After making her debut as a steeplechase jockey at the Aiken Spring Steeplechase two weeks ago, where she took second place in her first race, and riding two races during the Carolina Cup in Camden last week, Emma Clifton of Blythewood brought home her first win at the Steeplechase of Charleston at Stono Ferry on Saturday. The win was also a first for Clifton’s mount, Petak Mountain, an 8-year-old owned by In Memory of My Father Stable and trained by Archibald Kingsley, Jr. of Camden. In the photo above, Clifton pulls ahead of jockey Richard Boucher on the 1-1/4 mile turf track to take the win. Read more about Clifton in the Spring issue of Rider’s Up! magazine, a quarterly publication of The Voice that features stories about horses and riders in Blythewood and Fairfield County. Clifton’s husband, Brice, is the assistant baseball coach at Blythewood High School.
