Virginia Thoroughbred Blog

February 2009 - Posts

• CASH BROKER
  Feb 23 2009, 05:17 PM

  Richard P. Harris, Jr.’s homebred Cash Broker got the VHBPA Spring Point-to-Point series off to a fast start winning the $2,000 VHBPA Virginia Bred/Sired Flat race at the Casanova Hunt Point-to-Point on Saturday. (Photo by Douglas Lees) Read More... Post Reactions

• JOCK: THE MOVIE
  Feb 23 2009, 05:15 PM

  Ocala native Jason Neff is raising funds for JOCK , a feature-length documentary that will explore how horseracing’s first female jockeys (including Barbara Jo Rubin, pictured left) broke down barriers forty-years ago. The Florida State grad is hoping... Post Reactions

• 2009 COLONIAL LIVE MEET SET(?)
  Feb 23 2009, 04:29 PM

  On last Wednesday, the Virginia Racing Commission assigned 40 days of live racing to Colonial Downs for 2009. The track had requested 25, and the Virginia H.B.P.A. had countered with a 45 day request (the same as in 2008). The VRC, at its meeting in January... Post Reactions

• VTA STALLION AUCTION PRODGENY
  Feb 09 2009, 04:50 PM

  Russel Road winning the $50,000 Dancing Count Stakes at Laurel in January. (Photo by Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club) Read More... Post Reactions

• NICE MUG
  Feb 09 2009, 02:38 PM

  Colonial Downs' all-time leading trainer, Ferris Allen, is featured in the Breeders Fund's full page ad in the February Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred. Read More... Post Reactions

• JOCKEYS DEBUTS FRIDAY NIGHT
  Feb 04 2009, 11:09 AM

  This is a great example of guerrilla marketing. Here is a spoof handicapping video put up on YouTube by Animal Planet to promote the series "Jockeys." "Jockeys" premieres Friday, February 6 at 9 pm e/p. Read More... Post Reactions

• NO CHARITY CASE
  Feb 03 2009, 06:31 AM

  Edward P. Evans' homebred Charitable Man, by Lemon Drop Kid, out of Charitabledonation by Saint Ballado, is the highest ranked Virginia-bred (117 lbs.) on the Jockey Club's Experimental Free Handicap. Charitable Man raced twice in 2008, breaking... Post Reactions

• CONTEST WINNER HONORED AT MARE CENTER EVENT
  Feb 02 2009, 09:18 PM

  By Donna M. McDonald Middleburg, Va., January 22, 2009 - Despite the cold, windy, day about 100 people turned out for Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension Center’s holiday card recognition... Post Reactions

• TRF - JAMES RIVER UPDATE
  Feb 02 2009, 09:15 PM

  by Robin Williams Graduation of our second class – On January 8, 2009, Reid McLellan of Groom Elite certified four new graduates of our program. This week we are welcoming three new trainees. These men will join three others who have been in the program... Post Reactions

• LONG AGO, BUT NOT SO FAR AWAY
  Feb 02 2009, 09:07 PM

  While recently researching an newsletter article for the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred about Good Night Shirt and other Virginia-connected steeplechase horses that managed to win back-to-back titles, we came across this advertisement in the 1942 edition of... Post Reactions

• FEELING CLEVER?
  Feb 02 2009, 09:01 PM

  This grey filly was born on Inaugration Day (1/20). She is by Political Force, out of Intellectual. Email name suggestions to VTA@vabred.org Read More... Post Reactions