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“I let him get a leader around the turns. Once we were on the stretch, he just ran. He jumped good,” he said.
The horse, owned by Frank and Debbie Zureick and Vi Cleveland, made his mark this fall as Eliot by winning the Loudoun Hunter Trials and classes at a Paper Chase indoor show.
“Frank’s been taking it easy him,” said Cleveland. “He schooled couple of times at Doug Fout’s, and Gerry schooled him once at Casanova. We just thought we’d just take a shot at it."
Eliot broke his maiden in a fflft race at Charles Town two years age. “Frank doesn’t train him hard,” said Cleveland. “If Eliot likes something, he does well. And at Rappahannock, he was happy as a clam.
“He surprised us all. We didn’t know' what he was going to do,” she said. *
Zureick bought the horse at"* a sheriffs delinquent sale. “It’s nice that they took time with him apd taught him how to jump,” said Kathy Doyle-Newman.
Patrick Worrall was back in the winners’ circle as Sanford’s Key It) The Max bested Bourke on Give Light and Gillam on That’s Quick in the second division. “He can juir{f> good,” said Worrall. “He was ka green horse w'ho didn’t want to run in from the whole wray. Then thei^ was some trouble with that loose horse (Megaflip) on the far side, but after that I told him to go, and he went,” said the 17-year-old, who & undefeated in two starts in the Virginia circuit this year after guidii^j Von Csadek to horse of the year honors over timber last year.
Trainer Beale Payne bought th£ 5-year-old last year for the owners. “I saw him at Penn National, and HE looked like a good steeplechase-type horse," he said. G
It was the horse’s first start overt fences. “I was hoping to run him M Montpelier this past fall, but he didn’t draw into the main body of the race,” he said. 8
Bad luck and good fortune left their marks on the third division. Michael Barry’s horse, Odd Luck, veered left right before the second hurdle fence, taking Allen Olson on Virginia Robin down with him through the wing. I
The field was redirected around tb°. second time around as Barry regjpped consciousness. Nei- ‘ ther rider was seridflSiyhurt. ’ " *
28540601William Russell on Join,' River overtook early leader Inaugurator through the stretch an9 spoiled Michael Harris’ attempt t£> break his maiden over fences. 3
“He lugged to the left all the time and didn’t want to go right,” saiijl Russell. “Like a car, he needs hie
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