After 35 years, the spirit of Secretariat still gallops strong through the hearts of racing fans, as evidenced by the turnout at the first Bourbon Co. Secretariat Festival last Saturday. The line for the autograph session with Penny Chenery wrapped around the exhibition building, and tours of Claiborne Farm, where Secretariat lived after his retirement [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Infield Trips’
September 23, 2008
Infield at Claiborne Farm
Thanks to the McKinley Connection, I got an incredible tour of Claiborne Farm after the backside excursion last Friday. A short but scenic drive up the road to Paris brought us all to Claiborne’s office, where stallion groom Tony Battaglia waited to show us around. Battaglia works with Eddington and During. In 1976, he trained Boldson [...]
September 20, 2008
InField Trip Day 1: Walk Like an Insider
Brisk morning at the training track. Long, low barns glowing white in the sunlight. Horses galloping past railbirds with stopwatches. It helps to know someone pretty famous in the horse world to get behind the scenes access like I experienced today. I haven’t mentioned this before, but I am friends with Jim Gaffney, former exercise rider [...]
