Races

Races

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Lavinia Currier won the second race on her winning timber horse, Coosaw, but then almost ruined the victory when she was thrown to the ground while trying to pull her mount up at the end of the stretch. Fortunately the young jockey was all right and she was able to celebrate her first win with nothing worse than a bruised hip.

Also in the second flat race Laurent Goosens found his mount could jump when he went wide coming into the stretch and his horse, Alfred Smith’s Hill Mate, jumped a hurdle fence that had suddenly loomed in front of him.

Following the open and ladies timber races, a pair of hurdle races were run. Mrs. T. A. Randolph’s Tingles Image won the first race easily, just as he did last week at Fairfax, beating Randy Waterman’s Kamal and James Treptow’s Arminius.

The second race was won by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bullitt’s Tic-Tac, making only its second start, and recording its second win. Don Yovanovich rode the winner, an act that he somewhat regretted afterwards as the broken left elbow and ribs he had sustained two weeks before at Strawberry Hill began to plague him.

Mr. Yovanovich rode Kamal to second place in the previous race.

Jill Waterman and Lil Fritz could have just trotted over the finish line in the junior race and they would have won. But the game young rider wanted to race her pony, even though she had no competition, and she galloped the little strawberry gelding around the course as if a pack of raucous kids on ponies were nipping at her heels.

Only two horses went to the post for the owner-rider hurdle race at Rappahannock. John Branscome won the race on his Star Billing, a winner at Piedmont, although he had to urge the last burst of energy from his tiring mount to stay in front of Gus Forbush and Asterisk at the wire.

A field of foxhunters battled over the timber in the race prior to the owner-rider timber contest. Robin T. Williams led from start to finish on her Mele Kalikimaka, but found her load considerably eased when her weight pad fell off as she galI loped up the mountain. Weighing 15 pounds less at the finish than she did when she saddled up, Mrs. Williams had to relinquish, the win to Mike Brown on Spreader.

Mele Kalikimaka has already done a lot for her owner. Mrs. Williams whips for the Deep Run Hunt of Richmond from the 13-year-old mare’s back, and has been showing two foals from Mele Kalikimaka on line this year. One of these foals took a third place at the State Fair earlier in the month.

The horse races may have been over after the owner-rider timber feature at Thornton Farm, but there was still one important race to run — the hound race.

A field of 43 foxhounds leaped from the back of several pickups parked by the judges’ stand and took off after the scent huntsman Oliver Brown had laid. Surprisingly, most seemed to stay on the scent and come back to the start, rather than take off for interesting-smelling tailgates or rabbits, deer and foxes in the neighboring woods. The eventual winner was Spot, owned by T. E. Olinger of Remington.