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Trainers
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recently. “Before I started training horses, I spent years foxhunting and in the pony club in [my native] England.
“I went off to boarding school [Eton], but rode during holidays and hunted when I could,” Sheppard added. “My father was the ‘senior handicapper’ for the British Jockey Club, and I used to accompany him to all the meets I could and see what it would take to be a professional horseman. Much to my father’s dismay, I’d decided early that training was what I wanted to do. I spent a year with a [stock brokerage] firm in London, but my heart was on the racecourse.”
It was his desire to learn horses and horsemanship that brought Sheppard to the United States in 1962. His first steeplechase connection was with Hall of Fame trainer Burley Cocks in Pennsylvania. “I figure I rode about 250 races,” Sheppard recalled. "And I won about 25. My best year was 1968, when I was about third on the NSA list for leading rider, but then I had a bad fall and decided I might go on and retire. I’d wanted to
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