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think that their horses won’t be fit enough for these hills. So this year we didn’t send them over Mason Mountain.” Instead, the pace started out on the race course, meandered over the hilly terrain at the base of Mason Mountain, and finished back on the race course with a downhill jump.
“I guess we rode [the course] about the same as we .did at Casanova,” explained Cutting. “We went at a nice hunting pace, an easy canter mostly, and trotted through the muddy spots. It was very easy for these Connemaras,” she said. Amy Krenytzky, of Warrenton, rode on the second-placed team with Cutting’s sister, Alice Laimbeer. Her horse was the only one of the top four that wasn’t a Connemara.
“He’s just a plain old Thoroughbred,” explained Krenytzky of Buttermilk Biscuit, a flashy chestnut. “But he’s a good jumper, and he makes me look good.”
Kincheloe and Brown introduced a new pair into the fast time division, “to give ourselves some competition,” joked Kincheloe.
They placed second to themselves on Alexis and Kentucky Colonel, a pair of chestnuts owned by Brown’s father, Oliver, Rappahannock’s huntsman. Charlotte Von Lilienfield and Michael Harris, from the Keswick Hunt, switched from the optimum to the fast division and placed third.
Hi 1 hoppers rode over a longer (3 mile) course without jumps, and Mary Susan Coleman and Dana Thompson repeated their win of the previous week.
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