Northwest Hoof Prints

MULCAHY MEETS MULCAHY: Earlier this summer Mary Mulcahy got the opportunity to meet her namesake, Harley Hoppe and Howard Belvoir’s 2007 Washington champion three-year-old Mulcahy, who is stabled at Doris Konecny’s Czech-Mate Farm in Enumclaw. A few years ago, Dan Corby, who partnered with Hoppe and trainer Belvoir in many top local racehorses, was reading The Seattle Times and was struck by the tale of a woman who had lost everything and was then living out of her car. Her name – Mary Mulcahy. The Irish-born Mulcahy fought a long and hard battle to regain her life after a car accident and ended up pursuing her case, unrepresented, through the courts to the Washington State Supreme Court, and won. Remembering that story, Corby, who unfortunately never got the opportunity to meet Mary before his death in October 2008, suggested the name to Belvoir and Hoppe for a promising Tribunal colt, in honor of the woman’s courage and perseverance, qualities he hoped the future racehorse would also have.

FIRST ENCOUNTERS: 95-year-old Vera Richards visited Benchmark Farm to see her horse, Benchmark Twenty-One's Blazon Shields (above right), and to meet the dam of Blazon, Wanfastprincess (left). Photos by Benchmark Twenty-One partner Reva Bryant.