Aero grabs timber stakes at Virginia Fall

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The leaves are turning and so is the tension – have you looked at the race for the trainer’s championship? We also check
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va fall races – Oct. 1-2
MIDDLEBURG, VA. – Shoe, school,
ship.
That was J.W. Delozier’s training
regime for Black Jack Blues in preparation for the Dot Smithwick Memorial
at Virginia Fall Oct. 1. Imported from
England, the six-time jump winner arrived Friday evening at Irv Naylor’s
Stillwater Farm in Butler, Md. Just in
time to be shod (he arrived barefoot),
schooled (he jumped two hurdles with
Delozier) and shipped for the $35,000
restricted stakes.
Ross Geraghty didn’t give the 8-yearold time to think about any of that,
gunning the son of Definite Article to
the lead and holding off leading novice Demonstrative by 4 1/2 lengths.
Nationbuilder rallied to be third, 12
lengths behind the runner-up.
Purchased by leading owner Irv Naylor, Jack Black Blues set a torrid pace in
the 2 1/8-mile race, opening 7 lengths
while jumping boldly. Dictina’s Boy sat
closest to him in second while Demonstrative, Nationbuilder and Turf Writers runner-up Dirar took their customary spots, rating near the back of the
field. Crossing the backstretch the final
time, Black Jack Blues held a big lead as
Hope For Us All and Dictina’s Boy tried
to rally and Demonstrative crept closer.
After the second-last, Hope For Us All’s
right rein snapped – careening him and
Dictina’s Boy off course. It was arguable
if they were going to mount any challenge to the front-runner who relished
the short distance, the yielding turf and
the free lead. Geraghty watched his races on the Internet and made a plan.
“I knew what I had in mind, if he
settled, I’d sit second. If he was very
keen, I’d let him go to the front,” Geraghty said. “I let him pop over the first
couple and got a feel of him, I wanted to
make it a shorter race for myself, when
I passed under the wire, I let him roll, I
let him rip the whole way to the bottom
and sat until I jumped the second-to-last
and let him roll again. He’s speed and
stamina, the complete package, goes on
either kind of ground, he’s going to really suit here.”
Black Jack Blues won three hurdle
races, and finished second to Oscar
Whiskey in the Welsh Champion Hurdle. The winner went on to finish third
in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.
Rated 147, high in the handicap and a
notch below champion hurdlers, Black
Jack Blues switched to chasing, winning
three of four starts, including a solo-finishing victory at Ffos Las Aug. 25.
“He’s a highly rated horse in England
and seemed like he suited our racing,”
Delozier said. “I was expecting to get
him Wednesday, we got him last night
and I schooled him over two hurdles
this morning, he wasn’t bothered a little
bit. He’s a very relaxed, quiet type of
horse, he obviously handled shipping.”
At the beginning of September, Naylor hired Delozier, a former steeplechase
jockey, handing him 20 horses (action
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horses, hunters and layups). The Smithwick accounted
for their first win together and Delozier’s first win as
a jump trainer.
“I don’t have too many horses right now but this
was great. Nick Carter orchestrated it, he came to us
and thought he would be a nice type for us,” Delozier
said. “We focused on getting him over for this race.”
The timing forced Delozier to do it himself Saturday morning.
“I haven’t sat on that many horses who could jump
like he did. He walked up to the (National Fence) like
he had been doing it his whole life,” Delozier said.
“He didn’t actually brush through them but he glided
over it, effortless. These are like mini chase fences to
him. My first win over jumps as a trainer.”
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feature, the National Sporting Library/Chronicle Cup.
Doug Fout trained Aero, on the outside, and G’day
G’day, on the inside. He used to train He’s A Conniver,
in the center.
Aero and jockey Jeff Murphy pulled out a comfortable win for Fout while G’day G’day collared He’s A
Conniver for second.
“All I did all week was dream about those two being first and second and whipping He’s A Conniver’s
ass, that would be the sweetest revenge. And it happened,” Fout said. “I think he’s a serious horse, he
would have been a good hurdle horse if he didn’t bow
at Saratoga. I don’t know if he would have been a
stake horse, but he would have been a good horse.”
Bred and owned by Eldon Farm, Aero broke his
maiden over hurdles as a 4-year-old, bowed that summer and wound up being Al Griffin’s project timber
horse. It’s worked. Griffin gets to hunt him in the offseason and watch him in the race-season. The Virginia-bred broke his maiden at Willowdale in the spring.
At Middleburg, Murphy rated him in fourth while
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Music To My Ears set the pace. He’s A Conniver
picked it up going down the backside the final time
but Aero cruised into contention on the outside as
G’day G’day rallied from the inside. He’s A Conniver
picked up first at the last, hit the top rail while Aero
and G’day G’day pounced like two dogs on a bone.
“We paid a little bit of nothing for the horse, half
up front and half if he ever made it back to the races.
We ran him at a couple of point-to-points, we hunted
him a lot, he hasn’t looked back,” Fout said. “We’ve
been real careful, Al rode him out with the hounds this
summer, the best thing is Al can enjoy his own horse.
We’ll run him in the Gold Cup this fall but just for an
education, no pressure. The goal is the Gold Cup in
the spring.”
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opener and smiled, “I’m delighted for that horse.”
Overcoming a long layoff, Rainiero rallied from
well back in the optional claimer, slicing through the
field after the last to win comfortably over Air Maggy
and One Sea.
Owned by Augustin Stable, the 9-year-old Chileanbred relished the drop to the $15,000 claiming ranks
after tussling with the likes of Slip Away, Mabou,
Mixed Up and The Price Of Love on his first tour of
duty. Away since finishing 10th in the 2009 Noel Laing, Rainiero won like he had been thinking about it
since.
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Bag was much the best on paper and
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jockey.
cocky, just go win the race, end of story.
McCarron tallied his 199th career I’ve learned how to save them on the
victory after a slow summer when he front end, let them carry themselves, get
almost hung up his boots. It all – well, breathers, I’ve come a long way in that
almost all – came back to him.
sense.”
“All but the fitness. I was done this
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summer and Richard texted me about front tendons at Philadelphia Park,
riding Auction Watch at the Open Black Bag made his first start at ColoHouse,” McCarron said. “Basically, I’m nial Downs this summer, pulling up in
not looking to hustle things and I’ll just maiden claimer. He returned this fall,
ride for Richard this fall. Honestly, if I Ü}Ê>ÌÊ/ÀÌÊ°Ê>ViÊi>Ãi`Ê
was spectating today, it’s all the same. the horse for the rest of the year.
Did I have a blast on him? Sure. Would
“I would have been disappointed if
I be missing it otherwise? No.”
he didn’t win today, he won really nicely
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tling on her shoulder.
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Prince had won a tight photo with
Black Bag jumped efficiently throughMonstaleur in the $15,000 race.
out, barring one long and low one on
He did. Roddy Mackenzie positioned the backstretch the final time.
the 5-year-old son of Royal Anthem out“When I asked him up, I thought,
side for most of the 3-mile race before ‘that was so stupid.’ He decided to
engaging the leaders going down the come up and the ground’s soft . . . but it
backside. Winless in five jump starts, Ü>ÃÊ>Ê}`]»Ê9Õ}ÊÃ>`°ÊºiÊìÃ½ÌÊ
Elusive Prince staved off Monstaleur by know what he’s doing out there, ears
a head. Former Iroquois winner Sur La pricked, he’s only going to get better.”
Tete, 13, finished third.
Well on his way to his third consecu“I rode him at Thornton Hill, he was ÌÛiÊV>«Ã«]Ê9Õ}Ê«Vi`ÊÕ«ÊÃÊ
green as grass, but he won nicely, beat 21st win of the season, the most wins
Sur La Tete,” Mackenzie said. “He’s he’s produced in any season thus far.
a bit of an awkward horse, you have
to leave him alone, he lugs, carries his
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down the back, nearly threw me over veteran Woodmont fell on the flat.
his head, that scared him and then we
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Bag won by 37 lengths.
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65,000
Dollars spent each year on drug testing
procedures at ALL NSA race meets.
Total now at $500,000.
28,000
Dollars spent each year
on race course safety inspections.
7,500
Dollars spent to purchase 100 Pro-Cush
whips for licensed jockeys as part of the
NSA’s move to cushioned riding crops.
The NSA was the first North American
racing jurisdiction to adopt such a policy.
17,500
Dollars contributed each year to purses
for amateur highweight timber races.
53,000
Dollars spent to purchase 50 pairs
of safety wings for use in NSA races.
91,000
Dollars contributed to steeplechase-connected
organizations and foundation partners including
the Amateur Riders Club of America,
the National Museum of Racing,
the Wesley Foundation in Saratoga, etc.
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Boucher returns to winning ways
with 3-year-old hurdler Class Brahms
BY SEAN CLANCY
va fall races – Oct. 1-2
Mede Cahaba Stable and Lilith
Boucher unveiled another promising
3-year-old at Virginia Fall when homebred Class Brahms broke his maiden in
the annual 3-year-old opener. Just five
freshman showed up for the $10,000
maiden hurdle to open Sunday’s card.
The Virginia-bred son of Brahms
galloped on the lead throughout, lost
ground at the three fences down the
backside as Darkwatch outjumped him
on the outside. Touching down second
after the last, Class Brahms re-rallied
on the outside to win by 1 3/4 lengths
over Darkwatch and British import Gawaarib.
It was jockey Richard Boucher’s first
win since being injured this summer.
“I’ve been practicing a little bit on
the flat, I was quietly confident, he’s
always been a good jumper, I named
Bernie (Dalton) on him just because I
was thinking I might not be fit enough
to ride him, he can get a little heavyheaded, but in a five-horse field on soft
ground, it works out well for a weak
rider,” Boucher said. “He’s not shown
much on the flat, he got some experi-
ence this summer at Colonial, we were
hoping, just like all Mignon’s 3-yearolds, they know how to jump. I could
have sent him up there but I figured
we’d pop away on the ground, I always
felt like I had enough in the tank to run
him down anyway, just pop, pop, pop.
Like good English jump racing.”
Boucher broke ribs and his shoulder
blade in a summer fall at Colonial. He
made his fall comeback at Foxfield, riding on the flat. The win pushed Boucher
back into a tie for third in the standings.
“I feel really, really good. The ribs
are all healed up, my shoulder blade
still has a little more healing to do, but
a shoulder blade doesn’t do much anyway, it’s just there,” Boucher said. “It
was my longest vacation, three weeks
of doing nothing. It never bothered me
much (mentally), I just fell off, it was
done and over with, I’ll keep going for a
little bit longer. It’s been a fantastic year,
if I could just have a couple more winners this fall and stay in the top four or
five, I’ll be happy.”
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Of the five starters, Gawaarib was
the only one who had won on the flat.
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the fieldhunter championship and sending out Bigshot in the maiden hurdle,
also bearing the longtime steeplechase
patron’s name.
Gomena failed to land the first one,
but nailed the second when Stonelea
Farm’s Bigshot took the second, winning on the front end in his debut for
jockey Carl Rafter. First-time starter
and multiple stakes winner Ice Bear rallied for second with first-timers Almarmooq third and Researcher fourth.
The race was sponsored by the Bonnie family and won by the Bonnie family
(which is part of the Randolph family).
“With Researcher and Ice Bear in
there, I would have been happy with
a nice third place,” said Gomena, still
dressed in her hunting clothes. “He
started at Blue Ridge, I think that was
helpful, put the shadow roll on this
time, still strong, Carl felt he should
go ahead and stay up front, which was
fine. The horse is a fabulous jumper, always has been, honestly, he could have
been an event horse, from day one, always forward, happy, jumping, loved it,
no problem, easy.”
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for $40,000 in May. He routed a tough
maiden field that included $1.3 million earner Researcher, Saratoga allowance runner-up Perfect Edge, $950,000
yearling purchase Almarmooq and
$872,328 earner Ice Bear.
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Farm, Neil Morris and Jacob Roberts.
The 4-year-old son of Repent made up
a zip code to run down Hishi Soar after the elbow. Dakota Slew wound up
third.
The 4-year-old son of Repent made
five starts on the flat, finishing second
once on the dirt at Laurel Park last fall.
The $20,000 yearling purchase managed a fourth at Colonial on the turf
and prepped with a second at Blue
Ridge Point-to-Point.
“We bought him as a yearling, I was
supposed to break his maiden on the
flat this year but that didn’t happen so
here we are,” Morris said. “That was
very unlike him at the start but perhaps
in this ground, it was the best thing that
ever happened to him.”
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the three-horse amateur rider timber to
finish the card and give trainer Richard
Valentine a double on the weekend.
Darren Nagle guided the winner who
handled Fieldview and Mr Tack with
ease.
Next stop, New Jersey Hunt Cup.
The Irish-bred 10-year-old won his
NSA debut at Willowdale back in 2007
before missing two years and reappearing at Radnor in 2009 where he failed to
finish. Another year layoff ensued before
finishing second to Bubble Economy at
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layoff came next before he returned to
finish second in this year’s Virginia Gold
Cup. Point-to-points were interspersed
between his four NSA starts.
At Virginia Fall, Radio Flyer cruised
on the front end in the amateur timber
and held off Fieldview by 2 lengths.
“I just want to find places to run this
horse where he can get his confidence.
We’ve put him in ambitious spots but
I think he belongs there, the important
thing is the prep races leading there, he
needs to have a lot of confidence on the
day,” Valentine said. “With him, it’s
confidence, confidence, confidence. Julie Gomena hunted him with Piedmont
10 days ago. Darren thinks he’s a Hunt
Cup horse. Anybody can ride him, he’s
a joy to have around.”
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half-length for Jonathan Sheppard and
Brian Crowley. It was the perfect prep
for the novice stakes at Far Hills.
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L 141 McCarron
2. Air Maggy
L 150 Crowley
3. One Sea
L 141 Mackenzie
4. Mischief
L 153 Young
5. Silent Vow
L 153 Dalton
6. Call Me Sonny
L 158 Roberts
7. Golden Slammer
153 Hodsdon
F. Fogcutter
L 145 Murphy
F. Humdinger
L 149 Read
PU. Beer Frame
158 Walsh
Mgn: 3. Time: 4:11-3/5.
O: Augustin Stables. T: Richard Valentine.
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L 160 Murphy
2. G’Day G’Day
L 160 Young
3. He’s A Conniver
L 165 Dalton
4. Music To My Ears (Ire) L 165 Walsh
5. Gather No Moss
150 Watts
6. Incomplete
L 155 Petty
PU. Wolfe Tone
L 160 Beecher
Mgn: 6. Time: 7:04-2/5.
O: Alfred Griffin, Jr. T: Doug Fout.
B. g. 6, Northern Spur (Ire)-Best Victory (Fr),
Cadoudal (Fr). Bred by Eldon Farm Racing Stable LLC (Va.)
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1. Elusive Prince
L 160 Mackenzie
2. Monstaleur
L 155 Elliott
3. Sur La Tete
L 165 Read
4. I’m A Hokie
165 Geraghty
5. Expel
L 165 McVicar
6. Mynameismedford
L 155 Roberts
Mgn: Head. Time: 6:48-1/5.
O: Irv Naylor. T: Kathy McKenna.
Dk. B./Br. g. 5, Royal Anthem-Worthy Prospect, Woodman. Bred by Joe Thomson (Md.)
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2. Demonstrative
L 154 Walsh
3. Nationbuilder
L 150 Hodsdon
4. Brave Prospect
L 142 Aizpuru
5. Lead Us Not
L 146 Crowley
6. Dirar (Ire)
150 Condon
PU. Dictina’s Boy
146 Young
PU. Hope For Us All
L 146 Dowling
Mgn: 4 1/4. Time: 4:02 1/5.
O: Irv Naylor. T: J.W. Delozier.
Dk. B./Br. g. 8, Definite Article (GB)-Melody
Maid (GB), Strong Gale (Ire).
Bred by B. J. Griffiths (Ire)
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L 147 McCarthy
2. Petite Lafleur
L 137 McVicar
3. Lord Fox
L 150 Young
4. Ditch
L 160 Mackenzie
Mgn: 5 3/4. Time: 2:20-1/5
O: Celtic Venture Stable T: Charles McCann.
Gr./Ro. m. 7, Rock Point-Miss Naamani, Shaarid
(GB). Bred by The Horseshoe Ltd. (Va.)
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1. Black Bag
L 148 Young
2. Fu San
L 152 Read
3. Ardagh
L 142 McVicar
PU. Za Za Zu
L 146 Walsh
PU. Chilhowee Lad
L 148 Crowley
PU. What A Warrior
L 156 Mackenzie
Mgn: 37. ime: 4:16.
O: Debra Kachel. T: Ricky Hendriks.
Dk. B./Br. g. 5, Black Minnaloushe-Dyna Mae,
Dynaformer. Bred by Newstadt Corp. (Pa.)
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L 165 Brion
2. Double Doors (GB)
L 165 Gilliam
3. Wazee Moto
L 165 Grant
4. Lear Heights
L 165 Daley
F. Woodmont
L 165 Motion
OC. With Bells On
162 Shaw
PU. Memorial Maniac
L 165 Tobin
Mgn: 8 1/2. Time: 2:05.
O: Timber Bay Farm. T: Jonathan Sheppard.
B. g. 5, Grand Slam-Rare Blend, Bates Motel.
Bred by Joseph Allen (Ky.)
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1. Class Brahms
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2. Darkwatch
L 150 Young
3. Gawaarib
L 150 Walsh
4. Went West
L 150 Dowling
5. Hidden Melody
L 150 Rafter
Mgn: 1 3/4. Time: 4:20.
O: Mede Cahaba Stable. T: Lilith Boucher.
B. g. 3, Brahms-Class Babe, Class Secret.
Bred by Mede Cahaba Stable & Stud LLC (Va.)
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1. Bigshot
L 150 Rafter
2. Ice Bear
L 154 McCarron
3. Almarmooq
L 150 Aizpuru
4. Researcher
L 154 Read
5. Union Army
145 Fischer
6. Saint Dynamformer
L 150 Roberts
7. Primero Peru
154 McCarthy
F. Perfect Edge
L 154 Murphy
PU. Hurricane Day
L 150 Mackenzie
PU. Gusto Nuevo
L 154 Watts
Mgn: 3 1/4. Time: 4:15-1/5.
O: Stonelea Stables LLC. T: Julie Gomena.
Dk. B./Br. c. 4, Limehouse-Regal Snicker, Regal
Classic. Bred by Hidden Point Farm Inc. (Fl.)
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1. Upper Gulch
L 155 Fischer
2. Lonesome Nun
L 155 Aizpuru
3. Deep Run
L 155 Rafter
4. Mariah’s Promise
145 Harris
5. Bokus
L 155 Bordwell
6. Good Night Lucy
L 155 Young
7. Dance Raven Dance
L 150 Watts
8. The Manner Born
L 155 Crowley
Mgn: 2. Time: 1:36-1/5.
O: Fox Ridge Farm. T: Tom Voss.
Dk. B./Br. m. 6, Gulch-Upper Noosh, Red Ransom. Bred by Fox Ridge Farm Inc. (Ky.)
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L 150 Roberts
2. Hishi Soar
L 150 Mackenzie
3. Dakota Slew
l 150 Walsh
4. Zulla Road
L 154 McCarthy
LR. Winning Vow
L 154 Read
PU. Southwest
L 154 Murphy
PU. Jake’s Mandate
L 150 McVicar
Mgn: 1 1/4. Time: 4:10-4/5.
O: Kinross Farm. T: Neil Morris.
B. g. 4, Repent-Jon’s Kimberly, Criminal Type.
Bred by Carol Hershe & Marty Hershe (Fl.)
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1. Royal Rossi
L 155 Crowley
2. Share Out
L 150 Mackenzie
3. Philology
L 150 Young
4. Embezzle (GB)
L 150 Walsh
5. Dispute This
L 155 Watts
6. Forgotten Man
L 150 Murphy
7. Time Off
L 155 Hodsdon
8. Ken’s Kitten
L 155 Fischer
9. Euro Power
L 147 Brion
10. Dim
L 150 Roberts
11. Balthus
L 155 McVicar
12. Out Loud
L 152 Daley
Mgn: 1/2. Time: 2:05-1/5
O: Hudson River Farms. T: Jonathan Sheppard.
B. g. 5, Rossini-Princess Lea, Stalwart.
Bred by Triple C Thoroughbred & Jacquelyn
Cochonour (Ky.)
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1. Radio Flyer (Ire)
L 180 Nagle
2. Fieldview
L 175 Beecher
3. Mr Tack
165 Fischer
Mgn: 2. Time: 6:59-4/5..
O: Augustin Stables. T: Richard Valentine.
Dk. B./Br. g. 10, High Roller (Ire)-Executive
Seat (Ire), Executive Perk (Ire).
Bred by Noelle Canheady (Ire).
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fOxfield races – september 25
Home
Girl
Red Dirt Girl exits Spa,
graduates maiden ranks
BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Red Dirt Girl must
have been happy to get out of Saratoga and away from
Opera Heroine.
The 4-year-old filly went to the Foxfield Races Sept.
25 with two career jump starts – both losses to Opera
Heroine over the turf course at Saratoga. At Foxfield,
the Virginia-bred overwhelmed seven others to win a
$15,000 maiden hurdle for fillies and mares – winning
by 10 1/4 lengths over Cubist with Smart Hokie third.
Led off the mark by Beating The Odds, Red Dirt
Girl jumped greenly through the opening stages. Robbie Walsh let the filly jump past the pacemaker and
see a little daylight through her blinkers – and by the
eighth fence she had shaken loose of her competitors.
The race was over quickly as Beating The Odds and
three others were pulled up.
“We were to ride her handy, blinkers were on today,
so she was pretty sharp away from there,” Walsh said.
“A couple of us were jumping green in front, (Beating The Odds) was green, mine was green behind. I
jumped past and once I got there, she actually jumped
better. I just kind of sat and waited and let her pop
away and nothing ended up coming.”
Owned by Tuatha De Danann Stable, Red Dirt Girl
lost all 10 of her flat starts but showed some promise
in the two jump tries for trainer Richard Valentine –
finishing third in maiden company at the Open House
and fifth in the Mrs. Ogden Phipps Stakes
“Because it’s such a new division, it wasn’t as if
there were three, four winners in (the Phipps), there
was only Opera Heroine that broke their maiden and
maybe a couple others that had won races, so I figured, let’s take a shot,” Valentine said. “I think she’s a
nice horse, she wants distance, she wants soft ground.
She’s probably a better hunt meet horse than she is
at the racetrack, but you never know, a win will do
a world for their confidence. We put the blinkers on
today, and that seemed to help as well.”
Valentine and Walsh expect improvement off the
decisive score.
“She ran well at Saratoga Open House first time,
ran in the stake, it was a little tough, maybe a little
quick for her second start,” Walsh said. “Back to
maiden level helped her confidence-wise, but I think
she’ll step up again off that.”
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Fall 2010 to win the finale and co-feature, a $15,000 maiden hurdle, for Lazenby Banks Madden Stable and trainer
Doug Fout.
The 5-year-old was challenged late
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Riches, but pinned his ears and was not
going to be bested while winning by 1
1/2 lengths for jockey Jeff Murphy.
Hue Of Crimson fell over another
horse in a Virginia Fall maiden last year,
and went to the sidelines.
“He rapped his leg, and he got a tendon and everything else, and it was a
disaster,” Fout said. “Then he had his
first run back at Open House without a
flat race and he finished a good fourth
in the hurdle race up there, and I was
pretty pleased with that because that
was a big effort.”
Fout gave the gelding an easy pointto-point spin in the week leading up to
Foxfield, and was confident the horse
was sitting on a win. Murphy, on the
other hand, tried to convince the trainer not to run his charge on the waterlogged ground.
“I gave him a point-to-point last
week and I was delighted with him. I
thought he’d win, but I didn’t really
think he’d go on this ground, but a good
horse will go on any ground,” Murphy
said. “I told Dougie not to run him.”
“I know what I’m talking about!”
the rider added with a laugh.
Murphy had Hue Of Crimson well-
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placed throughout, sitting just a few
lengths off the pace through the opening stages and hitting the inside panel of
every hurdle.
“The right kind of horse on this
course can stay down the inside, so you
can cut corners and that’s what he did
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him anywhere in the race and it’s not
going to bother him. Big, huge, strong
horse, but he’s a gentle fellow. He’s a
cool dude.”
Fout also emphasized Hue Of Crimson’s kind personality as a contributing
factor.
“He’s got the best attitude in the
world,” said Fout, who used teenager
Mary Motion to school Hue Of Crimson. “He’s a good old school horse and
there’s nothing he can’t do. He can be a
hunter, a timber horse down the road,
so I’m not too worried.”
Fout expects to see improvement in
his charge.
“We’ll go to the Gold Cup in that
allowance race there and see how we
do and if he can’t win that, we’ll go to
Montpelier and then I’ll give him the
winter off,” Fout said. “I think he’s
got some improvement on him. I don’t
know how big a horse he’s going to be,
but he’s a beautiful jumper and he tries.
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in a light shower, Sir Dynamite parlayed
experience and a handy inside ride to
power under the wire 1 1/4 lengths clear
in the maiden claimer.
Ahead of the pack when the flag
dropped, the good-looking son of Dynaformer was never truly headed under
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into the straight, Winning Vow briefly
engaged, but proved to be no match
while settling for second, a length ahead
of Durer.
“There was no real plan with him,
because he’d been ridden every way, out
the back and up handy, in the middle,”
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most experienced in the race today,
so we just let him do his thing and it
worked out good.”
Sir Dynamite is in the midst of his
second campaign for owner Dale Thiel
and trainer Ricky Hendriks.
Bred in Pennsylvania by London
Thoroughbred Services and Derry
Meeting Farm, Sir Dynamite was
claimed by Hendriks and Thiel for
$7,500 in February 2010 and made
seven starts. Among his four hurdle
tries was a win, and subsequent disqualification for interference, at Aiken
last November.
Hendriks went back to the flat and
Sir Dynamite got claimed away for
$10,000 in December. He spent the
winter at Penn National, trying cheap
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time off after Colonial and aimed for today and he
started looking better and feeling better, so today was
his day and he was in the right company.”
Hendriks blamed a distaste for Colonial Downs.
“He hates it down there,” the trainer said. “I think
he likes up and down the hills better than the flat track,
he kind of gets out-run at the flat track. He likes being
on the lead, kind of one-paced horse. Paddy gave him
a nice ride and he jumped real good today.”
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owner and trainer, Hobson sent out Eilidh Grant for
her first ride and her first win under rules.
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“She rode an absolutely perfect race. We walked
claimers and state-bred allowance races with trainer
the course, we talked about it, not in detail,” Hobson
Lester Stickler to no avail.
said. “It was her first ride under rules and I just wantWhen Thiel said he wanted the horse back, Hened her to go out there and enjoy. Win, lose or draw, I
driks reached in and claimed him back for $7,500 in
didn’t care where she finished, but we did have a plan
March.
going out there.”
“Our neighbor bred him, he was sold for $450,000
The young rider was accosted with the customary
as a yearling,” the trainer said. “He went to Europe,
buckets of icy water on her way out of the winner’s enCalifornia, then we claimed him at Philadelphia
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Park. We lost him over the winter and we claimed to Ted Thompson’s Wantan under Bernie Dalton. necessary.
him back. Mr. Thiel and his daughter Laura were Owned by Jubilee Stable, the son of Pure Prize had
Hobson will keep Forest Bell in the Virginia-bred
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back for you.’ ”
maiden winner that spring.
“He just has fun doing it,” Hobson said. “I think
Sir Dynamite returned to jumping with a fifth at
The race also marked the season return of Jonathan we’re going to keep him on the flat for the time being.
Fair Hill and a pull-up at Colonial Downs, both times Sheppard’s Grade I winner Arcadius. Winner of the He did not run as well over hurdles as he did on the
the beaten favorite, and was a well-beaten sixth on the Helen Haskell Samson Hurdle Stakes at Monmouth flat. I think the flat game, the hunt meets, is what he
flat at Colonial July 3.
last year, the 7-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway fin- enjoys. He doesn’t like running at the racetrack any“For some reason, he just went out of form a little ished second under Brian Crowley.
more, he’s raced poorly at the racetrack.”
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Old Pro
Timber veteran Haddix triumphs
in open timber feature for Armata
BY JOE CLANCY
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hasn’t been around forever. It just seems
that way.
He began his steeplechase career
back in 2005 – in the Far Hills 3-yearold stakes – and has made at least three
starts every year since. Hurdles gave
way to timber fences long ago, but the
son of Deputy Commander extended his
career another step with a facile score in
the $15,000 open timber feature at Shawan Downs Sept. 24. Racing for ArmaÌ>Ê -Ì>LiÊ >`Ê ÌÀ>iÀÊ >ÌÞÊ Vi>]Ê
Haddix sat second behind I’m Telling
throughout and rolled past leaving the
backside. He coasted around the turn,
re-energized in the stretch and won by 9
3/4 lengths in 7:10 for 3 1/8 miles. I’m
Telling hung on for second with Gorgeous Charger third.
The victory erased a 13-race losing
streak and impressed jockey Roddy
Mackenzie.
“He was electric,” he said. “I hit the
front and just squeezed him along and he
took off with me. I took a pull on him on
the turn, squeezed him up the stretch and
he took off again. He won nicely.”
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Haddix never won over hurdles, but
broke his timber maiden at My Lady’s
Manor in 2008. He won twice the next
year, at the Manor and Willowdale. Last
year, he made five stakes starts, placing
in three. His 2011 included a try (and a
lost rider) in the Maryland Hunt Cup,
but little else.
The Florida-bred thrived in the yielding ground at Shawan, galloping comfortably early, jumping well and producing plenty of energy late.
“I knew I’m Telling was going to
make it and I thought I’d jump off second or third,” Mackenzie said of the
strategy. “Going out the loop the second time, I was a bit closer than I really wanted to be but he was traveling
and going great. He just took me every
stride of the way.”
Douglas Lees
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Moonsox and Sgt Bart on the final trip
down the backside and had plenty left
vÀÊ ÌiÊ ÃÌÀiÌV°Ê ÕÃÃiVVÊ ÀÃtin Fischer) fought off a stiff challenge
from Chess Board (Mark Beecher) in
the stretch to win by a length in 7:16
UÊ /iÊ À>Ì>Ê «>ÀÌiÀÃ«Ê vÊ *iÀÀÞÊ 3/5 for 3 1/8 miles. Moonsox claimed
Bolton and Ben Griswold turned a third with Sgt. Bart falling on the backdouble one race later when Irish import side while making progress.
“He’s got a big strong gallop so we
Mussiecoocoo wired eight others in a
$10,000 maiden timber for trainer Tom were out front, and he was secondVoss. The 7-year-old felt pressure from guessing himself a little bit all by his
lonesome,” said Fischer, of a handful of
sticky jumps. “I could hear the boards
smacking behind me so I knew they
were there. Every time a horse comes to
him, he starts racing them again. He’s
very competitive. He outjumped that
horse at the last, he’s got a big, bold
jump to him and that helped.”
Bolton and Griswold bought Mussiecoocoo during a trip to Ireland with
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spring and he finished second at Middleburg and the Iroquois. A potential
summer campaign ended with a dull
fifth at Saratoga Open House behind
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trainer Tom Voss in May 2009. The son of
“We were so disappointed with him
Darnay made two point-to-point starts in >ÌÊ "«iÊ ÕÃi]»Ê Ã>`Ê *>``ÞÊ 9Õ}°Ê
his home country at age 5 before joining “I couldn’t believe he got beat, just on
the Voss team in Maryland. Mussiecoocoo form alone. We took him home and he
started his timber career this spring, plac- was lame after the race, didn’t know
ing at Elkridge-Harford Point-to-Point, what it was. He had a problem with his
Winterthur and Willowdale.
feet. He’s a good jumper, but at Sara“He came from near Cashel, where toga he wouldn’t leave the ground. On
he was with a wonderful trainer named him, the ground felt like the road that
Paddy Doyle,” said Griswold. “We just day. Nobody else said that, and none of
sort of liked his looks. He’s still green, the other horses I rode felt like that.”
still learning but he looks like he could
Gustavian went on a swimming regiLiÊ"°Ê7i½Ê>ÛiÊÃiÊvÕ°»
men at Maui Meadow Farm, staying fit
while staying off those tender feet, and
UÊ /iÊ `>ÞÊ ÃÌ>ÀÌi`Ê ÜÌÊ ÌÜÊ ÕÀìÊ aimed for September. A tuneup at Coraces – both won by leading jockey lonial Downs six days before Shawan
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is quickly becoming a thing of the past
“They weren’t the worst bunch of
(with wins in his first four autumn rides). horses in the world but there were some
9Õ}ÊÃÌiiÀi`ÊVÀÞÊ/ÀiiÊ-Ì>Li½ÃÊ first-time starters,” said Paddy. “We got
Gustavian home first in the $15,000 the rain, I knew that would help, and if
maiden hurdle to start the double. he was back to his best he was going to
Trained by the jockey’s wife Leslie, be tough. We didn’t go very quick and
Gustavian rated fourth early and shift- his experience held.”
ed into action on the backside the final
time. The 5-year-old came into the race
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with three hurdle starts this year, an ad- >Vi½ÃÊ >ÃÃÊ >ÀÊ Ê ÌiÊ i>`Ê Ê >Ê
vantage when half the six runners were $10,000 conditioned claiming hurdle
making their first starts.
and made the advantage stand up –
Gustavian joined first-timer Brother quickening away down the backside and
Sy (Mackenzie) on the lead five fences holding off Great Halo (Mackenzie) and
from home and controlled the race from Dance Faster (Robbie Walsh) late in 3:49
there. Brother Sy stayed for second, 1/5 for 2 1/8 miles. Trained by Ricky
beaten 1 1/2 lengths, over another rook- Hendriks, Class Mark came into the race
ie Imperial Gin (Fischer) as the winner off a point-to-point win two weeks earneeded 3:53 3/5 to cover 2 miles.
lier and put that fitness to work.
After two training flat starts last fall,
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of the boys didn’t know whether to go
past me or stay in behind me so they left
him alone. I slowed it all the way down
up here, and kicked on. He’s like a motorbike and just hugs the hedge on the
turns. He quickened right around there.”
Class Mark blundered at the second
fence on the backside, but went back to
jumping accurately one fence later and
won by 7 lengths.
“He did it a little bit at the second-last
too, but he came up out of my hands at
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training flat win for Irv Naylor, trainer
Brianne Slater and new jockey Xavier
Aizpuru. The winner inherited the lead
early when Foolish Surprise bolted off
course, and denied stiff challenges in the
stretch. Pierrot Lunaire rallied late for
second, beaten a neck, with Ballet Boy
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times and he’s in great form, trying to
buck me off and things,” said Aizpuru.
“It’s good to come here and get a feel
for him in a race. He did that really
well. He’ll be pretty straight for the big
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Saratoga
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Steeplechasing looks
back on 2011 season,
efforts to boost impact
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Steeplechasing went to Saratoga in 2011 with some
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for the future. The summer included eight races and
participation increases across the board. But was it a
success?
ST’s Katie Bo Williams caught up with a few Saratoga steeplechase participants at Virginia Fall – asking
for opinions, feedback, ideas. We’ll try to do the same
thing over the next month or so.
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stakes and Demonstrative for two novice starts, he finished second in both. Used private stalls from trainer
Eddie Miller off the grounds.
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a little bit. As the races get more established, then the
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together – SOTA, NSA and even NSF. I left enjoying
myself but if I had to be in the receiving barn, I think
that would have done my head in.
I think that we should be able to put up a sub (race)
against the fillies race. If we had it in the condition
book, maybe more people would keep it in the back
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then stay up for the day, they don’t get on the Southwest flight home at 3 o’clock.
It’s built-in entertainment up there, there’s great places to eat and everything.
iÃÃÃÊi>Ài`\ÊI think it was a good showing. I think Mabou being claimed
and winning the Turf Writers was a great thing, just because it put us in the spotlight from a different angle, coming from the flat people. It’s good for business, you
might pick up an owner, a horse or whatever. The ability for some people to (claim
out of Saratoga) is huge. If I had an owner that maybe wanted to run something on
the flat up there, you could claim early and then have something to run at the meet,
maybe a grass horse that is at the end of its career, and maybe claim it and run it
up there and then have it ready to run in the fall.
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Won two steeplechase races and three flat races during the meet.
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out, that worked really well. What made it better for me was being able to go in
and out. I think the NSA should probably rent a barn up there for people. They’re
not going to give you stalls if you don’t have flat horses, but to give you the opportunity to ship your horse up there earlier, or hang out the whole meet. It’s going to
cost you something, as it cost me, it costs a lot of money to be up there. There was
a barn up there that’s like 18 stalls and I was going to take five of them and Arch
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by the week. There are places up there that you can do that, I rented stalls off the
grounds. But, $10,000 here for the purse. $70,000 up there. I think it would work.
-V>Ê-iÌ1«\ÊThe cocktail parties, I couldn’t tell you, because I didn’t go to any.
I think the box they had (at the races on steeplechase days) was a great idea because
it gives me a place where I can drop an owner and they have a place to go instead
of just leaving them up there, they have nothing to do all day, so they can be with
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so the people understand it, we have material to
give to them, whether it’s race cards, or promotional material, or free Steeplechase Times, things
like that. Say to them, if you enjoy this, come
back every Thursday and watch the first race and
watch these horses run again.
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events.
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amount of prize money that’s offered to us over
the course of the year and because that is the case,
the amount of priority put on all the arrangements
from the condition book to the social functions to
responding to people’s requirements should be at
the highest level.
Next year there’s going to be monies available
that will come from the casino arrangements in
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}ÃÌVÃ\ÊAll the winners were based at Saratoga. Those that shipped in weren’t as successful.
I think that is a lesson in and of itself. Whilst it’s
difficult to get stalls up there for any number of
different reasons, that should be something that
we should work hard to increase even if it’s an
extra half-dozen or so, because that really does
seem to make a difference.
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Shipped Saratoga Open House winner Jimtown
the people who make the decision of where the
for a start against optional claimer company. He
stalls go. We might be in a stronger position than
pulled up.
we were 12 months ago because of the success. If
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level of steeplechasing, then we should argue that
and they got the horses. And the purse money was
we need more stalls. The other obvious thing to
good, you weren’t going up there for $30,000,
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you were going up for $50,000. Because it takes
is there any other way that we could house horses
about $5,000 to do it, including everybody’s liup there. I haven’t driven around the Saratoga
cense and insurance.
area, but there are farms with a lot of green grass
I didn’t stable on the grounds. I shipped up
around. Maybe you build some stalls. It would
and stayed overnight at a farm. I couldn’t possibe a good investment for steeplechasing. The harbly put him in the receiving barn, he’d be useless.
ness track is another one, it’s just down the road.
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four weeks apart. That means changing some-V>Ê-iÌ1«\ We had the free coffee. It’s a minor
they’re jumpers, they’re usually nuts. They won’t
thing, but I think you have those two premier
stakes races – I’d do that and then work around it. I thing, but it got us a lot of good press, a lot of flat start, they have issues. Some of these horses are so
people, owners and trainers noticed it and I think it well-bred, so they’re not running over jumps because
think that’s important.
The filly and mare race that didn’t go at the end of helped to sell the fact that Thursday is steeplechase they’re perfect little horses. I’m sure a lot of them are
very difficult.
the meet, we got probably very unlucky. As I recall, day. I think that we achieved that goal.
The emphasis all the way along was to give places
They really made an effort. They called, they kept
there were six or seven good horses that got injured or
ran too many times running up to Saratoga, so we had for people to congregate as opposed to people going on top of horses who were trying to get there, who
a smaller population than we might have done. If we their own way and ending up at different cocktail par- might want to go there. They really kept their finger
continue to have two filly and mare races at Saratoga, ties at night. Every week there was a cocktail party at on it instead of just writing a race and hoping people
I would look at the condition book leading up to that. 5:30 and if people felt inclined they could get together showed up. They made a point of saying, ‘you’ve got
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so maybe we should have one less race in advance to ing. There were flat people there too, which I think leave your barn, if it’s a small barn like mine, you have
was encouraging. That worked.
to pay people to do your work while you go off for
give us the best chance of filling that.
The other thing that was successful this year was two days and exhaust yourself.
(The filly and mare division) is a good addition. It’s
a great opportunity to sell the sport, it’s a good mar- the golf tournament. That gave people a good op-V>Ê-iÌ1«\ I think (owner Julia Thieriot) had a
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all horsemen well in advance, not three weeks before, opportunity to get together with the flat people and good time, there was enough going on to keep her entertained and she likes that kind of thing. I want to
are aware that the purses are going to be significant- encourage them to get involved in our sport.
We should continue to promote the Open House stay longer, I want to go with the same horse that can
ly higher. It’s October, people are beginning to think
about what to do over the winter to get ready for next on the Sunday before the meet starts. We are the only stay.
year. The sales are on, this is the time to go out and get horse racing taking place on the track that day. There’s
iÃÃÃÊi>Ài`\ÊThe timing was great, but nothing
your fillies and mares. The prize money is going to be a good crowd of maybe 10,000 people there and
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divisions at the moment. If you get a good horse there, for us to promote steeplechasing. I think we should his van, it was hot, it took forever to get there, I didn’t
you could do particularly well. If we could commit maximize that situation, ensure that everybody knows have my usual driver that takes care of him.
I wouldn’t want to go with just a horse, I want to
at this early stage that it’s going to be there, that they what’s going on. The stands last year were packed with
are going to run, you can get people to be proactive people, young kids and families. I think we should en- go with something that has a good shot, or at least
sure that the commentators describe what’s happening isn’t out the back door.
instead of reacting with a few weeks to go.
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Jumpers get room to grow
Saratoga’s National Museum of Racing aims
to expand steeplechase gallery in time for 2012
already has a small collection of steeplechasing paintings and trophies – including the Harbor Hill Steeplechase
trophy from 1905-09, Sergeant Murphy’s English
Other than the handful of races at Saratoga every
Grand
National trophy (1923), Battleship’s English
year, Beth Sheffer never sees steeplechase races. She is
Grand
National
trophy (1938) and others. The oldest
about to be consumed by them, however.
trophy
in
the
museum
is the Tzarina’s Goblet, presented
Curator of collections at the National Museum Of
for
a
Russian
horse
race
in 1795. It later served as the
Racing and Hall of Fame, Sheffer is overseeing the inVirginia
Gold
Cup
from
1941-53
and has been part of
stallation of a new steeplechase gallery at the museum
the
museum’s
collection
since
1963.
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Beyond the old, the gallery will showcase plenty of
space allocated to jump racing, feature an interactive
new
via an interactive display component with overcomponent and showcase trophies, paintings and artisize
video
monitors for race footage, interviews, Hall
facts from American steeplechase racing.
of
Fame
information
and even the possibility of a 3-D
“Followed flat racing since I was a kid,” said Shefelement.
fer recently. “It’s exciting to see more of steeplechas“This is a 21st century exhibit, there’s a lot of acing, and experience it.”
tion
to steeplechase, a lot of movement and we want
Sheffer said the new gallery fits the museum’s mispeople
to be able to see it and experience it,” Sheffer
sion of showcasing Thoroughbred racing in North
said.
“We
want to do something we haven’t done. It
America. With its history, crossover and spectator
depends
on
if the technology is available for us. I don’t
interest, the jumping sport deserves a bigger space in
think
it’s
there
yet, but we will make sure it’s state of
the museum and will get it pending continued fundthe
art
for
what
is available.”
raising efforts and the work of the museum staff.
Like
all
things,
such an undertaking brings a price
“We are the national museum of racing and that
tag
and
the
museum
– through its directors – is in the
includes steeplechase,” she said. “I feel we need to do
midst
of
raising
money
for the project. Sheffer said
a better job representing the sport within our museum,
the
total
raised
was
well
past the halfway point with
give it the recognition it deserves.”
donations
accepted
through
the end of 2011.
Better yet, the gallery will be the museum’s newest
Sheffer
will
also
dive
into
acquisitions.
The museum
and feature state-of-the-art technology. The steepleanticipates
adding
some
steeplechase
historical
items to
chase gallery will occupy the space now held by the
its
collection
while
also
finding
room
to
display
items
Racing Now gallery – an interactive room featuring
it
already
has
–
including
artifacts
from
Hall
of
Fame
a Breeders’ Cup video kiosk and a national map of
Thoroughbred racetracks. The room will include 300 jockeys Jerry Fishback and Tommy Walsh and others.
For information about donations – monetary and
square feet of space, nearly double the space allotted
otherwise
– contact Sheffer at (518) 584-0400 (ext.
for jump racing currently.
109)
or
nmrcollect@racingmuseum.net.
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TIMES EDITORIAL
Remembering
at the Races
Paul Mellon died in 1999 and Virginia
Fall Races organizers rallied the troops and
held a race in his memory. The $50,000
hurdle stakes attracted 10 runners.
The formula repeated itself this year
when the Middleburg, Va. race meet carded
the Dorothy Smithwick Memorial hurdle
stakes.
Both races, a dozen years apart, were
written to maximize participation and did
so. In both cases, the condition book read
“for horses which have not won a stakes”
or something to that effect. The words excluded the sport’s elite horses, but included
everyone else.
Eight horses ran in the Smithwick, which
honored a steadfast supporter, trainer,
teacher with deep ties to Virginia steeplechase country.
Congratulations and thank you to Gary
Baker and everyone for making it happen.
Dot Smithwick deserved her race, as Paul
Mellon deserved his. We are continually
amazed by what can be achieved by a small,
motivated group of people in steeplechasing.
Funded by donations from friends and
family, each race carried a substantial purse
but neither got past the inaugural year.
Wouldn’t it be nice if funding ensured a permanent race? Virginia Fall, every October,
horses gather for a wide-open hurdle stakes.
Call it simply, The Memorial, and have a
list of honorees: Mellon and Smithwick for
starters, then add people as the years go by.
The conditions are superb – and would
fill any time, any place. Virginia Fall could
use a companion to the National Sporting
Library/Chronicle Cup timber stakes. And
the people deserve to be memorialized.
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money we don’t have. But what a concept.
September/early October needs a signature
race and a springboard to Far Hills for the
hurdle types.
Regardless of whether the race happens
once or lasts 100 years, a place exists for
races of this genre – at Virginia Fall, Fair
Hill, pretty much anywhere.
Give hurdle horses more places to run
before they become claimers, timber horses
or former steeplechasers – taking their owners with them.
There used to be small open stakes or
restricted allowance hurdle races at Foxfield and Callaway Gardens to name two
fall venues. A horse could come back in a
spot that fit – non-winners of X in a year
or something – then aim for bigger, more
competitive races later in the calendar. The
Smithwick and Mellon conditions went one
better, by mixing older horses and relative
newcomers without overmatching either
group, and achieved well-supported fields.
That could happen every year.
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With 21 wins and a 10-victory cushion on his nearest rival, the two-time defending NSA jockey champion looks like a cinch to become the first three-peat
champion since John Cushman won four in a row from
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and fills in with live mounts from the Ricky Hendriks
barn, but can pretty much pick and choose mounts at
will.
It’s a great life, right?
Not if you jumped into his boots for August.
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chance to ride a race. And one day a week, he lost.
He spent the meet galloping for Voss – riding morning
The Outside Rail
By Joe Clancy
work aboard horses he lost aboard in the afternoon.
Still want to be him?
“It’s so depressing being up there when you’re not
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Downs Sept. 24. “It’s different for people working for
flat trainers or something. They’re happy when the
horses win, even if they aren’t riding them. For me, I
went up there for one reason – to ride races and ride
winners.”
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there, jumps or flat. Even the worst races there are tough. Mischief ran his eyeballs out on the flat and finished fourth,
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ran the race of his life and that’s as close
as he could get.”
He rode plenty of races, just no winThe jump races operate under a magners.
nifying glass at Saratoga. One or two
On July 28, Cornhusker finished
opportunities a week will do that. At
fifth.
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On Aug. 4, Slip Away finished fourth
races.
Of course, he won one and he’ll
and Mabou finished fifth.
be
back
aboard a bunch this weekend.
On Aug. 11, Upper Gulch finished
The
losses
fade quickly the rest of the
fourth.
year.
On Aug. 18, Cornhusker finished
Not so much at a certain historic
sixth, and Be Certain was scratched in
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licensing problem.
said.
“Nothing
we
did
was
right, nothOn Aug. 25, Dyanski finished third
ing
we
did
was
wrong.
Tom’s
very good
(behind Mabou’s victory for another
about it. He never says you rode bad,
barn).
On Sept. 1, Be Certain finished third. you rode well but me having to go in
9Õ}Ê``½ÌÊ}ÊÌÊ->À>Ì}>ÊiÝ«iVÌ- there every day was tough. Did he think
ing to win them all, but one would have it was me? By the end, I looked at it like,
been nice. Two would have been great. clean the slate, start over again.”
That he did.
Three? Nobody even thinks of winning
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three – except Brian Crowley. In the
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and fourth. Lake Placid, Gustavian,
within 5 lengths of a victory.
Competition, bad timing, the law of Class Mark and Sir Dynamite helped
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“We We need them all,” he said of
the Spa in 2011.
“It’s tough, it’s tough,” he said. “Just jockeys and winners. “We’ll just keep
watching the races, no race is easy up trying, and keep kicking.”
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Robbie Walsh ......................... 52
Richard Boucher .................... 26
Jacob Roberts ........................ 36
Willie Dowling ........................ 39
Darren Nagle .......................... 38
Xavier Aizpuru ........................ 55
Roddy Mackenzie ................... 42
Bernie Dalton ......................... 36
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Kathy McKenna ...................... 55
Neil Morris ............................. 31
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Hudson River Farm .................. 7
Arcadia Stable ........................ 14
Debra Kachel .......................... 18
Bill Pape ................................. 25
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Bon Caddo .............................. 3
Country Cousin ....................... 3
Private Attack .......................... 2
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Swimming River ..................... 2
Delta Park ............................... 4
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Photographer Doug Lees’ Brown Trout Stable still holds a slight lead, and takes the
September prize with $264,150 in earnings from his stable. Lees got some good news
as timber horse Incomplete will race this fall – adding potential fuel to his active list of
Decoy Daddy and Lake Placid. Second-place Dave “Mechanic to the Stars” Green is
second and could get a late fall push from All Together (headed to Far Hills), Bon Caddo
(International Gold Cup) and Class Indian (potential novice player).
Behind them looms Pat Lunny’s Bad Pension Plan Stable, which needs a big score
from Opera Heroine to jump into the top spot. Finally, fourth-place Uncle Pierre Stable
(managed by polo playing steeplechase fan Betsy Manierre) could charge past them all
with a Grand National win by Tax Ruling or Divine Fortune.
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Country Cousin .................................... $64,500
Lake Placid........................................... $54,000
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
Incomplete ............................................. $6,450
Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100
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Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Green Velvet ......................................... $30,250
Class Indian ......................................... $22,200
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Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200
Fog Island ............................................ $23,620
Hi Flyin Indy ........................................... $5,250
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Lake Placid........................................... $54,000
Divine Fortune ...................................... $45,000
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
He’s A Conniver...................................... $7,100
Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100
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Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Divine Fortune ...................................... $45,000
Worried Man ........................................ $16,450
Maya Charli ............................................ $4,200
Jack Twist ..................................................... $0
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Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
Nationbuilder ....................................... $32,000
Fog Island ............................................ $23,620
Delta Park ............................................ $18,750
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Country Cousin .................................... $64,500
Royal Rossi .......................................... $43,800
Pensy ................................................... $11,750
Incomplete ............................................. $6,450
Artic Cry ................................................. $1,000
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Royal Rossi .......................................... $43,800
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200
Pensy ................................................... $11,750
Incomplete ............................................. $6,450
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Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500
Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
Fog Island ............................................ $23,620
Class Indian ......................................... $22,200
Delta Park ............................................ $18,750
Swagger Stick ........................................ $9,000
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Private Attack ....................................... $63,000
Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
Lake Placid ........................................... $54,000
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Worried Man ........................................ $16,450
Foyle ............................................................. $0
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Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100
Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200
Brave Prospect ..................................... $21,750
Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000
Sharpest Cat ................................................. $0
...........................................................fÓÓä]Óxä
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Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500
Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Class Mark ........................................... $20,300
Class Century ....................................... $18,500
Tizsilk ................................................... $15,000
Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000
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Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100
Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Green Velvet ......................................... $30,250
Dictina’s Boy ........................................ $15,000
Pynaformer ............................................... $750
Jack Spratt .................................................... $0
...........................................................fÓ£Î]Îää
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Golden Slammer .................................. $14,450
Pensy ................................................... $11,750
Hi Flyin Indy ........................................... $5,250
...........................................................fÓäÓ]£xä
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200
Fog Island ............................................ $23,620
Golden Slammer .................................. $14,450
Bubble Economy ........................................... $0
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
Sweet Shani ......................................... $34,000
South Monarch .................................... $16,100
Left Unsaid........................................... $13,500
John Wyatt............................................. $2,600
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See PICK SIX page 34
CONGRATULATIONS
and thank you, Mairead, on our first winner at Saratoga.
Jimtown, trained by Mairead Carr, wins at Saratoga Open House
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Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500
Divine Fortune ...................................... $45,000
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
Roman Glory ........................................ $14,400
He’s A Conniver...................................... $7,100
Katherine My Great ....................................... $0
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Private Attack ....................................... $63,000
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Roman Glory ........................................ $14,400
Easy Reach ............................................ $9,750
Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000
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Private Attack ....................................... $63,000
Well Fashioned ..................................... $42,600
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Sunshine Numbers .............................. $30,000
Gustavian ............................................. $18,800
Royale ........................................................... $0
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Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Class Century ....................................... $18,500
He’s A Conniver...................................... $7,100
Tifone ..................................................... $2,500
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
Straight To It ........................................ $31,500
Easy Reach ............................................ $9,750
Swagger Stick ........................................ $9,000
Adam Rides Again......................................... $0
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Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200
Roman Glory ........................................ $14,400
Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000
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Lake Placid ........................................... $54,000
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Class Century ....................................... $18,500
Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100
Patriotís Path ................................................ $0
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Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500
Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200
Church Service ..................................... $15,000
Determind Stand .................................... $2,200
You And I ............................................... $2,000
Artic Cry ................................................. $1,000
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Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100
Royal Rossi .......................................... $43,800
Northern Bay ........................................ $16,200
Miss Crown ............................................ $7,200
Meshwaar ..................................................... $0
Patriot’s Path................................................. $0
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Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
Nationbuilder ....................................... $32,000
Class Century ....................................... $18,500
Pensy ................................................... $11,750
Red Letter Day ....................................... $2,250
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
Nationbuilder ....................................... $32,000
Mischief ............................................... $23,200
Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100
Excentrikbydesign ......................................... $0
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Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Wild For Gold ....................................... $18,000
Pensy ................................................... $11,750
Easy Reach ............................................ $9,750
Patriot’s Path................................................. $0
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Private Attack ....................................... $63,000
Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000
Sweet Shani ......................................... $34,000
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Za Za Zu ........................................................ $0
Twill Do ......................................................... $0
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Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Sunshine Numbers .............................. $30,000
Cornhusker .......................................... $18,200
Peace Fire ............................................ $15,130
Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Slip Away ............................................. $31,500
Class Mark ........................................... $20,300
Class Century ....................................... $18,500
South Monarch .................................... $16,100
Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100
...........................................................f£ÈÓ]xää
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200
Fog Island ............................................ $23,620
Delta Park ............................................ $18,750
Pensy ................................................... $11,750
Hi Flyin Indy ........................................... $5,250
...........................................................f£È£]xÇä
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All Together .......................................... $72,000
Music To My Ears................................. $27,750
Fog Island ............................................ $23,620
Good Request ...................................... $23,000
Pensy ................................................... $11,750
John Wyatt............................................. $2,600
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