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now,” said Bourke. “I'll keep running him on the flat and then go on to hurdles.”
Bourke gallops for trainer Doug Fout in The Plains and his own horses in Atoka.
“He got a good fly. It was a good break and went well,” said trainer Tim Condon, who saddles Bourke’s horses.
Don Yovanovich aboard Friendly Retreat won the first division of the third race, an open timber, by a hefty eight- or nine-length margin. He was followed by Gillam on Cast to Earth, who held off Bourke on Mary’s Brother for second place.
It was Friendly Retreat’s first win.
Owner Shea-Robert Sheahan seemed pleased by his horse’s win, but he said the next day, “I came to Virginia to ride, not to win trophies by watching. Since I don’t have the ability to ride Friendly Retreat, he’s now for sale.”
Sheahan himself competed in the foxhunters’ timber on Best of the Bold, but he pulled up after the first two fences.
Peter Winants put Sheahan in touch with Don Yovanovich when Sheahan expressed an interest in racing. “About a year ago I decided I wanted to try racing, so I called the Chronicle of the Horse and asked who could train me to do steeplechasing and who could find me a good horse. Someone (Peter Winants) said call Don Yovanovich,” said Sheahan, who commutes back and forth between California and Virginia.
In the second division of the open timber race, Bourke was back in the spotlight with Mr. and Mrs. V. Shackelford’s Young Rodney, who flew to finish a couple of lengths ahead of George Lee on Oliver’s Tiger, who passed Don Yovanovich on I Chase The Clouds in the stretch.
It was the horse’s third timber race. “I just sat on his tail, and when we came down that hill, I decided to make my move. Rodney's a fighter,” said Bourke.
Trainer Noel Twyman said, “I got him this winter, and I’ve been galloping and doing a little schooling with him — teaching him the basics. He’s run over jumps so many times that he can adjust himself to the fence. I just had to teach him about the stiffness of timber. ”
The 12-year-old was previously trained by Mrs. D.M. Smith wick and ran most oftiis career over Hurdles.
Twenty-seven horses were entered in the maiden hurdle race, which was split into three divisions.
Gerry Newman on Dusty High, alias Eliot, won the first division against Raise Capital, ridden by Hilary Thompson, and Call In The Hounds with Greg Ryan.
“He’s a nice little horse,” said Newman. “It was a good way for
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