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Spectators at this year’s Gold Cup meet at Great Meadow in May saw the dangers of steeplechasing, and Speedy experienced them first-hand.
In the day’s second race, an amateur jump race, Speedy fell when Dorothy Poe’s Bar Jacket crashed at the water jump and broke his leg. Landing hard on his hand, Speedy broke the navicular bone in his wrist and a few fingers. He was also somewhat concussed.
However, the young rider did not let the fall halt his career. The next weekend, with his hand bandaged, Speedy rode in, and won, the Iroquois Steeplechase at Nashville, Tenn., on Uncle Edwin.
Making the weights for jump races is becoming increasingly tiresome for Speedy, however, and 1985 may be his last regular season as a jockey. At 6-foot-3 it can be very hard weighing in at 150 pounds, as he is often required to do in his races.
At the end of the ’85 season Speedy says he will think seriously about following in his parents’ footsteps as a trainer.
“I’ll have to see at the end of the fall season how it goes,” he says. “It would probably be smarter to stop, but I don’t want to. It’s fun flying around to all these races and riding people’s horses.”
Should Speedy decide to leave the riding ranks for a career as a trainer, he will be following a well-trodden path. Speedy’s
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