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And while a late scratch in the large division made Lovett's win in that race a walkover, she still earned enough points to garner the season championship. Her mother Robin Lovett said that they’d been trying to catch Summer all season, but she was still pleased with the close finish.
Lassie is a 23-year-old Welsh-quarter horse cross.
“Scarlett is leading her division in barrels on her (Lassie). She’s also really good at poles,” said Robin Lovett. “She’s outgrowing her, so we got Razor (a registered gray-and-white paint). And we just picked up another one this week.”
Another first for a youngster came for Blue Ridge Hunt member Teddy Mulligan, 19, in the foxhunters’ timber race. He’s been riding and hunting horses for neighbor Tom Kirlin this season.
“He’d been hunting Chumpman (Kirlin’s former foxhunter timber star) and the horse was going really well for him," said Kirlin. “He’s not that easy of a ride in the hunt field, and even though he’s got some age on him now, he still wanted to run.”
When the pair ran some foxhunter timber races together this spring, “Teddy did really well with him but Chumpman just doesn’t have the speed,” Kirlin went on. “So I wanted to give him a chance and thought Sunny Boca would be a good match.”
Kirlin said that Sunny Boca, winner of 25 races, is a much faster horse than Chumpman. Rappahannnock was Mulligan’s first ride on him.
Although five entered, the weather and a late scratch left only two going postward — Sunny Boca and Gina Perillo’s Indigo Girl. The two set out at a sensible pace, but Indigo Girl slipped on landing and fell halfway through the race.
“It might have looked easy since at the end he didn’t have any competition, but I can assure you it’s much harder to ride out there all by yourself!” said Kirlin.
Another rider who broke her maiden at Rappahannock was Jennifer Taylor of Dickerson, Md. She just started riding in races last year, so she was thrilled to win the longer of two open flat races on Where’s the Wire.
The 7-year-old bay gelding, trained by Loudoun West jointmaster Bay Cockbum, belongs to Loudoun West members Butch Saint and Mary Potter. Formerly a flat .runner at Charles Town, Saint and Potter just got him two months ago.
“He’s finally figured out the turf,” said Taylor. Rappahan
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