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Gold Cup, respectively, over the past three seasons. He won a $25,000 timber stake March 27 at the Carolina Cup in Camden, S.C., a race he also won in 1998.
Pennsylvania’s Augustin Stables, steeplechasing’s alltime leading owner with winnings of more than $5,100,000, belongs to owner George Strawbridge Jr.; trainer Sanna Neilson is his stepdaughter, and regular rider Craig Thornton her long-time boyfriend. Thornton, a New Zealand native and former champion jockey, will have his choice of riding either Brankman or....
• Floating Interest — Another entry of Augustin Stables, Floating Interest is an Augustin homebred, a 9-yearold son of Lord Avie. The bay gelding most recently finished a well-beaten third at the April 17 Middleburg Hunt Cup at Glenwood, with Thornton up. He broke his timber maiden in 1997 in New York at the Genessee Valley Hunt Cup, and added $18,000 and a win in the Grand National allowance timber, a second and a third from his 1998 campaign. Floating Interest, though clearly talented, would have to be considered the second-best of Augustin’s
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