Legendary Jockey Vozáb’s Historic Wins and Legacy in Czech Racing History

Vozáb was an employee at the stud farm in Kladruby nad Labem for several years. His successful entry in two different subjects is rare, as the website jezdci.cz reminds us. It became known to the general public mostly in the 1980s.

“He saddled horses like Ambrozia, Bahira, Cetka, Vitamin, Javor, Olin or Vestec in footraces in the black and white colors of Kladruby. However, his greatest success was with the Kladrubian Stallion Festival, with which he celebrated victory in Velká Pardubická in 1985 and several other places in this most difficult obstacle race,” said the page with the riders. cz a ‘ representation of the Kladruby National Stud.

In the year of the most famous victory, he left Josef Váňa in second place, who at that time started in the saddle of Paramanoa at his first appearance in Velká Pardubická. In the list of participants, from which the famous racing history breathes, there was then and later the very successful gelding Železník, ridden by Antonín Novák, but they did not finish due to a defect in the equipment.

A year later Vozáb was fourth with Festival, another famous horse won Valencia with Karel Zajek for a change.

The end of Vozáb’s racing career did not mean that he left horses. He gathered more successes in the framework of his career in Vozata. With a team of four horses from Starokladrub, he won several important results in international competitions.

“He is also the Czech record holder in the number of harnessed horses,” reminded the director of the Kladrubsk stud farm, Jiří Machek, of the twenty-two special team since 2008, led by Vozáb. called a man from Kladrubá , the heart of a horse.

In recent years, he has also prepared courses for sledding races. It was during the winter cup race in February in Tlumačov that the last time the vehicles went through the track he prepared. As the website jezdci.cz reminds, he did not reach the top of this series due to health reasons. And he didn’t even make it to the traditional meeting in May of the winners of Velká Pardubice.