found a good spot. I’ve got to keep O: Ken Ramsey. T: Tom Voss. ly the intention going in,” Aizpuru said. that streak going.” Gr./Ro. g. 5 Skip Away-Aurora Slew, Slew’s “He’s just a big horse with a big stride Royalty. Bred by Glencrest Farm, Trontz & and I knew that once we were in front I • PromiseI’llbehome made it two on Madison (Ky). wasn’t going to get him back in behind, the day for Normandy and Sheppard 3rd. $25,000. SOK mdn. hurdle. 2 1/8 miles. To learn more about when he took the 1 1/2-mile training so we just went on with it. He was re- 1. Normandy Tower L 154 Hodsdon other programs: lentless at the end. He started picking flat for Amateur Riders Club of Amer- 2. Master William L 154 Aizpuru it up at the second-last and won pretty ica jockeys. Remi Bellocq was aboard 3. Cuse L 154 Walsh call 866-678-4289 or the winner, a 4-year-old homebred son 4. English Dancer L 154 Traurig handily; I didn’t even have to take out visit NTRAadvantage.com my stick.” of Came Home. PromiseI’llbehome 5. Sand Box Rules L 144 McCarron scored by 4 1/4 lengths over Terpsicho- LR. Sword Of Dubai L 154 Rafter • Scuba Steve kept a good thing go- rean (Nathy Kelly), with Off The Scale PU. Sefa Player 144 Young ing for trainer Kathy McKenna when he (Caroline Sankey) third. PU. Bernie L 144 Dowling took the fourth, a $10,000 maiden tim- PromiseI’llbehome won his debut Mgn: 3 3/4. Time: 4:08 2/5. O: Normandy Farm. T: Jonathan Sheppard. ber test, by a resounding 22 1/2 lengths. over Keeneland’s Polytrack in October B. h. 6 Lion Cavern-Champaigne Amelia, Cure The win was McKenna’s fifth on the 2006, defeating graded stakes winner The Blues. Bred by Normandy Farm (Ky). year, and fourth in a runaway as Scu- Grasshopper. Last fall he took an al- ba Steve followed stablemates Haddix lowance at Presque Isle Downs over the 4th. $10,000. Maiden timber. 3 1/8 miles. ST0508 (who won by 23 lengths at My Lady’s Tapeta and Sunday Sheppard found the 1. Scuba Steve L 165 Rafter Manor) and Western Fling (40 at the perfect prep for a return engagement. 2. Major Vernon (Ire) L 165 McCormack Grand National and 44 at Willowdale). “He’s a really good-looking horse 3. Feeling So Pretty L 157 Walsh Owned by Perry Bolton, Scuba Steve that seems to be a quality sort,” Shep- F. Thegooddieyoung L 165 McCarron (Rafter) followed in line, outclassing a pard said. “It was kind of a last-minute Mgn: 22 1/2. Time: 6:21 3/5. field of four. The son of Distorted Hu- thing to run at High Hope but we de- O: Perry Bolton. T: Kathy McKenna. B. g. 8, Distorted Humor-Frigid Zone, Procida. mor returned to the winner’s circle for cided to make a day of it and it worked Bred by Charles Nuckols & Sons (Ky). the first time since taking an allowance out quite nicely. This race will be a good hurdle at Atlanta for Mike Berryman tuneup for a race at Presque Isle Downs 5th. Arca training flat. 1 1/2 miles. more than two years ago. McKenna later in their meet.” Amateur jockeys. 1. Promisei’llbehome L 152 Bellocq 2. Terpsichorean L 160 Kelly 3. Off The Scale L 150 Sankey 4. Joe Dancer Too L 150 Donolo www.rjhracing.com Mgn: 4 1/4. Time: 3:03 1/5. O: Normandy Farm. T: Jonathan Sheppard. Instant results after each race from Hendriks Racing Dk. B./Br. c. 4 Came Home-Maddie’s Promise, Dehere. Bred by Normandy Farm (Ky).

Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 11 08-500-249 Toshiba_2.375x13.5_ST1 1 5/6/08 12:27:24 PM News from the NSF The National Steeplechase Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of American steeplechasing through programs that promote safety, education, fairness, and the spirit of amateurism. support your foundation! Learning from the Experts For the second consecutive year, the National Steeplechase Foundation sent Barry Watson, National Steeplechase Asso- ciation starter and safety advisor, to England for a fact-finding trip aimed at seeing what can be learned from British jump rac- Tod Marks ing and what can be brought home for use in the United States. Gryffindor (left, Xavier Aizpuru) holds off Mattssutterrun in the hurdle feature. During his 10-day visit in December, Watson visited the San- down, Warwick, Chepstow and Cheltenham race courses and talked to everyone from Jockey Club officials to fence build- ers. He also spent time at the start during each racing day. In short, the trip proved valuable in many areas – course safety, course maintenance, starting procedures and the strengthen- ing of contacts with various English racing officials. The fourth installment of Watson’s day-by-day report follows, and will appear in the next Lone Wizard few Foundation advertising placements. • • • Gryffindor keeps Dapple jumping Dec. 12: During a stop in Stow-on-the-Wold, I had arranged to meet with Jeremy Seel of Duralock, the performance fence company that supplies many of the safety as Ky. stable’s solo steeplechaser wings used by the NSA. They also produce a number of equine and racecourse systems, including race rail and crowd-control fencing. (Track officials commissioned BY brian nadeau willowdale steeplechase Duralock to install the inside rail of the turf course at Belmont Park after discovering KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. – One isn’t our wings were made by Duralock.) We discussed a design modification of the wing always the loneliest number. At least not Sunday, May 11 frame to make restoration of the wing faster and easier after a mishap. The possibil- for Mike Akers. of Humdinger (Matt McCarron). ity of a new design for a standardized NSA beacon was also discussed, but there His Dapple Stable owns one stee- may be more suitable opportunities closer to home when the time comes. However, After leading by almost 20 lengths plechaser, Gryffindor, and the 8-year- early, Mattssutterrun returned to the Duralock systems may be an option to consider over the more rigid race rail used at old visited the winner’s circle after the many racetracks and training facilities. pack and Gyffindor drew closer, sit- $20,000 conditioned claiming hurdle at ting right off the pacesetter’s flank. As Willowdale May 11. Founder of Lexing- Dec. 13: Racing continued at Ludlow Race Club in rural Shropshire. Ludlow is the field turned for home the two lead- ton-based Dapple Farm (specializing in ers pulled clear and staged a match race considered a quaint little country track that seems to attract many who would not be selling yearlings at public auction), Ak- able to compete at places like Sandown and Cheltenham. These “country” tracks are through the stretch. Mattssutterrun ers didn’t buy Gryffindor with jumping proved to be a tough customer, but a staple to the racing industry and feature competitive racing for middle-class horses. in mind. Initially trained on the flat by The same standards of professionalism, officiating, medical and safety protocols Gryffindor surged at the line to score by Bill Mott, Gryffindor entered Tom Voss’ a nose in 5:15 4/5, with Humdinger 12 were practiced as they would be at any major race meet. The course itself was inter- barn in 2004. The New York-bred won esting because of some of its unusual characteristics. There’s an 18-hole golf course 1/2 lengths back in third. his flat debut with Voss at Delaware Akers didn’t make the trip to Kennett in the middle of the racecourse, as well as a number of road crossings covered with Park, taking a $25,000 maiden claimer plain coco mats. There were also many narrow areas on the turns and down the back- Square, instead staying home in Lexing- after an 0-for-11 start. ton to attend to business. stretch, in some cases were no more than 25 feet wide. A 16-horse field of novice After moderate success, Gryffindor hurdlers with amateur riders started in such an area without complaint or difficulty. “We still have a few mares that are stalled in state-bred allowances, leav- waiting to foal, so I had to stay here and ing Akers to ponder the horse’s future. Dec. 14: I met briefly with Cheltenham’s clerk of the course, Simon Claisse, pass on Willowdale” Akers said. “Right Bill Wofford, who helps put on the High now we have about a half-dozen hors- before racing began. We discussed the issues that Richard Linley and I had covered Hope Steeplechase, helped steer him to- four days earlier about the second-last chase fence on the “old” course. Although es on the flat and we tend to run more ward a new career. fillies because we like to have them as the fence had not been moved, the ground on the landing side has been leveled to “Bill actually broke Gryffindor as alleviate the problem. Since then, statistics have indicated a 50-percent decline in in- broodmares. We own all or part of 30 a yearling, and he mentioned that he broodmares to produce yearlings for juries. My conversation with Mr. Claisse was shortened by a safety audit, in which a might turn out to be a good jumper,” team of inspectors arrive unannounced, to make sure all safety protocols were being the marketplace, but occasionally we Akers said. “We raced Gryffindor on get one that scratches the itch to race. observed and all ambulances were properly equipped. I made my way to the start of the flat and kind of got attached to him, the second race, where the grounds crew was trying to repair a jammed spring in the We’re really a producer, but we’re not so we thought we would give it a try. scared to race them.” “Grey Gate” starting mechanism. They quickly moved a “flip” start apparatus into He kind of hit the wall in the non-win- its place and got the race off on time. There were also difficulties with a “flip” start Or to get more steeplechase horses. ners-of-two on the flat and he’s a good, “He’s our only hurdler now, but abso- trigger post located at the start of the cross-country chase. This was similar to a prob- sound horse, so we decided to try it.” lem they had last year in the same location. However, after another minor adjustment lutely I would be open to having another A son of Canadian Horse of the Year one if it came about,” Akers said. “You by the grounds crew, the field was on its way. It was business as usual throughout Peaks And Valleys, Gryffindor made his the rest of the day. Seven races were contested without incident. There were serious never know where these horses are going hurdle debut two years ago at Nashville, to have their calling, so I wouldn’t hesi- concerns about overnight frost that prompted management to cover the entire racing running third. He broke through at the surface with a lightweight mesh material designed specifically for this purpose. It’s a tate to do it again. It’s a beautiful sport end of that season at Camden, taking and quite a test for an equine athlete.” huge undertaking that takes the entire grounds crew six hours to complete. a maiden event over Divine Fortune, among others. After picking up checks • The horse’s name is Male Suprem- The National Steeplechase Foundation supports on the flat last summer, Gryffindor various initiatives to aid the growth of American steeplechase racing. acy, but he owes a woman for his suc- closed out 2007 with a win at Aiken. cess. Owned and trained by Nannette Fourth to Preemptive Strike in the BOARD OF TRUSTEES – 2008 Robertson, the 8-year-old ran off with Imperial Cup and third in a claimer at Willowdale’s opener, a $10,000 maiden G. Robert Blanchard, Austin A. Brown, R. Reynolds Cowles Jr., DVM, Atlanta, Gryffindor returned to his win- Jack S. Griswold, Sanna N. Hendriks, Pierre Manigault, Irvin S. Naylor, timber. Sarah Jeffords Radcliffe, Susan Sensor, Sam Slater, Henry F. Stern, James H. Whitner IV. ning ways at Willowdale. With Mattssut- Male Supremacy (Paddy Young) bid- 400 Fair Hill Drive, Elkton, MD 21921. Phone: (410) 392-0700. Fax: (410) 392-0706. terrun (Danielle Hodsdon) bounding off ed his time early and then made a steady Website: www.nsfdn.org to a clear early lead, Gryffindor (Xavier advance with under a mile to go before Aizpuru) sat second, a few lengths ahead See willowdale page 13

12 • Steeplechase & Eventing Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 23, 2008 • Yes, Thegooddieyoung is going strong at 10. The Kinross Farm charge Willowdale – took the $10,000 amateur allowance hurdle by 1 1/4 lengths over Run Up Continued from page 12 The Flag (Billy Santoro) and In Pursuit sprinting clear to defeat Meet At Eleven Of Love (James Slater). The final time (Brooks Durkee) by 10 3/4 lengths with was 7:18 3/5 for 3 miles. Hanko (Molly Forlano) third. The win- Thegooddieyoung (Chris Read) was ner, who exited a training flat score at up front early then settled in to stalk Winterthur a week earlier, covered the pacesetter In Pursuit Of Love through 3 miles in 6:13. the first 2 miles. Read slowly turned Robertson should get extra credit up the pressure, and Thegooddieyoung for being patient. She purchased Male came alive in the stretch as In Pursuit Supremacy as a 3-year-old way back in Of Love faded, seized the lead and then 2003 from flat trainer Jim McGreevy. held off the late-arriving cavalry charge The son of Awad learned to jump, fox- of Run Up The Flag. hunted and practiced his craft while Thegooddieyoung made his first start Robertson and her daughter, amateur for Kinross and Neil Morris in 2007, jockey Alexandra McKee, campaigned winning a Foxfield allowance. After other horses. running fourth in the same race at Wil- The new kid made his NSA debut in lowdale, the son of Lear Fan was put 2006 with a training flat win at Winter- away for the remainder of the year. He thur (McKee aboard) and a third in the returned at Middleburg this April only same Willowdale maiden timber in 2006. to go off course while going well in the Male Supremacy missed 2007, in part Alfred Hunt. Everything came together because McKee was off having a baby, at Willowdale. but didn’t stop working as Robertson en- “I actually haven’t ridden him that listed horseman Doug King for help. much in the morning, he’s usually over Jim Graham “Doug changed the way the horse with the foxhunters. Today I had a great Male Supremacy (right, Paddy Young) leads Bulawayo (left) and Meet At Eleven. carried his head which made a huge dif- trip out there and he was allowed to do • Gene Weymouth rode Ned’s Flying retry and clear). ference,” said Robertson, while accept- his thing,” said the jockey, who also to victory in the 1957 Maryland Hunt Four fences in, the race was over. ing congratulations from all corners at works at Kinross. “This was his kind of Cup, saddled 1992 timber champ Lots Western Fling opened up some 80 Willowdale. “He used to carry it sort of race – 3 miles, amateur hurdles. It gets a Of Talk, and trained scores of horses lengths, and managed to stay the course up, but now he’s better. Plus he’s gotten little tougher from here because a lot of for flat and jumps. Needless to say, while racing in a vacuum. He coasted a lot stronger, and is a lot more made times these kind of horses don’t have a he knows his way around a horse. Al- home in 8:34 3/5 for 3 1/2 miles. Dr. up now. The luxury is, because I owned spot to go to. They have to take on sea- though his homebred Fieldview made Ramsey and Te Akau Five traveled to- him I didn’t have to hurry. Today was soned allowance horses and the water eight non-descript starts on the flat – gether after their earlier exploits, with his big day.” gets a little deeper.” winning once, against $5,000 maiden the former pulling clear for a comfort- 4th. $20,000. Open timber. 3 1/2 miles. claimers at Penn National – Weymouth able second. Willowdale Steeplechase. saw a potential steeplechaser. He sent “We try to have him win by at least Kennett Square, Pa. Sunday, May 11. Turf: Good. Amateur jockeys. 1. Western Fling L 172 Durkee the son of Charismatic to Sanna Hen- about 40 lengths each time he runs,” 1st. $10,000. Maiden timber. 3 miles. 2. Dr. Ramsey L 167 Gillam driks earlier this year, and Fieldview did McKenna joked. “He’s been jumping 1. Male Supremacy L 165 Young 3. Te Akau Five (NZ) L 172 Slater him proud, taking the third, a $10,000 really well and he gets hunted a lot at 2. Meet At Eleven (Ire) L 165 Durkee F. Hidden Key L 172 Ryan maiden claimer under Jody Petty. Cheshire, out there foxhunting, and 3. Hanko (Ger) L 157 Forlano LR. Twill Do L 167 Santoro “Gene called Sanna up and said, does very well. I thinking hunting him 4. Bulawayo L 165 Petty LR. Irish Laddie L 167 Fogarty ‘Come down and try my horse,’ so I two days a week for the past four or 5. Genghis L 160 Carter Mgn: 44. Time: 8:34 3/5. went down there and sat on him,” Petty five months has helped. He came out of 6. Beneficial Man (Ire) L 165 Rafter O: Crestview Farm. Kathy Mckenna. said. “I went down and rode him a bit training and went into foxhunting and F. The Other Me L 160 Burke Dk. B./Br. g. 8 Gone West-Silver Fling, The Min- strel. Bred by George Strawbridge (Ky). and said, ‘You know what, maybe he’s that has been big. Everyone gets on him LR. Broom L 160 Curry right.’ Gene obviously really liked the in the morning.” LR. Fort Henry (Ire) L 160 J. Murphy horse, thought he would be a jumper, PU. Geometry (Ire) L 165 Slater 5th. $20,000. Cond. clm. hurdle. 2 1/2 miles. and you know, he was right.” • South Monarch was an easy winner PU. General Roanoke 165 Walsh NW 3. $25,000-$15,000 claiming price. of the sixth, giving Hendriks her second 1. Gryffindor L 147 Aizpuru Fieldview broke in good order and Mgn: 10 3/4. Time: 6:13. win on the card. O/T: Nannette Robertson. 2. Mattssutterrun L 150 Hodsdon settled toward the back of the 10-horse 3. Humdinger L 146 McCarron field for the first two tours of the course. Owned by George Strawbridge’s Au- Ch. g. 8 Awad-Dante’s Dancer, Northern Jove. gustin Stable, South Monarch (Slater) Bred by Helmore Farm (Md). 4. Suntara L 138 Petty Fieldview began his winning move as 5. Change Course L 148 Young the field turned into the stretch, gradu- took the $5,000 amateur highweight 2nd. $10,000. Hwt. allow. hurdle. 3 miles. 6. King Hoss L 140 Slater ally picking off horses and taking aim timber by 7 1/2 lengths over Profes- 7. Udeman L 139 McVicar NW of a stakes. Amateur jockeys. on Justabud, Never Fear, and Meshwaar. sor Maxwell (George Hundt Jr.) and 1. Thegooddieyoung L 176 Read 8. Silver Wheat L 139 J. Murphy Straight Path (Durkee). PU. Cumulus Nimbus L 145 Carter Closing fastest, Fieldview streaked under 2. Run Up The Flag L 163 Santoro the line a three-quarter length winner Slater sat chilly through the first 12 3. In Pursuit Of Love L 172 Slater Mgn: Nose. Time: 5:15 4/5. over Never Fear (McCarron) and Mesh- fences, just off of Quaremba’s early 4. Big Is Best (NZ) L 167 Gillam O: Dapple Stable. T: Tom Voss. lead. Quaremba fell three fences out and Dk. B./Br. g. 8 Peaks And Valleys-A Sunny Soci- waar (Gregg Ryan), clocking the 2 1/2 5. Heros Among Us L 168 Durkee South Monarch took charge, opening ety, Son Ange. Bred by Richard Sinkler (NY). miles in 5:30 3/5. 6. Wild Journey L 158 Chubb up on Professor Maxwell and Straight Mgn: 1 1/4. Time: 7:18 3/5. Path, and bounding clear. O: Kinross Farm. T: Neil Morris. 6th. $5,000. Hwt. allowance timber. 3 miles. • Nobody comes close to Western Dk. B./Br. g. 10 Lear Fan-Good Wishes, NW $9,000 once in 2007-08. Amateur jockeys. Fling. Not lately, anyway. He’s enjoying After missing almost two years, South Lyphard’s Wish (Fr). 1. South Monarch L 180 Slater a bit of a streak, having now won his last Monarch returned to try timber this Bred by Estate Of Walter M. Jeffords Jr. (Ky). 2. Professor Maxwell L 180 Hundt two races by a combined 84 lengths. Af- spring, and the 6-year-old has shown 3. Straight Path L 180 Durkee fine form, running third at the Manor LR. Native Mark L 170 Stierhoff ter winning a highweight timber by 40 3rd. $10,000. Mdn. clm. hurdle. 2 1/2 miles. at the Grand National, he went 4 better prior to winning at Winterthur. $10,000-$5,000 claiming price. LR. Quaremba 170 Cochran “George called and said timber with 1. Fieldview L 156 Petty Mgn: 7 1/2. Time: 6:16 2/5. at Willowdale, taking the $20,000 open timber in largely uncontested fashion him and I said, ‘I don’t know, he’s not a 2. Never Fear L 156 McCarron O: Augustin Stables. T: Sanna Hendriks. great type to look at,’ ” Hendriks said. 3. Meshwaar L 156 Ryan Dk. B./Br. g. 6 Conquistador Cielo-Just A Bird, under Brooks Durkee. Storm Bird. Bred by George Strawbridge (Canada). Trained by Kathy McKenna for “But George pushed me and I said ‘all 4. Frosty To Go 156 McWade right,’ so I really have to give George 5. Justabud L 147 Carter Crestview Farm, Western Fling assumed 6. Let’s Lindy L 140 Boucher 7th. Training flat. 2 miles. Amateur jockeys. command after Hidden Key (Ryan) fell all the credit to persevere with him. He’s 7. Back In The Day L 156 Read 1. Hey Doctor L 165 Gillam at the second. Twill Do lost Billy San- a homebred and George really likes his 8. Sabotage L 156 Rafter 2. Kamante L 165 M. Hendriks toro at the second as well, Irish Laddie homebreds, so it all worked out. He’s LR. Dixie Cheer L 151 Mackenzie 3. Sand Box Rules L 165 Read been a natural jumper since Day One 4. Bon Caddo 165 Stierhoff did the same to Desmond Fogarty at the PU. Sydney’s Magic (NZ) L 156 Young fourth. The two remaining challengers and all the boys who get on him, Paddy Mgn: 3/4. Time: 5:30 3/5. 5. Say Tomorrow L 165 Durkee Young and Jody Petty, really love him. O: Gene Weymouth. T: Sanna Hendriks. 6. Green Pro L 165 Slater weren’t too keen. Te Akau Five (Slater) decided he didn’t work on Sundays, re- He really started thriving this winter B. g. 5 Charismatic-Opportunity, Cox’s Ridge. 7. Sermonize L 165 Fogarty because he hunted a lot and seemed to Bred by Gene Weymouth (Pa). 8. Strategic Battle L 155 Chubb fusing at the second and the fourth (he Mgn: 3/4. Time: 4:07 2/5. later clocked in and jumped both suc- figure things out. Now he goes out there O: Kinross Farm. T: Neil Morris. cessfully). Dr. Ramsey (Diana Gillam) and is all proud of himself.” Ch. g. 5 Regal Classic-Petra, Northern Baby. liked the idea so much he pulled the Additional reporting by Joe Clancy and Bred by Mrs. Mark Hardin (Va). same trick at the fourth (he would also Jamie Santo.

Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 13 Man’s Shirt Champ schools foes at Nashville, takes control of 2008 leaderboard BY joe clancy iroquois steeplechase NASHVILLE, Tenn. – If Good Night Shirt emerged in the 2007 Iroquois, he Saturday, May 10 arrived in the 2008 edition with a per- Shirt resisted Sweet Shani’s pressure as formance that shouted professionalism, Best Attack inched into the race. Still polish and panache. in front entering the final turn, Good Last year’s steeplechase champion Night Shirt caught his breath as the opened 2008 with a win at Atlanta challengers launched final assaults. Best April 12 in his typical style – over- Attack (Chip Miller) got closest, but whelming yet a little unkempt – thanks couldn’t match the winner’s stride in the to a couple of jumping mistakes and a stretch and finished 4 1/2 lengths from desperate final furlong. A month later the front. Sweet Shani (Xavier Aizpuru) in the $150,000 Iroquois, Good Night stayed for third. Good Night Shirt cov- Shirt led at every call, timed his fences ered the 3 miles in 5:47 3/5 and became better than Kerron Clement (look it up) the 13th horse to win back-to-back run- and won for the fifth time in his last six nings of the race (no one has won three starts – all Grade I stakes. in a row). He also improved to 3-for-3 “Today he became a man,” jockey over the course. Willie Dowling said. “He did a profes- “Last year he was really impressive sional job. There was no sloppiness.” here, but you had two really, really good No, the 7-year-old looked neater than horses behind him in Sur La Tete and Felix Unger this time around. Good McDynamo,” said trainer Jack Fisher. Night Shirt broke alertly and took com- “This year was pretty impressive too in mand on the long run to the first fence. a different way. He used to be Big Dumb Dragging Dowling without being rank, Waldo, now he’s figured it out. He was the champion set a controlled pace with like a big, dumb kid and now he’s got it. Sweet Shani in closest attendance, fol- I hope he just keeps getting better.” lowed by Bow Strada, Kilbride Rd, Best That would be something to see. Attack, Fra Diavolo and Orison. Down Tod Marks the back the last time, Good Night See iroquois page 16 Good Night Shirt (Willie Dowling) powers away from the last fence at the Iroquois.

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Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 15 self about things like that and hopes for better things. He puts low expectations Iroquois – on horses, but then when they outdo Continued from page 14 him it’s really something.” Good Night Shirt improved to 8-for- • Three hours before post time at the 18 over jumps and padded his career Iroquois, Brooks Durkee peppered fel- steeplechase earnings to $598,973 low jockey Chip Miller with questions – sixth on the all-time list behind Mc- – about the course, horses, strategy. Dynamo, Lonesome Glory, Victorian Miller, who first rode at Nashville in Hill, Sur La Tete and Rowdy Irishman. 1991 and leads all active jockeys with Owner Sonny Via bought what looked 206 career wins, talked about making like a quality prospect late in 2004, but up ground (or not), saving ground (or got far more. Good Night Shirt has won trying to) and jumping (or its impor- five Grade I stakes and heads back to tance). Fisher’s Maryland farm for an extended Durkee, an amateur riding his first break. Only late-season goals such as NSA season since 2004, soaked it all the Breeders’ Cup Grand National and up – and then some – as he guided Colonial Cup remain. Mon Villez to a perfectly timed score Fisher and Dowling worked to im- in the $35,000 Bright Hour amateur prove Good Night Shirt’s jumping after hurdle for owner Calvin Houghland Atlanta, taking extra schooling sessions and trainer Bruce Miller. A veteran of in advance of the 18-fence Iroquois test. stakes wars with McDynamo, Preemp- Tod Marks Last year, Good Night Shirt provided a tive Strike and Good Night Shirt, Mon Dr. Bloomer (Robbie Walsh) shows the way over the last in the Marcellus Frost. few anxious moments while still win- Villez stood out in the eight-horse field ning the first Grade I of his career. This but still had something to prove off two in 6:00 3/5 for the 3 miles. Delacroix Dr. Bloomer rated in his first four time, all was well. dull efforts this season. (Desmond Fogarty) finished third. starts last year, but turned himself into “To be honest, there were no anxious And Durkee wanted to do his home- “When Bruce says his horse is train- a front-runner with a rank performance moments,” said Dowling. “Sweet Shani work. ing well, it fills you with confidence,” at The Meadowlands (charging to the came to me before the third-last and “You might as well get pointers from said Durkee. “It was my race to lose. lead and jumping erratically before fall- from riding here I know you have to nail specialists like Chip, he knows the course I’m on an old, class stakes horse. You ing at the sixth fence), another at Calla- that third-last coming to the turn. If you and he knows the horse,” said Durkee. look at the program and they’re young- way Gardens (third after opening a big nail that you’re almost home. He nailed “Every little bit helps. It’s very hard to er horses, allowance-type horses. He lead) and one more in the Carolina Cup it and he free-wheeled from there.” ride courses I might not be so familiar made a run, nailed the last and got the this year. Things have gone smoother Good Night Shirt galloped off the with because it’s been so long.” job done.” since. corner with a clear lead and rolled to the Durkee hopes to stay familiar with “He was relaxed enough the last finish, serving notice that Eclipse Award the feeling Mon Villez gave him. The • The $50,000 Marcellus Frost, a time at Middleburg, there just wasn’t challengers will have to go through his 9-year-old settled in the back early and 2-mile open hurdle stakes, looked like any speed so we were in front,” said large chestnut frame. followed Luongo into the race on the fi- a set-up for Grade I winner Mixed Up Walsh of a third behind Planets Aligned “He’s a special horse, he really is,” nal run down the backstretch. Luongo – who stepped down from a third be- in the Temple Gwathmey. “He’s still a said Via. “Early last year, Jack said (James Slater) led in the stretch, but was hind Good Night Shirt at Atlanta to the bit green and he acted like he needed a something about him being a timber no match for Mon Villez late as the win- Grade III level and took on eight rivals lead. Today, when I took him back he horse. I think maybe Jack talks to him- ner drew off to score by 2 1/2 lengths with one career stakes win combined. jumped super, much more fluently.” But results get posted after the race Despite nine starts over jumps, Dr. for a reason. Local owner Houghland Bloomer might still be learning his completed a sweep of the early double craft. with trainer Jonathan Sheppard’s other “He’s a big baby, an improving entry. Dr. Bloomer kicked away from horse,” said Walsh. “Going to the third- the field at the top of the stretch and last, I thought we were high-cantering. won by three-quarters of a length over I looked around and there was no one recent maiden winner Spy In The Sky coming. I was absolutely cruising.” Seek DIFFERENT (Liam McVicar) with Jazzitupgeorge At New World Aviation, we have (Slater) third in 3:55. • Five filly/mare stakes make the consciously stepped away “I thought with the light weight (142 “History of Important Races” section from the competition where pounds) maybe he had a chance, and he in the NSA yearbook. Guelph now bragging rights are earned by ran well here last year,” said Sheppard. owns victories in four after taking the having a mega-ﬂeet of aircraft “You never know. I can’t say I thought $50,000 Margaret Currey Henley Me- and boasting hundreds of he was going to win.” morial at Nashville. thousands of trips. That just Robbie Walsh, aboard for the second Owned by The Fields Stable, Guelph doesn’t ﬁt our description time, only worried once. (Aizpuru) controlled the race through- of “private aviation”. We’re “He jumped off to the first keen, out and turned it into a romp with a focused on the individual jumped it well and (Quem Se Atreve) huge leap at the last fence to win by 3 attention and personal services joined me and I was like ‘uh oh, here 1/2 lengths over Jellyberry (Carl Rafter) the word “private” should ensure. we go’ so I took him back,” said Walsh. with Class Shadow (Richard Boucher) While others engage in a battle for “He listened, he came back and he third in 4:29 3/5 for the 2 1/4 miles. marketshare, we go to battle against the high price of fuel, the increasing stalked great then.” Trained by Tom Voss, 2005 filly/mare and novice champion Guelph added the cost for insurance, and for the greatest possible value in aircraft management Henley to a career that includes scores one client at a time. We are committed to supporting you with more service in the Peapack, Crown Royal and Sport specialists than any other company in our industry. of Queens stakes. She finished second We won’t clamber to be the industry’s biggest because we are comfortable (2005) and third (2006) in the only being just who we are. We’re sure that’s the best way you’ll be comfortable stakes to elude her, the Valentine at Fair with us. Hill. The 7-year-old daughter of Sky Classic may get another chance at that race May 24. Aizpuru dictated the pace, saving en- ergy on the front end while bracing for a challenge. – New World Aviation – “She’s a very professional horse, The Industry’s Leading Boutique-styled Aviation Company jumps very, very economically and saved herself a little bit all the way,” said the jockey. “When I needed a couple of big jumps at the business end of the race she gave them to me. I gunned it (at the last). I knew there was a pretty New World Aviation 877-359-0100 good shot she had enough in reserve to A World Of Difference www.newworldaviation.com give me a jump like that. Any doubt we Tod Marks Maiden winner Dreadnaught See iroquois page 17

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1st. $35,000. Highweight hurdle. 3 miles. Amateur jockeys. 1. Mon Villez (Fr) L 176 Durkee 2. Luongo L 176 Slater 3. Delacroix L 168 Fogarty 4. Najjm L 166 Bordwell 5. Sermon Of Love L 167 Santoro 6. Regal Again L 166 McMillan F. Fabi’s Legacy L 163 Chalfin PU. G’day G’day L 168 Ryan Mgn: 2 1/2. Time: 6:00. O: Calvin Houghland. T: Bruce Miller. Ch. g. 9 Villez-Europa (Spa), Legend Of France. Bred by Sarl Classic Breeding & Ste. D’Elevage Des CharTreux (Fr).

2nd. $50,000. Hurdle stakes. 2 miles. The Marcellus Frost (Gr. III) Tod Marks Guelph (left, Xavier Aizpuru) takes them home in the Margaret Henley for fillies and mares. 1. Dr. Bloomer L 142 Walsh 2. Spy In The Sky L 133 McVicar 3. Jazzitupgeorge L 146 Slater 4. Mixed Up L 158 Hodsdon 5. Hip Hop 146 Petty Iroquois – 6. Dark Equation L 154 McCarron Continued from page 16 7. Chess Board (GB) L 142 Rafter PU. Say What You See (Ire) L 142 J.Murphy had before the fence was put to bed – I guess we crossed the PU. Quem Se Atreve (Brz) L 150 Aizpuru Rubicon so to speak at that point.” Mgn: 3/4. Time: 3:55. Whether Guelph’s last fence in Nashville deserves com- O: Calvin Houghland. T: Jonathan Sheppard. parison to Julius Caesar’s move across a river to start a war Dk. B./Br. g. 7 Fantastic Fellow-Fantastic in 49 B.C. or not, it was no doubt the point of no return. She Bloom (Ven), Imperial Ballet (Ire). kicked clear and won for the first time since her champion- Bred by Marablue Farm (Fl). ship season. Plagued by various maladies including a broken withers, Guelph made just one start in 2006 and failed to hit 3rd. $50,000. Sport Of Queens F&M hurdle the board in a trio of starts last fall. Those 2007 runs did help stakes. 2 1/4 miles. Margaret Henley. 1. Guelph L 144 Aizpuru the Maryland-bred get fit, however. 2. Jellyberry L 140 Rafter “That’s a lovely mare,” said Voss simply. “With all the 3. Class Shadow L 140 Boucher things she’s got wrong with her, she just keeps coming back. 4. Dynaskill L 140 Petty She’s always fit, it’s not like it’s any great thing to get her 5. Feeling So Pretty L 144 Walsh Tod Marks ready. They let her go an easy mile and you’re never going to 6. Awaiting Justice 140 Dalton beat her doing that. You always feel good for the horse when Mon Villez (left, Brooks Durkee) eyes the finish line en route to victory at the Iroquois *DQ. Remy Christine L 130 Hodsdon something like that happens. She deserved a win.” *-From 6th for failure to weigh in. Following the Nashville score in 2006, Allimac didn’t run Mgn: 3 1/2. Time: 4:29 3/5. • New trainer, new jockey, same result. Back in 2006, Al- again until last October where he faded late after opening O: The Fields Stable. T: Tom Voss. limac showed up at Nashville for the $75,000 Mason Hough- a huge lead in the International Gold Cup. The 17 months Ch. m. 7 Sky Classic-Distant Drumroll, East- land Memorial timber stakes and blew the field away with a on the sideline were spent resting, recovering from some leg ern Echo. Bred by Mimi Voss (Md). front-running clinic for Sanna Hendriks and Jody Petty. troubles and rebuilding fitness. Still owned by Irv Naylor, the Irish-bred now runs for Des- “I started him back around this time last year,” Fogarty 4th. $25,000. SOK mdn. hurdle. 2 1/4 miles. mond Fogarty and Willie Dowling handles the reins. The 11- said. “He jogged for two months and did a lot of swimming, 1. Dreadnaught L 154 Aizpuru year-old galloped immediately to the front in the Houghland got the leg good and tight. We’re careful with him. You have 2. So Amazing (Ire) L 137 McVicar and handled all comers – kicking away from Music To My to get him fit without pushing it. It’s just patience and time.” 3. Hourigan (Ire) L 154 Dowling 4. Honour Emblem L 154 Traurig Ears (Calvin McCormack) and Woodmont (Jeff Murphy) to LR. Cuse L 154 Slater score by 22 1/2 lengths in 6:19 for the 3 miles. The winner • Houghland’s two wins on the day delighted the home PU. Monsieur Henri L 154 Dalton never trailed and only looked stressed at a couple of fences. crowd, but he wasn’t the only Nashvillian to take a trophy PU. Art Lover L 137 J.Murphy Otherwise, the race was a romp. at steeplechasing’s annual visit. Douglas Joyce, who runs as PU. Joe Dancer Too L 154 Walsh “He’s a class old horse, a lovely animal so he is,” said Fog- Trillium Stable, collected a win in the $25,000 maiden hurdle PU. Reigning Count L 144 Bordwell arty. “He has to be in front because I don’t think you’d hold with veteran turf stakes horse Dreadnaught. Mgn: 3 1/2. Time: 4:27 4/5. him in behind horses, he’d get rank. He relaxes in front.” Trained by Voss, Dreadnaught ran over hurdles back O: Trillium Stable. T: Tom Voss. in 2004 but then embarked on a flat career that included B. g. 8 Lac Ouimet-Wings Of Dreams, Sover- $600,000 in earnings and a pair of Grade II victories. That eign Dancer. Bred by David Pennington (Ky). career dead-ended this winter with two dull defeats in Florida, so Voss and Joyce returned the 8-year-old to jumping. Second 5th. $75,000. Timber stakes. 3 miles. at Atlanta, Dreadnaught (Aizpuru) ran down runaway pace- The Mason Houghland maker So Amazing (McVicar) in the Nashville stretch to score 1. Allimac (Ire) L 165 Dowling by 3 1/2 lengths in 4:27 4/5 for the 2 1/4 miles. Debutante 2. Music To My Ears (Ire) L 155 McCormack Hourigan (Dowling) finished third. 3. Woodmont L 165 J.Murphy Voss doesn’t give Dreadnaught much credit for bravery, 4. Flying Contraption (Ire) L 165 C. Miller 5. Haddix L 165 Rafter but does admit the horse has plenty of ability. LR. Shiny Emblem L 155 Young “He just doesn’t want to go by a horse,” said the trainer. PU. Bold Quest L 155 Durkee “When he went by (Hourigan) he sort of picked up for about Mgn: 22 1/2. Time: 6:19. 100 yards but then he flattened out again. That’s the way he O: Irv Naylor. T: Desmond Fogarty. runs on the flat. Jerry Bailey was the last one to win a race on B. g. 11 Alphabatim-Firewood (Ire), Brush him and he said ‘you’ve got to make this horse do everything.’ Aside. Bred by J.P.N. Parker (Ire). He’s always been that way . . . I don’t know.” Dreadnaught won twice on the flat in 2003 and finished 6th. $150,000. Hurdle Stakes. 3 miles. second twice in three jump starts the following year. From The Iroquois (Gr. I) there he competed against the likes of Better Talk Now, King’s 1. Good Night Shirt L 158 Dowling Drama, Rochester, English Channel and Remarkable News. 2. Best Attack L 158 C. Miller He last won in 2005 however – 23 races ago – and counts 11 3. Sweet Shani (NZ) L 150 Aizpuru second-place finishes among his 45 lifetime starts. 4. Bow Strada (GB) L 158 Rafter “The horse never impressed me – the way he gallops, any- 5. Fra Diavolo (Arg) L 158 Hodsdon thing, the way he works, he does not act like a good horse,” 6. Orison L 158 McCarron Voss said. “But he’s a beautiful horse when you sit on him, PU. Kilbride Rd L 158 Young Mgn: 4 1/2. Time: 5:47 3/5. though. A little boy could ride him. He’d never run off. That’s O: Sonny Via. T: Jack Fisher. Tod Marks just the way he is. This was the best place in the world for him Ch. g. 7 Concern-Hot Story, Two Punch. Allimac (Willie Dowling) skies a fence in his timber stakes score. to win though – good for the horse and good for Douglas.” Bred by Dr. & Mrs. Tom Bowman (Md).

Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 17 Fair Hill, Maryland NSA Standings Top 10 through May 23 Jockeys (Races Won) Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Money Win% Jody Petty...... 31 9 6 2 $175,200 .29 Xavier Aizpuru...... 31 9 5 3 223,222 .29 Carl Rafter...... 36 5 3 8 140,613 .14 Willie Dowling...... 21 5 3 5 256,500 .24 Matt McCarron...... 31 5 2 3 106,606 .16 Danielle Hodsdon...... 28 4 6 4 210,075 .14 Paddy Young...... 34 4 4 4 75,100 .12 Will Haynes...... 11 4 4 1 58,650 .36 Padge Whelan...... 13 4 2 1 113,250 .31 Brooks Durkee...... 16 4 1 6 62,700 .25 Trainers (Races Won) Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Money Win% Tom Voss...... 33 10 8 4 $284,900 .30 Jack Fisher...... 40 10 1 7 352,400 .25 Sanna Hendriks...... 30 9 6 3 179,850 .30 Jonathan Sheppard...... 34 6 10 5 318,197 .18 Kathy McKenna...... 29 5 1 8 59,900 .17 Doug Fout...... 51 4 3 6 98,756 .08 Desmond Fogarty...... 18 4 3 4 112,900 .22 Bruce Miller...... 15 4 3 1 133,263 .27 Mike Berryman...... 13 4 0 2 54,200 .31 Lilith Boucher...... 10 3 0 2 44,800 .30 Owners (Money Won) Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Money Win% Irv Naylor...... 25 5 4 4 $165,250 .20 Calvin Houghland...... 18 4 3 3 161,072 .22 Sonny Via...... 2 2 0 0 150,000 1.00 Augustin Stable...... 23 7 3 3 138,800 .30 Hudson River Farm...... 2 2 0 0 114,075 1.00 Kinross Farm...... 26 2 6 4 71,150 .08 Sally Radcliffe...... 6 1 3 1 71,013 .17 Arcadia Stable...... 11 1 0 3 68,750 .09 Alnoff Stable...... 4 2 1 0 67,500 .50 Riot Run Farm Bill Pape...... 9 2 3 2 66,050 .22 4339 Harford Creamery Road White Hall, MD 21161 · Horses (Money Won) Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Money Win% Good Night Shirt...... 2 2 0 0 $150,000 1.00 Sovereign Duty...... 2 2 0 0 114,075 1.00 Be Certain...... 4 2 1 0 67,500 .50 Bubble Economy...... 4 1 0 2 66,500 .25 Planets Aligned...... 2 1 1 0 58,500 .50 Imagina...... 3 1 1 0 58,500 .33 Allimac...... 2 2 0 0 57,000 1.00 Askim...... 2 1 1 0 51,300 .50 Sweet Shani...... 2 0 1 1 43,822 .00 Best Attack...... 2 0 1 1 43,013 .00

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Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 19 3D Stable...... Dallas Butts Cheltenham Invasion...... Richard Hutchinson Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Steeplechase Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Askim...... $51,300 Miles Ahead...... $28,800 Run The Light...... $19,500 The Price Of Love...... $27,000 ‘Pick Six’ Toughkenamon...... $0 Mixed Up...... $12,500 ...... $345,800 ...... $335,300 FANTASY STABLE GAME Mrs. Rodddd...... Erin Ray Block House Farms...... Chuck Ross Presented by The Whip Tavern Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Imagina...... $58,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Best Attack...... $43,013 Miles Ahead...... $28,800 6 Run The Light...... $19,500 Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 New Shooter Cathy Fowler’s Plum Creek Farms jumps into the top spot this week with better than $389,000 Coal Dust...... $14,900 Gigger...... $12,050 earned. Fowler got a push from Planets Aligned’s runner-up effor at Radnor to pass early leader ...... $344,413 ...... $334,850 Nolan Clancy’s First Base Stable with Geraldal Stable (Allison Janezic) completing the top three. Champagne Taste...... Lisa McLane Kfar Tapuakh Stable...... Howard Newstadt Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Imagina...... $58,500 The top 27 stables (of 173) through May 23 are listed here. Imagina...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 See www.st-publishing.com for full standings. Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 Best Attack...... $43,013 The Price Of Love...... $27,000 Dreadnaught...... $19,500 Mixed Up...... $12,500 Irish Prince...... $5,000 Plum Creek Farms...... Cathy Fowler PonyUp Stable...... Ashley Monroe ...... $341,500 ...... $334,513 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Cheese In The Trap Stable...... Adrienne Hall Thidwick’s Retreat...... Mary Anne Steele Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Imagina...... $58,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Sovereign Duty...... $114,075 Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Sweet Shani...... $43,822 Imagina...... $58,500 Sweet Shani...... $43,822 Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 Dreadnaught...... $19,500 Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 Gigger...... $12,050 Bee Charmer...... $0 Mixed Up...... $12,500 Run The Light...... $19,500 ...... $389,372 ...... $360,500 Straight Gin...... $0 Mixed Up...... $12,500 First Base Stable...... Nolan Clancy Dukester...... Dr. Charles Reid ...... $339,897 ...... $334,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Up and Over Stable...... John Tower Hurler Was The King! ...... Bradley Johnson Sovereign Duty...... $114,075 Sovereign Duty...... $114,075 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Imagina...... $58,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Sovereign Duty...... $114,075 Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 The Price Of Love...... $27,000 Sweet Shani...... $43,822 Sweet Shani...... $43,822 Classy Brute...... $24,000 Irish Prince...... $5,000 Dreadnaught...... $19,500 Best Attack...... $43,013 Coal Dust...... $14,900 Orsay...... $0 Mixed Up...... $12,500 Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 ...... $388,475 ...... $354,575 Toughkenamon...... $0 Baby Bert...... $500 ...... $339,897 ...... $330,835 Geraldal Stable...... Allison Janezic First Last Best Guess ...... Susan Haldeman Clover Hill...... Vivian Rall Picture This Stable...... Tod Marks Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Good Night Shirt...... $150,000 Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Bubble Economy...... $66,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Imagina...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Planets Aligned...... $58,500 Miles Ahead...... $28,800 Sweet Shani...... $43,822 Miles Ahead...... $28,800 Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 Preemptive Strike...... $27,000 Dreadnaught...... $19,500 The Price Of Love...... $27,000 Bee Charmer...... $0 The Price Of Love...... $27,000 Sur La Tete...... $0 Sur La Tete...... $0 ...... $360,500 ...... $349,800 ...... $338,322 ...... $322,800

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Important: You Must Sign & Date Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 23 Community Publications PO Box 549 Hockessin DE, 19707 Time (sired by her famous Erin Go Bragh) held the early lead on a score of 46.9, with Kendyl Tracy and Jersey Fresh – Mr. Incredible (47.3) close behind. Black’s score of Continued from page 22 47.7 left her third, 1.5 points ahead of Will Coleman and Twizzel (49.2), at the end of the opening phase. clean jumping effort, 19.6 time penalties relegated The two-star cross-country course played an even the pair to ninth. The big shuffle afforded ample op- bigger role resetting the standings than did the three- portunity for Tryon, Davidson and Phoenix to step star, with three horse-and-rider combinations with- up, and each moved into the top 10 after complet- drawing after dressage, nine retiring on course and ing the course without jumping penalties. Tryon had one, Jonathan Kezler and Gabriel, eliminated. the fewest time penalties of any rider, adding only 1.6 The show-jumping track was no joke either, result- to her dressage score, and ended the day with a slim ing in a number of jumping and time penalties. Of the lead. Davidson’s 6.8 time penalties and Phoenix’s 4.4 25 horses to complete, only two (Catalyst, ridden by helped propel them from 12th to fourth and 23rd to Wendy Lewis, and Port Authority, ridden by Stepha- eighth, respectively. nie Rhodes-Bosch) jumped double-clear. Nine horses, In addition to O’Connor and Allstar, three other including the top five finishers, were four-faulters, horse-and-rider combinations were eliminated on while five horses completed on eight jumping faults, cross country, while two withdrew and one retired on three completed on 12 jumping faults, three ended the course. weekend on 20 jumping penalties, and one finished “When I came off course, I was very surprised that with 36. Eight horses were assessed time penalties on others didn’t get the time,” Tryon said. “Speed is the the final day. last thing to come with inexperienced horses and I felt Black, 20, is an “A” pony clubber and recently like he could have made the time easily if I’d asked.” moved east to train with Jan Byyny at Surefire Farm Only seven of the 29 horses finished Sally Ike’s for- in Purcellville, Va. Black and Kejsarinna have had an ward-riding course without faults. With the exception outstanding spring, finishing no worse than fifth at of Tryon and Leyland, who clinched the victory with the intermediate level. The pair’s top efforts prior to their double-clear round, show jumping provided an- Jersey Fresh include second-place finishes at Fair Hill other shake up of the standings. Sara Dierks, who start- CIC** and Pine Top Winter II, third in the intermedi- ed the day in second, pulled two rails with Somerset II ate young rider division at Pine Top Advanced, and and dropped to fourth, while Mike Winter and Won- a fourth place at Morven Park Spring Horse Trials. derful Will’s four-fault effort relegated them to fifth. They have finished on their dressage score in five of six Based in Duvall, Wash., Tryon was pleased with Amy Dragoo competitions this year. 8-year-old Leyland, who has also been on the come- Kejsarinna and Maya Black touch down in the water. Runner-up Take Time has shown again and again back trail. Discovered by Janet Von Presstine at Em- • Consistency paid off in the Jersey Fresh CCI** that the proverbial old dog can indeed be taught new erald Downs and now owned by Elizabeth Nicholson, when Maya Black, another resident of the Evergreen tricks, adding this two-star red ribbon to the other the 16.2-hand bay Thoroughbred enjoyed a successful State, rode to victory aboard her own Kejsarinna, top- awards he’s collected in the past two years. A 15- 2006 but spent most of the 2007 recuperating from a ping the field of 42 starters with a score of 51.7. Car- year-old Connemara/Thoroughbred owned by Lynn broken hind coffin bone. ol Kozlowski and Take Time (52.9) finished second Blades, Take Time began his upper-level career much “He won a two-star as a 6-year-old and then missed while Rolex champ Phillip Dutton took third riding later than usual, and in spite of his initial dislike of his entire 7-year-old season so it made getting to Jersey Risk Taker (54.0). his new job, has developed into a talented and willing Fresh that much more unlikely,” Tryon said. “He’s my The dressage competition was tight, with less than partner for Kozlowski. fourth off-the-track Thoroughbred who I’ve ridden a point separating the top three. Kozlowski and Take through the advanced level.” With additional reporting by Sean Clancy.

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24 • Steeplechase & Eventing Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 23, 2008 USEA Rider Of The Year SmartPak Horse Of The Year FEI World Cup Standings Pl...... Rider...... Pts Horse (Owner) Pts (after six events) Pl...... Rider (country)...... Pts 1. Connaught (Bruce Duchossois) 142 1...... Phillip Dutton...... 500 1...... Clark Montgomery (USA)...... 160 2. Leyland (Elisabeth Nicholson) 119 2...... Karen O’Connor...... 264 2...... Oliver Townend (GB)...... 115 3. Courageous Comet (Tom Holder) 115 3...... Michael Winter...... 251 3...... Michael Jung (GER)...... 100 4. Critical Decision (Jessica Ransehousen) 112 4...... Buck Davidson...... 212 3...... Heelan Tompkins (NZ)...... 100 5. Arthur (Allison Springer) 110 5...... Amy Tryon...... 197 3...... Heidi White-Carty (USA)...... 100 6. Ballynoe Castle RM (Cassie Segal) 109 3...... Francis Whittington (GB)...... 100 6...... Allison Springer...... 191 7. The Good Witch (Daisy Tognazzini) 103 7...... Karen O’Connor (USA)...... 87 7...... Sarah Cousins...... 178 8. Tipperary Liadhnan (Frnds. of Kim Severson) 100 8...... William Fox-Pitt (GB)...... 86 8...... Becky Holder...... 167 9. Somerset II (Chris Desino) 91 9...... Pippa Funnell (GB)...... 85 9...... Boyd Martin...... 163 10.Wonderful Will (Sher Schwartz) 90 10...... Allison Springer (USA)...... 80 10...... Stephen Bradley...... 162 As of May 21 A MEMBERSHIP THAT COVERS YOU. IN THIS THE NATIONAL BANK CASE, WITH OF MALVERN PAINT.

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Friday, May 23, 2008 www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Steeplechase & Eventing Times • 25 08-500-248 CoversYou_2.375x13.5_1 1 5/6/08 12:28:45 PM Trail Blazing Teen Roberts, Galway’s Blazer Fair Hill International April 18-20 check off a one-star win winning two of their five training-level starts (finish- BY katy carter ing no worse than fourth) before claiming victory in their first preliminary run at Five Points Horse Trials Laura Roberts had a list of straightforward goals for in September. The success carried into the spring, with the Fair Hill International CIC*, April 18-20 at Fair second-place showings at Jumping Branch, Southern Hill, Md. She wanted to turn in a respectable dressage Pines and Plantation leading to the win at Fair Hill. test, jump clean and hopefully make the time on cross “Jenn went to Aiken over the winter, so I spent two country, and leave all the rails in their cups Sunday. months working on my dressage with Libby Ander- She hadn’t imagined that she and her partner of one son,” Roberts said. “Blazer knows what he’s doing, year, Galway’s Blazer, would end the weekend atop the but I needed help polishing up my dressage.” standings, beating out Olympic medalist Kim Severson Roberts took a humble view of her Fair Hill victory. and a host of other seasoned riders. “It just felt good to finish on my dressage score at “I didn’t know what to expect, really,” she said. “It my first one star,” she said. was my first one star.” Roberts and Blazer, a flashy 16.1-hand gray geld- Roberts, who lives in Herndon, Va., and attends ing, received a score of 49.6 to end dressage day in Oakton High School, found her horse with the help second, just 1.4 penalty points behind Severson and of her trainer of five years, Jennifer Simmons. Roberts Wiley Post. had lost her previous horse in the fall of 2006 and “It was my first time (competing) in a big ring and I then spent the next six months riding Simmons’ Box- just wanted to remember where the extra letters were,” ing Day at the training and preliminary levels before Roberts joked. “There was a lot going on and I really happening upon Blazer. liked that the one-star warm up was separate from the “We took our time finding a new horse because it horse-trials warm up. It gave me a calm feeling, and had to be the right one,” Roberts said. “He’s a pretty we went in and Blazer was so good.” chilled guy and a lot of fun to work with. It’s hard to Roberts remained on Severson’s heels, posting – get on his bad side.” much to her surprise – a clean and fast cross-country Roberts and the 12-year-old Connemara/Thorough- GRC Photo bred made significant strides their first season together, See fair hill page 27 Galway’s Blazer and Laura Roberts flash their form. Excellence Man’s in Equine Insurance Best Friend

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26 • Steeplechase & Eventing Times www.st-publishing.com • [email protected] Friday, May 23, 2008 ways have to be thinking,” she said. “You are always best thing about Blazer is that he’s taught me so much. looking ahead to the next jump, counting strides, and He’s gotten my confidence up over everything,” she Fair Hill – so on. You don’t have time to go to sleep.” said. “No matter when I make a mistake, he’s always Continued from page 26 Roberts and Blazer tackled the course with style, got my back.” navigating the big ring at Fair Hill cleanly and within round. While knowing it was within their powers to the time. • Jane Jennings and Ringmoylan collected the blue turn in a clean jumping effort, Roberts wasn’t sure “The course was good. It was very flowing,” she ribbon in the CIC**. Second on a dressage score of 53.4, they’d make the time. said. “Going in, I went and did two or three circles the duo picked up 1.2 points in cross country to finish “I really liked the course,” she said. “It had open, before the bell rang, just to get the nerves out of my first with 54.6. Maya Black and Kejsarinna rode clean galloping jumps to start you off, and then added the system. After the first fence, it was game time.” to finish second on their dressage score of 56.1, with technical questions. I felt it was a fair balance of both Roberts’ victory was sealed when Severson, the last Jacqueline Mains and Clifton Hi Max (63.4) in third. types of questions. He was really taking me to the rider to go, pulled a rail to finish second at 53 points. “I was trying for a qualifying score for Jersey Fresh jumps, so I had a hard time with the turns. I didn’t Ohio-based Elinor MacPhail and Woodstock II ended so I was very pleased to win my first intermediate,” look at my watch until we’d crossed the finish line, the weekend in third, finishing on their dressage score Jennings said. “The pressure was on. Maya Black is a then I was like ‘Holy cow!’ ” of 53.3. friend of mine from Washington state, she was second Roberts favorite phase is show jumping, which Roberts, 16, hasn’t lost focus since posting the win. and I didn’t have a rail in hand. And Sally O’Connor could qualify her as a rarity in the eventing world, and “Our goal all along has been the Virginia CCI* was the FEI steward and she used to have my horse, he she looked forward to that part of the competition on (May 21-25),” she said. “Then we’re aiming for Young was on the cover of her book, ‘Common Sense Dres- Sunday. Riders. Whether I am able to go as an individual or on sage.’ He’s a great horse. The pieces of the puzzle are “What I like about show jumping is that you al- the team, I’d just really like the opportunity to go. The coming together, we finished seventh at Jersey Fresh.”

British set for Hong Kong: The British Olympic Association announced its eventing team for the upcoming Olympic Games. Veterans Mary King and William Fox-Pitt return from the 2004 squad that earned team silver in Athens, joined by newcomers Sharon Hunt, Zara Phillips and Lucy Wiegersma. Riders (and qualified horses) are: William Fox-Pitt (Ballincoola or Parkmore Ed or Tamarillo); Olympic experience: Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004; Sharon Hunt (Tankers Town); Mary King (Call Again Cavalier or Imperial Cavalier); Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004; Zara Phillips (Toy- town); Lucy Wiegersma (Shaabrak). Selectors also named two reserve squads. First Reserves: Kristina Cook (Miner’s Frolic), Daisy Dick (Hope Street or Spring Along), Ruth Edge (Two Thyme) and Oliver Townend (Flint Curtis). Second Reserves: Georgie Davies (Fachoudette), Pippa Funnell (Ensign), Rodney Powell (Zin Zan II), Oliver Townend (Coup de Coeur) and Nicola Wilson (Opposition Buzz).

Courses for courses: The USEA will host a course-design seminar at Fair Hill, Md. May 30 through June 1. The three-day program features John Williams and Denis Glaccum as panelists. Those interested should contact Nancy Knight at [email protected] or call (703) 779-0440 ext. 3007. The tentative schedule includes sessions May 30: 6-9 p.m.; May 31: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; June 1: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Townend takes Chatsworth: Runners-up in 2007, Oliver Townend and his mount Flint Curtis improved on last year’s Chatsworth performance the only way possible, by winning the 2008 Chatsworth Nissan International Horse Trials May 10-11 in Chatsworth, England. Twelfth following dressage, they rocketed to fourth by posting the fastest cross-country time – the only pair with ?JHIA>HI:9 single-figure penalties – then jumped clear in the final phase to finish with a score of 59.9. Pippa Funnell and Ensign (62.7) placed second in the CIC***-W, followed by William Fox-Pitt and Park- ')+8adcbZaa"JeaVcYGY!LZhiBVgaWdgdj\]Ile#!E6 more Ed (65.2) in third. Townsend moved up to second in the FEI World Cup standings, trailing only American Clark Montgomery. >c i]Z =:6GI D; 8=:H=>G: =JCI 8DJCIGN#Ndjbjhi hZZ i]^h,hiVaaWVgclî]VaVg\Z!lZaa"Veed^ciZYVeVgibZciVWdkZ#I]Zegde" More safety news: The eventing community continues to focus on safety issues. In addition Zgin]VhhZkZgVa[ZcXZYeVYYdX`hVcYVheZXiVXjaVg]djhZhîZdkZgadd`^c\ to the previously announced safety summit and a list of suggested changes to the cross-country eZgeZijVaanegZhZgkZYaVcYVcYZc_dnhadc\!bV\c^ÒXZcik^Zlh#I]^h^hV phase issued jointly by leaders of the United States Equestrian Federation and the U.S. Eventing Association, the USEA had increased efforts to secure funding for studies into equine pulmonary \gZViegdeZgin[dgi]Zeg^XZVcYVcZmXZaaZci^ckZhibZcideedgijcîn hemorrhage and other sudden cardiovascular events. The loss of Direct Merger and Leprechaun’s ,*%!%%% Rowdy Boy, who both died from hemorrhages during competition in March, led to the establish- ment of the USEA Equine Research Task Force. The recent fatality of another upper-level event Gus Brown, EcoBroker horse, Tigger Too, in apparently similar circumstances at Jersey Fresh, has spurred on the effort. The Equine Research Task Force is headed by Dr. A. Kent Allen, who has put together a team Prudential Fox and Roach Realtors of experts in Dr. Catherine Kohn, Dr. Eleanor Green and Dr. Mark Revenaugh to help formulate the / s# s& request for proposals. They will be assisted by cardiologists Dr. Mark Hart and Dr. Lynn Cronin. e-mail: [email protected] Many of the members also serve on USEF and FEI veterinary committees and the findings coming website: http://gusbrown.prufoxroach.com out of this study will be shared with all equestrian bodies. Donations to the USEA Equine Research Fund can be made via the USEA web site at www. useventing.com. Check the “Equine Welfare” box when making your donation. Those giving $250 will receive a poster of Ask Away by Virginia artist Radford Wine. The safety summit will be held June 7-8 in Lexington, Ky. To register, visit the USEF web site at www.usef.org. The fee is $35. The Radisson Hotel in Lexington has set aside a block of rooms for the event. Call (859) 231-9000 for reservations. “Helping you – and the planet – get the most when buying or selling a home.”

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