Betsy Parker
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- Sep 19, 2002 Photos by Douglas Lees, Betsy Parker Photos by Douglas Lees, Betsy Parker DO YOU LIKE HIM BETTER WITH, OR WITHOUT? Virginia-based jockey and trainer Simon Hobson has tried several styles on for size over the past season. With seven race days left on the Virginia 2002...
- Sep 19, 2002 Special charms at each race venue Special charms at each race venue By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Eight days of steeplechase action at six venues extend Virginia's season from mid-September through early November. Each of the six courses has a special charm, a flavor...
- Sep 19, 2002 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The Morven Park racecourse Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The Morven Park racecourse north of Leesburg features a wide-open mile turf oval with good viewing from all seats.
- Sep 19, 2002 Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker The International Gold Cup Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker The International Gold Cup Races at Great Meadow feature a varied program that will include standard flat, hurdle and timber races as well as the popular ‘Steeplethon’ over varied obstacles.
- Sep 19, 2002 Jockey Gregg Ryan of Middleburg seems to have found ...racing and steeplechasing fans state, nation and worldwide. Times Newspapers Staff Photo Illustration/ Betsy Parker and Yayoi Ayukawa
- Sep 19, 2002 Betting on steeplechasers soars at major flat tracks Betting on steeplechasers soars at major flat tracks By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer A wildly successful summer meet at Virginia’s Colonial Downs included steeplechasing every Saturday, a popular addition to the 30-day, program. Numbers were up across the...
- Sep 19, 2002 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Colonial Downs By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Colonial Downs will usher in its fifth annual harness meet on Saturday,Oct. 5 and continue a six-week, 24-program campaign through Nov. 12. Standardbred horsemen will compete for average daily purses of $50,000 every...
- Sep 19, 2002 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Fauquier native Gus Brown has twice been honored as National Steeplechase Association champion jockey. Brown enters the fall season in the lead with 12 victories.
- Sep 19, 2002 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Playing to the crowd Great Meadow last year, the bugler gives the familiar ‘call to the post' as horses exit the paddock enclosure to come onto the racecourse. Pageantry is part of the fun when...
- Feb 27, 2003 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Writer Steeplechase horsemen have By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Writer Steeplechase horsemen have resorted to jogging on gravel roads and shipping to the training track for pre-season workouts. Being fit for the Virginia opener Casanova Hunt point-to-point races and the Rappahannock Hunt races that...
- Apr 10, 2003 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Wnter After the way By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Wnter After the way Bowman’s Crossing handled heavy footing at Saturday’s Old Dominion Hounds Point-to-Point — shrugging off seven competitors like they were tied to a picket line and cleaning out the windpipes following a...
- May 15, 2003 Rappahannock News Photo/Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Photo/Betsy Parker Scarlett Lovett talks to her large pony Razor after their victory at Saturday’s rescheduled Rappahannock Hunt Point-to-Point. nock’s was his third start since leaving the West Virginia track. “In his first race, he ran so-so. The...
- Aug 21, 2003 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer For three years, the judges’ platform at Bill Fletcher’s Thornton Hill Farm near Sperryville was ghostly quiet. The timber fences were getting overgrown. Briars poked between the rails, and the faded flags hung...
- Aug 21, 2003 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker REMEMBER WHEN? Two Kinross Farm entries jump in tandem at the Thornton Hill racecourse near Sperryville at the 1999 Rappahannock faces. Sept. 13 marks the first time since ’99 that racing has been held at...
- Sep 11, 2003 Sept 13 event slated Sept 13 event slated By Betsy Parker A Rappahannock News Staff Writer Following a four-year lj|atua, the Thornton Hill racecouraanear Sperryville is ready for acti^pthis Saturday. The Sept. 13 Thospton Hill Hounds Races bring racing back to the popular hillside...
- Sep 18, 2003 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Rappahannock New* Staff Writer Trainer Neil Morris has a problem. A big problem. But it’s a good kind of problem. Morris now has not one but two timber stakes horses at Kinross Farm this fall season. Hie...
- Sep 18, 2003 Check out our Check out our ’chasing guide By Betsy Parker Time* Newnpapen* Staff Writer The methods are not new. The original horse whisperer, Xenophon, practiced and taught horse training techniques stressing kindness, patience and consideration of the individual animal as far back...
- Sep 18, 2003 Editor: Betsy Parker Photos: Betsy Parker, Douglas Lees, Sarah Editor: Betsy Parker Photos: Betsy Parker, Douglas Lees, Sarah
- Sep 18, 2003 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Though steeplechases use a Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Though steeplechases use a ‘walk-up’ start, most jumpers begin their careers on the flat. Starting gate excitement, trainer Bruce Miller says, makes for a well-schooled horse ‘who’s seen it all.’
- Sep 18, 2003 Public participation is high on Virginia’s circuit. Here, champion ...Mueller signs an autograph at the Loudoun races. Times Staff Photos . by Betsy Parker ‘
- Sep 18, 2003 Tunes Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Northern Baby daughter Vmgt Tunes Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Northern Baby daughter Vmgt Sept, here led up at Foxfield by Melanie Heard, personally refutes the myth that female racehorses are not as ‘tough’ as males: she has won multiple times over hurdles and on...
- Sep 18, 2003 Looking back at ...galloping racehorses all add up to a championship season. Times Newspapers Start Photo/Betsy Parker
- Sep 18, 2003 By Betsy Parker Timm NewkpafXTn Staff Writer They had By Betsy Parker Timm NewkpafXTn Staff Writer They had no idea what they’d begun. When Christopher Read’s parents first perched their toddler son aboard his sister’s most trustworthy pony, they didn’t know the monster they’d created. Almost immediately, Read said,...
- Sep 18, 2003 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Skill in the saddle was a long-term project for rider Chris Read. He began his equestrian career as a toddler, , hoisted upon his big sister’s ponies. A pony club games and show jumping career...
- Sep 18, 2003 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Write it By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Write it and they will come. Proving the old saw once again, opening week on Virginia’s steeplechase schedule saw overflowing entries all around, particularly in two divisions with greater rewards promised this fall....
- Sep 18, 2003 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Steeplechasing is part spectator sport, as here at the Gold Cup last year, part sporting spectacle and part big business. Virginia offers the most ’chasing, spring and fall, in the nation. Ponder the ‘meaning’ of...
- Feb 19, 2004 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer It appears By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer It appears to be a complex dance. A fleet of shining horses, muscles rippling and eyes flashing, appear from trailers and vans of all sizes. Exactly at the appointed minute, prideful groom on...
- Feb 19, 2004 Times Newspapers Stafl Photo Betsy Parker TAKE A GOOD, Times Newspapers Stafl Photo Betsy Parker TAKE A GOOD, LONG LOOK: Just making sure they know what they’re here for, riders line up to ‘show’ their horses the first fence before a timber race at Middleburg’s Glenwood Park. Jump racing...
- Feb 19, 2004 Take a ...races last spring, jockey Tom Foley styles in the saddle. Times Staff Photo/Betsy Parker
- Feb 19, 2004 Times Newspapers Staff Ptioto/Betsy Parker CASUAL CHIC: Two nattily Times Newspapers Staff Ptioto/Betsy Parker CASUAL CHIC: Two nattily dressed spectators take a look at the action on course at Great Meadow in The Plains.
- Feb 19, 2004 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker TO THE NINES: Vying for ‘Best Turned Out,’ every last detail must be covered. This horse’s forelock has been combed and tucked under the browband, and his noseband centered.
- Feb 19, 2004 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Trainers, handlers take great care to turn out their entries to the nines for race day. Does it make a difference in performance? Some say yes, others say ‘neigh, ’ Some consider it...
- Feb 19, 2004 Tunes Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker PRETTY BOY: Pelagos’ braids Tunes Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker PRETTY BOY: Pelagos’ braids and polished bit added up for winning performance at Casanova, both in the paddock and on the racetrack.
- Feb 19, 2004 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker LOOK TO THE FUTURE? Tom Kirlin was the 2003 Seven Corners series leader.
- Feb 19, 2004 TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: ...open question and answer session with the Kentucky horseman. Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker
- Feb 19, 2004 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer The day By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer The day you enter the horse industry, you are really getting into two businesses: You are in the horse business by design and the real estate business by default. Fortunes can be made...
- Feb 19, 2004 ■pppy ■pppy aylor s roots were in By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Joseph Lannon Taylor once said he couldn’t recall a time was not “in love with horses." From the time that his great-great grandfather emigrated west from Virginia...
- Feb 19, 2004 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker AND THEY’RE OFF! Times Newspapers Staff Photo/ Betsy Parker AND THEY’RE OFF! Racehorse lingo relates well to election year slang: Here, horses ‘get a running start’ right ‘out of the gate’ at Colonial.
- Feb 19, 2004 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Malcolm Barr By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Malcolm Barr remembers the rush of adrenaline, the chaise of excitement he felt as a boy in England, standing railside at local point-to-point races and watching the horses leap past as they cleared...
- Feb 19, 2004 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker WINNING FORMULA: With syndicates of 10 to 15 owners, Malcolm Barr’s Hampshire partners share training cost and race profits*^