…and not the one about rabbits.Seen in Warrenton last week.
Monday, November 24, 2008
GRADED STAKES WINNER NOW A FOXHUNTER
Marshall Dowell’s retired graded stakes winner Scrappy T has found a new home, and Michael Copley of PowhatanToday.com has chronicled his new life.
Scrappy T (orange and black silks) had enough graded stakes earnings to run in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) but ran in the Withers (gr. III) at Aqueduct instead, which he won. Three weeks later he was the runner up in the Preakness (gr. I) to Afleet Alex in a memorable Triple Crown race because the winner nearly went down when the leading Scrappy T veered into his path at the top of the Pimlico stretch.
(Baltimore Sun photo by David Hobby)
Scrappy T (orange and black silks) had enough graded stakes earnings to run in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) but ran in the Withers (gr. III) at Aqueduct instead, which he won. Three weeks later he was the runner up in the Preakness (gr. I) to Afleet Alex in a memorable Triple Crown race because the winner nearly went down when the leading Scrappy T veered into his path at the top of the Pimlico stretch.(Baltimore Sun photo by David Hobby)
REEVES PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE
Paintings of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat and 1972 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Riva Ridge by Richard Stone Reeves will be released as limited edition prints and sold to benefit the Secretariat Foundation.
“Meadow Champions” will be limited to 350 hand-numbered editions with the individual prints measuring 19 inches by 19 inches. Each will be signed by Secretariat Foundation founder Penny Chenery, whose Meadow Stable raced both horses.
This also will be the first and only posthumous release of Reeves’ work since he died in October 2005.
Sets are available for purchase through http://www.secretariat.com/ for $800. Proceeds raised will benefit the Secretariat Foundation which assists the Thoroughbred industry in research, rehabilitation, retirement, and recognition.
The VTA will receive a small commission on prints sold to VTA members.
“Meadow Champions” will be limited to 350 hand-numbered editions with the individual prints measuring 19 inches by 19 inches. Each will be signed by Secretariat Foundation founder Penny Chenery, whose Meadow Stable raced both horses.This also will be the first and only posthumous release of Reeves’ work since he died in October 2005.
Sets are available for purchase through http://www.secretariat.com/ for $800. Proceeds raised will benefit the Secretariat Foundation which assists the Thoroughbred industry in research, rehabilitation, retirement, and recognition.
The VTA will receive a small commission on prints sold to VTA members.
DERBY BILL & CO.
Michael Dempsey wrote a nice story about Derby Bill and Kyle Fitzgerald who were both let go recently by Colonial Downs. The original article appears on Turf ‘n’ Sport.com.
Monday, November 10, 2008
DINOSAUR?
The just closed Colonial Downs OTB on Military Highway in Chesapeake, VA. The facility was Colonial's first here in the Commonwealth opening in early 1996.As computer and telephone wagering become more popular, will the traditional OTB become a thing of the past?
MWLBOURNE CUP
Australia’s Melbourne Cup is the down under version of the Kentucky Derby and Breeders Cup all rolled into one. There are parties and parades to celebrate the past winners and the main event is a major stop on the sporting calendar. Over 107,000 fans turned out to Flemington Racecourse and the race produced more than $150 million wagers. The race itself did not disappoint.Forty-three years after he trained his first Melbourne Cup winner, Bart Cummings made it an even dozen when Viewed (40-1) beat international raider Bauer (20-1) by a nose -- and a narrow one at that.
Leviathan owner Lloyd William's C'est La Guerre (20-1) was two lengths away, third.
Cummings, 81 this week and still loving his job, has no plans to break a habit that began when Light Fingers won the 1965 Cup.
"I do make a habit of winning these, someone told me. It's a good habit to get into," he said.
At the other end of the spectrum, 21-year-old jockey Blake Shinn tearfully and respectfully thanked "Mr Cummings" for putting him on Viewed f
or his first Melbourne Cup victory. 
or his first Melbourne Cup victory. 
Former champion Hog Kong horse Silent Witness looks around during a parade for Australia's greatest horse race, the Melbourne Cup, in Melbourne on November 3, 2008. It has been 15 years since Irish galloper Vintage Crop became the first overseas-trained horse to win the Melbourne Cup.
Irish stayer Alessandro Volta with jockey Patrick Lillis (L), Honolulu ridden by James Kinane (C) and Septimus with jockey Keith Dalton (R) return to the stables after early morning trackwork the Sandown track as the horses head an eight-strong European challenge for Australia's greatest horse race, the Melbourne Cup
English stayer Mad Rush (R) with jockey Michael Murphy on board and Bauer (L) with jockey Luis Lopes walk through the driving in the early morning light at the Sandown.(Photos by William West/Getty Images)
PICTURE(S) OF THE DAY
Colonial Downs veterans Strike a Deal (above) with jockey C C Lopez, captures The Red Smith Stakes (G2)at Aqueduct on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008 and Alien Farm’s homebred Nistle’s Crunch (below) finally broke through on Sunday in the $112,900 Commonwealth Turf Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs.(AP Photo/NYRA and Reed Palmer/Churchill Downs)
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