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of our work, but all of the credit really should go to my dad,” explained Brown later, refering to his father, Dennis K. Brown, the former trainer of Edge Hill Squire who died earlier this year. “This horse literally wouldn’t jump at all when dad first got him. We count this as his last big project. I am so glad to see him win . . . for dad.”
Though the Old Dominion Hunt Cup for owner-riders over timber shaped up as the form suggested, racing fans got their full money’s worth in witnessing the final lifetime start by the nearly indominable Tope ador.
In his sixth consecutive Old Dominion start, Topeador had little trouble dishing out a 20-length beating to Fluorite for his fifth victory over the rolling course.
“There is no way anyone in the division can beat us for [our sixth] series championship,” said rider Henry Wood Jr. “I decided that if Topeador won here, that . . . this would be his last start. He’s done everything I have asked him.”
Millwood’s Emily Day won the ladies’ timber, her first victory, aboard her mother’s Sea Fighter. The Group I turf winner in Europe turned ladies field hunter led wireto-wire and jumped brilliantly, prompting his rider to say, “It’s just like riding a show hunter course at racing speed . . .”
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