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$100,000 timber race, a move that continues to this day the work of the original United Hunts committee.
The junior Arundel has nurtured timber racing even more, starting when he created Great Meadow in 1984 to give a permanent home to the Gold Cup stakes race after the Broadview course in downtown Warrenton was lost to development in the early 1980s.
Three timber races are carded Gold Cup day. The Maryland Hunt Cup is the only race run for that meeting, while the Gold Cup lists a full card, including brush races and the varied jumping event, the Steeplethon.
In terms of a jumping test, the Maryland Hunt Cup, like England’s Grand National, plays to the specialist, a horse that may excel over only that format of extremely high obstacles of an unforgiving nature. Great Meadow’s timber course is unyielding as well, yet it lays the field open to the nation’s top timber contenders. The great Saluter, for instance, won six Gold Cups yet never set hoof on the Maryland Hunt Cup course since trainer-rider Jack Fisher knew the gelding was not a ‘lag timber” horse.
Some more pliant horses can win both: Von Csadek (Maryland Hunt Cup 1992, Gold
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