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By CLIVE CARNIE
Democrat Staff Writer
Rappahannock Hunt huntsman Oliver Brown’s Roman Hunt was obviously the horse to beat in Sunday’s old-fashioned point-to-point race in Rappahannock.
Instead of going their own separate ways over the approximately fourmile course the eight other horses in the field followed the 10-year-old J. Hunt gelding as he charged around the course as if it were a regular timber race.
“I wanted to do that (set the pace),” his jockey, Sally Cunningham, said afterwards. “The first part of the race was twisty-tumy and I wanted to rate him through the woods. It’s hard to rate when you’re behind another horse so I wanted to get to that first jump first.”
Roman Hunt reached every jump first as he led from start to finish over the rugged rain-soaked course at John Lyle’s Ben Venue farm.
Neither the woods on the course, nor the imposing brick walls or pipeline fences fazed Ms. Cunningham and Roman Hunt as the pair set a blistering pace at the front of the field.
After the first fence, over two large pipes, the field began to spread out considerably as it headed toward the fust of two flags the riders had to round before they could finish the race.
Coming back over the pipe fence Roman Hunt led again followed by only half of the field this time.
Crossing in front of the few spectators on the rainy day, Roman Hunt leaped a pair of telegraph poles and then swooped down a steep hill to clear
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