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By Betsy Parker
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
^ hey may need a leg up
to scramble aboard
their mounts, but just - because the junior set at Saturday’s Virginia Gold Cup races don’t get headline billing doesn't mean that they aren’t an important part of the race day.
Encouragement of junior involvement m steeptechasing is a
of today’s top jockeys got their start in the pony racing ranks.
The junior field masters’ ‘chase at Great Meadow gives young riders a chance to demonstrate their riding skills before large race crowds, an experience especially important to riders planning to make race riding a career. The junior event, which was formerly run as a flat race, was modified several years ago to be a “field masters’
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