![]() We felt part of a large community called the United States. However, when we pushed our SiriusXM button on the dashboard, we would hear the end of the Phlash Phelps morning show and four more hours of Pat St. Local radio stations we heard were all in full automation mode. Our road trip’s daily drives between destinations took place during the midday. Take either away and you’ve lost what radio is all about. So, before we drove out of our driveway in Virginia for our two-month long road trip we signed up for the two-month free trial of SiriusXM radio.ĭan Mason nailed it when he said radio is all about community and companionship. The variety of formats boiled down to mainly, R&B/Hip-Hop, Classic Rock, Country, Religious or Public Radio on FM and Sports or Conservative Talk Radio on AM.īut that wasn’t our biggest problem, cruising down the highway at 65-mph, it was when we found a station we enjoyed, it wouldn’t be more than 5-minutes before we found it being interfered with by another FM radio station making our original station virtually unlistenable. It didn’t sound like Maine anymore.Ī road trip Sue & I took to Key West, Florida last fall taught us that finding radio stations we would enjoy listening to was a real challenge. Years later on a return trip to Millinocket, this radio station now aired mostly syndicated programming. I remember hearing records that I’d never heard played on the radio before. ![]() I remember a trip to Millinocket, Maine that got me giggling, hearing the local newscaster struggling to pronounce a foreign country’s name or the names of their leaders. Every station had its own unique style and programming presentation. Since my earliest days, traveling anywhere meant an opportunity to hear new sounds emanating from my radio. Our jobs have had us seeing this great land from the air mine as a radio manager and educator/consultant, and Sue’s as a flight attendant. Seeing America from the car has been a Bucket List item for both of us. He was a real nice horse, quiet, smart.Sue and I just returned from an eight-week, 11,175-mile cross country road trip across America traveling through 23-states. “He has a lot of personality and he tried real hard. “He’s a nice horse to be around and he would be a great addition to anybody’s stable,” he added. “She’ll turn him out for four or five months and just let him down and then start him back up. She really likes the horse,” Jenkins, a member of the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame and the Show Jumping Hall of Fame and Thoroughbred trainer since 1991, said. “She’s going to make an event horse out of him. Morris also competes in three-day eventing and is eager to help Phlash Phelps make the transition to a new career. Phlash Phelps is now in the care of Sabrina Morris, a long-time exercise rider for Jenkins that has been getting on the horse since he first came into the barn. We’ve had him long enough and he’s been in training forever,” Jenkins said. ![]() An injury kept him from the Maryland Million in 2017 but he returned last fall to be second, beaten a half-length by Talk Show Man, in his bid to become the first three-time Turf winner.Īccording to Equibase statistics, Phlash Phelps retires as the richest horse the 75-year-old Jenkins – a winner of 909 races including the 2014 General George (G3) with Bandbox and 2002 Leonard Richards (G3) with Running Tide – has ever trained. Phlash Phelps won the Maryland Million Turf again in 2016 and the Mister Diz Stakes in June 2017, his most recent victory. It took seven tries for Phlash Phelps to break his maiden, kicking off a four-race win streak capped by victories in the 2015 Find Stakes and Maryland Million Turf, earning him the Maryland-bred grass championship. Ridden primarily throughout his career by 2013 Eclipse Award-winning apprentice Victor Carrasco, Phlash Phelps was purchased for $85,000 out of Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic 2012 Fall Yearling Sale and retires with seven wins, four seconds, four thirds and $434,801 in purse earnings from 17 career starts. “We’ve been talking about it all year and it just got to the point where you either drill on him hard to make the Maryland Million and try to win it a third time, or not. native and popular host of a Washington, D.C.-based morning drive-time program on SiriusXM satellite radio, Phlash Phelps had worked once since the Ben’s Cat, a five-furlong breeze in 1:02.60 Aug. Named for Gordon ‘Phlash’ Phelps, the Towson, Md. The gelded 8-year-old son of Great Notion bred by Carol Kaye was winless in three 2019 starts, most recently finishing fifth by 2 ¼ lengths in the 5 ½-furlong Ben’s Cat Stakes July 14, beaten two heads for third. LAUREL, MD – Phlash Phelps, a four-time turf stakes winner and the 2015 champion Maryland-bred grass horse for Ellen Charles’ Hillwood Stable and Laurel Park-based trainer Rodney Jenkins, has been retired. Former Maryland Turf Champion to Become Event Horse
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