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When the call goes out for the ninth race at Saturday’s Rappahannock Hunt point-to-points, prancing thoroughbreds won’t crowd the paddock, eager for the starter’s gun. Entries in the ninth aren’t led to mounting blocks where silk shirted jockeys wait; instead, they leap off the tailgates of pickup trucks. “Giving tongue,” creating the beautiful music that is the favorite of foxhunters everywhere, the hopefuls pull stumbling owners at the end of leashes to the starting line.
The ninth is a race of an
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