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.
- Oct 6, 2005 By Betsy Parker Times-Democrat StafTWnter MIDDLEBURG — Firsttime field By Betsy Parker Times-Democrat StafTWnter MIDDLEBURG — Firsttime field hunter championships competitor. Aging horse going a little gray around the otherwise black muzzle, a neophyte to this type of competition. Bittersweet memories of the previous own,"', 1 dear friend who...
- Oct 6, 2005 A WINNING A WINNING TEAM: Penn Park and Susan Deal share their victory with Deal’s former boss and the horse’s former owner Paul Cronin. Times-Democrat Staff Photos/' Betsy Parker
- Oct 20, 2005 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer It came By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer It came down to confidence. Although Michele Rouse had been told that the steeplechaser for sale had a propensity for refusing his fences in the hunt field, she told husband Randy she liked...
- Oct 20, 2005 JUMP RIGHT IN: ...with first-time starter Bulawayo to win the maiden claimer. Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Betsy Parker
- Dec 1, 2005 By Betsy Parker Times-Democrat Staff Writer America is famous By Betsy Parker Times-Democrat Staff Writer America is famous for it: an entrepreneurial spirit that colonized the East Coast, populated the Plains and tamed the Wild West. Taking the hint from her elementary school history books, that pioneer enterprise drove...
- Dec 29, 2005 Barton Family Limited Partnership to John F. Sullivan and ...Special Commissioner to Gary B. Sellers; 5.2910 acres, $16,931 Old Kennels LLC to Betsy Parker; 12.4997 acres, $312,492.50 Piedmont Michael T. Brown, Special Commissioner to Slate Nails LLC; Map 38A-1-42, $36,402,80 Stonewall /Hawthorne No transfers were recorded this week.
- Mar 2, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Series races By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Series races take center stage at Saturday’s Rappahannock Hunt Point-to-Point, with the Seven Corners owner-rider timber race featured on the eight-race card. Post time is 1 p.m. at the March 4 event, to...
- Mar 2, 2006 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker WINNER: Longtime owner/trainer Randy Rouse’s One Sea took top honors at last year’s Rappahannock Hunt Point-toPoint. Rouse was a timber champion in his riding days.
- Mar 9, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer WASHINGTON — By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Middleburg’s Kinross Farm seems to have a limitless supply of talented timber horses. Week by week each spring, the circuit resembles a Kinross merry-go-round as farm trainer Neil Morris wheels them...
- Mar 9, 2006 Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Betsy Parker HOME TEAM: Robin Richards Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Betsy Parker HOME TEAM: Robin Richards sent out Virginia-bred winner Fought.
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- Apr 13, 2006 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer BEN VENUE - Trainer Neil Morris has been in the horse business long enough to know better. Know better than to go on record with a statement that hell have to retract, with...
- Apr 13, 2006 Happanannock News btarr Photo/Betsy Parker Happanannock News btarr Photo/Betsy Parker Sur La Tete wins over hurdles.
- Apr 13, 2006 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Betsy Parker MUD-BATH: Covered, for the first time this season, in mud is winner Victoria Lawrence. Amateur hurdle. 2 miles. Time: 4:12 2/5. 1. Falconinthenight, o/r David Benson; 2. Bordeaux Great, o/r Gregg Ryan. Ladies timber. Walkover....
- Apr 26, 2006 Go for Gold: ...show on Turf, the real race is on to get Cup tickets By Betsy Parker Times Community Newspapers Staff Writer Outnumbered 81-23 in the National Steeplechase Association’s spring Condition book, timber races more than keep stride when it comes to...
- Apr 26, 2006 Northern Virginia Northern Virginia Fauquier Gold Cup 2006 Betsy Parker, Editor Pam Symington, Advertising Manager Jennifer Chanthapanya, Page Design Fauquier Times-Democrat 39 Culpeper Street Warrenton, VA 20186 Phone: 540-347-4222 Fax: 540-349-8676 E-mail: dshepherd@timespa„ pers.com - 19 weekfy newspabm? _^ _Trl^Li— ! 1
- Apr 26, 2006 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The stately Steward's Tower Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The stately Steward's Tower at the bottom of Member’s Hill is a point of reference at Great Meadow, like the ‘old oak’ tree near the apex of the old Broadview course in Warrenton.The tower serves...
- Apr 26, 2006 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Will O’Keefe is the quintessential Virginia steeplechase insider, a man with tentacles deep into the racing and ‘chasing worlds of Northern Virginia’s Horse Country, one of the few professionals on the circuit that...
- Apr 26, 2006 Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker Chinese Whisper, left. Lord Kenneth, second right, and Miles Ahead, for right, line up together for the April 8 Leeds Don; Miles Ahead was first.
- Apr 26, 2006 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer In 2005, timber specialist Miles Ahead took a seven-week, 13 1/2mile trip, South
- Apr 26, 2006 Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker The new kid on Times Newspapers Staff Photos/Betsy Parker The new kid on the Kinross team. No Fast Moves, left, has been perfect this season, winning his point-to-point prep and then again at the Carolina Cup.
- Apr 26, 2006 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The old log jump Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The old log jump at the back of Great Meadow was a testing Steeplethon fence.
- Apr 26, 2006 By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer “Gome up,” By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer “Gome up,” says Jason Rutledge. The two red horses heave forward into their collars.
- Apr 26, 2006 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Healing Harvest’s six-horse team of Suffolk Punch drafts gives a heave-ho to the 10,000-pound, 40-foot oak log that will serve as a jump for the Steeplethon.
- Apr 26, 2006 This horse obviously ...from the better, greener grass on the ‘other side.’ Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker
- Apr 26, 2006 Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Jockey Gregg Ryan sits Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker Jockey Gregg Ryan sits back and waits out the ‘long one’ over an Old Dominion Hounds hurdle. The bemused horse’s view of a rider is ‘an owner who’s overstepped his bounds,’ while the hurdle itself,...
- May 4, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Virginia By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Virginia Gold Cup timber classic often produces a surprise finish, but this year it’s already guaranteed to produce a surprise start. Though at $50,000 it offers one of the richest timber prizes...
- Jun 8, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Humans have By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Humans have relied on horses since the dawn of time, and there is no stronger bond than between horse and rider on the field of battle. Narrated by Flint Hill filmmaker Ronald F....
- Jun 29, 2006 At the weekend’s American Horse Publications’ seminar and awards ...in photo and overall general excellence categories. Times-Democrat Horse and Field Sports editor Betsy Parker won first prize in the black and white photo division for her “Racing for the rest of us” photo from the North American Point-toPoint Association...
- Jun 29, 2006 Other local writers earning prizes included TimesDemocrat business editor ...as shown beneath Covertside with the Horse Connection’s cover choice. Times-Democrat Staff Photos/Betsy Parker
- Jul 13, 2006 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer The chestnut gelding lowers his head to a friendly scratch from the man in the leather apron. “Hey, buddy,” the man says, snapping on a longe line and leading the horse from his...
- Jul 20, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Making something By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Making something new with a good oldfashioned remix, area event riders Dana Voorhees, Rebecca Howard and Sinead Halpin offer the inaugural DerbyCross on July 29 at Great Meadow in The Plains. The new...
- Aug 3, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer He was By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer He was tall, dark, handsome - everything a horse-loving girl dreams of. Athletic and confident, the sinewy Thoroughred gelding won every jumper classic he entered, beating the competition by double-digit margins and grinning...
- Sep 14, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Just in By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Just in time, the rains came. And with them, they brought the entries. Sprouting like mushrooms on a pasture, the entries overflow for Saturday’s Thornton Hill Hounds Point-to-Point, the kickoff for Virginia’s lengthy...
- Sep 14, 2006 By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Thesis: Higher By Betsy Parker Rappahannock News Staff Writer Thesis: Higher handicap beats practiced teamwork. On paper, La Union appeared indomitable. Jim Burton’s team featured 7goal New York pro Tony Vita and 5-goal Argentine Quico Gomez, plus local 3-goal pro Doug Barnes....
- Sep 14, 2006 By Betsy Parker By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer More than ever, Virginia’s steeplechase circuit stands out on the national calendar as a leading light: eight days of racing highlight the fall in the Commonwealth. The National Steeplechase Association fall schedule includes...
- Sep 14, 2006 Virginia’s fall steeplechase season is rapidly approaching: Saturday's Thornton ...circuit, which continues through the Nov. 4 Montpelier races. Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker
- Sep 14, 2006 Thornton Hill point-to-point Thornton Hill point-to-point returns to Sperryville Saturday By Betsy Parker Times Newspapers Staff Writer Bucking the tradition of Virginia’s spring point-topoint season, the Thornton Hill Hounds Point-toPoint kicks off the Virginia fall steeplechase season this Saturday, Sept. 16 at the...
- Sep 14, 2006 majyaabMi majyaabMi Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The picturesque Thornton Hill Hounds kennels and Turkey Mountain are the backdrop for Saturday’s point-to-point races.
- Sep 14, 2006 Bull Run pace slated ...Information can be found online at www.bullrunhunt.com or call (540) 6725128. — By Betsy Parker