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Virginia Gold Cup] was a friend, and always a big fan of watching my timber horses run,” Myers said. “It is a pleasure to win a race run in his memory.”
Myers continued. “I’ve got more sense than to say this, you know, but this is the first horse I’ve ever owned that I felt surely was a four-mile horse. A big-fence horse,” said the 63-yearold trainer of the Florida-bred gelding, referring to the needed athleticism to tackle his native Maryland’s big timber courses. “I’ve had some nice horses through the years, but never one that I felt was a real Maryland Hunt Cup horse.”
Un Momento may have counted Old Dominion as his third start over the boards, but it was in fact his only finish. “He pulled up in his first start,” Myers said of the 5-year-old son Moment of Hope. “And he lost his rider last week at Marlborough. So today was the first time he’s finished. I didn’t figure he’d make the course here, with all the hills, plus handle the fancy field.What a great surprise ...”
The Myers’ purchased Un Momento as a weanling at a Florida auction. “He’s run on the flat, allowance company on the turf, and will again, and I whip off of him and hunt regularly” with the Marlborough Hunt for whom Myers acted as honorary whipper-in for nearly 15 years. Myers used similar training methods (flat racing plus hunting) with several past timber specialists — Donna Donovan, 1975 Deep Run Hunt Cup winner, Frost Time, 1977 and ‘78 race winner and Midwest timber champ, and Sandy’s Prissey, the 1979 Deep Run winner.
Former professional jockey Greg Ryan had his own luck with Circuit Bar, winning the owner-rider hurdle race unchallenged for the lead. Ryan led wire to wire with his stakes star, a multiple winner over both hurdles and timber who reverted to amateur series point-to-point racing this term.
Runner-up to Ryan in the hurdle series race with maiden Upstage, Upperville’s Jill Waterman won with both of her other mounts Saturday. Her Ky. Mint Julep was ridden out to win the ladies’ timber from 1995 Maryland Hunt Cup winner Buck Jakes, Anne Moran up. Her Amber Fool was likewise hard-pressed but clearly gutsy in his owner-rider timber win, by a neck, over Henry Wood’s Be Nimble.
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