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not the way to go, and he returned to Fauquier in 1997.

He took a part-time job at Leesburg’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center, easing back into the horse business. His appetite whetted, he sought a riding job, netting one when Kinross trainer Neil Morris was looking for “a rider to work with the foxhunters and maybe help with the racehorses.”

It was an easy match.

“I had the pony club and show jumping background myself,” Morris said of Read’s prior horse experience.

Though Read had no direct knowledge of steeplechase riding and training, “pony club gives you a deeper knowledge-, a • well-rounded education where

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