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that lying off the pace and making one final surge for the finish line felt right to PC. Plod. “But, that's only if there’s not a false pace. In that case, you’ve got to be ready to force it and set it up with horses to run at late. The rider has to suit the horse.”
Morris said that though he has largely retired from riding races himself, the fact that he still gallops and schools most of the horses he trains is an immense advantage to “getting inside their heads to know what they want. I try to be considerate of the horse.”
Pennsylvania trainer Jonathan Sheppard similarly pairs a particular type of horse with a certain style of rider. “The forward-thinking horse needs a rider to match,” Sheppard said.
Female intuition?
Kathy Neilson read and reread the Black Stallion books when growing up in nnal Pennsylvania’s steeplechase country. Winner of 12 sanctioned races last year, she’s quite certain of the Farley phenomena — so sure, she stands up for the fictional story.
“1 have one horse that likes to run for only one single rider,” Neilson said. “I use the top riders in the country, but tliis horse, Natty Boh, wanted no part of them. They’d turn their stick, and he’d just stop trying.
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