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the Maryland Racing Commission for 17 years. His father was also a successful amateur rider, who had horses with Bobby (H. Robertson) Fenwick in Butler, Md. Those were the years of horses like Jay Tramp and Mountain Dew and riders like Tommy Smith and Janon Fisher.
To Chewning, Maryland racing is full of legends. “I think most people in steeplechasing of my era are all students of Mike and Paddy Smithwick in one way or another. Whereas, most kids had baseball or football heroes, I had the riders of the day,” he said.
Chewning’s first win over fences came in 1968 in the Eustis Cup at Oatlands. He was 17, riding his mother’s hunter. He was hooked on racing and there didn’t seem to be much question about his future.
On the other hand he always had one foot in the art world’s door. After college he founded and ran the nationally recognized Stable Gallery, in Washington, D C., from 1970-1975. The gallery world became too distracting, and he gave it up to concentrate on his own painting and the horses.
He began riding for trainer Thomas Voss, in Monkton, Md. Voss also comes from a great line of horseman and artists.With these shared interests they were able to work well together. Chewning remembers that time as good years for them both. They won a lot of races, and it seemed as if every horse they touched became a star — Wild Sir, Cookie,
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