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Seven Comers point-to-point series. Rouse trains in Lenah and with wife Michele, herself a multiple point-to-point champion, they make steeplechasing a family affair.
Fields of Omagh was bred in Virginia by the late Paul Mellon; the gelding, now 10, started his jump race career with Middleburg’s Kinross Farm.
Irish pro Tbm Foley handled the reins in Saturday’s feature, having picked up the mount when subbing for an injured Murphy back on Sept. 17. Foley won the timber feature that day aboard Fields of Omagh, telling Rouse “that’s our Gold Cup horse.” One prep later — easy victory in the Chronicle Cup Oct. 1 — the Virginia-bred faced his toughest task yet in the $35,000 stake.
The full field of 10 included two prior race winners (Lord Kenneth ‘03 and Kinross Farm stablemate Chinese Whisper ‘04) plus 2005 My Lady’s Manor winner Pleasant Parcel and ‘04 Manor winner Sham Aciss.
“I wanted to stay handy, but I thought there’d be plenty of pace,” said Foley, 25. Plenty of pace put Fields of Omagh far back early, as Sham Aciss led Ghost Valley and Pleasant Parcel through the first mile.
Plenty of pace then unraveled the race, with an unprecedented five fallers. First, Salmo fell at the sixth fence when taking off awkwardly, followed by Sham Aciss at the 11th, Chinese Whisper and Mr. Bombastic at the 15th, and Ghost Valley at the 17th. “Tbm was pretty much out of trouble,” without interference from the
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