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By BETSY BRANSCOME
National, even international, acclaim awaits top novice hurdlers this fall, as a bumper crop of ’chasers — including as many as 10 foreign runners — are expected to contest the $1 million Sport of Kings Challenge this fall.
For the first time in its sevenyear history, the challenge makes the first of its whistle-stops at Leesburg’s Morven Park Races on Oct. 9 for the $35,000 Arthur McCashin Supreme Hurdle.
Local racegoers could be privy to a look at a world-wide ’chasing star, as they were last fall and this spring when Kaye Jeffords’ Lonesome Glory strutted his chestnut stuff onto no less than three area courses.
With Blythe Miller up, he won at Foxfield last fall before a pair of Sport of Kings victories, winning next at Airlie this spring and Great Meadow in May.
The first-ever horse to complete the U.S.-British hurdling double, Lonesome Glory was awarded a $75,000 Sport of Kings bonus last year for his victories in the second series leg at Far Hills, N.J. and in the fourth of five events at Cheltenham, England. The multiple stakes winner made trainer, Cochranville, Pa.’s Bruce Miller the first American conditioner to train a horse in the States to win in Europe.
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