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By Betsy Branscome
Times Community Newspapers
Staff Writer
Pari-mutuel betting is not legal in Fauquier County. Good thing, too. If it was, this year’s Virginia Gold Cup would be odds-on to create the dreaded “negative pool” effect that a track faces when bets on a heavy favorite exceed the track’s ability to pay them off.
The 73rd running of the $40,000 Mercedes Benz Virginia Gold Cup will feature a favorite so strong that track management is steeling itself this week to wave goodbye to the Gold Cup.
Ann Stern’s Saluter knows his way around the four-mile course. In addition to winning the past four runnings of the spring timber classic, Saluter has also raced in three runnings of the International Gold Cup (set at three-and-a
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