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Mellon’s trainer, rode Drinmore Land to victory over William Ewing’s Kilmalogyue by 20 lengths, with t the only other starter, Grown -Up, 50 lengths behind.
Another race in 1940 was just plain odd. “The feature event of the Middleburg Race Meet Saturday, the Glenwood National Steeplechase, ended in confusion as one horse in the three-horse race ran off course, one was pulled up and a third was claimed to have finished the wrong course,” reported the Nov. 13, 1940 Democrat. • Racing continued throughout the decades under the tutelage of Daniel Sands. Such notables as President John F. Kennedy even took the meet; the president breezed in and out of the paddock so fast that few even noticed him. Wife Jacqueline
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