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Imperial, From Pago 27
area point-to-points. Eventually, Imperial Mom’s undercarriage began to show signs of wear. “He was banging timber fences for awhile,” Bourke related.
The Rogers had been keeping an eye on Imperial Mom’s exploits. After his sixthplace finish at Foxfield in April 1988, they expressed an interest in buying him back. Afraid he was getting too attached to Imperial Mom, Bourke agreed to sell him. (They would meet again that fall, however^/hen Bourke substituted for Cockbum as the horse’s ridfflr at Fair Hill. It was the Irishman’s first-trip over timber.)
Back at the Rogers’ Hillbrook Farm, Imperial Mom’s neurosis took a new twist. “He freezes out hunting — I don’t think anyone's ever finished a hunt on him,” Said Rogers, who hypothesizes: “It happens when he’s faced with something he doesn’t understand.”
Cockbum added: “He can be a little so-and-so if ridden out by himself—he’ll just stand and look at something forever.”
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