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Riders
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amateur, rider-trainer Jack Fisher has won the spring Gold Cup a record nine times.
“Look through the history of the Gold Cup you will see there are many mare amateur names than professionals,* Meister said. *1 think if s mainly because ifs a four-mile (timber) race. Professionals usually ride over hurdles and are not used to running over timber much less four miles. Really in the last five years the professionals have just started riding the more difficult timber races that we have been riding in for decades*
My Lady’s Manor, the Grand National and the Maryland Hunt Cup are all over timber. The Iroquois meet in Tennessee for years stood alone as the only full race meet limited to amateur partcipation; like the Olympic Games, though, many of the “amateur* jockeys are professional horsemen in every other way The Iroquois dropped the amateur requirement in 1992 The May meet offers bonus money to owners and trainers for giving winning rides to amateurs in an effort to promote true amateurism in the sport
Tbp professional jockey Jody Petty questions the amateur status when it comes to the likes of Master, Davies and Fisher.
Ifs hard to call them amateurs. They have been at this game for a very long time and accomplished so very much,* Petty said laughing in a good
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