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EntriesHere’s your newspaper. Autumn action really cranked up with jump meets at Shawan Downs, Foxfield and Virginia Fall. The leaves are turning and so is the tension – have you looked at the race for the trainer’s championship? We also check in with some players at the recently concluded Saratoga season and get some news from the National Museum of Rac-ing and Hall of Fame.
What’s Happening and Where To Find It
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Saratoga HindsightST checks in with steeplechase players about the progress at Saratoga.
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Fall AboardTwo days at Virginia Fall crowned all sorts of winners including stakes victors Aero (timber) and Black Jack Blues (hurdle). The latter came in the Dot Smithwick Me-morial, which had everyone thinking of the legendary trainer.
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Girl TalkRed Dirt Girl joins the ranks of winners with a victory at Foxfield. Trainer Richard Valentine eyes bigger prizes with his filly.
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Double Time Local owner Armata Stable enjoyed a twin bill at Shawan Downs as timber horses Haddix and Mussiecoocoo scored. Gustavian won the maiden hurdle while Tax Rul-ing tuned up with a flat win.
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Winners on Opening Weekend referred to as “muskrats” by their trainer earlier in the week.
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“What’s going on in Middleburg?...that you can tell?”“It would take me all day.”
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“It’s fun to be back in the jump racing world. I’ve been away a long time.”
“I did 19 yesterday.”
“I might have rebroke my hand and cracked a rib, I keep doing it, but I wasn’t going to miss out on this fellow.”
“He was a freebie from Philadelphia Park. Mike Aro gave him to us, he worked out of the gate one day and ran off two complete circuits of Philly Park until they got him stopped. He came back with two bowed tendons, he’s got the two biggest bows you’ve ever seen, but they’re hard as iron.”
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MIDDLEBURG, VA. – Shoe, school, ship.
That was J.W. Delozier’s training regime for Black Jack Blues in prepara-tion for the Dot Smithwick Memorial at Virginia Fall Oct. 1. Imported from England, the six-time jump winner ar-rived 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-year-old time to think about any of that, gunning the son of Definite Article to the lead and holding off leading nov-ice Demonstrative by 4 1/2 lengths. Nationbuilder rallied to be third, 12 lengths behind the runner-up.
Purchased by leading owner Irv Nay-lor, 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 Demon-strative, Nationbuilder and Turf Writ-ers runner-up Dirar took their custom-ary 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 chal-lenge to the front-runner who relished the short distance, the yielding turf and
the free lead. Geraghty watched his rac-es 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,” Ger-aghty 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 re-ally suit here.”
Black Jack Blues won three hurdle races, and finished second to Oscar Whiskey in the Welsh Champion Hur-dle. 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-fin-ishing 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, Nay-lor hired Delozier, a former steeplechase jockey, handing him 20 horses (action
Jack, Deloziercome up acesEnglish import wires stakes field
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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 Satur-day 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.”
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 comfort-able 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 be-ing first and second and whipping He’s A Conniver’s ass, that would be the sweetest revenge. And it hap-pened,” 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 sum-mer and wound up being Al Griffin’s project timber horse. It’s worked. Griffin gets to hunt him in the off-season and watch him in the race-season. The Virgin-ia-bred broke his maiden at Willowdale in the spring.
At Middleburg, Murphy rated him in fourth while
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.”
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 Chilean-bred 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 La-ing, Rainiero won like he had been thinking about it since.
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65,000Dollars spent each year on drug testing
procedures at ALL NSA race meets.Total now at $500,000.
28,000Dollars spent each year
on race course safety inspections.Total now at $226,000.
7,500Dollars 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.
17,500Dollars contributed each year to purses
for amateur highweight timber races.Total now at $230,000.
53,000Dollars spent to purchase 50 pairs
of safety wings for use in NSA races.
91,000Dollars 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.
It was a comeback win for horse and jockey.
McCarron tallied his 199th career victory after a slow summer when he almost hung up his boots. It all – well, almost all – came back to him.
“All but the fitness. I was done this summer and Richard texted me about riding Auction Watch at the Open House,” McCarron said. “Basically, I’m not looking to hustle things and I’ll just ride for Richard this fall. Honestly, if I was spectating today, it’s all the same. Did I have a blast on him? Sure. Would I be missing it otherwise? No.”
line after the maiden timber, shank rat-tling on her shoulder.
-enna shrieked when asked if Elusive Prince had won a tight photo with Monstaleur in the $15,000 race.
He did. Roddy Mackenzie positioned the 5-year-old son of Royal Anthem out-side for most of the 3-mile race before engaging the leaders going down the backside. Winless in five jump starts, Elusive Prince staved off Monstaleur by a head. Former Iroquois winner Sur La Tete, 13, finished third.
“I rode him at Thornton Hill, he was green as grass, but he won nicely, beat Sur La Tete,” Mackenzie said. “He’s a bit of an awkward horse, you have to leave him alone, he lugs, carries his head high, if you touch him, he fights you. I kept him on the right because he lugs left but he never lugged at all. He jumped great, hit the top rail first down the back, nearly threw me over his head, that scared him and then we started racing and he was a lot better, that suited him.”
the maiden claimer and the 5-year-old son of Black Minnaloushe cruised to an easy win over Fu San and Ardagh. Black Bag won by 37 lengths.
Fresh off a point-to-point win, Black Bag was much the best on paper and
the gas from the start.
said. “I didn’t try to be smart or be cocky, just go win the race, end of story. I’ve learned how to save them on the front end, let them carry themselves, get breathers, I’ve come a long way in that sense.”
front tendons at Philadelphia Park, Black Bag made his first start at Colo-nial Downs this summer, pulling up in maiden claimer. He returned this fall,
the horse for the rest of the year.“I would have been disappointed if
he didn’t win today, he won really nicely
taken him a little while to get the hang of things, he’s in for 5 thousand for a reason, he is what he is, there’s nothing hidden about him. If every horse could win one race, you’d be delighted.”
Black Bag jumped efficiently through-out, barring one long and low one on the backstretch the final time.
“When I asked him up, I thought, ‘that was so stupid.’ He decided to come up and the ground’s soft . . . but it
know what he’s doing out there, ears pricked, he’s only going to get better.”
Well on his way to his third consecu-
21st win of the season, the most wins he’s produced in any season thus far.
open flat for Timber Bay Farm, train-
Grade III flat winner Memorial Maniac was forced off course late while timber veteran Woodmont fell on the flat.
A winner of his only start over hur-dles, History Boy had not run since win-ning that start at Aiken last fall.
handled three rivals in the Virginia bred or sired flat race for Celtic Venture Sta-ble and trainer Charlie McCann.
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Mede Cahaba Stable and Lilith Boucher unveiled another promising 3-year-old at Virginia Fall when home-bred 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 Ga-waarib.
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 heavy-headed, 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-year-olds, 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, rid-ing 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 any-way, 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 win-ners this fall and stay in the top four or five, I’ll be happy.” Douglas Lees
Music ManBoucher returns to winning wayswith 3-year-old hurdler Class Brahms
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Of the five starters, Gawaarib was the only one who had won on the flat.
-ra Randolph double, riding Mr. Fater in the fieldhunter championship and send-ing 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, win-ning on the front end in his debut for jockey Carl Rafter. First-time starter and multiple stakes winner Ice Bear ral-lied for second with first-timers Almar-mooq third and Researcher fourth.
The race was sponsored by the Bon-nie 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, al-ways has been, honestly, he could have been an event horse, from day one, al-ways forward, happy, jumping, loved it, no problem, easy.”
Bigshot won twice on the flat, in-cluding a 12-furlong allowance turf
for $40,000 in May. He routed a tough maiden field that included $1.3 mil-lion earner Researcher, Saratoga allow-ance runner-up Perfect Edge, $950,000 yearling purchase Almarmooq and $872,328 earner Ice Bear.
awkward beginning where he spotted the field a head start to win the Vir-
Farm, Neil Morris and Jacob Roberts. The 4-year-old son of Repent made up a zip code to run down Hishi Soar af-ter 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 man-aged 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.”
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 reappear-ing at Radnor in 2009 where he failed to finish. Another year layoff ensued before finishing second to Bubble Economy at
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. Ju-lie 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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si closed late to win the maiden flat by a half-length for Jonathan Sheppard and Brian Crowley. It was the perfect prep for the novice stakes at Far Hills.
mare flat for Fox Ridge Farm, Tom Voss
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Sunday – Middleburg, VA. Saturday, October 1. Turf Yielding.
1. Rainiero (Chi) L 141 McCarron2. Air Maggy L 150 Crowley3. One Sea L 141 Mackenzie4. Mischief L 153 Young5. Silent Vow L 153 Dalton6. Call Me Sonny L 158 Roberts7. Golden Slammer 153 HodsdonF. Fogcutter L 145 MurphyF. Humdinger L 149 ReadPU. Beer Frame 158 WalshMgn: 3. Time: 4:11-3/5. O: Augustin Stables. T: Richard Valentine. B. g. 9, African Dancer-Ultramar (Chi), El Mor-gon. Bred by Haras Dadinco (Chi)
1. Aero L 160 Murphy2. G’Day G’Day L 160 Young3. He’s A Conniver L 165 Dalton4. Music To My Ears (Ire) L 165 Walsh5. Gather No Moss 150 Watts6. Incomplete L 155 PettyPU. Wolfe Tone L 160 BeecherMgn: 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 Sta-ble LLC (Va.)
1. Elusive Prince L 160 Mackenzie2. Monstaleur L 155 Elliott3. Sur La Tete L 165 Read4. I’m A Hokie 165 Geraghty 5. Expel L 165 McVicar6. Mynameismedford L 155 RobertsMgn: Head. Time: 6:48-1/5.O: Irv Naylor. T: Kathy McKenna. Dk. B./Br. g. 5, Royal Anthem-Worthy Pros-pect, Woodman. Bred by Joe Thomson (Md.)
1. Black Jack Blues (Ire) 158 Geraghty2. Demonstrative L 154 Walsh3. Nationbuilder L 150 Hodsdon4. Brave Prospect L 142 Aizpuru5. Lead Us Not L 146 Crowley6. Dirar (Ire) 150 CondonPU. Dictina’s Boy 146 YoungPU. Hope For Us All L 146 DowlingMgn: 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)
1. Rockmani L 147 McCarthy2. Petite Lafleur L 137 McVicar3. Lord Fox L 150 Young4. Ditch L 160 MackenzieMgn: 5 3/4. Time: 2:20-1/5O: Celtic Venture Stable T: Charles McCann.Gr./Ro. m. 7, Rock Point-Miss Naamani, Shaarid (GB). Bred by The Horseshoe Ltd. (Va.)
1. Black Bag L 148 Young2. Fu San L 152 Read3. Ardagh L 142 McVicarPU. Za Za Zu L 146 WalshPU. Chilhowee Lad L 148 CrowleyPU. What A Warrior L 156 MackenzieMgn: 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.)
1. History Boy L 165 Brion2. Double Doors (GB) L 165 Gilliam3. Wazee Moto L 165 Grant4. Lear Heights L 165 DaleyF. Woodmont L 165 Motion
OC. With Bells On 162 ShawPU. Memorial Maniac L 165 TobinMgn: 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.)
Sunday, October 2. Turf Yielding.
1. Class Brahms 150 Boucher2. Darkwatch L 150 Young3. Gawaarib L 150 Walsh4. Went West L 150 Dowling5. Hidden Melody L 150 RafterMgn: 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.)
1. Bigshot L 150 Rafter2. Ice Bear L 154 McCarron3. Almarmooq L 150 Aizpuru4. Researcher L 154 Read5. Union Army 145 Fischer6. Saint Dynamformer L 150 Roberts7. Primero Peru 154 McCarthyF. Perfect Edge L 154 MurphyPU. Hurricane Day L 150 MackenziePU. Gusto Nuevo L 154 WattsMgn: 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.)
1. Upper Gulch L 155 Fischer2. Lonesome Nun L 155 Aizpuru3. Deep Run L 155 Rafter4. Mariah’s Promise 145 Harris 5. Bokus L 155 Bordwell6. Good Night Lucy L 155 Young7. Dance Raven Dance L 150 Watts8. The Manner Born L 155 CrowleyMgn: 2. Time: 1:36-1/5.O: Fox Ridge Farm. T: Tom Voss. Dk. B./Br. m. 6, Gulch-Upper Noosh, Red Ran-som. Bred by Fox Ridge Farm Inc. (Ky.)
1. Its a School Night L 150 Roberts2. Hishi Soar L 150 Mackenzie3. Dakota Slew l 150 Walsh4. Zulla Road L 154 McCarthyLR. Winning Vow L 154 ReadPU. Southwest L 154 MurphyPU. Jake’s Mandate L 150 McVicarMgn: 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.)
1. Royal Rossi L 155 Crowley2. Share Out L 150 Mackenzie3. Philology L 150 Young4. Embezzle (GB) L 150 Walsh5. Dispute This L 155 Watts6. Forgotten Man L 150 Murphy7. Time Off L 155 Hodsdon8. Ken’s Kitten L 155 Fischer9. Euro Power L 147 Brion10. Dim L 150 Roberts11. Balthus L 155 McVicar12. Out Loud L 152 DaleyMgn: 1/2. Time: 2:05-1/5O: Hudson River Farms. T: Jonathan Sheppard.B. g. 5, Rossini-Princess Lea, Stalwart. Bred by Triple C Thoroughbred & Jacquelyn Cochonour (Ky.)
1. Radio Flyer (Ire) L 180 Nagle2. Fieldview L 175 Beecher3. Mr Tack 165 FischerMgn: 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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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. Rob-bie 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, (Beat-ing 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 fig-ured, 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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Red Dirt Girl exits Spa,graduates maiden ranks
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second start after a bad fall at Virginia Fall 2010 to win the finale and co-fea-ture, a $15,000 maiden hurdle, for La-zenby Banks Madden Stable and trainer Doug Fout.
The 5-year-old was challenged late
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 ten-don 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 point-to-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 train-er not to run his charge on the water-logged 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-
placed throughout, sitting just a few lengths off the pace through the open-ing 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
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 Crim-son’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 Crim-son. “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.
He’s got a couple more wins in him, but we’ll see if he can step up all the way to the plate or not – but he tries.”
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 Dy-naformer was never truly headed under
-ing up ground at every fence. Coming 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,”
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 dis-qualification 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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claimers and state-bred allowance races with trainer Lester Stickler to no avail.
When Thiel said he wanted the horse back, Hen-driks reached in and claimed him back for $7,500 in March.
“Our neighbor bred him, he was sold for $450,000 as a yearling,” the trainer said. “He went to Europe, California, then we claimed him at Philadelphia Park. We lost him over the winter and we claimed him back. Mr. Thiel and his daughter Laura were
back for you.’ ”Sir Dynamite returned to jumping with a fifth at
Fair Hill and a pull-up at Colonial Downs, both times the beaten favorite, and was a well-beaten sixth on the flat at Colonial July 3.
“For some reason, he just went out of form a little
bit, he was just a little bit off color, there was no real
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.”
to Ted Thompson’s Wantan under Bernie Dalton. Owned by Jubilee Stable, the son of Pure Prize had not started since July 2010, but was a much-discussed maiden winner that spring.
The race also marked the season return of Jonathan Sheppard’s Grade I winner Arcadius. Winner of the Helen Haskell Samson Hurdle Stakes at Monmouth last year, the 7-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway fin-ished second under Brian Crowley.
to Simon Hobson’s Forest Bell. Wearing the hats of owner and trainer, Hobson sent out Eilidh Grant for her first ride and her first win under rules.
“She rode an absolutely perfect race. We walked the course, we talked about it, not in detail,” Hobson said. “It was her first ride under rules and I just want-ed her to go out there and enjoy. Win, lose or draw, I didn’t care where she finished, but we did have a plan going out there.”
The young rider was accosted with the customary buckets of icy water on her way out of the winner’s en-closure – although on the drizzly day they were hardly necessary.
Hobson will keep Forest Bell in the Virginia-bred series this fall.
“He just has fun doing it,” Hobson said. “I think we’re going to keep him on the flat for the time being. He did not run as well over hurdles as he did on the flat. I think the flat game, the hunt meets, is what he enjoys. He doesn’t like running at the racetrack any-more, he’s raced poorly at the racetrack.”
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Turf Yielding.
1. Sir Dynamite L 148 Young2. Winning Vow L 156 Read3. Durer L 154 Roberts4. Chilhowee Lad L 148 WattsPU. Dynamont L 148 PettyPU. Tribal Shelter L 148 McVicarPU. Scammed 136 DaltonMgn: 1-1/4. Time: 4:26 4/5. O: Dale Thiel. T: Ricky Hendriks. B. g. 6, Dynaformer-Lady Ilsley, Trempolino. Bred by London Thoroughbred Services & Derry Meeting Farm (Pa.)
1. Wantan (ARG) L 155 Dalton2. Arcadius L 155 Crowley3. Maestro Magic L 155 Watts4. Classic Bridges L 156 Read5. Allergee L 155 Roberts6. Lear Heights L 155 Daley7. Crookshane Lad 155 Walsh8. Rainbows for Luck L 155 Petty9. Temple Fair L 155 Boucher10. Mariah’s Promise 162 Harris11. What A Warrior L 155 Mackenzie12. Swimming River L 155 Murphy13. The Editor L 155 McVicar14. Bokus L 152 BordwellMgn: 2-1/2. Time: 1:48. O: Jubliee Stables. T: Ted Thompson. Dk. B./Br. g. 6, Pure Prize-Water Proof, Turkoman. Bred by Carampangue (Arg.)
1. Forest Bell L 160 Grant2. Class Indian 160 Dalton3. Opening Movement L 140 Boucher4. Tom’s Dilemma L 150 Hodsdon 5. Hey Doctor L 150 Mackenzie6. Petite Lafleur L 139 McVicar7. Dallaglio L 144 Young8. Oxford Blues L 152 ReadMgn: 5. Time: 2:08-2/5.O/T: Simon Hobson. Ch. g. 5, Forestry-Mambo Bell, Kingmambo.Bred by Edward P. Evans. (Va.)
1. Red Dirt Girl L 151 Walsh2. Cubist L 151 Hodsdon3. Smart Hokie L 155 Dalton4. Secret Style L 155 YoungPU. Za Za Zu L 151 SlaterPU. Quiet Flaine L 143 MurphyPU. Ardagh L 155 McVicarPU. Beating The Odds L 151 CrowleyMgn: 10 1/4. Time: 4:15 2/5. O: Tuatha De Danann Stable T: Richard Valentine.Ch. f. 4, Ball’s Bluff-Brooke’s Sarah, Melodisk. Bred by Virginia Tech Foundation Inc. (Va.)
1. Hue of Crimson L 154 Murphy2. Sergeant Karakorum L 154 Crowley3. Autumn Riches (GB) L 150 Young4. Ed’s Big Bet L 152 Rafter5. Inti (URU) L 154 Mackenzie6. Worried Man L 150 Dowling7. The Key To Honour L 154 Dalton8. Enchanted Circle (GB) L 152 Read9. On The Corner 154 Roberts10. Sumo Power L 154 WattsPU. Zulla Road L 154 WalshPU. Smokey Top 154 GeraghtyMgn: 1 1/2. Time: 4:18-4/5O: Lazenby Banks Madden Stable T: Doug Fout.B. g. 5, Glyer-Crimson Sister, Discover. Bred by Ann Banks & Virginia Lazenby (Ky.)
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He began his steeplechase career back in 2005 – in the Far Hills 3-year-old 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 Sha-wan Downs Sept. 24. Racing for Arma-
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 Gor-geous 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.”
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 yield-ing ground at Shawan, galloping com-fortably early, jumping well and pro-ducing plenty of energy late.
“I knew I’m Telling was going to make it and I thought I’d jump off sec-ond or third,” Mackenzie said of the strategy. “Going out the loop the sec-ond time, I was a bit closer than I re-ally wanted to be but he was traveling and going great. He just took me every stride of the way.”
Bolton and Ben Griswold turned a double one race later when Irish import Mussiecoocoo wired eight others in a $10,000 maiden timber for trainer Tom Voss. The 7-year-old felt pressure from
Moonsox and Sgt Bart on the final trip down the backside and had plenty left
-tin Fischer) fought off a stiff challenge from Chess Board (Mark Beecher) in the stretch to win by a length in 7:16 3/5 for 3 1/8 miles. Moonsox claimed third with Sgt. Bart falling on the back-side while making progress.
“He’s got a big strong gallop so we were out front, and he was second-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.”
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trainer Tom Voss in May 2009. The son of Darnay made two point-to-point starts in his home country at age 5 before joining the Voss team in Maryland. Mussiecoocoo started his timber career this spring, plac-ing at Elkridge-Harford Point-to-Point, Winterthur and Willowdale.
“He came from near Cashel, where he was with a wonderful trainer named Paddy Doyle,” said Griswold. “We just sort of liked his looks. He’s still green, still learning but he looks like he could
races – both won by leading jockey
is quickly becoming a thing of the past (with wins in his first four autumn rides).
Gustavian home first in the $15,000 maiden hurdle to start the double. Trained by the jockey’s wife Leslie, Gustavian rated fourth early and shift-ed into action on the backside the final time. The 5-year-old came into the race with three hurdle starts this year, an ad-vantage when half the six runners were making their first starts.
Gustavian joined first-timer Brother Sy (Mackenzie) on the lead five fences from home and controlled the race from there. Brother Sy stayed for second, beaten 1 1/2 lengths, over another rook-ie Imperial Gin (Fischer) as the winner needed 3:53 3/5 to cover 2 miles.
After two training flat starts last fall,
spring and he finished second at Mid-dleburg and the Iroquois. A potential summer campaign ended with a dull fifth at Saratoga Open House behind Royal Rossi.
“We were so disappointed with him
“I couldn’t believe he got beat, just on form alone. We took him home and he was lame after the race, didn’t know what it was. He had a problem with his feet. He’s a good jumper, but at Sara-toga he wouldn’t leave the ground. On him, the ground felt like the road that day. Nobody else said that, and none of the other horses I rode felt like that.”
Gustavian went on a swimming regi-men at Maui Meadow Farm, staying fit while staying off those tender feet, and aimed for September. A tuneup at Co-lonial Downs six days before Shawan helped produce the win.
“They weren’t the worst bunch of horses in the world but there were some first-time starters,” said Paddy. “We got the rain, I knew that would help, and if he was back to his best he was going to be tough. We didn’t go very quick and his experience held.”
$10,000 conditioned claiming hurdle and made the advantage stand up – quickening away down the backside and holding off Great Halo (Mackenzie) and Dance Faster (Robbie Walsh) late in 3:49 1/5 for 2 1/8 miles. Trained by Ricky Hendriks, Class Mark came into the race off a point-to-point win two weeks ear-lier and put that fitness to work.
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“There were a couple of other front-runners in there and I said to Ricky let’s try and mess with them and go for
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 mo-torbike 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
horse, definitely. He might not have been the best horse, but he got it done.”
tuned up for the Grand National with a 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 third in 2:38 for 1 3/8 miles.
“I’ve been to school him a couple of 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 race off that.”
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1. Gustavian L 154 Young2. Brother Sy L 154 Mackenzie3. Imperial Gin L 145 Fischer4. Easy Reach L 154 Dowling5. Nondo 154 RobertsPU. Union Army L 150 WalshMgn: 1-1/2. Time: 3:53 3/5. O: Hickory Tree Stables. T: Leslie Young. B. g. 5, Giant’s Causeway-Mossflower, Af-firmed. Bred by Whitewood Stable Inc.(Ky.)
1. Class Mark L 150 Young2. Great Halo L 142 Mackenzie3. Dance Faster L 146 Walsh4. Bag of Hammers L 150 Slater5. Five Pines L 150 NagleF. Dynaskill L 130 BrionF. Farndale L 148 AizpuruMgn: 7. Time: 3:49 1/5. O: Debra Kachel. T: Ricky Hendriks. B. g. 5, Nor For Love-Class Excells, Class Se-cret. Bred by Mede Cahaba Stable & Stud (Va.)
1. Haddix L 150 Mackenzie2. I’m Telling L 160 Roberts3. Gorgeous Charger L 155 Beecher PU. Fieldview L 165 Rafter PU. Brands Hatch L 160 McVicarMgn: 9-3/4. Time: 7:10.O: Armata Stables. T: Kathy McKenna.Dk. B./Br. g. 9, Deputy Commander-Dysham, Dynaformer. Bred by Hidden Point Farm (Fla.)
1. Mussiecoocoo (Ire) L 160 Fischer2. Chess Board (GB) L 160 Beecher3. Moonsox L 155 Boniface4. I’m A Hokie L 165 Geraghty5. Crossing Again L 159 Roberts6. Regal Hour 165 McCarthyF. Sgt. Bart 165 MackenziePU. Bug Eyed Willy 165 SlaterPU. Elusive Prince L 160 RafterMgn: 1. Time: 7:16 3/5. O: Armata Stables. T: Tom Voss.B. g. 7, Darnay (GB)-Scent of Dawn (IRE), Ex-ecutive Perk (IRE). Bred by M. Quaid (IRE).
1. Tax Ruling L 155 Aizpuru2. Pierrot Lunaire L 155 Roberts3. Ballet Boy (IRE) L 155 Young4. Belarion L 155 Mackenzie5. Dictina’s Boy 155 Fischer6. Torlundy L 155 Dowling7. Slice of Gold L 150 Nagle8. Red Letter Day L 155 Hodsdon9. Armed Brat L 155 Geraghty10. Derwins Prospector L 150 BonifaceLR. Foolish Surprise L 155 SwopeMgn: Neck. Time: 2:38.O: Irv Naylor T: Brianne Slater.Dk. B./Br. g. 8, Dynafomer-Fantastic Find, Mr. Prospector. Bred by Phipps Stable (Ky.)
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Steeplechasing went to Saratoga in 2011 with some goals – make an impact, improve the product, build 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 Sara-toga steeplechase participants at Virginia Fall – asking for opinions, feedback, ideas. We’ll try to do the same thing over the next month or so.
Shipped Red Dirt Girl for the first filly and mare stakes and Demonstrative for two novice starts, he fin-ished second in both. Used private stalls from trainer Eddie Miller off the grounds.
I think with the timeframe they are given, it’s always sort of last minute to see what races are go-ing to go, I think it’s something that could be tweaked a little bit. As the races get more established, then the condition book can be tweaked, but at this stage it’s
all about getting the jump races going. Ideally maybe you’d like to see, not a novice race in July and the two novice races at Saratoga.
If you had stabling up there for people, people would make an effort. Even if you went up for a cou-ple weeks before, like a week before they run, there’s a definite advantage to be able to train up there. We could rent a show tent with those semi-permanent sta-bles. I think a whole group is going to have to come 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 of their mind that it might happen. We have an idea of the inventory going into it, that maybe the fillies races, the second one wouldn’t go, and you might have a bet-ter showing in the last one.
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I have heard a lot of positive feedback. It’s fun because people 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.
I 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 spot-light 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.
Stabled at Saratoga for the first time, with four stalls in the Oklahoma Annex. Won two steeplechase races and three flat races during the meet.
Personally for me, having stalls up there and shipping horses in and 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 oppor-tunity 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
a piece. And you’d have to sign up for it if you wanted the stall for $1,000. Or, 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.
The 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 their friends.
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Traveled to Saratoga as much as anyone all summer – making it from his Pennsylvania home
-sisted in coordinating some of the on-track social events.
All the winners were based at Sara-toga. 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.
It’s a matter of discussion and negotiation with the people who make the decision of where the stalls go. We might be in a stronger position than we were 12 months ago because of the success. If
level of steeplechasing, then we should argue that we need more stalls. The other obvious thing to
is there any other way that we could house horses up there. I haven’t driven around the Saratoga area, but there are farms with a lot of green grass around. Maybe you build some stalls. It would be a good investment for steeplechasing. The har-ness track is another one, it’s just down the road.
A number of people have said this and I agree, the Smithwick and the Turf Writers should be four weeks apart. That means changing some-thing, but I think you have those two premier stakes races – I’d do that and then work around it. I think that’s important.
The filly and mare race that didn’t go at the end of the meet, we got probably very unlucky. As I recall, there were six or seven good horses that got injured or ran too many times running up to Saratoga, so we had a smaller population than we might have done. If we continue to have two filly and mare races at Saratoga, I would look at the condition book leading up to that. There was the one at Fair Hill and some before that, so maybe we should have one less race in advance to give us the best chance of filling that.
(The filly and mare division) is a good addition. It’s a great opportunity to sell the sport, it’s a good mar-
all horsemen well in advance, not three weeks before, are aware that the purses are going to be significant-ly higher. It’s October, people are beginning to think about what to do over the winter to get ready for next year. The sales are on, this is the time to go out and get your fillies and mares. The prize money is going to be
divisions at the moment. If you get a good horse there, you could do particularly well. If we could commit at this early stage that it’s going to be there, that they are going to run, you can get people to be proactive instead of reacting with a few weeks to go.
We had the free coffee. It’s a minor thing, but it got us a lot of good press, a lot of flat people, owners and trainers noticed it and I think it helped to sell the fact that Thursday is steeplechase day. I think that we achieved that goal.
The emphasis all the way along was to give places for people to congregate as opposed to people going their own way and ending up at different cocktail par-ties at night. Every week there was a cocktail party at 5:30 and if people felt inclined they could get together with steeplechase people and talk about steeplechas-ing. There were flat people there too, which I think was encouraging. That worked.
The other thing that was successful this year was the golf tournament. That gave people a good op-portunity to get together during the day. We had the opportunity to get together with the flat people and encourage them to get involved in our sport.
We should continue to promote the Open House on the Sunday before the meet starts. We are the only horse racing taking place on the track that day. There’s a good crowd of maybe 10,000 people there and they’ve all got in free. To a degree, it is an open house for us to promote steeplechasing. I think we should maximize that situation, ensure that everybody knows what’s going on. The stands last year were packed with people, young kids and families. I think we should en-sure that the commentators describe what’s happening
so the people understand it, we have material to give to them, whether it’s race cards, or promo-tional 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.
Saratoga is the highest 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
-cantly higher for steeplechasing and non-steeple-chasing people. We’ve got a year’s start on that.
Shipped Saratoga Open House winner Jimtown for a start against optional claimer company. He pulled up.
They really tried, they called people and they got the horses. And the purse money was good, you weren’t going up there for $30,000, you were going up for $50,000. Because it takes about $5,000 to do it, including everybody’s li-cense and insurance.
I didn’t stable on the grounds. I shipped up and stayed overnight at a farm. I couldn’t possi-bly put him in the receiving barn, he’d be useless. I think that when people are trying to find out-
need proper stabling) because there’s a reason they’re jumpers, they’re usually nuts. They won’t
start, they have issues. Some of these horses are so well-bred, so they’re not running over jumps because they’re perfect little horses. I’m sure a lot of them are very difficult.
They really made an effort. They called, they kept on top of horses who were trying to get there, who might want to go there. They really kept their finger on it instead of just writing a race and hoping people showed up. They made a point of saying, ‘you’ve got
leave your barn, if it’s a small barn like mine, you have to pay people to do your work while you go off for two days and exhaust yourself.
I think (owner Julia Thieriot) had a good time, there was enough going on to keep her en-tertained and she likes that kind of thing. I want to stay longer, I want to go with the same horse that can stay.
The timing was great, but nothing worked for the horse, he hated the trip, he didn’t like his van, it was hot, it took forever to get there, I didn’t have my usual driver that takes care of him.
I wouldn’t want to go with just a horse, I want to go with something that has a good shot, or at least isn’t out the back door.
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Other than the handful of races at Saratoga every year, Beth Sheffer never sees steeplechase races. She is about to be consumed by them, however.
Curator of collections at the National Museum Of Racing and Hall of Fame, Sheffer is overseeing the in-stallation of a new steeplechase gallery at the museum
space allocated to jump racing, feature an interactive component and showcase trophies, paintings and arti-facts from American steeplechase racing.
“Followed flat racing since I was a kid,” said Shef-fer recently. “It’s exciting to see more of steeplechas-ing, and experience it.”
Sheffer said the new gallery fits the museum’s mis-sion of showcasing Thoroughbred racing in North America. With its history, crossover and spectator interest, the jumping sport deserves a bigger space in the museum and will get it pending continued fund-raising efforts and the work of the museum staff.
“We are the national museum of racing and that includes steeplechase,” she said. “I feel we need to do a better job representing the sport within our museum, give it the recognition it deserves.”
Better yet, the gallery will be the museum’s newest and feature state-of-the-art technology. The steeple-chase gallery will occupy the space now held by the Racing Now gallery – an interactive room featuring a Breeders’ Cup video kiosk and a national map of Thoroughbred racetracks. The room will include 300 square feet of space, nearly double the space allotted for jump racing currently.
Sheffer hopes to display a variety of artifacts includ-ing racing tack, trophies, artwork, historic race pro-grams and photos and other material. The museum
already has a small collection of steeplechasing paint-ings and trophies – including the Harbor Hill Steeple-chase trophy from 1905-09, Sergeant Murphy’s English Grand National trophy (1923), Battleship’s English Grand National trophy (1938) and others. The oldest trophy in the museum is the Tzarina’s Goblet, presented for a Russian horse race in 1795. It later served as the Virginia Gold Cup from 1941-53 and has been part of the museum’s collection since 1963.
Beyond the old, the gallery will showcase plenty of new via an interactive display component with over-size video monitors for race footage, interviews, Hall of Fame information and even the possibility of a 3-D element.
“This is a 21st century exhibit, there’s a lot of ac-tion to steeplechase, a lot of movement and we want people to be able to see it and experience it,” Sheffer said. “We want to do something we haven’t done. It depends on if the technology is available for us. I don’t think it’s there yet, but we will make sure it’s state of the art for what is available.”
Like all things, such an undertaking brings a price tag and the museum – through its directors – is in the midst of raising money for the project. Sheffer said the total raised was well past the halfway point with donations accepted through the end of 2011.
Sheffer will also dive into acquisitions. The museum anticipates adding some steeplechase historical items to its collection while also finding room to display items it already has – including artifacts from Hall of Fame jockeys Jerry Fishback and Tommy Walsh and others.
For information about donations – monetary and otherwise – contact Sheffer at (518) 584-0400 (ext. 109) or [email protected].
Jumpers get room to growSaratoga’s National Museum of Racing aimsto expand steeplechase gallery in time for 2012
BY JOE CLANCY
30 Steeplechase Times Friday, October 7, 2011
TIMES EDITORIAL
Rememberingat the Races
With 21 wins and a 10-victory cushion on his near-est rival, the two-time defending NSA jockey cham-pion looks like a cinch to become the first three-peat champion since John Cushman won four in a row from
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.
frightful losing streak in the brightest spotlight Ameri-
chance to ride a race. And one day a week, he lost. He spent the meet galloping for Voss – riding morning
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
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.”
Feeling YoungSean Clancy
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 ex-cluded 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 steeple-chase 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 steeplechas-ing.
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 per-manent 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.
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 own-ers with them.
There used to be small open stakes or restricted allowance hurdle races at Fox-field 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.
The Last Fence... Editorial, Opinion, Comments & Columns
Jockey’s battles on display at Saratoga for champ
The Outside RailBy Joe Clancy
See OUTSIDE page 31
Friday, October 7, 2011 Times 31
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NSA Standings
He rode plenty of races, just no win-ners.
On July 28, Cornhusker finished fifth.
On Aug. 4, Slip Away finished fourth and Mabou finished fifth.
On Aug. 11, Upper Gulch finished fourth.
On Aug. 18, Cornhusker finished sixth, and Be Certain was scratched in the paddock because of an ownership licensing problem.
On Aug. 25, Dyanski finished third (behind Mabou’s victory for another barn).
On Sept. 1, Be Certain finished third.-
ing to win them all, but one would have been nice. Two would have been great. Three? Nobody even thinks of winning three – except Brian Crowley. In the
within 5 lengths of a victory. Competition, bad timing, the law of
the Spa in 2011.“It’s tough, it’s tough,” he said. “Just
watching the races, no race is easy up
there, jumps or flat. Even the worst rac-es there are tough. Mischief ran his eye-balls out on the flat and finished fourth, ran the race of his life and that’s as close as he could get.”
The jump races operate under a mag-nifying glass at Saratoga. One or two opportunities a week will do that. At
races. Of course, he won one and he’ll be back aboard a bunch this weekend. The losses fade quickly the rest of the year.
Not so much at a certain historic
said. “Nothing we did was right, noth-ing we did was wrong. Tom’s very good about it. He never says you rode bad, you rode well but me having to go in there every day was tough. Did he think it was me? By the end, I looked at it like, clean the slate, start over again.”
That he did.
after Saratoga, and his second, third and fourth. Lake Placid, Gustavian, Class Mark and Sir Dynamite helped ease the pain.
“We We need them all,” he said of jockeys and winners. “We’ll just keep trying, and keep kicking.”
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Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Country Cousin .................................... $64,500Lake Placid ........................................... $54,000Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000Incomplete ............................................. $6,450Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Green Velvet ......................................... $30,250Class Indian ......................................... $22,200...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200Fog Island ............................................ $23,620Hi Flyin Indy ........................................... $5,250...........................................................
Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500Lake Placid ........................................... $54,000Divine Fortune ...................................... $45,000Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000He’s A Conniver ...................................... $7,100Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100...........................................................
Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Divine Fortune ...................................... $45,000Worried Man ........................................ $16,450Maya Charli ............................................ $4,200Jack Twist ..................................................... $0...........................................................
Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200Nationbuilder ....................................... $32,000Fog Island ............................................ $23,620Delta Park ............................................ $18,750Ditch ............................................................. $0...........................................................
Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Country Cousin .................................... $64,500Royal Rossi .......................................... $43,800Pensy ................................................... $11,750Incomplete ............................................. $6,450Artic Cry ................................................. $1,000...........................................................
Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Royal Rossi .......................................... $43,800Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200Pensy ................................................... $11,750Incomplete ............................................. $6,450...........................................................
Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200Fog Island ............................................ $23,620Class Indian ......................................... $22,200Delta Park ............................................ $18,750Swagger Stick ........................................ $9,000...........................................................
Private Attack ....................................... $63,000Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200Lake Placid ........................................... $54,000Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Worried Man ........................................ $16,450Foyle ............................................................. $0...........................................................
Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200Brave Prospect ..................................... $21,750Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000Sharpest Cat ................................................. $0...........................................................
Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Class Mark ........................................... $20,300Class Century ....................................... $18,500Tizsilk ................................................... $15,000Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000...........................................................
Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Green Velvet ......................................... $30,250Dictina’s Boy ........................................ $15,000Pynaformer ............................................... $750Jack Spratt .................................................... $0...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Golden Slammer .................................. $14,450Pensy ................................................... $11,750Hi Flyin Indy ........................................... $5,250...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200Fog Island ............................................ $23,620Golden Slammer .................................. $14,450Bubble Economy ........................................... $0...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200Sweet Shani ......................................... $34,000South Monarch .................................... $16,100Left Unsaid ........................................... $13,500John Wyatt ............................................. $2,600...........................................................
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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.
The top 33 (through Oct. 7) are listed. Check for complete standings.
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Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500Divine Fortune ...................................... $45,000Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000Roman Glory ........................................ $14,400He’s A Conniver ...................................... $7,100Katherine My Great ....................................... $0...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Private Attack ....................................... $63,000Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Roman Glory ........................................ $14,400Easy Reach ............................................ $9,750Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000...........................................................
Private Attack ....................................... $63,000Well Fashioned ..................................... $42,600Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Sunshine Numbers .............................. $30,000Gustavian ............................................. $18,800Royale ........................................................... $0...........................................................
Country Cousin .................................... $64,500Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Class Century ....................................... $18,500He’s A Conniver ...................................... $7,100Tifone ..................................................... $2,500...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200Straight To It ........................................ $31,500Easy Reach ............................................ $9,750Swagger Stick ........................................ $9,000Adam Rides Again ......................................... $0...........................................................
Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000Slip Away ............................................. $31,500One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200Roman Glory ........................................ $14,400Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000...........................................................
Country Cousin .................................... $64,500Lake Placid ........................................... $54,000Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Class Century ....................................... $18,500Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100Patriotís Path ................................................ $0...........................................................
Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500Opera Heroine ...................................... $58,200Church Service ..................................... $15,000Determind Stand .................................... $2,200You And I ............................................... $2,000Artic Cry ................................................. $1,000...........................................................
Decoy Daddy ...................................... $100,100Royal Rossi .......................................... $43,800Northern Bay ........................................ $16,200Miss Crown ............................................ $7,200Meshwaar ..................................................... $0Patriot’s Path ................................................. $0...........................................................
Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000Nationbuilder ....................................... $32,000Class Century ....................................... $18,500Pensy ................................................... $11,750Red Letter Day ....................................... $2,250...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000Nationbuilder ....................................... $32,000Mischief ............................................... $23,200Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100Excentrikbydesign ......................................... $0...........................................................
Tax Ruling ............................................ $93,500Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Wild For Gold ....................................... $18,000Pensy ................................................... $11,750Easy Reach ............................................ $9,750Patriot’s Path ................................................. $0...........................................................
Private Attack ....................................... $63,000Mr. Hot Stuff ........................................ $35,000Sweet Shani ......................................... $34,000Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Za Za Zu ........................................................ $0Twill Do ......................................................... $0...........................................................
Bon Caddo ........................................... $67,200Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Sunshine Numbers .............................. $30,000Cornhusker .......................................... $18,200Peace Fire ............................................ $15,130Farah T Salute ........................................ $1,000...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Slip Away ............................................. $31,500Class Mark ........................................... $20,300Class Century ....................................... $18,500South Monarch .................................... $16,100Ptarmigan .............................................. $4,100...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000One Giant Step ..................................... $30,200Fog Island ............................................ $23,620Delta Park ............................................ $18,750Pensy ................................................... $11,750Hi Flyin Indy ........................................... $5,250...........................................................
All Together .......................................... $72,000Music To My Ears................................. $27,750Fog Island ............................................ $23,620Good Request ...................................... $23,000Pensy ................................................... $11,750John Wyatt ............................................. $2,600...........................................................
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