Maryland-bred Forthegreatergood Wins Mega-Makeover
Forethegreatergood also won the Top Mary- land-bred Horse Award, sponsored by Judy Hartman’s Copper Beech Stables. Te Class of 2020 overall winner was Kentucky-
bred Tunderous Affair, who was trained and shown by Lindsey Partridge of Ontario, Canada. Partridge had also won the 2015 Makeover with Soar. Tunderous Affair topped both the Free- style classes and the Competitive Trail classes.
by Katherine O. Rizzo with photos by Canter Clix On October 12-17, 400 Toroughbreds
competed at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lex- ington, KY for the honor of being named the Retired Racehorse Project Mega-Makeover champion and in the end, the winner for the Class of 2021 was Maryland-bred!
Mega-Makeover Because the 2020 RRP Toroughbred
Makeover and National Symposium was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Makeover held two competitions at once, one for horses that would have com- peted in 2020, and one for new entries for the 2021 competition. Tus, the “Mega-Make- over” was created. Trainers selected one to two disciplines, out
of 10 choices, to showcase their training proj- ects. Preliminary competition began at the start of the week, and the winners of each discipline were then brought back for the finale. All disci- pline judges came together to judge the finale. Tere were special awards, including the Peo-
ple’s Choice Award, with the winner selected by people at the Mega-Makeover and online.
Forthegreatergood Bred, trained, and raced by Maryland native
Donna Lockard, Forthegreatergood is a 2015 16.1 hand grey gelding by Scipion and out of No Peeking, by Langfuhr. Laura Sloan of North Carolina acquired the horse through his racing connections and was in the saddle at the Mega-Makeover for the win. On the track, the gelding posted 22
starts with one win, two seconds, and two thirds for career earnings of $46,734. His most successful year by earnings was 2018. He was raced exclusively in Mary- land; his win was at Laurel Park in Au- gust of 2018. During the Mega-Make- over,
Sloan and Forethegreatergood
earned top marks all week in the Field Hunter discipline. Teir performance in the finale class impressed the judges who then crowned them 2021 Toroughbred Makeover Champions.
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Jazz Napravnik rode Legend’s Hope (left) to win the 2020 Eventing division, Top Maryland-bred and People’s Choice Award. Napravnik also rode Page McKenney (right) to win the Iron Horse Award.
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Maryland-bred Forthegreatergood won the 2021 Field Hunter division before earning the Grand Championship for the Class of 2021. Bred by Don- na Lockard, Forthegreatergood also won 2021 Top Maryland-bred.
Te big winner of the three was Legend’s
Hope, bred here in Maryland by Two Legends Farm and David Wade. Te 2013 chestnut geld- ing was owned and trained by Edward Maher for $156,388 in career earnings. “Chester,” as Napravnik calls him, is by Not For Love out of the Polish Numbers mare Lunar’s Legend. His
Napravnik’s Award Winners Maryland trainer Jazz Napravnik was one of
many trainers who was disappointed that the 2020 Makeover was canceled but thrilled that RRP was adding a Class of 2020 to this year’s Mega-Makeover. She ended up bringing three horses to Kentucky and earned top awards with two of them.
45-race career was primarily at Laurel Park. “Chester came to my barn straight from the
track to be sold so I posted him on Facebook with some creative wording,” she said with a laugh. Included in the post was a request to have her ride him at the 2020 Makeover but Napravnik was not holding her breath. “Bar- bara Hornesser was the first to reply and came out to see him right away. She purchased him and asked if I wanted to do the Makeover on him,” Napravnik said. “She wanted to foxhunt so that is where we started with him but he’s a bit too expressive of a jumper to do well in the foxhunting class.” Napravnik added that Chester’s early train-
ing showed that he had a talent for jumping in general but that he struggled in dressage, so she had entered him in Show Jumping only at first. “Ten the Makeover was canceled and his dressage kept improving so we entered him in Eventing and Show Jumping,” she explained. It was in eventing that he truly shined, winning the division and also winning the 2020 People’s Choice Award winner. He was named the Top Maryland-bred Horse for the Class of 2020. “It was really cool because my sister [Rosie Napravnik] was there the whole time too. She’s my best friend and won the eventing class in 2019,” she said. Te pair fin- ished third in Show Jumping. While Legend’s Hope had been slated for
the Field Hunter class but ended up excelling in Eventing, Page McKenny was thought to be a great eventing prospect but ended up loving foxhunting. “I’ve known this horse his whole life and was the one to start him as a yearling,” Napravnik said of the 2010 Pennsylvania-bred chestnut gelding by Eavesdropper and out of
Winning Grace, by Yarrow Brae. “He was being trained by Mary Eppler and I just kept in touch with them throughout his career. Tat career included 58 starts for $1,905,940
in career earnings. He won 22 times and fin- ished second 16 times and third five times. His
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