Betsy Parker

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Apr 5, 2007 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Entries are By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Entries are strong for Saturday’s Old Dominion Hounds Point-to-Point, with trainers bringing out the circuit’s heavy hitters as they ready for the upcoming rich National Steeplechase Association season that begins in the region...
Apr 12, 2007 Something new Something new Local resident and horse fancier Betsy Parker will now provide regular news on the horse scene. See Pages B1/2.
Apr 12, 2007 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer FLINT HILL, By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer FLINT HILL, Va- Though snow blanketed the Ben Venue Farm course at paddock time for the first race at Saturday’s Old Dominion Hounds Pbint-to-Point, a relentless, bitter west wind did its part, and...
Apr 12, 2007 New in the News ...for some help getting all the horse and field news. Call section editor Betsy Parker at the Warrenton office - (540) 347-4222 - with any Rappahannock equestrian events, local success or new horse-related business.
Apr 19, 2007 archaeologist,” Curry called it, saying that farmstead families often ...Corporation Commission before Dominion applies for the expanded power line route. — By Betsy Parker
Apr 19, 2007 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer NEW KENT COUNTY - The dark bay gelding walked, head lowered in compliance, obediently along with the groom, dancing a jig step when the jockey was boosted aboard, but returning to the rhythmic...
Apr 19, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker WINNING TEAM: Right, Charley Strittmatter, owner of Clorevia Farm in Flint Hill, and and farm manager Charlie Brown head to the winner’s circle after Udeman’s victory. Journey, o/Gill Johnston, r/Carl Rafter, 2. Justobud, o/Gary Baker,...
Apr 26, 2007 Gliding scores second leg Gliding scores second leg of ’chasing’s Triple Crown By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer MIDDLEBURG - Even as flat racing’s Triple Crown series is yet a week away, steeplechasing’s answer to the sophomore championship is already two legs down....
Apr 26, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker HURDLE TRIPLE CROWN: Middleburg-based rider Jeff Murphy, at right, steered Gliding to victory in the $75,000 novice stakes Saturday at Glenwood Park. field of nine. Langburg gave way headinguphill around the far bend, with Rare...
Apr 26, 2007 Betsy Parker, Editor Pam Symington, Advertising Manager Jennifer Chanthapanya, Betsy Parker, Editor Pam Symington, Advertising Manager Jennifer Chanthapanya, Page Design
Apr 26, 2007 Master page designer for the Times Community Newspapers, Steve ...staff photograph was taken by award-winning photojoumalist and Horse and Field Sports editor Betsy Parker.
Apr 26, 2007 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer One. Hundred. Thousand. Dollars. Hear that Virginia? Your Gold Cup is the world’s most valuable timber race. Ever.
Apr 26, 2007 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Things will be jumping Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Things will be jumping at Colonial Downs in New Kent County this summer as regular weekend hurdle races are carded all meet.
Apr 26, 2007 6, with 32 days of racing on a Friday-through-Tuesday ...weekdays. Details on Colonial Downs can be found online at www.colonialdowns.com. — By Betsy Parker
Apr 26, 2007 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker ’Chasing started out directly tied to the foxhunting field, and some races, such as the unique Steeplethon at Great Meadow, keep that tie alive. offered a permanent home to the valuable Tfemple Gwathmey trophy...
Apr 26, 2007 In By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer ^ In By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer ^ hey may need a leg up to scramble aboard their mounts, but just - because the junior set at Saturday’s Virginia Gold Cup races don’t get headline billing doesn't mean that...
Apr 26, 2007 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer adng headlong By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer adng headlong into the 21st century, the newly designed Central Entry Office database was recently unveiled by creators Will O'Keefe, executive director of Morven Park in Leesburg and acting secretary of Central Entry...
Apr 26, 2007 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Steeplechasers are ‘rear racehorses: the deference is the jumps.
May 3, 2007 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Most. Biggest. By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Most. Biggest. Richest. Best. The superlatives continue to roll in about Saturday’s Virginia Gold Cup races, and if early-week predictions hold true, they’re all accurate. The richest timber race ever contested — $100,000...
May 10, 2007 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer With more By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer With more ups and downs than 12 starters in a four-mile steeplechase, Salmo finally stamped himself a true contender. And the locally-bred horse did it at a most opportune time. Irv Naylor’s timber...
May 10, 2007 Betsy Parker Horse & Field Sports Editor Fauquier Tmes-Democrat Betsy Parker Horse & Field Sports Editor Fauquier Tmes-Democrat P O Box 631 Warrantor!, Va 20188
May 17, 2007 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer RIXEYVTLLE — By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer RIXEYVTLLE — Carpenter bees buzz the barn eaves, and a bird sings from the nearly woods, but otherwise, a soft silence surrounds the stable yard. Until Kim Stricklin walks in. Bang, bang, bang....
May 17, 2007 MATERNAL BONDING: At ...local families through her foal rescue program soon. ~ Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Betsy Parker
May 24, 2007 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Cognizant of By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Cognizant of her own tentative start in the sport of polo, when former show jumper Maureen Brennan decided to establish the Virginia International Polo Club at Llangollen, her family’s recently-acquired 1200-acre estate in...
May 24, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker LOOKS LIKE A LONG Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker LOOKS LIKE A LONG LIFE: Polo has taken root and exploded in Virginia’s horse country; there are more than 26 private fields in the region, plus the one above at Great Meadow, used for public...
May 31, 2007 Top: Photo by Lauren Gianninni; Top: Photo by Lauren Gianninni; Bottom: Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Dog days of summer At the weekend’s 60th annual Virginia Foxhound Club show at Morven Park in Leesburg, the local Old Dominion Hounds came away winners in the American...
May 31, 2007 I Betsy Parker Horse & Field Sports Editor Fauquier I Betsy Parker Horse & Field Sports Editor Fauquier TimesDemocrat P.O. Box 631 Warrenton,
Jun 14, 2007 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer UPPERVILLE — By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer UPPERVILLE — Years of practice. Miles of travel. Hours of schooling. Tense minutes ringside, watching as his competitors, Olympic veterans all, jumped smooth and clear. And it all came down to barely 30...
Jun 14, 2007 Rappahannock News Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker ADORING FANS: Rider Kent Farrington lets the crowd congratulate Up Chiqui on his $100,000 jumper classic victory after Sunday’s Upperville show finale. in his native Chicago at age 8. He won most of the nation’s...
Jun 21, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker BOARDING HOUSE REACH? Adam Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker BOARDING HOUSE REACH? Adam Figueroa, No. 2 at left, stretches hard to foil a shot by Mulford Realty player Scott Gray, right. Figueroa scored four for his Poliform team, but Mulford Realty’s powerhouse team prevailed,...
Jul 12, 2007 Times-Democrat Staff Photo/Betsy Parker POWER PLAY: Ortean native Vinnie Times-Democrat Staff Photo/Betsy Parker POWER PLAY: Ortean native Vinnie Ryan makes the winning shot in the arena at Great Meadow’s twilight summer series.
Jul 12, 2007 derful community event. We do ...search of the latter, she came to Hunter’s Rest Farm to learn from Betsy Parker.. .and she was hooked on Rappahannock! Now a full time resident, Mary Ann’s
Jul 19, 2007 I Betsy Parker Horse & Field Sports Editor Fauquier I Betsy Parker Horse & Field Sports Editor Fauquier TimesDemocrat P.O. Box 631 Warrantor!.
Jul 26, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker SECONDS COUNT: Time matters in the DerbyCross event this weekend.
Jul 26, 2007 information, please contact the ...contact the joint-masters at (540) 364-4573 or (540) 636-1507 or call publicity director Betsy Parker at (540) 3642929 website www.huntersrest.net ) May Relay for life The American Cancer Society Relay for Life is a community event in which teams take...
Aug 16, 2007 I Betsy Parker I Betsy Parker Horse & Field Sports Editor Fauquier TimesDemocrat P.O. Box 631 Warrenton. Va
Sep 13, 2007 Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Leading Virginia jockey Carl Rafter, jumping Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Leading Virginia jockey Carl Rafter, jumping at left at last year’s races, and leading natiqnal jockey Matt McCarron, are both slated to race at Thornton Saturday' r
Sep 13, 2007 By Betsy Parker Staff Writer Talk about waiting ‘til By Betsy Parker Staff Writer Talk about waiting ‘til th< last minute: The rains largeh held off all summer, creating ai area-wide drought and making horse training difficult. But a press time widespread shower were pelting the Virginia Pied mont...
Sep 13, 2007 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The fell steeplechase season in Virginia spans eight weeks, Sept. 15-Nov. 3. This guide steers readers through the action start to finish, with news and insider insight into the vibrant sport Riding the fence _...
Sep 13, 2007 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Tunes Newspapers Staff Writer Though steeplechasing sprang from the Irish foxhunting field and gained early popularity in 19th-century England, it followed settlers to the American colony and was warmly embraced in the States. Author Hay Woolfe Jr....