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Canyon is not likely to race again this year, however, and is expected to relinquish his title soon after the fall season gets under way.

Chilean-bred Reagan lurks a short way behind the leader. Owned by James Richards, whaxxwns Eox.hall Farms in Carrollton, Reagan has won five of his six starts this year for earnings of $65,800. The South American horse started the year as a maiden in Camden, S.C. After a win there he won the Block House at St. Louis, Mo., and then won a race at the Iroquois meet in ^Nashville, Tenn., and a race at the Hard Scuffle meet in Prospect, Ky. Unfortunately Reagan was hurt in a race during the summer and has been retired for the season.

Marti Sanger’s impressive Virginia-bred jumper, Uncle Edwin, has secured the third place position following his sole victory in the lucrative $100,000 Iroquois Steeplechase at Nashville in May. Uncle Edwin may also be out of the racing picture for the fall, according to NSHA racing secretary and handicapper, Bill Gallo.

With Reagan out for the year and Steve Canyon and Uncle Edwin unlikely to return, the positions in both the horse and the trainer standings are almost definitely going to change.

1984’s leading money earner, George Chase’s Census, lurks in the fourth spot following a win at Saratoga, but he is likely to contest some of the rich stakes races this fall. William Pape and Jonathan Sheppard’s Flatterer is in fifth place (the NSHA standings do not include Flatterer’s second place finish in the French Champion Hurdle race). The three-time Steeplechase Cham

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