Lucy Webb

griff · Postby **griff** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:14 pm

Lucy Webb passed away this morning after a long battle with cancer.

Lucy was a MD/PA/WV owner/trainer who's speciality was fixing "broken" horses.

One example is Totally Selfish who she purchased off the truck hauling her to the slaughter house. Totally Selfish was delivered to Lucy' farm in MD with a case of Strangles around February and by the next October had won around $70,000. That part was an article in Thoroughbred Times.

Lucy sold Totally Selfish to a syndicate for $75,000 and a year later claimed her at from a $5000 claiming race at Charles Town; i.e., the syndicate, like her NY owners that sent her to newBolton, could not get Totally Selfish to preform.

Lucy got TS back in shape and won some more races and eventually sold her to a QH farm as a brood mare.

Second is the story of Warrior Belle, a 4 YO maiden mare from Canada that had been racing for two years w/o a win.. It took Lucy about 90 days to "fix" Warrior Belle and she entered in a MSW @ Charles Town with colts and geldings. Warrior Belle won that MSW handily and 30 days later broke a track record at Penn National.

Lucy was a great horsewoman and friend. And I will miss her.

Martha??

griff

JimP · Postby **JimP** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:38 pm

The kind of people like Lucy are a tremendous loss to the industry.
I am sure there are others like Lucy around but it does the heart
good to hear about her success stories. Maybe from beyond she
can influence others to pick up where she left off. RIP

griff · Postby **griff** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:54 pm

I have a 2YO filly named "Heres To Lucy"

Lucy held her cards close but she did let me on some of her secrets.

griff

Altanbarr · Postby **Altanbarr** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:52 pm

She was a great horse woman and a better person.

Sylvie Hebert · Postby **Sylvie Hebert** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:39 pm

Sad,she was a great lady and loved horses.We had great conversations.She will be missed.And she always tried to really find a home for her horses after their career and before it was too late.

griff · Postby **griff** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:09 am

I received an email this morning that she was at the track a couple of days before she died.

griff

Mood Swings · Postby **Mood Swings** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:29 am

RIP Lucy. It sounds like she was a great woman and I'm sorry I didn't know her myself.

bluemoon · Postby **bluemoon** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:37 am

I am so sorry to hear about Lucy. She will be much missed.

Joltman · Postby **Joltman** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:13 am

May the Lord rest her soul. Condolences to those of you who knew her personally.

jm

Blowin Smoke · Postby **Blowin Smoke** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:44 am

I would love to have had the opportunity to meet this great woman! I didn't know her, but I do know a woman like that will be greatly missed! RIP Lucy.

griff · Postby **griff** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:52 pm

I had a client in Williamsburg who was a retired TV executive and we tried to get Charles Osgood, to do a feature on Lucy and her exploits but were not able to pull it off

The story of Lucy Webb would make a great movie or TV special, and it would be real..
If anyone has any contacts I would be glad to help round up people that can relate many of her feats, almost feats of magic.

For example, Lucy sed to buy "flippers" or horses that flipped their palates and train them with bitless bridles and then race them with bitless bridles that looked like they had bits, and win.

Her theory was flippers flip their palates because they suck too much air through their mouths and if there was no bit to break the mouth's seal they would not flip.. Stewards eventually caught onto what she was doing and she gave it up.

Her father was a trainer in Cuba and she never really lived outside the race horse community.

Her brother Sam Webb races o/o Penn national and knows far more about Lucy than me, as do a lot of you.

One of us, oor all of us should be able to get this great story about a great woman published or filmed or something

griff

dkras · Postby **dkras** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:26 pm

Sounds like a great idea. And from the little bit I saw already, I would love to read more about her. I never met Lucy but I did see a lot of her listings on handride.com

BTW, Griff, my folks live in W-burg and I see you're in the area. We visit a few times a yr.

I will ask around and see if I can find anybody interested or anybody that knows anybody...

griff · Postby **griff** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:58 am

That's the way it will get done

and it does need to get done.

griff

PM me with parents name, I might know them. Byt then I suspect they would know if they know me.

griff

justmares · Postby **justmares** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:53 am

I was so sorry to hear that Lucy passed. She was a great horseperson. Sometimes, I felt as if she were a "horse whisperer"....her intuition was uncanny.
Lucy was somewhat of a mentor to me. I purchased my first three broodmares from her field of mares off the track. So far, these mares have netted me three solid racehorses. One filly, named "Luciana" was retired (knee chip) after being in the money in open company in all eight (or is it nine?) starts (save for one). Luciana is ready for her date with Stevie Wonderboy. If all goes well, next year I will have Lucy's Wonderboy or Lucy's Wonder (filly).
Lucy is one of the unsung heroes of our sport. I know that somewhere, she is tending a great herd of all the Thoroughbreds who were not so fortunate to have ended up in her field. Lucy is home and they are safe at last.

Laurierace · Postby **Laurierace** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:19 pm

I just saw this today and am saddened to hear the news but am glad she is at peace now. I adored and respected Lucy as a horseman and a human being. Godspeed.