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own records), O'Keefe is also creating a nationwide point-topoint base that will include results from hunt 'chases around die nation, including the Midwest circuit and the CaroGnas.

"It will be a great tool when I’m done," O’Keefe said. “You’D be able to look up a horse by name, or a trainer, and know everything about them."

Mouth of the South

O’Keefe, 58, was raised at his father Dr. F.A. O’Keefe’s Pine Brook Farm near Opal. Dr. O’Keefe, an equine veterinarian, is best remembered for breeding 1966 Kentucky Derby winner Kauai King.

“My dad was the longestrunning consignor at the Saratoga (Thoroughbred yearling) sales, from 1945 until he retired in 1986,’’ said the junior O’Keefe.

It was to his father that Will O’Keefe ascribes his beginnings as a race-caller. “My dad was pressed into service when Barney Brittle (the former regular Virginia point-to-point race-caller) was going to be away,” O’Keefe

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