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The 2'/2-mile race included timber fences, brush hurdles, bullfinch obstacles, open ditches and a water jump. It was in the deep mud on the landing side of the water jump that Vernon met his Waterloo.
“He met the fence just right, but we were to the far outside of the course,” said rider Cooney. “When he hit that deep, choppedup mud, down he went.”
Again the runner was mostly excused for his crash — Aylor is certain that he would have given winner Topeador a run for his money if he had remained upright.
Following a week’s rest, Vernon was seen next at the Virginia Gold Cup meeting May 4. Cooney drove the runner hard down the stretch, just getting nipped at the wire for the win, finishing as the runner-up once again. Two weeks later at the inaugural Georgetown Races, Vernon’s Victory swung wide entering the stretch and finished second to winner Forty Dancers.
Vernon spent the summer la/ing in his pasture and living it up in Flint Hill. At the Oct. 5 Virginia Fall Races in Middleburg, Vernon welcomed the services of a new rider.
"Patrick [Cooney] had a call on another mount, so I asked David Bourke to ride for me,” Aylor explained. The experienced Irishman readily
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