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By CLIVE CARNIE Arundel Newspapers Correspondent

Not content with having just ridden through miserably cold mud and rain to win the Rappahannock Hunt Old Fashioned Point-ToPoint, Sally Cunnyigham a wanted to get in a few hoivirs foxhunting following the race. >• >n

She was not alone either. Peter Weslow, who finished fourth, was also ready to go hunting, and he was going to go on Pinkerton, the horse that had just carried him around the four-mile course.

In weather and conditions which seemed doomed to stop any outdoors activity dead in its tracks, the Rappahannock Hunt went ahead with their old-fashioned point-to-point Sunday at John Lyle’s Farm at Ben Venue and made a big success of it.

Five riders braved the elements to ride the course that twisted and turned its way around rocky, hilly and thick prickly underbrushcovered hunting country.

“Despite the weather it was fun,” said Ms Cunningham afterwards, and her sentiments were echoed by all the other riders. “In fact, it was not bad at all out there.

“I was worried about the mud when we started, but it was no problem. There were no slick spots and it got pretty hot too!”

The riders had to round only two flags on the course, but they still averaged about

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