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Who Was Our Neighbor?

When you live in Camden, you never know what renowned horse person might be your neighbor. Such was the case with the Mischner family back in the 1980’s.

Our across the street neighbor was Mike Mischner a distinguished older Camden Media Co. gentleman. He and his wife were winter residents and lived in the downtown historic district in the fall and the winter and left to go up north from the late spring through the summer months.

Our neighbor’s wife was a sweet, curly haired lady who was always very nice and friendly to our young family. Her nickname was “Babs”.

In a town, unlike “horsey” Camden, our neighbor might have been a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or in any other regular profession.

But, not our neighbor. Unless you knew what he did, you would think that he was just an ordinary guy. But, ordinary he was definitely not.

You see, our neighbor was the nation’s leading trainer of steeplechase horses five times between 1948 and 1986 and a member of thoroughbred racing’s Hall of Fame. In 1935, he was the nation’s leading steeplechase jockey when one of his mounts fell. He sustained a head injury, ending his riding career, and he became a horse trainer.

He trained Zaccio, who won the Eclipse Award as America’s best steeplechase horse in 1981, 1982 and 1983. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985, and Zaccio was elected in 1990. In 1973, our neighbor received steeplechasing’s highest honor, the F. Ambrose Clark Award.

So, who was our distinguished across the street neighbor (I’m sure many of you have guessed by now)?

Our neighbor was Burling Cocks---better known to most in the horse world simply as, “Burley”.

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A return to its traditional early spring weekend led to a near-record crowd in attendance for the 87th running of the Carolina Cup Races presented by Mullikin Law on Saturday, April 2.

It was a very successful year for the Carolina Cup! We had the largest crowd that we have had in a number of years. The engagement with families attending the races was incredible. The TruVista Kids

By TOBY EDWARDS Zone, located in the infield, had numerous free activities for kids and was a tremendous success. We look to continue to improve on that experience and have even more activities for kids in the future.

On the other side of the race course, the Discover

SC Skyline Club, was a brand new, all-inclusive suite-style experience at the top of the grandstand.

Within this first year, we are happy to report that it was completely sold out and turned out to be a tremendous success. Everyone I talked to who had tickets for the club had a great day of racing and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We look to, possibly, expand on that area in 2023.

We had close to a sellout crowd on the day. We were almost at 100 percent capacity with our tailgates spaces. For the 2019 races, we extended the hospitality terrace to extend to the full length of the finishing stretch. With the growing rate of attendance at the races and the need for more hospitality experiences, the hospitality terrace was entirely sold out while both the Turf Club and the Post and Paddock tents were at near capacity.

On the backside of the race course, the Meadow

Some 45,000 patrons filled the Springdale Race Course for the 87th running of the Carolina Cup on April 2.

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(formerly College Park), has become increasingly popular. We had room for one or two more Meadow packages which accommodate larger gatherings in a private setting. The Meadow captures a unique feel of an exclusive, special entertaining space for our customers to host their guests. Most of the reservations we had were repeat patrons who really take advantage of the location they have and the opportunity to make it their own hospitality tent.

While the race day had its share of successes, there were some blemishes, as well.

The sound system will be totally revamped so that the important race day information and race results can be widely broadcast for everyone to hear. The issues that we had last year will not be repeated.

We will be installing new technology and delivery systems in place for the 2023 Carolina Cup along with a reliable provider to operate these new devices.

We definitely had some issues with traffic; some of which were out of our control. We are currently looking to streamline the process of tickets getting scanned and getting guests into the races in a more timely manner.

It’s also important that the guests arrive at the gate prepared with their hang tag hanging from their rear-view mirror and that they have their tickets ready and available to be scanned. It is hard for the ticket takers to move traffic along if you don’t have your hang tag hanging from your rear-view mirror and it is sitting in the back seat inside an envelope.

We also encourage our customers to be smart as to which route they take coming to the races. The shortest route isn’t always the quickest route.

Depending on which gate you are supposed to enter, and from which direction you are approaching Springdale, think about alternate routes which are less traveled. Hopefully, that will ease some of the traffic flow and improve the guest’s overall race day experience.

We have already had meetings with the City of Camden Police Department, the Kershaw County Sheriff ’s Department and the SC Highway Patrol about traffic coming to the races. We will be making changes in the hope that we can streamline the process of scanning tickets and getting people onto the race course in a timely fashion. We will also be making a few changes to our policies and procedures for race day. Please stay tuned for the variety of updates we will be sending out in the mail, via email and on our social media accounts regarding the do’s and don’ts of a day at the Carolina Cup Races.

One thing which our team never stops doing is working to make the Carolina Cup better each year.

The Monday and the first few days after the races is the time that we usually sit down and analyze how the days went … with everything fresh in our

The TruVista Kids Zone was a hit with all its free games, rides and attractions inside the Carolina Cup infield.

Tiffany Ellis photo minds. By organizing conversations with key people immediately after the races, we are able to get a good idea of how the day went and better prepare for the 2023 races.

On race day, we get to the track at around 5 a.m. and stay until about 8 p.m. The team is constantly moving around the facility, observing the way things are going and having conversations regarding the experience we provide on race day. We also take notes to see what we can do in the future to make the Carolina Cup an even better event than it already is.

As the races get more and more successful, new and unforeseen problems will arise. We welcome those problems and do our best to mitigate them prior to the day of the races, but we can’t get upset over the growth and flourishment of the Carolina Cup and the positive impact it has within the Camden community.

We are already looking forward to welcoming in new and returning guests to the Springdale Race Course for the 88th running of the Carolina Cup Races presented by Mullikin Law to be held on April 1, 2023. We hope you will join us for a historic event in our lovely town of Camden, SC - home to the Carolina Cup Races!

(Toby Edwards became the executive director of the Carolina Cup Races in 2019. The former owner/trainer/ steeplechase jockey is also the race director for the Block House Races in Tryon, N.C., and The Steeplechase at Charleston.)

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For retired Thoroughbred race horses coming off the track, Second Wind Thoroughbred Project gives them

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very horse has its own story and those tales can be told in minute detail by Dayle Eldredge, who knows all 19 of the Thoroughbreds in her care at Second Wind Thoroughbred Project (SWTP) by sight, name and history.

Flanked by vast acreage of trees and farmland just a stone’s throw from Bethune in neighboring Lee County, Second Wind’s farm occupies more than 10 acres with its four-legged residents being housed in a massive white barn which, at one time, was home to an Arabian horse operation. At one time, the edifice was home to as many as 100 horses, but usually housed half that many. As the market for Arabian runners dried up, the facility fell into disrepair.

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When it was sold and the new owners sought a tenant to possibly lease the operation, they opened the large barn doors to show the place to prospective clients. What they were greeted by were massive cobwebs stretching from floor to ceiling, giving the barn an eerie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark-type feel.

If trying to navigate your way into and through the gossamer was not task enough, time and weather were not kind to the stables’ outer layer as termites, mold and other assorted maladies set up shop within the wood structure.

The steel bars which protected the horses and the metal which formed a barrier on the trim of the stall doors had turned to rust. It was not going to be just applying a fresh coat of paint on the old place to cover up the blemishes.

It was, however, just the type of fixer-upper which intrigued Eldredge --- who has spent nearly four decades tending to, riding and caring for Thoroughbreds --- was looking for; then, again … maybe not. Either way, it was a long, laborious project for the Florida native who has lived in 14 states and has been in the Palmetto State since June of 2020. That lengthy list includes Virginia, her most recent stop before settling in South Carolina.

“I was in northern Virginia on a really cold, sleeting morning and I was thinking, ‘This kind of stinks,’” Edlredge said as to what set her mind and, eventually, wheels in the brain, in motion. “I started reading a trade magazine while I was drinking my coffee and read that this place was for lease … I was kind of intrigued. I said, ‘Camden.

I know a couple people in Camden. I rode in horse shows there.’

“They described the place, they listed the price and I said, ‘It must be a typo. It can’t be that cheap.’ I kept dreaming about it. For four nights in a row, I kept dreaming about it.’”

Finally, Eldredge acted on her nighttime vision, called the owner and set up a visit and tour of the now-45year-old barn and the grounds which were bought and are currently owned by seventh-generation farmer, Billy Clyburn. The entire operation had been sitting dormant for a couple years and it showed.

“I mean to tell you, the fences were falling down. The weeds were over my head. The fire ant hills were like mountains and the barn … the cobwebs were so bad that you couldn’t have driven a car in here. It was floor-toceiling cobwebs,” Eldredge said of her first time seeing the place. “I kind of thought it was going to be a while before it was ready, but it was assured to me that it would be ready

by May (of 2020) and this was already March.”

May became June and, by then, the owner of the farm which Eldredge was staying in and housed her retired Thoroughbreds passed away suddenly. The widow of the owner promptly placed the house and barn for sale forcing Eldredge to make a hurried call to Clyburn to tell him that she was on her way to move in. However, the repairs to the operation, she was informed would not be complete until August. That did little to dissuade Eldredge who, as fate would have it, as she prepared to move south, sustained a fall which broke several ribs. Unable to get behind the wheel of her truck, a friend from Virginia drove Eldredge to her new home. This time, fate dealt her a better hand.

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and helped me move. He ended up getting a job with my landlord (Clyburn),” she said. “He ended up driving me around and, little by little, the fences went up, the barns got beautiful and the horses came in, but it took two months.

“They pressure-washed, sand-blasted the metal, painted the outside. We literally painted every bit of the barn.

They put tongue oil on all the wood. It was a complete metamorphosis. It’s really a great barn.”

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he tale as to how Dayle Eldredge came to lease the barn is just the start of the story.

Once she made the move in June of 2020, the real work began. With the property and the main barn still some two months from being move-in ready, the horses which were under Eldredge’s care needed a place to stay for two months. Through the generosity of owners with barns and vacant stalls in and around the Camden area, her Thoroughbreds found temporary homes.

Thoroughbreds which find a home at Second Wind, a fully accredited Ex-Racehorse Aftercare Program with the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, come from a widerange of means. Some owners, knowing of the care and attention which Eldredge provides send their retirees to her. These days, nine of the 19 horses on the grounds came via a partnership with After Care Charles Town; a group of women who realized that some horses at Charles Town Race Track who didn’t win much money there were left searching for a new home after they had run their last race.

In addition to Charles Town, SWTP has also accepted residents from Tampa Bay Downs, Laurel Park and other tracks.

Since its inception, SWTP has received nine of the more than 250 horses from the West Virginia track which have been retired from racing due to reasons varying from retirement to injury and everything in between. Last year, the organization placed 70 horses to various retirement facilities in the region. Of SWTP’s 19 residents, which range in age from eight through 27, 10 are permanent retirees due to age and injury. There are also nine geldings and three of those are in rehab with the other six being retrained either to be sold or, used in other ways.

Eldredge usually allows a Thoroughbred a month off to re-acclimate itself to its new life and surroundings.

She will check on them to see how they act, see what the horse’s ground manners are like and allow them to put on some weight after having been on a more rigid diet at the track.

“When they first come off the track,” she said of the horses which are re-trained, “some are a little more ‘up’ than others. They can be high-strung and tricky, but not all of them stay that way. Some can go right back into work and some just sort of need to decompress. They have a very structured life at the race track. When they come here, things are looser.”

From there, Eldredge and others will discern what the horses like to do as far as possibly jumping and being a show horse, dressage horse, foxhunter, trail horse or, pleasure riding horse, if need be, before being placed for sale and re-homed. For the most part, Thoroughbreds sold

from the SWTP farm bring in between $2,500 to $6,500.

The job of Eldredge, who at the time of this story was down to one volunteer assistant, is to re-home, retrain, rehabilitate and repurpose these horses for a second career or, to allow the Thoroughbreds to live the rest of their lives with dignity as the small, but caring SWTP team gives them all the love and attention they desire and deserve.

It is a job which requires plenty of heavy lifting. The slightly built Eldredge can pick up and move a 50-pound bag of horse feed and can still swing a mean bale of hay.

On this day, a volunteer from the Wateree Hounds was dealing with a stubborn, if not broken, weed-eater as she tended to the grass areas around the barn and paddocks.

Shortly thereafter, the volunteer made her way into a stall with a horse which was waiting on the arrival of a veterinarian to X-ray a swollen left ankle.

Multi-tasking is not only encouraged here, but is demanded of by the horses and the facility --- which as a registered 501c(3) non-profit organization, receives no public funding and relies 100 percent on charitable contributions from private donors with any and all donations, sponsorships or grants being tax-deductible --if it is going to survive. Eldredge said it costs $120,000 per year to keep the operation up and running.

Eldredge was quick to point out that volunteers to help her and the horses are always welcome and needed, as are donations of any kind. If you are looking for an example of the time, effort and funding going to the Thoroughbreds, all one has to do it take a look at her truck, which is more than 25 years old and is showing its age from being a doit-all vehicle and a work horse on the farm. Currently on the wish list for the farm is an ATV, such as a Gator or a mule. Funding goes to the animals first before any other purchases are made.

Just a few weeks earlier, Eldredge lost her one worker who was unable to fulfill the duties which come with the job and its many tasks. She was in the process of trying to find his replacement to lighten her ever-mounting load.

“That is always the problem,” Eldredge said of trying to find reliable help while having already been in the interview process. “I can’t feed 19 horses, turn them out, bring them in, clean stalls, ride, promote and grant write, but I have done all of it the last two weeks and I’m a little burned out. I am in the process of trying to find a full-time person to be my assistant.”

A major benefactor to the project is Edlredge’s 86-yearold mother who has passed her ways and the family’s love for Thoroughbreds down to her daughter. “Whatever she earns, she donates to us. She keeps us afloat,” Eldredge said of her mother’s role in her daughter’s operation.

“My mother’s father used to take her to the horse races because they were from Miami. They went to Gulfstream and Calder. She fell in love with Thoroughbreds when she was a little girl,” Eldredge said. “I started riding Thoroughbreds, then my mother got a job on a Thoroughbred farm and she got back into Thoroughbred life. She became a bloodstock agent.

“She’s 86 years old and still works as a horse show steward. She just came back from Louisiana where she rode 12 hours, by herself, for a horse show. Maybe I have her genes. I’m a workaholic, too.”

On this warm May mid-morning, all but two of Second

Wind’s 19 horses were soaking up the sunshine while munching on the paddock grass. Like a proud mother, Dayle Eldredge waved her arm and gave an overview of the horses’ first career, their current situation and plans for the future.

“They’ll be here another 10 months or so, living the dream and then we’ll see what their future holds as if they are a riding horse or, not,” she said of the horses, some of which will be sold to buyers with the money going to serve other retired Thoroughbreds which will take their place.

“One horse has been here about two and half months.

When they called me about him, they said, ‘He’s absolutely gorgeous, but he has a pretty bad fracture and it will be a year’s rehab and, he’s 18 hands.’ I said, ‘There’s no way there is an 18 hands Thoroughbred.’ When he got off the trailer, he was the biggest Thoroughbred I’ve ever seen.

He’s a gentle giant. He’s so sweet,” she said in describing Apollo.

“He came off the track and after his last race, he came back really sore. They saw that his ankle was swollen, they X-rayed it and he has a little fracture. It could heal well.

He can become a trail horse … I don’t see him ever being a high-level competition horse again, but he’ll be able to do something.”

Another horse, it is pointed it, has a knee chip which will be surgically removed. The procedure is an expensive one.

Fortunately, the owner of the colt’s grandmother and his mother are paying for the surgery.

Inside the large paddock at the end of the dirt road leading visitors into the property are four mares who all hail from the same bloodlines. It is a source of pride for Eldredge in keeping the ladies together as a family.

“In that field, we have an entire family of horses,” she said with a smile. “We have an older mare which has two sisters and two daughters with her. The woman who owned them set up a trust fund for all her retired horses so that when she passed away, they could all go together.

She had 19 (horses) so we took a group. They’re supported for life and that little guy over there … he’s supported for life, too.”

In another paddock stands a remarkable mare which shows no signs of slowing down in spite of being 25 years old. “She raced 44 times then retired pretty sound and became a high-end polo horse. Her owner played polo on her until she was 23 years old,” Eldredge said. “She retired two years ago, sound. The only reason she stopped playing polo was because the lady got hurt or, she would probably still be playing polo now at 25 years old. (The owner is) going to support her forever.”

Stories such as this allow Eldredge and any worker or visitor to SWTP to get a feel not only for the facility --which is in line for upgrades with more running sheds being replaced on the property along with paddocks being re-fenced with the possibility of more Thoroughbreds being brought into the fold --- itself, but for the 19 residents who are on the grounds and learning a new way of life in a pastoral setting. The horses are tended to and cared for

by Eldredge, volunteers and veterinarians who tend to their physical well-being. They are also given the best feed Eldredge can afford. Buying and supplying the horses with cheaper feed would allow her to bring more horses into the program, but it would be a disservice to the animal.

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A pair of retired race horses enjoy a sunny morning at the Second Wind Thoroughbred Project.

Tom Didato photo

“It costs a lot of money,” she said of fees associated with running the barn. “I feed them the good feed. We feed them the good stuff which is high fat and high protein.

We feed them with good hay and they’re all pretty fat and shiny. They’re healthy from the inside out.”

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ou don’t have to be a horse aficionado to quickly get a grasp as to Dayle Eldredge’s love for Thoroughbreds. The same goes for her caring and looking out for people.

In her zeal to tell the story of Second Wind and its Thoroughbred residents, Eldredge takes on a more serious and somber tone when talking about a project she is working on along with Clyburn’s daughter and Florence oncologist Dr. Virginia Clyburn-Ipock, who happened to be on the other end of the line when Eldredge first inquired about the property.

The Healing Through Horses endeavor is in the startup stages. When in operation, it will be a program for cancer patients and survivors where they can come out and be around horses. Eldredge plans on trying to secure a donated small pony for children in the program along with a small horse for the adults.

The idea and the impetus for the program came after one of Eldredge’s former riding student passed away in her early 20s after battling cancer. Healing Through Horses is a way of keeping that young ladies’ memory alive by doing an activity which she loved doing until the illness forced her to stop.

“Equine-assisted therapy is a pretty big thing now. It helped patients feel better,” Eldredge said with her voice just beginning to trail off. “I had a former horseback riding student who was a great kid and she passed away at 21 from lymphoma. In a way, I’m doing this in her honor and also because my landlord’s daughter is an oncologist.

Horses helping people … you can’t get better than that.”

Already, the program is starting to develop with the 18- The Camden Horse & Equestrian- Summer 2022

equine side and the medical side of the partnership providing the blueprint. This will not be someone just giving patients or survivors a leg up and into the saddle to ride for hours over the expansive grounds. Rather, time spent with horses in a tranquil setting becomes therapeutic for both parties.

“Not even so much riding as it is just hugging them, petting them, brushing them and learning about the horses … maybe, just going on a pony ride because some (patients) are still kind of weak,” Eldredge said as to what the program will be all about when up and running.

“Horses tend to make people feel good. We want to help people come out in the country, pet horses, hug horses, brush horses and ride them. “There are fewer programs for cancer patients than there are for veterans, troubled teens and that sort of thing. I thought we would start small and do one thing at a time,” she said of the start-up program.

If there is one thing which the Second Wind Thoroughbred Project exudes, it is a love between its director and volunteers toward each of its residents. As Eldredge said, “Happy horses are easier to ride and easier to train than horses that you’re not nice to. We respect them and treat them with kindness and if you have to discipline them, you do it in a stern, but kind way.”

As she strokes the mane of one of her horses, Dayle Eldredge is in her happy place; thoughts of fundraising, upkeep of the barn and the facility and worlds away in her mind. It is something she wishes everyone could experience.

“I think they’re elegant, beautiful, they have a great personality and they can sometimes be a little tricky. They really are individuals,” she said of her love of Thoroughbreds.

“Not everybody gets out of this what we do, especially people that have never been around horses before. Then, they hear their story …”

It is a tale Dayle Eldredge loves to tell.

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Parker Hendriks celebrates aboard Historic Heart after the 18-year-old jockey rode his mount to victory in the $50,000 Carolina Cup feature.

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A Season

Jump racing enjoyed a normal, if not eventful, 2022 spring campaign

By TOM DIDATO

I

t was a return to normalcy, whatever that is these days, for the National Steeplechase Association which, for the first time since 2019, was able to run a full slate of spring meets, as scheduled.

Starting with the Aiken Spring Races on March 25 and closing with the 91st running of the Radnor Hunt Races in Malvern, Pa., on May 21, the NSA conducted 16 meets which included 80 races which went off without a hitch or, having been interrupted

by COVID-19. In between the first third of the season was nearly as significant as to which horse did not make its way onto the track as those that did.

Following a 2021 campaign in which she won four of her five starts over fences on American soil after having won her final two starts in Ireland, Buttonwood Farm’s The Mean Queen breezed to the NSA’s Lonesome Glory Champion’s Award before being the runway choice of the voters in locking

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down the Eclipse Award for Steeplechase Horse.

The 6-year-old mare, trained by Keri Brion, was being pointed toward a third straight pairing with rival Snap Decision in the spring’s lone Grade I jump race, the $150,000 Calvin Houghland Iroquois in Nashville. In the days leading up to the May 14 event, however, Brion had to scratch The Mean Queen due to what appeared to be a minor injury. Brion is hoping the star of her barn ready to roll when the NSA circuit heads to Saratoga Race Course for its six-week stay in the Spa in July.

The absence of The Mean Queen opened the door for Snap Decision, which had his nine-race win streak snapped by The Mean Queen in last fall’s Lonesome Glory Handicap at Belmont Park in September before The Mean Queen wrapped up her two titles by overtaking Snap Decision a month later in the $150,000 Grand National in Far Hills, N.J.

work and thought

“I know how much other owners, trainers and jockeys put into this sport; on Saturday, it was just great to see it come together again for Snap. He is our horse.”

once in a lifetime

Competing against a field which included Brion’s 2022 Carolina Cup winner, Historic Heart, Graham Watters piloted the Jack Fisher-trained Snap Decision to victory. The race saw Snap Decision stalk European invader Pistol Whipped, and jockey Nico De Boinville, from the break, sitting in second outside the leader up, down, and around the course for the first two and a half miles. Heading into the final turn, Watters stepped on the gas and the big bay assumed command with consummate ease over a game Pistol Whipped, widening his margin through the lane to score easily by 7 ¼ lengths. Irv Naylor’s Amschel, who finished second to Snap Decision in last year’s Iroquois, was third, 2 ¼ lengths behind Pistol Whipped, with 2020 Eclipse-Award winner Moscato, Snap Decision’s Bruton Street-US stablemate, fourth.

“A lot has been said and written about whether Snap Decision had lost his higher gear,” said Bruton Street-US co-owner Michael Hankin said following the win. “Racing is a tough sport and winning nine in a row, I think, made us all forget that even the top horses don’t win every time out. There are lots of good horses out there and Pistol Whipped, Iranistan, The Mean Queen and Amschel will win on any given day.

It wouldn’t be racing without the competition.

“I know how much work and thought other owners, trainers and jockeys put into this sport; on Saturday, it was just great to see it come together again for Snap. He is our once in a lifetime horse.”

The Music City meet, coupled with the Willowdale Races in Pennsylvania that same day, added up to a big weekend for Leslie Young. The Pennsylvaniabased trainer saddled two winners in Nashville and had three jumpers find their way into winners’ enclosure at the Willowdale meet. Young closed out a furious end-of-spring run by sending out a trio of winners at Radnor, giving her eight for those three meets which gave her a circuit-leading 21 wins and an NSA-best $434,250 in earnings.

Young’s horses won 11 times in the final three weeks of the spring to catapult her past Brion, whose spring ended with her sending out 14 winners which earned $363,400. Both women sent 56 jumpers to

meet the starter’s flag over a span of three months.

The spring season also saw the emergence of riding star Parker Hendriks. The 18-year-old jockey, whose mother, Sanna, became the first female jockey to win the Marion duPont Scott Colonial Cup aboard Mistico in 1992 before becoming a champion trainer, and father Ricky, who was the sport’s leading rider in 1986 and 1987 before he, too, embarked on a career as a trainer, exploded onto the jump racing.

Beginning with his winning ride aboard Historic Heart in the $50,000 Carolina Cup feature on April 2, Hendriks scored 11 victories as the rider of first call for Brion. Hendriks’ $295,050 in earnings also topped the charts. Another newcomer to the jump jockey ranks and timber specialist, Freddie Procter, is close on Hendriks’ heels with 10 wins while his horses have brought in purse money totaling $189,200.

When asked if she had any hesitation as to giving the young Hendriks a leg up on any of her horses, Brion said she has the right man for the right job in the teenager with strong bloodlines in the sport.

“To be honest, that was the least of my concerns,” Brion said when asked if there was any hesitancy on her part to give Hendriks the mount aboard Historic Heart in the Camden spring classic.

“Parker has worked very hard to get where he is and is wise beyond his years to be a jockey.

“He’s the best out there, in my opinion. I never thought anything different about it and (Historic Heart owner) Paul (Willis) has been great about giving Parker the opportunity, as well. He’s 18, but he’s earned this and he gave him a peach of a ride.”

With its win in the richest race of the spring along with a second-place finish in the $75,000 Temple Gwathmey in April, Snap Decision has the NSA lead in earnings for a jumper with $103,500 heading into the summer stops in Saratoga and Virginia’s Colonial Downs. Andi’amu, a timber specialist and winner of the $100,000 Virginia Gold Cup Stakes as well as the Buttonwood/Sycamore Farm Willowdale Steeplechase Stakes, sits in second place with $85,500 from three spring starts.

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The husband-wife team of Pasley and Adam Mathis have brought Western swing to Camden at their stables on Firetower Road.

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After searching for a landing spot for themselves and their Western Pleasure horses, Pasley and Adam Mathis found what they were looking for along Firetower Road

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dam Mathis has heard it all before. When Mathis tells people his wife Pasley and himself train and ride Western horses, images of Roy Rogers, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are quickly conjured up in the minds of those seeking to find out what the genre is all about.

When asked for the umpteenth time about the difference between his Western Pleasure horses and those ridden by Hollywood stars of the silver and small screen, Mathis laughs and admits that he understands where people are coming from with their questions and that he is a fan of Rogers and other cowboys.

“We get that all the time,” Adam Mathis said of the Wild West queries and references and the horses he rides. “To tell you the truth, anybody who has seen me ride might think they’re related to them because most of my horses rear up. (Roy Rogers) was my hero growing up and my horses are still rearing up.”

In a town and region which is dominated by Thoroughbred runners and jumpers, show and pleasure horses, the Mathises are almost a unicorn in the barn in training their Quarter Horses and Paints for Western Pleasure shows from the barn which they rent from Camden’s Staige DeBenedetti, who herself, owns and rides Paso Finos, including presiding world champion Paloma de Besilu.

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“If we were going to move some place, it was either going or, Aiken because those are to be ... It doesn’t matter what kind of business you’re in, jumpers, racers, it’s just easier to do it in a horse ” community. Camden is the

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Housed in the barn of the late legendary Camden show horse trainer Roger Young, Mathis Show Horses is a recent addition to the town’s equine industry. The couple and their horses moved into their new digs --- which includes an apartment located atop the stables ---- this past New Year’s Eve. The decision to move their business to Camden came after Adam, a native of Bishopville and the son of South Carolina Equine Park manager Mike Mathis, saw his dreams of building and opening his barn with his wife vanish when the cost of building and building materials went through the roof when COVID-19 struck in 2020.

At the time, Adam and Pasley were operating out of a 21-stall barn in Conway, formerly owned by Shane and Johnny Pope. Adam had previously worked for the Popes and with the barn sitting empty, thought if he was going to move back to the Palmetto State from Oklahoma, why not go someplace where he knew the lay of the land. “I already knew the people, I knew where to get stuff and how to operate in that area,” he said.

While near the water, the Mathises were also in the center of traffic congestion and tie-ups from beach-goers and residents of the Grand Strand. In order to get items which they needed for their operation, it oftentimes meant leaving home before dawn and taking several hours to complete tasks which should have taken minutes.

After two years of dodging traffic and trying to find the best times to come and go for products, Adam Mathis was convinced the couple needed to build a barn of their own on his family’s vast property in Bishopville. Laying out his vision to Pasley, she sketched out what her husband wanted in a stable on a napkin. It would not come cheap given the financial climate.

“I know God had his hand in it,” Adam Mathis said of his eventual route to settling in Camden. “I didn’t intend on coming to Camden.

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I intended on going to Bishopville. We owned land in Bishopville and that’s where I wanted to go. I wanted to go to Bishopville and I wanted to build my own place.

“I tell everybody I have a magic barn and a magic house because I just say stuff or, throw stuff and it goes in the right place. I told Pasley the things I wanted to own in my own place. She drew it up on a napkin and it’s perfect. Then, we start pricing it and it was a million and two (dollars) to build the place.”

Going from the drawing of the facility on a napkin back to the drawing board, Adam solicited the advice of his father who discouraged his son from getting in over his head and building a barn when others were for sale, lease or rent in and around horse-crazed Camden.

“I talked to my dad and he said, ‘You do what you want to, but you don’t want to build right now.

You can try, but why don’t you wait. There’s plenty of places you can move in Camden and be happy if you want to move back this way,’” Adam said.

“If we were going to move some place, it was either going to be Camden or, Aiken because those are horse communities. Where we lived in Oklahoma was a horse community. It’s just easier to do business in a horse community. It doesn’t matter what kind of business you’re in, jumpers, racers, it’s just easier to do it in a horse community. Camden is the perfect choice for us.”

Given his father’s work at the South Carolina Equine Park, Mathis was familiar with Camden’s John Cushman. One of the guiding lights as to the upgrades and making the SCEP a destination for horse shows of all breeds, along with being the former director of the Carolina Cup and past chairman of the Carolina Cup Racing Association, Cushman became a go-to source when the Mathises were searching for a barn to rent in or, around Camden.

Pasley and Adam Mathis waited out COVID-19 to get married and to get their Western riding stable off the ground.

Photo provided “For me, personally, I wouldn’t be here in this office if it wasn’t for John Cushman and Staige DeBenedetti. We owe those two people everything,” Adam said.

“I told Mr. John that I needed a lot of stalls and a center aisle in the barn. I said it like that. I call Mr. John for any kind of advice and he said, ‘OK. Give me a week. Let me work on it.’ About a week to the day, he called me back and said, ‘OK. You’ve got this, this, this and this for you. I think you should go take a look at these places.’”

As luck would have it, Pasley fell in love with one barn and her husband, the other. Then, one day, Mike Mathis took the couple around Firetower Road, located off Highway 521 in the Dusty Bend area of Camden. He pointed out the barn which belonged to Young. It was a barn which Cushman had never brought up to the pair.

“My dad had driven me by here and I saw it and thought that there was no way they would rent that place. I kind of took it off the map,” Adam said while sitting behind a desk in the office formerly occupied

by Young.

“Then, we were up here looking at places one day and John called me and said, ‘There’s a lady here at the store. Her name is Staige DeBenedetti. I told her you were going to call her.’ I called her. I told Pasley that I just didn’t know about that place … she’s not going to do it.”

DeBeneditti and her husband Michael owned the stables. Adam wasted little time in contacting Staige and hearing her out as to the possibilities which existed for the property.

“I pulled up here and Staige and Michael were out front and we got talking to her. We walked through here with us and Staige was kind of coaching us on it. The next thing you know, I’m loving it; I’m loving everything about it. I thought it was perfect,” Adam said of his first impression.

“I called (Staige) and she asked what it would take to get somebody to rent that place. I told her that she needed to improve this, this and this and you need an arena. I wasn’t talking about me, I was talking about anybody and that they would need an arena for this place.

“For me, personally, I wouldn’t be here in this office if it wasn’t for John Cushman and Staige DeBenedetti. We owe those two people ,”

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Miss Staige took that and ran with it. She built an arena, which she didn’t need to build. She put lights in the barn … she did all stuff that needed to be done.

“Then, she called me and said, ‘How much do you pay a month for rent?’ I told her and said asked if I could do that here. I told her yes and then she asked when I wanted to move in. This was November of 2021. We finished moving in here on Dec. 31 of last year.”

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he decision by the Mathises to move to South Carolina was originally pushed by Pasley. A native of West Milton, Ohio, and from a family of Western Pleasure horse trainers, the snow and cold of the Buckeye State and the sometimes frigid climate of Oklahoma were something of which she was hardly enamored. The sun and temperate climate of South Carolina was calling her name.

“Honestly, moving home was her idea. I’d probably still be working for Gil Galyean in Oklahoma if it hadn’t been for Pasley telling me that I was ready. She was ready to move out on her own; she was (training) longer than I was,” Adam said of the decision of the two to venture south. I really thought we were going to starve to death, though … but we didn’t.

“Pasley didn’t want to move back to Ohio and she really didn’t want to stay in Oklahoma. If I moved anywhere, I was going to move back to South Carolina. This is home for me. The weather’s perfect for what we do and everything is very easy to get to.

Interstates pass through here pretty regular. For me it was centrally located and was somewhere I was comfortable with. She liked it because it wasn’t cold and there wasn’t an annual snow fall.

“I can travel to see snow if I really want to see it.

I don’t like it that much,” Pasley said of her affinity for warm weather. “I really thought we were going to starve to death, though … but we didn’t.”

The couple met on Sept. 2, 2012 at a horse show in Fort Worth, Texas, while they were both training for different trainers.

“It just happened that we had the same group of friends. We were around each other, a lot,” Pasley said of the early days of their relationship and at a time in which each was dating someone else.

“I knew I was going to marry her. We were friends for about 10 years. I had a girlfriend, she had a boyfriend,” Adam said before Pasley, seated in a chair to her husband’s right said of the situation, “It just happened that we both ended up single at the same time … it was meant to be.”

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move the original date of the ceremony due to the pandemic.

Since that time, the Mathis relationship and barn has been going full-tilt. Finding and moving into their current digs has left them with plenty of work to be done, which is exactly the way both like things.

The 28 stalls which they have are the perfect size for their present roster of 20 Quarter Horses and Paints.

“Twenty-five (stalls) 25 was our minimum,” Pasley said of what she was looking for in a barn.

“Right now, we have 20 horses. The number always fluctuates because we have new horses coming in and some being sold. It’s the perfect size and amount for us.

“We’re also always working on things here since it’s an older barn. We always have projects going on, but we love it. We love the area and we love this spot. We’re close to downtown, but you don’t feel like it when you’re back here.”

Mathis Show Horse is focused on show horses, but specializes in the development of Western Pleasure Futurity horses when they are a yearling or, a 2-year-old, the age at which some are first shown inside the ring. They have some several hunt seaters in the barn and the pair can do a little bit of everything, but the main purpose is the training and selling of Western Pleasure Futurity horses.

“Most people start them when they are 2-yearolds,” Adam said of the operation. “We show a lot of 3-year-olds and up. We both love the older horses.

We’ve always had a passion for teaching them and seeing them evolve. We enjoy seeing them come together and going through all the stages.”

While some barns in Camden are open for riders to take lessons, Mathis Show Horse is not such a site. The couple, who both ride and show the horses they train, will give lessons on a horse to its owner, but are not in the teaching business. That, Pasley said, is in stark contrast to her parents’ barn in southwestern Ohio.

“My parents specialize in all-around and what we call youth and non-pro,” she said. “My mom gives a ton of lessons; probably 50 kids a week. That’s what she specializes in and she’s a great people teacher.

There’s something to be said for that in the horse industry. If you want to learn to ride, we’ll give you lessons on your horse, but we don’t really give lessons here.”

“We don’t do a whole lot of lessons. We do training, sales, marketing and promotion,” Adam added.

The Mathises develop and train their horses for clients while also keeping a couple of their own.

Some of their owners have “investment horses.” The current climate is near-perfect for such investors.

“Times are good, right now, as far as the horse business goes and with what we do,” Adam said. “With that being said, there’s money to be made and we enjoy that aspect of it. We own one or two ourselves and when we (sell them), we make more than the 10 percent commission on a horse.

“There are several people in our barn who enjoy being an owner, but that horse may never make it to the show pen. It’s simply about marketing that animal and selling it, hopefully, for more than you got it for. It’s the original stock market, is what I like to call it. It’s no different than investing in anything else except that it’s more of a gamble because you’re dealing with something that has a brain of its own.”

The hotbed for sales of Quarter Horses and Paint Horses remains in Ohio, home of the All-American Quarter Horse Congress. South Central Oklahoma, north central Texas and Ocala, Fla., also lay claim to being sites from which such horses are sold at auction, many during prestigious shows at their facilities.

Pasley Mathis said the sale of a Quarter Horse or a Paint Horse rarely reaches six figures. When one does sell for that kind of money, it is usually for a well-bred, well-conformed horse.

“Nothing compares to Thoroughbred industry,” she said of young runners who sometimes have the gavel dropped after the bidding climbs into the millions of dollars. “We have sales at some of our biggest shows. We will have 60 to 100 yearlings that go through each show for sale.

“For us a high-seller is $100,000. Anything $100,000 or more generally is going to be a good prospect. We generally sell for about $50,000.”

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oth Adam and Pasley Mathis were brought up around horses. Pasley was born into the culture and industry since both parents are trainers. Adam grew up in Bishopville where he had 3,500 acres of family-owned property to roam.

He went to his first horse show at the age of nine at Whitehaven Plantation in Bishopville. A year later, he entered a horse in the show in the youth jog/walk class and earned a blue ribbon. He was sold from that point on.

He joined a 4-H club and he was on his way, moving from home the day after he graduated high school in 2011 to work at a farm in Ocala before heading to Oklahoma and then back home, some 10 years later.

In finding each other, the Mathises soon discovered they both had many of the same traits, save for their favorite college football team with Pasley being a fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes while Adam pulls for Clemson.

He smiles and said he is slowly but surely turning his wife into a Tiger fan.

While labeling himself as having a sprinter’s mentality as opposed to his wife being slower and more methodical, Adam Mathis said the two are also similar in more than one respect.

“Both of us are driven and goal –oriented people in anything we do,” he said. “I don’t like when she beats me picking stalls on Sunday and she doesn’t like it if I beat her.

We’re very much the same in that aspect and that’s why 2020 killed me.”

When shows shut down due to COVID-19, it led to many a person going stir-crazy. For the Mathises, not being able to attend shows and being confined to their home stable was hardly the optimum scenario. Still, they had it better than others.

“We were fortunate,” Pasley said of a time when Mathis Show Horses were just cranking up in Conway before moving to Camden, “because the horse business, as a whole, everybody braced for it, but nobody pulled out. It was slow and boring for us because we were stuck at home and we couldn’t do anything. As far as our owners go, everybody hung in. Nobody panicked and said, ‘Get rid of (my horse) tomorrow.’

“Everybody hung in and waited it out and it paid off because 2021 saw some of the highest buying and selling for our particular industry. Horse sales were off the charts this past year … it was crazy. It paid off.”

Adam said when things with the virus began to ease and restrictions started to be lifting, for the Western Pleasure industry, it was like a mini gold rush.

“They shut us down and didn’t let us go anywhere. Then, they opened up the floodgates and when they did, people walked out with money in their pockets and they were ready to throw it at you. It was like, ‘Whoa. OK.’ I loved it.

It was amazing.

“I don’t know what COVID did for everybody else, but that break and being home for us was our first six months of business.”

And as the couple and others in their business were allowed to go back to competing in horse shows, the bottom line and their earnings grew. It was heady times, indeed.

While the Western Pleasure Horse business occupies a small portion of the industry, the Mathises are quietly and quickly carving their own niche in Camden’s equine landscape. They love being part of the horse and local community while being nestled away in the relative tranquility of their home and stables along Firetower Road.

“This is where we want to be,” Adam Mathis said. “In fact, I was just talking with John Cushman about an hour ago and I told him, ‘Have I ever told you how much I love this place?’ It’s just so nice living in a horse community and having people like John Cushman and Staige and Michaeal DeBenedetti in your corner.”

“It’s just a nice area,” Pasley Mathis said of her new home. “We’ve said it several times, that you can’t say enough for having a horse community. We’ve said it several times that when we moved here, it felt like we moved home. There’s everything we need and if we don’t have what we need, we can go 10 minutes down the road and we’ll find it.

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The Backyard Horse LLC Western & English Tack New & Consignment Shelly McConnell, Owner

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522 East Dekalb Street Camden, SC 29020 Phone: 423-650-7785 Business Hours: Thursday - Saturday 11-5 Reserved Parking in Back of Building

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907 Broad St., Camden Shannon & Josh Littlefield

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