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.”
Valerie Kanavy has a new star on her hands.
May 2 saw the historic Biltmore Estate come alive with activity as an impressive line-up of who’s who in the endurance community converged on Asheville, N.C., for what has become one of the most competitive races in the East, the Biltmore Challenge Endurance Ride.
He gives owner Irv Naylor his third win in the timber stakes.
Even at the age of 13, Salmo still has the ability to surprise. The seasoned campaigner bested a good field of timber horses to capture his second Virginia Gold Cup title in three years on May 2.
Salmo’s trainer Desmond Fogarty opted to run him just twice on the flat this season, with no previous starts over fences. At the Marlborough Hunt Races (Md.), he placed sixth out of eight. Then he ran at the Fairfax Hunt Point-To-Point (Va.) and was never better than 10th out of 11 starters.
Before the Atlanta Steeplechase, most of the weekends in April produced mild weather or torrential rains. The shift from 70s to the high 90s was a huge change for all involved in steeplechasing.
Xavier Aizpuru said he felt for the horses. “We just have to cling to their backs; they do all the work,” he said. “I was so exhausted after the day, I felt drained.”
Danielle Hodsdon guides the winner in the $50,000 feature.
Danielle Hodsdon and Xavier Aizpuru effectively shut down the competition at the Atlanta Steeplechase,
April 25, winning all five of the races between them.
Hodsdon won two out of the five in Kingston, Ga., in the sweltering heat of 95 degrees. She took home the lion’s share of the money with a win in the $50,000 Georgia Cup feature with William Pape’s The Price Of Love.
He is best of the two horses to finish this grueling timber challenge.
Named for an Italian painter with a flair for the theatrical, Michele Marieschi’s win in the Maryland Hunt Cup, April 25, was nothing short of dramatic.
The Glyndon, Md., course, with 4 miles of huge, unforgiving post and rail fences, took its toll on even the most veteran of horses and riders until only two were left.
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