HORSEY NEWS & NOTES

HORSEY NEWS & NOTES

Lickety Split and Yomar Ortiz Jr and Mallory and Cami Kern battle it out to the wire in Small Pony Flat Race at Morven Park for the Loudoun Point-to-Point races.

Photo © Tim Sudduth

At the Loudoun Point-to-Point at Morven Park, Embrace the Grind and Mikey Hammill won Race 7, The Takaro Farm Turf Cup, for trainer Ricky Hendricks and owner Wendy Hendricks.

Photo © Tim Sudduth

Morgan’s Ford Farm’s Wayne and Susie Chatfield Taylor won 2021 Horse of the Year (Chess Chief), 2021 Virginia-Bred 2-Year-Old Colt Champion (Oviatt Class) and 2021 Virginia Breeder of the Year at a pre-race evening trackside tent on the Gold Cup’s Member’s Hill for the Virginia Breeders Awards.

Photo by Darrell Wood

Baltimore Kid and Jockey Parker Hendricks at the Loudoun Point-to-Point at Morven Park won Race 6, The Katherine F Russell Maiden Flat race, for trainer Kari Brion and owner Buttonwood Farm.

Photo © by Tim Sudduth

VTA Executive Director Debbie Easter with VTA past president Jill Gordon-Moore, whose Boldor won 2021 Virginia-Bred Sprint Champion honors, and Susan Cooney, the current VTA president who was named 2021 Trainer of the Year at the annual Virginia Breeder’s Awards program at Great Meadow the evening before the Virginia Gold Cup Races.

Photo by Darrell Wood.