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The Friday Show Presented By PHBA Stallion Auction: Steeplechase Primer From Trainer Keri Brion
Trainer Keri Brion is this week’s guest on the Friday Show, where she advocates for steeplechase racing and for Eclipse Awards voters not to skip over that category and abstain in year-end voting for racing’s annual championships.
Read MoreLeventhal, Sanford named to NSA board
Two recognizable names on the National Steeplechase Association circuit have been elected to the organization’s board of directors, the governing body of jump racing in America.
Read MoreMontpelier’s Seilheimer to call it a career after quarter century
Charlie Seilheimer, who helped expand the popularity of the Montpelier Hunt Races and assure its financial stability, announced he’ll be retiring as race chairman on Dec. 31
Read MoreNSA welcomes Rosella Hunter
The National Steeplechase Association has a new business manager in Rosella Hunter, a native Californian who now makes the NSA’s base of Fair Hill, MD., her home.
Read MoreSteeplechasing stalwart Dick Ogden passes
Ogden, a familiar face on the National Steeplechase Association circuit who went on to become a steward, passed away on Nov. 30 at age 92
Read MoreThe envelope, please
In a clear sign signaling that the sport is inching its way back from Covid, the National Steeplechase Association will honor the leading horse and human competitors of 2022 at an awards dinner in Baltimore on Thursday, January 19, the first such gala in three years.
Read MoreTrainer of two champions, Howe dies at 83
Retired trainer Peter Howe, one of just four people to train an American champion over jumps and on the flat, and the father of Colonial Downs vice president of racing Jill Byrne, died Thursday night in Charlottesville, Va. He was 83.
Read MoreSixty-three races, $1.9 million in purses up for grabs in NSA fall season
Sixty-three races, $1.9 million in purses up for grabs in NSA fall season. The kickoff begins this week with a pair of major stakes featuring major stars at Aqueduct, marking the sport’s return to the Big A for the first time in nearly half a century.
Read MoreMemorial set for race director, NSA stalwart Skip Achuff
Achuff, who served as race director of the Radnor Hunt Races, was a lifelong horseman, and made an imprint on the sport as a jockey and racecaller for Equibase.
Read More“Speedy” Smithwick passes
Sad news to report from the steeplechase community. Daniel M Smithwick Jr., better known as “Speedy,” passed away on April 23 in Middleburg, Va.
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