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By BETSY BRANSCOME
Times-Democrat Staff Writer
SPERRYVILLE — When a home stable totals two horses, a trainer-rider can hardly afford to “miss” with one or the other. John Branscome’s pair \ came out at Saturday’s Rappahannock 1 Hunt Point-to-Point firing on all cylin} ders. His Class Caliber and Military | Pride accounted for a daily double; > Branscome joins Virginia’s current leading rider Jill Waterman for twin "winners at the Thornton Hill course.
Though firm ground kept race entries down, and Saturday morning Jains threatened to wash out the March 1 event altogether, Rappahannock huntsman and race chairman Oliver . Brown said that there was never any doubt that the races would be held. “There isn’t another open date on the point-to-point calendar,” Brown said. “... Except Easter Sunday. That wouldn’t go down here in Rappahannock very well.” The a.m. rain may have annoyed horsemen, but it did little Other than soften the thick turf and ease fast going on the well-drained mountainside course.
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