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Entering the changing tent at a point-to-point for the first time can be a daunting experience. Yet when Teddy Davies, 18, took those steps at Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire on Sunday he did so with a victory in America’s most famous Jump race, the Maryland Hunt Cup, on his CV.
This article first appeared in the Racing Post on Friday 13th January.
He landed the famous timber test – a crazy challenge for amateurs involving four miles and upright planks of wood to a height of 4ft 9ins – on the former Rebecca Curtis-trained Vintage Vinnie, who in April set a course record of 8mins 15secs.
Teddy Davies on Vintage Vinnie on their way to victory in the 2022 Maryland Hunt Cup
Davies has a black-type pedigree, for his father Joe won the big race three times as a rider and has trained the six most recent winners, while his mum is Blythe Miller, who also won it and later became a professional jockey.
Having arrived in Britain earlier this month, Davies is staying with Tim and Sarah Easterby, whose son Will rode a Joe Davies-trained runner in last year’s Maryland. Teddy says: “Will got as far as the 12th, which is further than most. It’s tough to find amateurs to ride in the race, so we put up a post [on social media] and Will responded.
“I was invited back and was very excited to be riding in my first races in Britain. When I was 14 I came over and went to the British Racing School for a few weeks and liked it so much I came back at 15 – there’s nothing like it in the US.”
Davies got his eye in over hedges and ditches with a couple of Yorkshire hunts, and by schooling the Sarah Easterby-trained Trap For Fools, who was one of his two rides on Sunday. The other was a maiden – the aptly named Sheriff Hutton from the yard run by David Easterby’s wife Stephanie. Neither was placed.
Later this month his working holiday ends and he returns to university in Delaware. Long term he would like to become a professional jockey – and make further visits to Britain. He says: “Jump racing is so different here, much bigger, and everyone is more involved.”
