Keystone Thoroughbreds’ Noah and the Ark and Harry Beswick pass rivals in the stretch in the Carolina Cup on Saturday. ©Tod Marks

It didn’t take long for Harry Beswick to make an impression. The 25-year-old Englishman won the featured $35,000 Carolina Cup at Springdale Race Course in Camden, S.C., on Saturday aboard Keystone Thoroughbreds’ Noah and the Ark. It was Beswick’s very first National Steeplechase Association mount. Not to be outdone, Irish rider Jamie Bargary, 26, who

Show Court, with jockey Michael Mitchell, en route to winning the 2017 Carolina Cup. He'll try for another win Saturday. ©Tod Marks

For the first time in two years, racing returns to historic Springdale Race Course in Camden, S.C., on Saturday for the 86th running of the Carolina Cup Races. The six-race program consists of five over hurdles and a training flat contest, with $100,000 in total purses. Anchoring the card is the $35,000 Carolina Cup, which

Good Request and Paddy Young (left) jump with Wild for Gold and Bernie Dalton. Good Request went on to win at the Carolina Cup Races in November 2010. ©Tod Marks

If you followed steeplechase racing back in 2010 and 2011, you might recall an up-and-comer named Good Request, who raced in the colors of Coppertree Farm. Bred by Juddmonte Farms, Good Request was a son of Dynaformer, the magnificent stallion and sire of champion jumper McDynamo. After a 13-race career on the flat — winning

Upland Partners' Mystic Strike and Tom Garner in the Radnor Hunt Cup on Saturday. ©Tod Marks

Returning to the scene of previous triumphs, Upland Partners’ Mystic Strike and DASH Stable’s Prayer Hope enjoyed a happy homecoming at Radnor on Saturday by capturing the $20,000 co-features on the six-race program. Twelve-year-old Mystic Strike, a son of Smart Strike trained by Todd McKenna, was victorious in the Radnor Hunt Cup over timber in

Turbo Drive, now owned by Irv Naylor, at Saratoga in 2019. He makes his first start over hurdles on Saturday at the Radnor Hunt Races. ©Tod Marks

This weekend’s National Steeplechase Association stop takes the jumpers to the picturesque Brandywine Valley in Chester County, Pa., for the 90th edition of the Radnor Hunt Races. Six races and $90,000 in purses are on the line on Saturday’s card that features hurdle contests for maidens, claimers, and handicap horses, and an open event for

Kiplin Hall's Renegade River and Eddie Keating over the water jump at Willowdale on Saturday. ©Tod Marks

This weekend’s Willowdale Races in Kennett Square, Pa., were chock full of inspirational story lines. Kiplin Hall’s Renegade River, an eight-year-old son of Bellamy Road, remained a maiden for five seasons and 25 races, until his breakthrough victory at My Lady’s Manor in April. On Saturday, the Willie Dowling-trainee captured his first stake, the $35,000