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ent from Justcallmecasey,” who won last week’s series race, said the Sykesville, Md., horseman. “Gallant Tiger is a rank runaway at the farm, very hard to train*, but he rates kindly at the races. I bought him when he had retired from racing on the flat and had failed as a show hunter because he ‘didn’t jump very well.’ I guess that’s a bad way to choose a steeplechaser, but here we are!”
George Kinsgley was another repeat victor, following up his Casanova ownerrider timber series score with another aboard Awesome Tan. Friend Don Yovanovich got partial credit for this win, too: “Donnie was the one who encouraged me to run the horse right back,” said Kingsley. “I’d never considered it, but Donnie told me the horse looked last week like he’d improve off of that run and would come back even better this week. He was right.”
Awesome Tan took the lead a mile into the two-and-a-half, jumping well and drawing off for a six-length score.
Making just her “second, a half” steeplechase start, foxhunters’ timber winner Lauie McClary was thrilled with Too Gold’s series triumph. “I rode one race last year,” she explained. “The horse was a total runaway, and I pulled him up because we were going way too fast. That I consider my ‘half’ start.” Too Gold rated kindly for his Middleburg owner-rider last week at Casanova to finish well in hand, and at Rappahannock the pair moved in the late stretch to get up for a two-anda-half length win over last year’s series champions Chumpman and Tbm Kirlin.
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