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ride tomorrow.’ Well, lots of times those ‘real nice horses’ couldn’t jump or they were rogues that no one else would get on. Yes, there was disappointment, to say nothing of falls, before things changed for the better.”
Anne recalls that Roy always had the support and friendship of Tommy Jones Sr., their next door neighbor at the time, and father of Bird’s trainer, Tommy Lee Jones.
In 1973 “Tennessee” purchased Boca Bird from the Jerry Sauniers, the parents of one time race rider Bonnie Beach. ‘Bird’ had been running at the flat tracks, but far too slowly to earn his keep. Finding the hunting field far more to his liking, he has served through the years as a two day a week hunter for Roy, who is an honorary whipper-in for the Fairfax Hunt.
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