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Martini Brother tops six Cup entries
Bill Pape's Martini Brother, who blossomed last year as one of American Steeplechasing's emerging stars, heads a talented field of six for the $50,000 Carolina Cup, the featured race of the 82nd annual Carolina Cup Races in Camden on Saturday.
Carolina Cup parking spaces, tickets still on sale for Saturday’s races
Tickets and parking spaces are still available for Saturday's Carolina Cup Steeplechase Races
Six jumpers eyeing $50,000 Carolina Cup
What has been a tough winter up and down the East Coast is having a profound effect on the first two weeks of the 2014 National Steeplechase Association campaign.
Pleasant Woodman chops down field in Aiken feature
Pleasant Woodman continued his love affair with Ford Conger Field when he broke on top in the Aiken Spring Steeplechase's $50,000 Budweiser Imperial Cup (Gr. 3), fought off a challenge from Street Fight, and drew clear to a 1 1/2-length victory on Saturday.
Aiken feature field trimmed to four
With the Wednesday morning scratch of pre-race favorite Alajmal, the $50,000 Budweiser Imperial Cup (Gr. 3), the featured hurdle race of the 48th annual Aiken Spring Steeplechase on Saturday, March 22.
Luck of the Irish comes through for horses with Camden ties
On the day before St. Patrick's Day, it was lucky to have been a horse which was developed in Camden as two graduates of Kip Elser's Kirkwood Stables and another from Donna Freyer's Custom Care Equine found their way into the winners' circle.
Saturday is deadline for discount Cup tickets
Saturday, March 15 is the final day to purchase discount general admission tickets for the Carolina Cup steeplechase races.
Carolina Cup-date on ticket sales
Even though the Carolina Cup is more than a month away, reserved parking spaces are selling at a brisk pace.
Boyd, Towell and Brunello pile up wins and honors
Even though we are not a full two months into 2014, the new year has already been a memorable one for Camden's Liza Towell Boyd and her younger brother, Hardin Towell, and the Towell family's Finally Farm.
Carolina Cup parking space renewals due Feb. 18
Due to the inclement weather the deadline for renewing Carolina Cup reserved parking space for this year's races has been moved to Tuesday, Feb. 18.
S.C. Horsemen's Council Expo returns to SCEP Saturday
The annual South Carolina Horsemen's Council (SCHC) Expo will be held at the South Carolina Equine Park in Camden on Saturday, Feb. 8.
Fenwick grad Kiss Moon now 2-for-2
Kiss Moon, a 3-year-old filly developed at Wilhelmina and Fred McEwan's Fenwick Farm in Camden, opened 2014 the same way she closed out 2013. With a win.
NSA championship trainer Tom Voss passes away
Thomas H. Voss, a highly respected and well-liked Maryland horseman, died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday evening at his farm in Monkton. A successful trainer over fences and on the flat, he was 63.
SCTOBA banquet tickets remain on sale
George Strawbridge Jr. will be the feature speaker at the South Carolina Owners and Breeders Association awards banquet on Saturday, Jan. 25.
Divine Fortune gives Sheppard 13th Eclipse Award winner
Bill Pape and Jonathan Sheppard's Divine Fortune, dominant winner of the $250,000 Grand National at the Far Hills Races last October, was honored Saturday evening with the 2013 Eclipse Award as Thoroughbred racing's champion steeplechase horse.
Articles by Section - Equine
Carolina Cup purse increased to $75,000
In a move designed to get all three spring novice series hurdle steeplechase races on the same page, on Tuesday, the Carolina Cup Racing Association approved the proposal in which the Carolina Cup feature races will be run for a $75,000 purse beginning this year.
Demonstrative runs away with Eclipse Award
As solid as Demonstrative was over the race course in 2014, the winner of the National Steeplechase Association's Lonesome Glory Award was even more dominant in the voting booth.
Time to start thinking about the Cup
Even though the calendar just turned to January and cold weather is on the way, it is not too early to be thinking about the warmer days of spring.
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