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Got a text from a friend Monday night. “Pete Levendis just passed,” it said. Damn. I saw Pete in the paddock at the Colonial Cup last month and went to shake his hand. He gave me a hug. I barely know Pete’s story but I spent a great few days with him in England once … Read more
Former steeplechase jockey and trainer, Gerry Goswell, died Sunday, Dec. 20. He was 60 .
ST profiled the steeplechase champions in its December edition and will re-run those articles here.
Get up, horse. Get up, horse. Get up, get up, get up. Please, get up.You can’t win the NSA timber championship lying on the ground. You haveto get up. Get up, horse. Get up, horse. Get up, get up, get up.
ST profiled the steeplechase champions in its December edition and will re-run those articles here.
Sherry Fenwick took a late fall visit to Jonathan Sheppard’s barn tocheck on Confined, the 5-year-old mare she co-owns with the Hall ofFame trainer. She found the strapping bay nestled nicely in her stall,between flat champions Informed Decision and Forever Together.
ST profiled the steeplechase champions in its December edition and will re-run those articles here.
ST profiled the steeplechase champions in its December edition and will re-run those articles here.
Paddy Young knows it’s all about timing. To be champion jockey, timing is everything.
ST profiled the steeplechase champions in its December edition and will re-run those articles here.
Jack Fisher earned his fifth NSA training championship in 2009. The46-year-old Maryland-based conditioner produced 23 wins from 107 startsto outlast his neighbor Tom Voss by two wins.
ST profiled the steeplechase champions in its December edition and will re-run those articles here.
Your Sum Man and Left Unsaid won the biggest races in the program at Far Hills Oct. 17, rewarding owner Betty Merck with $210,000 in prize money, a big day at her home course and praise from trainer Tom Voss.
I was getting pushed around. Being told what to do. Against my will. I knew it and let it happen. “I’m going to be more like Bobby Frankel,” I declared to my wife. “He wouldn’t have let this happen. He’d have told them, backed them right off. When Juddmonte called to see if he’d take … Read more
After the Colonial Cup, what do we know? Well, besides Jonathan Sheppard might deserve a second Hall of Fame induction . . .
