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By WILLIAM GALLO JR.
Arundel Newspapers Special Writer
Even though more than half the 1985 National Steeplechase & Hunt Association season is complete, several year-end titles are still up for grabs.
With the fall championship season ahead in the months of September through November, owners, riders and horses will be vying for top honors. The fourth category, the trainer’s title, has been virtually sewn up by perennial leader Jonathan Sheppard.
First let's talk about Mr. Sheppard, the British trainer who now lives in Unionville, Pa. His 1985 season has been nothing less than remarkable.
Right from the word go his powerful stable was building a steady lead. He won feature races at Aiken (Double Wrapped), Camden (Eremite) and Atlanta (Double Reefed) early in the spring. Double Reefed came back to win another stake (the Pillar) at High Hope but then the 44-year-old trainer's luck took a turn for the worse.
Mr. Sheppard suffered one of the worst days of his career in Nashville. Tenn., May 11, when Double Reefed, the favorite in the $40,000 Iroquois, was fatally injured. Iro ;cally the veteran campaigner would ha.^ become the all-time steeplechase money earner (surpassing Zaecio’s $286,299) with a first or second in the race. Mr. Sheppard also had Southlake Stable's Double Wrapped, a stakes winning mare from Ireland, go through the wing at the third fence in the Iroquois, sustaining an injury that sidelined her until the fall.
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