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By CLIVE CARNIE
Nancy Elgin Woods and her horse Shah were a conspicuous pair in the Orange County Hunt’s old fashioned point-to-point Saturday at Harry Darlington’s Chilly Bleak Farm.
Spectators standing on top of a hill near the finish line had no problem spotting Ms. Woods’ small gray horse as it sped across the approximately 4mile cross-country route.
And as Ms. Woods came charging up the hill to the finish line the big smile that lit up her face singled her out from all the other competitors who forlornly battled for the finish line behind her.
Shah, a 19-year-old LippizanThoroughbred gelding, finished the race 10 lengths ahead of the rest of the 15-horse field with a time of 11:16^ minutes for the distance. It was the gallant little horse’s fourth old-fashioned victory.
The pair’s first old-fashioned win was in 1975, also at the Orange County Hunt race, when Ms. Woods won the junior race. In 1981 Ms. Woods won the senior division of the race and in 1982 she and Shah were first across the line at the Piedmont Fox Hounds’ oldfashioned.
“Since I won that first one on him
.. . He really likes it,” Ms. Woods said of her mount’s aptitude for tearing across country.
Part of the pair’s key to success was Ms. Woods’ strong familiarity with the course.
“I studied the course a hell of a long time,” said Ms. Woods. “I went out here about every day since the course opened to walk over it.”
Though she had a good route figured out for the race, not everything went according to plan for Ms. Woods and Shah.
Halfway through the course Ms. Woods discovered she could not jump a stone Wall where she had originally
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