Reins for assistant Roger Varian after the death of Michael Jarvis at 73
Not even an entire week has passed that the horse racing industry became deprived of the legendary trainer Ginger McCain that the news of the passing away of another dynamic trainer, Michael Jarvis at the age of 73 came in.
As almost nearly everything in life gets laid out by those ‘back stage’ and those ‘on stage’ thus, the importance of either cannot be undermined or neglected.
The contribution of the breeders and trainers is as much, rather more than what the horse jockey pair gets accomplished on the track after racing for just a few minutes.
Michael Jarvis’s credentials easily ‘over flow’ his records but some of the most prominent ones tend to be the two English Classics, with Ameerat in the 1,000 Guineas and with Eswarah at the Oaks, yet his most triumphed victory moment remains to be at the
Carroll House in the Prix de I’ Arc de Triomphe which was back in 1989.
As are ‘rags to rich’, similarly for Michael Jarvis the journey of his lifetime career began from the very first step of the ladder, proceeding ahead only gradually. It was in the early 1960s that he started out as a stable lad with the prime objective of
ending up as a jump jockey.
His actual licensed career set off in the year 1968 with So Blessed and Tudor Music, who won him the July Cup at Newmarket right away in his first two seasons.
He is also known for making his mark at the Ebor by winning it twice with Knotty Pine and Totowah. His training circle was not restricted for the horses only rather he has the honour of molding out some great jockeys like Ryan Price and Towser Gosden.
It was almost as if Michael Jarvis was aware of the end coming in as he retired earlier this year, mainly because he was fighting cancer and also underwent a heart surgery.
Even at such an age and with serious illness he was proactive enough to take future decisions by making his assistant, Roger Varian responsible for the empire that Michael Jarvis had built over his 43-year-old career.
The now in charge, Roger Varian said, "He happened to be a great racehorse trainer as well, but first and foremost he was just a wonderful man. He won many big races, but probably put up the bravest fight of his life against cancer. He battled hard and he
saw it out as long as he possibly could”.
Michael Jarvis’s death of course comes as a loss but if it’s his assistant taking over then the hopes can still be kept high. It is now to be judged if the young assistant can do justice to the responsibility bestowed upon him.
Tags: