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Gold Cup wide

open affair after

his retirement

By Betsy Parker

Times Newspapers Staff Writer

Big money. Big, big money. One hundred and fifty thousand dead presidents are on the line at the 76th running of the Virginia Gold Cup races Saturday, including the $50,000 eponymous feature event.

There will surely be plenty of takers.

Top steeplechasers from each corner of the map will swarm into Great Meadow in The Plains May 5, like moths attracted to a porch light.

See CUP, Page 3

Times Newspapers Staff Photo/Betsy Parker The best timber steeplechasers in the nation are expected to converge at Great Meadow for the May 5 Virginia Gold Cup races. Here, last year’s field streams past the viewing stand.

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