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NEWS
The
March 2009 issue of The Horse, whose
48,000-plus readers make it the largest equine publication circulating
in the five-state mid-Atlantic market, is now in the mail to our 17,000
subscribers and to 454 tack shops and other outlets throughout
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
This is the annual Barns
& Equipment issue featuring a special section with
advertising for barns and barn repair, fencing, farm equipment, vans,
tack and many other items.. The issue also features winners of The
Horse of Delaware Valley’s annual Photocon, Candid Division. Here are
summaries of some of the other top stories in the issue. For more on
these stories see the current issue. If your nearby tack shop is
already out of copies, call us at 610-793-1425
or e-mail us at info@horsedelval.com
and we’ll send one to you free of charge.
Winterfest
insults 2-time Olympic gold medalist
By SARA
CAVANAGH – WELLINGTON, Fla.— McLain Ward, a two-time
Olympic gold medalist who has been one of the biggest show
jumping stars at the Winter Equestrian Festival for a decade, was
denied access to the International Club in apparent reprisal for
criticism he has made of show management. Ward said he and his wife
Lauren went to the International Club, an expensive eating and drinking
area atop of stands at the main festival arena, on Jan. 23, where they
had been invited to sit at a table. “We walked in, and the security
guard took me aside and asked my name,” said Ward. “When I told him, he
told me he had been told to target me and not let me in unless I had a
ticket.”
Winterfest
raises questions
By SARA
CAVANAGH – WELLINGTON, Fla. – As the Winter Equestrian
Festival enters its second year under new ownership, three questions
are on the minds of riders, trainers and horse owners who spend some
$50,000 per horse per season to show here, not counting all the other
expenses for such things as food and lodging.
Rainbow
of ribbons for green horse and rider
By
MARTHA BARBONE – BASKING RIDE, N.J. – Teaming up a
relatively green rider and a green horse is usually not advisable but
there are exceptions, according to trainer Robert Beck, owner of
Hunters Crossing Farm in Long Valley, N.J. The match has to be spot on
perfect and Beck felt he had the ideal rider in 14 year-old Kendall
Fately and a remarkable young horse, Magnetic. Within two years, the
decision proved to be more than spot on. In 2008, Fately and Magnetic,
were named the USEF Zone 2 Year End Champion Children’s Hunter Horse 14
& Under, USHJA Year End Champion Children’s Hunter Horse, all
ages combined, the NJHSA Children’s Hunter Horse 14 & Under and
the winner of the Lori Adamkiewicz Perpetual trophy and the NJPHA Year
End Champion Children’s Hunter Horse 14 & Under.
Atlanta
rider wins $25,000 HITS class
OCALA,
Fla – Leigh Anne Hartrampf of Atlanta, Ga., was
crowned the over-all winner of the $20,500 Marshall & Sterling
Childrens/Adult Jumper Championship on Jan. 26 to conclude the Ocala
Pre-Circuit 2 at HITS Post Time Farm in Ocala. “I was really nervous
about this class,” said Hartrampf. “There was a good amount of
competition. I’m really happy with this win, but it's bittersweet,
because I have to go back to Atlanta tonight and I really love it here
and I am not ready to leave!"
Good
start for Jersey riders at Winterfest
By SARA
CAVANAGH – WELLINGTON, Fla.—Susannah Wise, wife of Hunter
Farm’s owner, Andrew Philbrick, has had a fabulous early circuit at the
Winter Equestrian Festival. Wise of Princeton, N.J., who is a top-notch
doctor and the mother of a 3-year-old son, can only spend limited
amounts of time riding, but during the first four shows in Wellington,
she’s garnered four blue ribbons and two reserve championships with
three horses. Wise won two classes on Wonder Bunni as well as a reserve
championship in the High Adult jumpers division.
Teacher
fights to save equine studies
By
MARTHA BARBONE – Jackie Kook, an agriscience teacher at
Newark High School in Delaware is trying to save an equine science
program from the budget ax. Kook has been informed that the Delaware
Board of Education decided that, as of the 2009-2010 school year,
equine science, with one exception, will no longer be taught. But she
is fighting back.
NSA
tinkers with rules, conditions
By
SARAH L. GREENHALGH – Although Mother Nature has been
flexing her muscles and dumping large amounts of precipitation in
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the last couple of months,
steeplechase trainers are still getting their horses ready for the
spring season,and with several changes in race conditions and meets it
looks like there will be plenty of horses running. One of the biggest
changes is there no longer will be a novice Triple Crown Series of
steeplechasing.
Pennsylvania
BREEDING & RACING
Jones
retires, outspoken to the end
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – Nearly 30 years after founding Walnut
Green with his late brother, Richard, prominent bloodstock agent
Russell B. Jones Jr. has left the West Grove, Pa. thoroughbred
business. In September 2005, the Jones brothers sold Walnut Green to
Mark Reid Bloodstock Agency and partners, with Russell Jones signing a
three-year contract to stay on as president. That contract
expired at the end of 2008. “I’m 73 now, so I thought it would be a
good idea to ‘get out of harness,’ so to speak,” said Jones.
“I’ve agreed not to compete with Reid’s business for three years, which
means I won’t be acting as a bloodstock agent. But I have my
own horses, and I will stay involved with them, as well as doing some
fox hunting and a few other things.
‘He’s
better than that,’ Prado says of Nicanor debut
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – After many months of anticipation,
Nicanor, the full brother to ill-fated Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro,
made his career debut in a one-mile maiden special weight race at
Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla. on Jan. 31. Owned by Roy and
Gretchen Jackson of West Grove, Pa., and trained by Chester County
resident and Fair Hill-based Michael Matz, Nicanor carried the dreams
of many of Barbaro’s fans, who were hoping he could emulate the
achievements of his older brother. Wearing the blue, green and white
silks of the Jackson’s Lael Stable, Nicanor was ridden by Edgar Prado,
who had also been the regular pilot of Barbaro. Thus, the team was in
place … but the results weren’t quite what Barbaro’s followers had
hoped for. Sent off the second betting choice in the field of 12, the
3-year-old son of Dynaformer out of La Ville Rouge, by King’s Bishop,
stumbled and was bumped at the break, grabbing his left front quarter.
He made a brief middle move along the backstretch, swung three-wide
around the far turn, but had nothing left for the drive, with Prado
basically wrapping up on him through the last eighth of a mile as he
finished 10th. “(Nicanor’s) better than that,” said Prado after
dismounting. “I’ve worked him in the mornings and he showed me a
lot. He broke really fast and unfortunately grabbed his left
quarter. I thought I could get him in position to do
something after the start, but he just didn't have anything after that.
I didn't want to do anything stupid. We’ll just have to see how long
his foot takes to heal, but I know he’s better than that.”
Bonita
open house draws Pennsylvanians
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – DARLINGTON, Md. – Breeders from across
the mid-Atlantic region, including a heavy representation from
Pennsylvania, attended the stallion show and open house at Bonita Farm
in Darlington, Md., on Jan. 31.
Walmac-Regal
Heir shows off stallions
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – GRANTVILLE, Pa. – Braving frigid
temperatures in the teens, glowering gray skies and a stiff wind
blowing down from the nearby Blue Mountains, a hardy crowd of owners
and breeders gathered on Jan. 17 for an open house and stallion show
sponsored by Walmac Pennsylvania at Regal Heir Farm.
Capitano
meets his public
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – COOPERSBURG, Pa. – Capitano, the “new
kid on the block,” was the main attraction at the annual open house and
stallion show at Dawn Newman and Vince Tucciarone’s Fox Tale Stud on
Jan. 25. Bred by Betty Moran’s Brushwood Stable in
Pennsylvania, Capitano raced from ages 2 through 7, winning stakes on
both coasts, and earned over $570,000.
Pin Oak
has 3-session open house
By
JUDITH LEE – NEW FREEDOM, Pa. – About 75 well-bundled
souls, 10 well-groomed stallions and the small but enthusiastic staff
of Pin Oak Lane Farm demonstrated that hope springs eternal in the
thoroughbred breeding industry. Despite the sub-freezing temperatures,
this group was just one of three groups that came on Jan. 25 to see the
stallions offered for breeding in 2009. “We had a very good turnout,
150 to 200 in all and about the same as last year,” said William
Solomon, VMD, the owner of Pin Oak Lane Farm, long considered the top
stallion station in the state.
Filly
survives brush with death
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – Tom Coulter still remembers the month of
April 2005 as one in which his young homebred filly by Slew City Slew
fought a desperate life-and-death battle, and won.
Trainer
learned to ride early
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – BENSALEM, Pa. – Cathal “Cal” Lynch
developed a love of horses at a very young age, having learned to ride
almost as soon as he learned to walk at his parent’s farm in Derry,
Ireland.
Penn
National bids for Cecil slots license
By
LINDA DOUGHERTY – Penn National Gaming Inc., parent
company of Penn National Racecourse in Grantville and Charles Town
Races in West Virginia, was among the six companies that offered bids
for five slots locations in Maryland on Feb. 2.
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