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“This is a nice new course. A little short, but it looked like it rode well.”
Owner-rider timber winner Tom Kirlin said that he, too, likes the new Rappahannock course.
“It was a little slick, but the jumps rode really well,” Kirlin said following his 2 1/2length score aboard Sunny Boca over Ken Shreve and Rear View Mirror. Shreve made all the running with last year’s foxhunters’ timber series champion, but Sunny Boca proved too much horse in the final three furlongs of the 2 1/2-mile event.
“Blinkers sharpen Sunny Boca up,” Kirlin said. “I don’t gallop him with them, but I like to school his over timber in blinkers, and he knows what they’re for on race day.”
Purchased last year from Kinross Farm, Sunny Boca counted the Rappahannock win his 27th lifetime steeplechase victory, his first for Kirlin and trainer Laura Brown.
Though the Elzy Brown memorial was a walkover for Jeremy Gillam’s Glitter and Glimmer, it was nonetheless another historic Rappahannock victory.
“Winning” jockey Barry Duncan counted this his second win in the hunt’s open timber race. His first came 22 years ago, in 1979, aboard the hard-knocking mare Polyester, owned by none other than the late Elzy Brown and trained by his son Oliver, now hunt master and race chairmah.
Last year’s champion rider Simon Hobson added two to the win column at Rappahannock. He teamed with Ray Moffett Jr.’s point-topoint specialist Double Found to capture the day’s open flat race. It was 15-year-old Double Found’s 27th lifetime victory.
Hobson also partnered Audior Stable’s Apache Twist, a horse he also trains, to win at first asking in the 2 1/2-mile maiden timber.
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