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Quixotic will be aimed at the sane- I tioned races next, according to his owner.
The ladies race, run after the open timber contest, saw a new victor in the winner’s circle. Riding i Henry A. Myers’ Cast Iron Girl, ! Marcella Smith led almost wire to j wire to win her first race after two i years of trying. For Dr. Myers, a I resident of Churchville, the win was i
also a first, but his was after 11 j years of running horses on the local i point-to-point circuit. j
Cast Iron Girl’s lead was threatened as the five-horse field swept down off the mountain when Amy Breeden streaked by on Jim Gulick’s Word For Word. But Ms. Breeden could not keep her mount on course, giving the lead back to Ms. Smith who kept her mount in front from that point on to win by three lengths. Dawn Dugan was second on Mid City, followed by Sherry Hamill on Reasonable Risk.
“Boy does that feel good!” a smiling Ms. Smith said after the race. The attractive blonde jockey admitted that she wasn’t sure she had won until she crossed the finish line.
“At the last fence I was still thinking I would fall off,” she said. “And I almost did. My horse stumbled, but we managed to stay up. She takes good care of me.”
A pair of flat races opened the card at Rappahannock with four horses going to the post in the first, and five in the second. Nelson Gunnell wired the first race on his Sky Marker, a 7-year-old mare who seems more suited to running four furlongs on the flat than a mile and four furlongs over hurdles, according to her owner.
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