2014 Hurdy Gurdy Perpetual Award Winners (first appeared in the March 2015 issue of The Equiery) By Katherine O. Rizzo It was the Monday before the 2010 Maryland Hunt Cup. Amateur jump jockey and recent Towson University...
Read More(first appearing in The Equiery’s March 2013 issue) Like most Thoroughbreds, the 1999 dark bay by State Craft (out of Lance’s Chance/Ziggy’s Boy) was bred for the flat track. Purchased as a yearling for $7,000, Tumultuous...
Read MoreMarch 2014 In April of 2010, Baltimorean Justin Batoff got a leg-up onto Prospectors Strike in the paddock of the Maryland Hunt Cup, one of the hardest, most grueling timber courses in the world. This would be Justin’s first...
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By Katherine Rizzo (First appeared in March 2018 issue of The Equiery) In a time when such horses...
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For the 2016 season, the MSA board selected Brett Owings and Church Music as the Hurdy Gurdy winners. The pair had a stellar season, winning two out of three races. But it isn’t their wins that earned them this honor. It was their spirit and sportsmanship. “They are very deserving of this award,” said Church Music’s owner J.W.Y. “Duck” Martin, Jr., who won the Maryland Hunt Cup in 1972 aboard homebred Early Earner. “They are a foxhunting combo that also race. Foxhunting is the best way to make a timber horse. The only way to make a timber horse.”
“It is a great honor to win this award,” Brett said. “She’s a really old fashioned horse that shows the tradition of taking foxhunters and turning them into timber horses.” What makes winning this award even more special for Brett and Duck is the homebred history of the mare.
Read MoreA Gentleman Jock & His Gallant Foxhunter …and how they became Hunt Cup contenders by Margaret Worrall In the early and mid-1960s, an ordinary little brown horse and his rider, a businessman and avid foxhunter, did...
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