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“That old horse carried himself,” Aitcheson said. “He was so classy — at the end of my career 1 was having to close my right eye a few strides out of a fence to see it through my double vision. Happy Intellectual ran and jumped on his, own that day. The best ones were like that.
“But 1 realized it was time to retire,” he added. “I’d ridden a lot of races and taken a lot of falls. It was time to stop.” The fact that New York racing no longer regularly carded daily steeplechases meant that jump racing was relegated back to the hunt meets, less attractive to Aitcheson. “So I thought I’d train horses.”
Based at Laurel, Aitcheson lived back on Riding Stable Road and kept horses at the track. Though he trained a winner, “I really didn’t enjoy training,” he said. “I like horses too much to
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