Betsy Parker

Named 517 times. These are the 400 blocks the name was read from (the first 400 kept), in the order the paper printed them.

Feb 10, 1999 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Times-Democrat Staff Writer Standing on the bobbing bow of the channel ferry, warm Caribbean breeze whipping the nautical flags, the verdant mountains of St. John rose from the turquoise sea ahead. Before me was a narrow passage...
Feb 10, 1999 dimes ...Managing Editor: Robin Earl Section Editor: Chuck Backhaus Writers: Chuck Backhaus, Deborah Shepherd, Betsy Parker, Leigh ' Glenn, Emily Ashby Advertising Manager: Kathleen Keller Advertising Representatives: Pam Symington, Dawn Martin, Cathy Carlton, Kathy Mills Production: Kim Gross, Denise Tate, Cindy...
Feb 10, 1999 Times-Democrat Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times-Democrat Staff Photo/Betsy Parker WEDDING (SELF) PORTRAIT: The Caribbean makes for an atypical backdrop.
Feb 10, 1999 Times-Democrat Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times-Democrat Staff Photo/Betsy Parker PANORAMIC: Trunk Bay includes a marked underwater snorkel trail, a sandy beach, bathhouses and lush vegetation.
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Competition on Virginia’s spring point-to-point circuit will thrill from February through May.
Feb 17, 1999 And, most importantly to many, a pull-out spring calendar ...weather or not, its steeplechasing time in Virginia. Riders’ up. , — By Betsy Parker
Feb 17, 1999 Junes ...Toler Assistant General Manager: Barbara Norris Managing Editor: Robin Earl Special Section Editor: Betsy Parker Writers: Betsy Parker, Shannon Sollinger Advertising Manager: Kathleen Keller Advertising Representatives: Pat Gardiner, Kathy Mills, Dawn Martin, Cathy Carlton Production: Kim Gross, Denise Tate, Cindy...
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Competition will be hot through the spring steeplechase season, in good weather or bad.
Feb 17, 1999 By Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Writer Racing By Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Writer Racing over fences has obscure beginnings veiled in centuries of shadowy lore. The nod, however, goes to the sporting Irish for getting the jump on steeplechasing through the foxhunting field. Perhaps the...
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Warrenton’s Gus Brown, Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Warrenton’s Gus Brown, above with Al Griffin, was leading NSA apprentice in ’98. Upperville’s Blair Waterman, right, partnered many of sister Jill’s horses during her first year on the circuit. 4 r
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker Bay Cockbum Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker Bay Cockbum takes the his favorite racing position, on the lead, in this race from Old Dominion last year. Two weeks later, the English native was wheelchair-bound, paralyzed from the chest down.
Feb 17, 1999 The late Von Csadek won the ...Von Csadek was humanely destroyed following a pasture accident last fall. — By Betsy Parker
Feb 17, 1999 II— 1 I. —Ill I ■ - g I ...1 I. —Ill I ■ - g I Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker lack Fisher, trainer-rider of Virginia’s greatest living timber son ind ’98 champ, Saluter, talks to the English press at Marlborough. tin
Feb 17, 1999 I Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker At the I Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker At the Loudoun Hunt Point-to-Point races last spring at Oatlands, rider Ben Swope, left, struggles to recover from a last-fence bobble by his horse. Professional jockey Gregg Ryan, right, steers clear of trouble...
Feb 17, 1999 By Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Writer ‘Chasing By Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Writer ‘Chasing without racing is what pacing is all about. The competitive spirit is alive and well throughout Virginia’s hunt country; bold steeplechase jockeys don’t have a lock on riding rivalry. The sport...
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker ‘Many hands make Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker ‘Many hands make light work’ is an adage hunt club’s ascribe to for their benefit hunter pace event organization. Here, Old Dominion subscribers ‘work’ on timing and judging.
Feb 17, 1999 _ Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Hunter relays Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Hunter relays are another popular ‘throwback’ to the old days of steeplechasing’s birth.
Feb 17, 1999 erwise, they may select the direction, order of passage ...event planned for April 4. For more details, call (540) 253-5247. — By Betsy Parker
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker CATCH ’EM GOING. Times Community Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker CATCH ’EM GOING. AND COMING ... The two most closely scrutinized portions of a horse race are the beginning, pictured above at Foxfield, and the end, shown below at Great Meadow. When horses race...
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Crowds are always Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Crowds are always swelling at Great Meadow in The Plains. This year, Virginia-bred Saluter is expected to go for a sixth, in a row, Virginia Gold Cup timber classic. He will be odds-on.
Feb 17, 1999 Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Pony racing is a learning, growing experience for young riders.
Feb 17, 1999 ^_-_I Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker At Braeboume ^_-_I Times Community Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker At Braeboume Farm near Warrenton, staflion Game Quoit seems to think Custer Cassidy’s cartoon is fhighty funny.
Feb 24, 1999 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Thoroughbred horses By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Thoroughbred horses may have center stage at Saturday’s Rappahannock Hunt Point-toPoint in Sperryville, but they jj|
Feb 24, 1999 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker JUMP FOR JOY: Timber racing will be featured at Saturday’s Rappahannock Hunt Point-to-Point races in Sperryville. Post time is slated for noon.
Mar 3, 1999 »■■■■.. ■■ ...... ■■ ■» i - m.*...... , ......... ■■ ■» i - m.*...... , , I Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Betsy Parker AND THEY’RE OFF! Foxhunters’ timber winner Mason Lampton starts the Rappahannock event, second from left, aboard his horse Waukey. Matt van der Woude, no. 1, placed...
Apr 7, 1999 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer BEN VENUE By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer BEN VENUE — Trainer Mairead Carr was pleased when Hay Has It won at first asking over timber in February. But she thought it was just a fluke. Placing second to a sanctioned...
Apr 7, 1999 Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Betsy Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Betsy Parker OLD DOMINION PANORAMA: Thomas Summerlan’s Axford leads in photo above to win wire to wire in the novice flat race at Ben Venue. At right, trainer Mairead Carr leads in Leeds Don open timber winner...
Apr 21, 1999 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer “There’s nothing By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer “There’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.” It has been attributed to many, quoted by multitudes of hardened horsemen to define that mystical aura surrounding...
Apr 21, 1999 Executive Editor/General Manager: John Toler Assistant General Manager: Barbara ...General Manager: Barbara Norris Managing Editor: Robin Earl Writers: George Rowand, Chuck Schilken, Betsy Parker, Brian Minter, Chuck Backhaus, Dan Lowrey, Robin Earl, John Lewis Pitts Advertising Manager: Kathleen Keller Advertising Representatives: Pam Symington, Dawn Martin, Cathy Carlton, Kathy Mills...
Apr 28, 1999 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Away from By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Away from the race course, horse racing probably wouldn’t win, place or even show in a general population poll of which sport has the toughest athletes. But among responses from anyone who’s watched...
Apr 28, 1999 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker CAN HE? ‘Do it again’ will be the chant on Saturday: Saluter has won five straight. He will be favorite again in the May 1 line-up. r
Apr 28, 1999 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Virginians are By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Virginians are fond of saying that if you poke a pin in a map of the Old Dominion, you’re likely to prod loose some steeplechase tidbit or other tuft of horse sports history....
Apr 28, 1999 Times Newspapers Photos/Betsy Parker INTERESTING: Augustin Stables has two Times Newspapers Photos/Betsy Parker INTERESTING: Augustin Stables has two nominated for the Cup - Floating Interest, shown here at Glenwood, and Brankman.
Apr 28, 1999 By Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Writer The By Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Writer The Virginia Gold Cup itself didn’t herald the last turn of centuries. The sport of steeplechasing, however,was firmly established in Fauquier 100 years ago. Headlines from Warrenton’s New Index screamed with racing...
Apr 28, 1999 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Undaunted by By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Undaunted by having to pay out $100,000 when Ann Stem’s Saluter won the Virginia Gold Cup and England’s Marlborough Cup in 1997 — hence capturing the first World Timber Championship and accompanying bonus...
Apr 28, 1999 Stern. Made from gold nuggets mined in the 1849 ...War II. It was purchased by the Virginia Gold Cup Association from the Park Bemet Gallery — now known as Sotheby’s — in New York City. Recently the trophy was purchased from the D.L. Ferguson estate trustees to replace the...
Apr 28, 1999 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker TRACKING THE ACTION: Great Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker TRACKING THE ACTION: Great Meadow’s flat oval course makes it easy to follow the steeplechasing competition.
Apr 28, 1999 and Field Sports editor Louisa ...Dumpling came down while leading at the last, I Feellikeasnake and Tennessee-based jockey Betsy Burke on the inside fell hard over the other horse. “Injured riders Kirk Griggs and Burke were admitted to the St. Louis Hospital; Griggs is being...
Apr 28, 1999 northern Virginia ExecutiveEditor/ General Manager: John Toler Assistant General ...John Toler Assistant General Manager: Barbara Norris Managing Editor: Robin Earl Section Editor: Betsy Parker Writer: George Rowand Advertising Manager: Kathleen Keller Advertising Representatives: Pam Symington, Dawn Martin, Cathy Carlton, Kathy Mills Production: Kim Gross, Denise Tate, Cindy Goff, Candy...
Sep 22, 1999 Times Newspapers Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Photo/Betsy Parker Steeplechase horses travel at an average rate of upwards of 30 miles per hour. Their speed and beauty are part of the attraction during the fall race season that begins this Saturday at Fairfax. Fall into...