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Ben Venue
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last fall’s International Gold Cup, carried high weight of 175, but the Kinross Farm team has been churning out winners in multiples this season.
Though on his toes and ready for action, maiden Plenty of Sweets was in tough, facing a quality field of prior winners.
Nobody told him.
Jockey Ellen Homer held the eager youngster off the fresh early pace set by front-runner Prince Manila throughout the first of three miles. Advancing steadily between horses, Homer kept Plenty of Sweets clear of two fallers, then thrust him through a brief opening along the inside approaching the last.
Though Plenty of Sweets met the last wrong and twisted badly, Homer stayed centered and kicked on to win by 2 1/4 lengths going away. Prince Manila was closest, in second, with Mr. Fater third.
“This has got to be the best point-to-point course on the circuit,” Fisher said of the Ben Venue oval and its newly refurbished timber fences. “It was a good prep” for Plenty of Sweets. Fisher said his primary target is a start at the May 7 Virginia Gold Cup meet at Great Meadow, a course designed and created by owner Arundel.
Purchased by Fisher for $6,000 at a 2002 Fasig-Tipton sale in New York, Plenty of Sweets was sired by Gulch. A 1988 champion sprinter, Gulch stands for $50,000 at Lane’s End in Kentucky. Dam Plenty of Sugar is a graded stakes-winning daughter of leading Canadian sire Ascot Knight.
Homer also partnered Ralph Trail’s Recanting in a wire-to-wire runaway victory in the ladies’ timber.
Upperville owner-breeder Bruce Smart’s Oobitwa went wire-to-wire in the two-mile open hurdle, under Carl Rafter. In his first start over fences in 2005, the multiple point-topoint winner is trained in Millwood by Jimmy Day. Day also sent out Phantom Fox to win for Middleburg owner Bill Backer.
Trainer Doug Fout of The Plains also doubled, with
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