The Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase Foundation announced the three participants in this year's developing rider training trip to Ireland in an article by Betsy Burke Parker.

Following are excerpts from Parker's articles.

Phoebe Fisher on Go Take Charge in a training flat race a Winterthur (Photo by Tod Marks)Past participants such as Dr. Jacob Crotts, a 2014 program participant, current leading international jockey Taylor Kingsley,  2022, and Skylar McKenna, Chloe Hannum, Virginia Korrell and Elizabeth Scully from the 2019 trip have gone on to contribute to the success of steeplechasing.

There is a long, detailed application process over a few months used to choose the participants.

This year's trip, from July 20-27, includes Phoebe Fisher, Beverly Alcock and James Wyatt, all three with ties to the U.S. jump racing world.

 The trips include visits to the top training yards and racecourses in Ireland.

PHOEBE FISHER of Unionville, Pa., is the daughter of Rush and Phoebe Fisher, her uncle is Hall of Fame trainer Jack Fisher, and her grandfather is Dr. John Fisher.

 

SHE IS currently working for Kathy Neilson, where she has worked summers for four years, and she will be a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this fall.

Beverly Alcock on Grunion in a Va-bred race, center, blue cap green silks (Photo by Douglas Lee) She rode a race at Winterthur in which she finished third on a horse trained by Neilson.

 BEVERLY ALCOCK of Philomont, Va., is the daughter of Daphne Alcock, a lifelong foxhunter, show rider and trainer, and her father is English-born former U.S. jump jockey Graham Alcock, who has long worked as a horse dentist in northern Virginia.

She graduated from Middleburg Academy and will graduate from Randolph Macon College this spring.

She has ridden with Madison Meyers and her husband Kieran Norris, the 2016 National Steeplechase Association champion rider, for about four years and wants to be a flat jockey.

James Wyatt on Prince Khozan winning a Young Adult flat race at Potomac (Photo by Bob Keller)JAMES WYATT of Monkton, Md., is the son of Todd and Blair Wyatt, who are both former jockeys now training, his aunt Jill Waterman was also a jockey; his paternal grandfather was a steeplechase jockey, his maternal grandfather a jockey and later the longtime huntsman for Virginia’s Piedmont Foxhounds.

He will be a junior at Hereford High School.

He has ridden in a few open division and young adult races this spring and wants to be a steeplechase jockey.

These three photos were taken from the article written by Betsy Burke Parker.