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By MUPHEN WHITNEY
Arundel Newspapers Special Writer
This year you will see them at the Rappahannock, Warrenton, Middleburg, Old Dominion, Fairfax and Gold Cup races.
They will mostly be shorter than the average steeplechase jockey, and their mounts — for the most part — will be considerably smaller than the average steeplechase horse.
But these riders will be no less determined than their larger counterparts, and their horses will be no less competitive.
They are the junior riders who compete in the junior flat races at the Virginia point-to-points and at the Virginia Gold Cup. The inaugural 1986 Condition Book defines junior as any rider not having reached his or her 18th birthday as of Jan. 1, 1986. This is the only condition that is common to each of the six races on the spring circuit.
Rappahannock, Middleburg, Old Dominion and Fairfax all have divisions for juniors on horses and ponies, while Warrenton and the Gold Cup will have pony races only. At Rappahannock horses and ponies all run over the same course of about
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