A Jockeys' Guild study, presented at the Jockeys’ Guild Assembly on Jan. 19 in Hollywood, Fla., supports the idea that all helmets involved in an impact should be replaced.
The study was conducted at Chesapeake Testing in Belcamp, Md., and it provided customized testing to mimic a fall on dirt or being stepped on by a horse.
ExtraExtraordinary, a 6-year-old gelding owned by Susan and Charles Strittmatter of Clorevia Farm in Virginia and trained by Doug Fout, was humanely euthanized on the track following a catastrophic injury in the third race of the Far Hills Race Meet in Far Hills, N.J.
Jonathan Sheppard scores his 14th New York Turf Writers win with a homebred.
My big, fat Italian Wedding? Well, not anymore.
Italian Wedding, as Jonathan Sheppard explained, “was quite small when he was a young horse and a little on the chubby side. He was kind of...cute, but he didn’t look really look like any major race horse. He looked like a fat little pony.”
Trainer Doug Fout finally sees his work pay off.
Paddy Young and Magalen Bryant’s Erin Go Bragh had their work cut out for them in the $35,000 National Sporting Library Chronicle Cup timber stakes at the Virginia Fall Races.
They were up against the National Steeplechase Association’s leading timber horse, Irv Naylor’s Patriot’s Path (Xavier Aizpuru), and timber champion Seeyouattheevent (William Dowling) in Middleburg, Va., Oct. 3-4. But the firm going left more questions than answers for the entire field.
When trainer Bruce Fenwick bought Bon Caddo two years ago, he saw a future show jumper, but the horse had other ideas. Now he’s settling nicely into a career of timber ‘chasing, with his latest victory in the $25,000 Ski Roundtop Timber Stakes at Shawan Downs.
In the process of winning in Hunt Valley, Md., Sept. 26, he bested two former horses of the year—Augustin Stable’s Irish Prince (2007) and Arcadia Stable’s Bubble Economy (2004, 2008).
He gives owner Harold Via a reason to celebrate.
Tricky Me is becoming quite the apt pupil.
Since breaking his maiden in May at Iroquois (Tenn.) for trainer Jack Fisher, Tricky Me has had to fill the shoes of Sonny Via’s injured superstar Good Night Shirt and carry Via’s stable.
This summer, Tricky Me ran fourth and second in novice stakes races at Saratoga Springs (N.Y.), but at Monmouth Park, Sept. 26, he stepped up and put on his best performance yet to win the $70,000 Metcalf Memorial Novice Hurdle Stakes in Oceanport, N.J.
National Steeplechase Association Chief Operating Officer Lou Raffetto Jr. was pleased with the jump racing festival at Monmouth Park and hopes to do it again.
With $230,000 in purses, this was the first time that a major track had six steeplechase races on the card along with their flat races. Monmouth averages about 6,000 spectators, and officials said there were upwards of 10,000 that day.
Trainer Janet Elliot is back with a horse of the year contender.
By early September, Janet Elliot had been inducted as the first female trainer into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame and won six races. But nothing, she said, could top Red Letter Day’s win in the $150,000 Lonesome Glory Stakes.
With the National Steeplechase Association horse of the year title up for grabs, the Lonesome Glory Steeplechase Stakes Grade I, run Sept. 20 at historic Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., proved a pivotal showdown.
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