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expressly for steeplechase racing and other outdoor sports. Sheila Williams, later to become trainer-rider Jack Fisher’s wife, sent her Call Louis forward to capture the 64th Gold Cup in a downpour.
The bay gelding clearly relished the heavy going, duplicating his Middleburg Hunt Cup score at Glenwood Park two weeks previous in his second straight National Steeplechase Associationsanctioned victory.
The rest of trainer-rider Jack Fisher’s history is wellknown — following his 1989 Cup score, he repeated in 1992 aboard Push N’Pull, then began a string of victories with Virginia-bred Saluter in 1994 that is as-yet unstopped.
Other 1989 headlines noted a western Washington, D.C. bypass study (still ongoing) and the sudden, unexpected resignation of Remington mayor Myma Troiano.
The 1999 Virginia Gold Cup report will be the final race write-up for the 20th century. A savvy gambler might bet that the players could be much the same as the past six years.
[Editor’s note: An eerie discovery was made while researching this article. In the May 11, 1989 issue, then Horse
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