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post for the first timber race, third on the seven-race card.
It proved to be another casualtyfilled race. Ogam was the first down, flipping over at the first fence and landing on his jockey, Joy Carrier, who had to be taken to Fauquier Hospital with a concussion and facial injuries as a result. Maxi Max fell at the next fence, losing jockey W. B. Dixon Stroud Jr.
At the front Patti Cassel led on her Bush Ruler but only for another three fences before falling herself. Ms. Cassel was somewhat shaken from the fall and injured her knee, preventing her from riding in the Gold Cup where she had been scheduled to ride Mr. Cramer’s Cookin ’N Lookin.
Traffic Boom and his jockey, David Benson, also fell at the fifth fence, leaving seven in the field.
Charlie Fenwick took the lead on Arthur W. Arundel’s Sugar Bee and was able to hold off a lengthy and determined challenge by Mark Stickley on Ahira’s Tale to win the 3'/i-mile race.
It was a great win for Mr. Arundel, chairman of the Gold Cup Race Committee and the first timber win for Sugar Bee, previously a hurdle horse which Mr. Arundel bought earlier this year.
“I feel marvellous,” Mr. Arundel said when the race was announced as official. “I think we have a timber horse here. We’re very optimistic for him.”
Besides the two timber races, four brush races, a flat race and twro pony races were also run at Great Meadow.
New Zealand-bred Young Rodney, owned by George Straw-bridge’s Unionville, Pa.-based Augustin Stable, won the day’s $8,000 feature brush race, the race before the Gold Cup.
Paul Cramer’s Threatening Arch set the early pace with Gary Rose aboard. But the 4-year-old chestnut gelding was giving his jockey a hard time at the front and when the saddle slipped Mr. Rose was forced to pull up.
This opened up the lead for Bruce Wagner and Young Rodney who then had to fend off challenges from Jonathan Sheppard’s Kingussie, Hal Clagett’s Restless Amber and Mrs. Henry A. Gerry’s Huallatiri. The latter horse, a Chilean-bred, fought all the way up the long stretch with Young Rodney and it was all Bruce Wagner could do to keep the 8-year-old Belmura gelding in front to win by a short neck.
After his win Mr. Wagner had nothing but good words for the Great Meadow course.
“It’s excellent. It’s the best course I’ve ridden on all year,” he said. “It compares to the New York tracks. It’s smooth and even. It’s like a golf course — very springy.”
Tragedy marred the second race of the day, a novice brush contest, when Dorothy Poe’s Bar Jacket broke its leg and had to be destroyed.
The race was the first test for a unique hurdle water jump at Great
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