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field came down off Thornton Hill Marat surged to the lead and could not be caught, rounding the final turn with plenty of room. Behind Marat John Beasley was making his move on My Happy Way and came flying up on the inside in the stretch to pass Mr. Olson and Hilliard’s Deal and get within one and a half lengths of Marat at the wire.
The owner-rider timber race was the last horse race on the Rappahannock program. Earlier in the day a field of four went to the post for a 2V2-mile open timber race which saw Gary Baker’s Quixotic return to his winning form in his first start of the year over fences.
Quixotic led for much of the race after the early leader, Adam’s Mystery, refused at the third fence. Dr. Russell, rider of the renegade horse, managed to get his mount over the fence, but by then Quixotic was in the lead and the field was far in front. Quixotic, under the guidance of Woods Winants, led the rest of the race, fighting off a duel in the stretch from George Greenhalgh’s Buckmarsh, making his first start over timber, who got within a length of the winner at the wire.
Quixotic’s Rappahannock win came a year to the day after Mr. Baker claimed the 11-year-old gelded son of Poker-Tendentious from George Strawbridge in a race at Foxfield. That day was a homecoming in a sense for Quixotic as Mr. Baker had owned the horse in 1979 before selling it to Mrs. Ogden Phipps who in turn sold it to Mr. Strawbridge.
“I always thought he would make a good timber horse,” Mr. Baker said of Quixotic who won two sanctioned timber races last year. Following his Rappahannock win,
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